10-15-2006, 06:45 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Radicalisation of Muslims in Britain is dreadful: Rushdie</b> "Whereas the radicalization of Muslims in Britain is `dreadful`, Indian Muslims are a model which could be beneficially studied about how you show a minority community that their interests are best served by secular democracy, and not by religious communal politics.
Because if you play the game of religious communal politics, you will always be outnumbered. That was the argument Nehru and Gandhi took to India`s religious minorities, and it worked." Rushdie said Kashmir was a model of pluralist tolerance. "It mingled and mixed with Hinduism, with mullahs even compromising on their austere monotheism by directing their followers to worship at the shrines of the local Hindu saints.
As he put it: <b>"To be Kashmiri was to value what was shared far more highly than what divided." Rushdie said "the Islam that now exists is not the Islam that I grew up with. The good guys are losing the battle within Islam."</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Because if you play the game of religious communal politics, you will always be outnumbered. That was the argument Nehru and Gandhi took to India`s religious minorities, and it worked." Rushdie said Kashmir was a model of pluralist tolerance. "It mingled and mixed with Hinduism, with mullahs even compromising on their austere monotheism by directing their followers to worship at the shrines of the local Hindu saints.
As he put it: <b>"To be Kashmiri was to value what was shared far more highly than what divided." Rushdie said "the Islam that now exists is not the Islam that I grew up with. The good guys are losing the battle within Islam."</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->