In the
way back from Beed to Sollapur Railway Station, Maharashtra (10th of Oct, 2011) for Banglore after my field
work, our team stopped our vehicle at a place where
it is somewhat considered to be famous for fish hotels. And, where just within
few steps there is a bigger temple also.
I am not
confirm that the business inertia of the hotels are because of Fish
availability or because of nearness to the temple, or it was in the junction of
road-cross, or because of all these factors. I and some of other my team
members got into an Islamic hotel as I am Islamic, in motive to get some lawful
(halal, there is scientific reason why I take only halal)meats.
Unfortunately
we came to know that meats are not available in all of the hotels there, which
is an unusual for an Islamic hotel not to available meats. I asked why is
that….? The answer was simple-This place is quite near to a temple so meat is
not allowed here. I was speechless with
the reason.
I thought
suddenly, are the fishes not moving animal like terrestrial birds and animals.
Here lets compromise their unreasonability over plants if they think animal
feels more pain than plant, which is not truth that science has already proved
that plants also feels the same pain as that of animals, then do the fishes not
feel pain as that of terrestrial animals.
Or, if it
is the motive to arrest the consumption of animals, as same reason of the myth
of considering cow as a part of god to worship, does the number of fishes not
dwindling?, are the fishes not never endanger because they are in sea?, which
is not a truth at all.
In the
movie "Indians Untouchables"
one saint mentioned that man becomes impure if he eat meat. What is the purity
of a man. Why we are given with Canine teeth and stomach which can digest meat,
which all these are not given in herbivores like Cow, Goat and so on...god has
created us with all these equipment's which means we are allowed to take meat
but it doesn't meant to eat all kinds of living creatures.
Hindu
scripts has clearly mentioned about non-prohibition of eating meat. Such an
unreasonability / misperception should be attack first to stop unreasonability
which is rooted (its not the intention to let veg-people eat meat, but the
unreasonability of people at mass which affect other sectors of living) in
their religion.
I don't
know why Shri Shri Shiv Shankar, a
globally know in Hinduism for his "Art of
Living" never speak anything about caste and Untouchability which
is rooted in Hinduism. It doesn't mean that Muslims community do not have
untouchability, it do have but it never practice inside a mosque.
Many
Hindu Dalits converted to Islam to find some equality in the society, they do
get equality but in some places of India it does happen to discriminate still,
between Muslim higher caste and lower caste but never inside mosque, it is found in Bihar so far I have
seen. Here, the concern is for the majority community (Hindus) which is
practicing untouchability at mass.
Such an
unreasonability cannot be uprooted using coercion like Police rather need to
attack their minds intellectually, through preaching by religious persons.
Because Police itself is rooted with such unreasonability of untouchability.
Indians
take religious persons as value as god, then why people will not consider the
words of those religious persons. So, we need highly educated, contemporary and
scientific temper minded religious persons to preach the unreasonability or the
misperceptions of Hinduism.
Otherwise
it will take, as per my exaggerated assumption, another century to let people
internalize the our constitutional ideology (which many religious and highly
educated person still not accepting,
like equality of one's value), or to bring Indians at the level of Europeans,
Americans, Koreans or Japanese or likes. But I don't mean Europe and Western
and Eastern developed nations do not have any kind of discrimination, they also do have discrimination but not up
to that level of Indians.
# Yasin Kh .
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