Muslims in India are adopting Hindu identities to avoid discrimination.

Radio Australia finds “Anti-Muslim bias” in India by SHEIKYERMAMI on NOVEMBER 1, 2012 Radio Australia finds “Anti-Muslim bias” in India Indian Muslims pose as Hindus to get jobs Yet another bleeding hearts story: imagine not trusting Muslims! What’s the world coming to? Will the Islamophobia never end? The jihad against the Hindus is centuries old, with over 80 million Hindus slaughtered –and that’s a low estimate. The jihadi war continues to this day. The ongoing gruesome slaughter of Hindus by Muslims is scrubbed entirely from the news coverage in the West…. Muslims in India are adopting Hindu identities to avoid discrimination. She ducks into a toilet stall on the platform and remerges a few moments later, transformed in a sari with vermillion powder on her forehead, and red and white conch bangles on her wrists – the symbols of a traditional, married Hindu woman. Ms Begum is one of a number of India’s 150 million Muslims who adopt Hindu identities to avoid
discrimination in the workplace. “For the the whole day I shall maintain this Hindu appearance. My name is Laxmi, you know it’s also the name of the Hindu goddess,” she says. “Before leaving home I took off my armband on which ‘Allah’ is embossed and put on whatever a Hindu woman usually wears. I live in a Muslim village. Villagers will feel bad to see me with the symbols of a Hindu woman.” Ms Begum says she tried unsuccessfully to find a job for many years before deciding to hide her Muslim identity. Posing as a Hindu woman, she got her current job as an ayah (nursemaid) in a private hospital. “Recently my hospital asked me to look for some girls to work there, but they asked me not to bring any Muslim candidate for the interview. If by chance they get to know that I am Muslim, I am sure I will be fired.” Secret recruitment policies Muslims who adopt fake Hindu identities mostly work in menial jobs in sectors where identity documents are not usually sought. Barin Ghosh managed a domestic help and ayah supply agency in Kolkata until recently and says many recruitment agencies help Muslims find jobs by introducing them as Hindu. “Almost 95 percent of the clients in my agency were Hindu and while seeking domestic helps, as much as 80 per centof the Hindu clients informed us that they would not employ any Muslims,” Mr Ghosh says. “Muslims being poorer, more than half of the jobseekers coming to our agency were from this minority community. Sometimes we introduced Muslim jobseekers as Hindus to our Hindu clients and they got the jobs. I am sure many placement agencies on mutual interest maintain such secret policies to help Muslims get jobs.” Anti-Muslim bias Muslims make up 13 percent of India’s population and are the country’s largest minority. However, community leaders have long alleged that an anti-Muslim bias exists in different levels of society. In 2005, the government appointed the Sachar Commission to investigate suggestions that Muslims were disadvantaged in social, economic and educational terms. It concluded that the socioeconomic condition of most Muslims was worse than that of the dalits, or ‘untouchables’, the lowest of the Hindu castes. Ayesha Pervez, a minority rights activist, says widespread workplace discrimination means Muslims are unable to upgrade their standard of living. “It’s not just in the unorganised sector where Muslim jobseekers face the hurdle of discrimination. Even in the government sector anti-Muslim discriminatory processes are thriving,” she says. “In West Bengal where Muslims constitute 27 percent of the population, their representation in government jobs is as low as four percent. Muslim participation is also extremely low in the private sector.” Muslims as untouchables According to Prasenjit Biswas, a professor of philosophy at the North Eastern Hill University in Meghalaya, many Hindus count Muslims as untouchables. He says that is at the root of the anti-Muslim discrimination in India. “The anti-Muslim bias arises out of caste Hindu mindset of untouchability that considers Muslims as lesser than even the untouchables,” he says. “The specific reason in eastern India is the deep-seated fear that the proximity of Muslims in the interior household will not only pollute the household but would bring in bad omen.” Prof Biswas says although discriminating against Muslims is illegal, it is almost impossible for those affected to provide proof. “So, they are forced to bear with this repressive system- in many cases by disguising themselves as Hindus, in attempt to seek work and live as equals in the society.” Topics: Join the discussion... Too small? 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The same goes for trufers and conspiracy kooks: you get one chance, one time. Blow it out of your ass if you must; put your stupidity on display. But you won't be back, trust me on that. Take a deep breath before you post, try to make some sense, do not just vent, do not make a fool of yourself and if you prove us wrong you can earn 10 Islamic dollars for your piggy bank. Deal? { 3 comments… read them below or add one } kaw November 1, 2012 at 5:32 am Hmmm – India was occupied by these thugs – perhaps there is a reason why Hindus, Buddhists and others absolutely despise muslims????? It seems that intelligence is not required when one works for the media these days. dumbledoresarmy November 1, 2012 at 5:34 am That idiotic reporter needs to do some history. Pronto. I suggest, for starters, V S Naipaul: ‘India, a Wounded Civilisation’ and his other two books ‘Beyond Belief’ and ‘Among the Believers’, the chapters on what is now Pakistan but which was once part of historic pre-Islamic India. There is a chapter in ‘Among the Believers’ called ‘Killing History’, which discusses something of the ruin that Islam wreaked on India. And then there are K S Lal’s two books on the horrendous human toll of Muslim rule in India, from the 8th to the 18th century, and Sita Ram Goel’s attempt at a comprehensive list of Hindu temples destroyed by the Muslim invaders and occupiers…running to three very fat volumes, on very thin paper, simply listing name and location, name and location, name and location… Perhaps they could find out what ‘Hindu Kush’ means, and read a translation of the Chachnama, one of many hideous narratives in which Muslims boast of how many Hindus they butchered, robbed, raped, enslaved… Muslims when in power in India treated Hindus (and every other kind of non-Muslim) like sh*t. In the process of seizing and occupying and misruling India, they murdered the native non-Muslims by the scores of millions. Hindus have every right to be extremely wary of Muslims. For there are Muslims on record openly stating that their ambition is to reconquer India and rule it once more: and then every Muslim will have Hindu SLAVES to hurt and humiliate to his sadistic heart’s content. A truly fiendish ambition. I must say that I find this report deeply disturbing – not because of any sympathy for those poooooor persecuted Muslims (I have to say I have none whatsoever), but because I know that Mohammed said ‘war is deceit’ and I wonder what all those Muslims and Muslimahs pretending to be what they ain’t, are really up to…and what they will do, for example when working as maids or in hospitals and schools, when the word to shift from Mecca phase to Medina phase is given in the mosques. Imagine their opportunities for poisoning people, for engaging in biowarfare of the primitive or the sophisticated kind, for playing ‘split the camp’ (in their Hindu guise), for myriad small and mean and petty acts of sabotage, and for helping Jihadists to gain access . Question: perhaps it was Muslims like this, Muslims posing as Hindus to get jobs as maids and bellboys and cleaners and kitchen hands, who helped set up the Mumbai Jihad Raid? How many others are funnelling information about all kinds of ‘soft targets’ to the Jihad plotters, right now? Via: http://sheikyermami.com/2012/11/01/radio-australia-finds-anti-muslim-bias-in-india/