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Indian Muslims unaffected by surge of fundamentalism

Web posted at: 2/19/2007 1:51:37
Source ::: The Peninsula



Panelists at the session on 'Perspective from Asia', (from left) Bruce Riedel, Komaruddin Hidayat, Mohamed Jawhar Hassan and Habib Rahman. Inset: Mehbooba Mufti. (Salim Matramkot)
doha • Home to the second-largest Muslim population in the world, India has remained unaffected by the surge of fundamentalism witnessed in the Arab and Islamic world.
This was acknowledged at a key session devoted to Asian Muslims at the ongoing US-Islamic World Forum here yesterday. The three-day forum, which began on Saturday, concludes today.
It was noted that despite being sizeable in number (138 million), Indian Muslims are tolerant and generally accommodative in nature as compared to their counterparts elsewhere.
Speaking at the plenary session on 'Perspectives from Asia', a delegate from India outlined a number of factors that contributed to keeping the country's vast Muslim population uninfluenced by the wave of religious extremism that sweeps across parts of the Arab and Islamic world.
A section of the audience.
Habib Rahman, Executive Director of ITC Ltd, India, said that coexistence with majority Hindus was one of the reasons why Muslims in India had developed a more accommodative nature.
Rahman later told The Peninsula that back home, the accent in the Muslim community was on education which explains their relatively progressive outlook.
Bruce Riedel, from the Saban Centre for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, USA, also spoke at the session. He talked convincingly about the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan with special reference to the Taleban and Al Qaeda and the challenges facing the two countries in combating terrorism.
Asked by this newspaper later as to why the US was acknowledging the fact that India was home to the world's second-largest Muslim population after 60 years of its independence, he said (former US President) "Bill Clinton's March 2000 visit to New Delhi actually opened the doors".
"And we give credit to President George W Bush to further his (Clinton's) India policy," said Riedel.
Earlier, Martin Indyk, Director, Saban Centre for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, told this newspaper that since more than half of the world's Muslim population live outside of the Arab world, it was only logical to lay emphasis on Asia (including India) at this convention.
A highlight of the session was comments made by women delegates during the question and answer session. Three women spoke and two of them were prominent politicians, each from India and Pakistan.
Mehbooba Mufti, a member of parliament (MP) from Jammu and Kashmir in India and daughter of the former Indian federal interior minister, Mufti Mohamed Saeed, and Abida Hussain, from the Pakistan's People's Party, were those who commented on the situation in their respective countries.
Kashmir was one of the issues raised and Riedel said it was high time the US paid attention to it.
Mufti noted that while India and Pakistan had agreed to resolve the dispute, she would like to know what the US was doing to solve the Israel-Palestine issue.

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