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| Adverse impact of terrorism on Muslims | | | Sofiya is one among several hundred muslims who find it difficult to get a flat or a house or a room on rent. Reason being that Sofiya hails from Baramullah in north Kashmir. Well house owners, whether in Delhi or in Mumbai or in Bangalore or in any other Indian city are reluctant to give portion of their houses on rent to Muslims, especially those from the Kashmir valley. Sofiya is in Delhi in connection with higher education and has been forced to live with a relation when her search for a room on rent proved in vain. Her fault was that she is Sofiya implying that she is a Muslim. Even those from the North-east too feel harassed when they are unwelcome in the Indian ciities where they seek rooms on rent.It is not the outcome of bias against any religion or region.It is the result of terrorist activities in Kashmir and in North-East. The series of bomb blasts in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore and other towns, including the Batla House incident, have forced landlords to be highly selective. Whether one is a terrorist or not there is hardly any sign on one's face which can determine the character and the antacedents of an individual. People seem to learn from experience. People have come to believe that activists of militant outfits who carry out bomb explosions or gun attacks are usually Muslims and it would be better to keep off these activists and their over ground supporters. When militancy was at its peak in Punjab people in rest of the country would not accept a Sikh as a tenant. After the end of militancy in Punjab Sikh are no longer being viewed with suspicion. One may blame Pakistan for having incited Muslims in Kashmir for launching a jehad.But Pakistan would have not been able to stoke fire in Kashmir had not people like Syed Salahuddin, Mushtaq Zargar, Ashfaq Majid and leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others implemented Pak plan in letter and spirit without realising what adverse impact it could have on the muslims not only in Jammu and Kashmir but in other Indian cities. It is unbelievable but it is true that people like Shabana Azami, a film actress and social activists, and Javed Akhtar, a renowned poet, could not buy a flat of their choice in Mumbai because people in that locality did not want to risk their lives by having a Muslim neighbour. If one has to blame anyone for this do not hold people in that locality guilty but put the blame on the shoulders of Pakistan and then militants, in Jammu and Kashmir. See the irony of fate. Pakistan, that aided terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, was now itself fighting terrorists, especially the Talibans, in the NWFP and the Swat valley.Let people in Kashmir and the separatists in particular read the warning on the wall and stop creating problems for innocent Muslims
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