Backwards?!!

Assalamualaiukum!!! 

  Well, today I have another school story. Talk about ‘experiences’. I was at the exam hall today and the teacher walks in for attendance. She is checking the ratios between hindus and muslims, muslims and christians, christians and hindus, etc. She came up to me and said, “Umair, must be backwards, no?” I didn’t understand what she was trying to say to me. So I replied ,”No, actually I’m Muslim.” She then says, ” Same thing.”

  I was extremely confused at that point. I had no idea Muslims were called backwards! I was furious at that point. That comment was in my head the whole day. It then came to me and I asked myself, “Why do people call us backwards?”

A list of problems cam into my head;

- Our literacy rate is terrible, the last genration had only about 31.1 % of leterate Muslims in Tamil Nadu according to NDTV News Channel.

- We burn stuff when we are pissed, like during the release of the film Jodhaa Akbar(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodhaa_Akbar) last month. In North India Muslims and Hindus had riots for a really dumb reason. That Jodha was not from Rajput, but from Jaipur. Is that valid reason for burning stuff? That’s not even a reason to burn your fireplace! India is hot enough!

-We don’t have enough Muslims in the Media! Wait, yeah we do… who are they again? Oh yeah, SRK, Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan… They’re great Islamic icons. Yeah right. I’m talking about the big timers. Practicing Muslim versions of Ambani and Tata Birla.

-We are probably the most lazy race in the world. We need our nauker to pick up our damn tissues when we drop it.

  Some may say, ‘Well, Hindus are rioting too, they are lazy too! It’s just that they are better off because they are Hindus, and we are Muslims.’ OBVIOUS. Think about it folks, if Muslims rules India today, which means if it was a total Muslim country, wouldn’t we do the same. Blame others all the time, give muslims the benefit of the doubt, put them in high positions? Yeah, 100%. We live in a Hindu country. Yes, Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal, Mughul were the greates rulers of India, but alas, India is a Hindu country. The national language is hindi, not urdu or arabic. There are more temples than any other religious place. Before Hindi movies, you don’t see Qur’anic verses (astakafarullah) or Jesus on a cross(for christians), you see Ganesh and something else (like Shiva or that monkey like figure or somthing). Muslims here proved that India as a Hindu country in 1947 when we made Pakistan. That was straight up saying India is a Hindu country. Our own family in India support Pakistan in cricket when they live in the south, have never been near Pakistan, or even tried Pakistani food. What does this tell you? This is like asking to be called backwards. How illogical is this? Blaming Hindus for bashing on us and saying we’re not Indians when we basically do unpatriotic things. I’m not bashing on Pakistanis because I’m tight with Pakistanis (represent). So ask yourselves, who’s fault is it that we are called backwards?

 So, we just have to try 110% more than everyone else at everything we do. The things that the last generation did have fallen back on us. Now, the new muslim generation has to work extra hard, be extra patient, and have extra faith.

Shabba Khair