People
follow religion and other forms of craziness to bring in some meaning into their
lives. Some people also convert from one religion to another, as they find convenient. Conversions from one religion to another religion cannot be stopped. Banning
these will be against fundamental right of every human being. The right to
follow any religion or faith, or better still to evolve and not be part of any herd, is part of human rights. Conversion from one religion
to another cannot be about god. My god is better than yours is rather dumb. It
is the sign of juvenile world that some Homo sapiens inhabit and increasingly try to
infect others too. The choice of religions has to do with social-cultural construct
and other day-to-day realities an individual faces. Many Hindus (indeed most) have
compelling reasons to convert to other religions. And they have been converting
all these while. No doubt, many Muslims too have valid and increasingly compelling
reasons to convert to other religions. There is, one must assert, nothing compelling
to convert to squatter cannibalised Hinduism (as some Muslims in Agra seems to have
undergone, you see in the picture herein). Ritualistic Hinduism is part of squatter’s
worldview, there isn’t anything egalitarian nor anything divinely about it except to keep the herd in self consuming trance to please.
Islam
has been degraded in recent times, despite the claims of peace and so on, the
reality is barging in its all brutal forms. Many Muslims (as also non muslims) across the world are
getting tired of this, as also the troubles it brings into their lives and
social realities they face. Clearly mullahs have strong views against Muslims
conversions, and response has been heinous in primitive parts of the world. The
rights of individuals must be protected, and mob mentality shouldn’t impress
freedom of people. This blogger prefers more space to no religion (I wouldn’t call
it secular, since that too has acquired religious connotations. I am waiting
for an invite for secularismwali mata ka jagran!).
Hinduism, without sounding pompous, does have an inbuilt system for such realities,
though in recent times things are getting murky. You will notice the Hindu
fundamentalism is hinged on reactionary issues as also hint on its grandness. The consolidation of
majoritarian is an on-going agenda, doomed if left on its own as it needs nourishment.
Clever sickularism, of nepotistic feudally corrupt elite, mistaken for secularism,
in their holier than thou fake liberal market hugging stance only help the division.
Take, for instance, the degradations done by parties like Muslim league (indeed
some really rich Muslims) who have severely undermined democratic norms
and social progress in Kerala, hence pushed into communal tinderbox undermining
all egalitarian values as the Hindu right capitalise on the falling mask of
communists as has happened in Bengal.
Organised religion doesn’t tolerate no-religion
spaces much. Christianity, having gone through the process of enlightenment/renaissance
and other reckonings, has become quite tolerant, and does provide space for
varied views and realities. The latest Pope is amazing example of this. Islam seems
to have bypassed these and to have barged into modern world rather
abruptly (this very true for Hinduism too, with all its primitiveness intact
but the inbuilt thoughts and nuances is different). The realities of modern
lives are creating a rather violent upsurge and reactionary world among Muslims.
It’s getting clear that Muslim leaders and intellectuals aren’t much equipped to
handle these eventualities. It cannot be blamed on West and market greed
forever. Clearly Muslim majority regions response seems to be always verging on
violence and fundamentalism, its resurgence of primitiveness. The space for civilized discourse is vanishing, so is tolerance for varying views. Indeed the situation
is moving towards lack for any space whatsoever. As
also, these are severely affecting non-muslims, in particular, the
common people. Islam has lots of primitiveness that it needs to enlighten, to
negotiate the realities of diverse modern world.
