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Rising Islamic extremism: India under protection of its diversity?

Rising Islamic extremism: India under protection of its diversity?


“Islam is a religion of peace” … is the phrase often stressed by moderate Muslims across the world and ironically, Quran itself provides way for violence contradicting the appeasement. Dissidents, heretics of the same religion strongly opine the latter and say Islam is a violent religion. May be, Sammeul P. Huntington was correct in predicting that the future conflict would not be on the political ideologies but among the various civilisations divided by cultures mainly divided between Christian west and Islam. Looking back at the rise of ISIS, its rhetoric and the deadly attacks by the latter , it might prompt us to completely agree that that predicted future is not far away.

Literary works such as Heretic written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somalian Muslim who is greatly influenced by western liberalism opines that the entire Islam is a problem and west should unite to find a way to confront it. She doesn't ask for complete elimination but pleads Islam to undergo a Reformation on similar lines of medieval christian Reformation. This work shows the extent of Islamophobia in West and increases the distance between religious poles within the global society. If this, is one of the book which views Islam as a problem and especially from Medina Muslims who view that Reformation is nothing but restoring the medieval Islam in the modern society, another book is Keepers of Kalachakra, a fiction novel written by Ashwin Sanghi which architects its story on the lines of clash of civilisation and shows the polarised world among Muslims and non Muslims. He is one among the well known fiction authors of India and his writing would certainly bookmarks the underlying , masked , polarisation which is not yet touched the nation on extreme level.
With such developments in the literature, what is awaiting India? India did not experience deadly attacks such as charlie hebdo, Army school of peshawar, and destruction of history and literature in Syria and Iraq by ISIS. So can it be considered that India should take pre-emptive actions and take a defensive stand against Islam itself?
Before pondering on that question, it has to be remembered that India has moderate Muslim community which accepts the Supreme court verdict on Triple Talaq, mosques which allow everyone from every religion to visit, ramzan which is celebrated by other religions may be at least for kheer and haleem, muharram is also celebrated which is objected by Sunni extremists, Moinuddin chishti baba’s dargah in Ajmir is considered as mecca of India which is visited and worshipped by people of various religions.

Thus, India stands high for its diversity not only with respect to its religions but also thought, without trying to homogenise the societies like others in the near west. The question today would not be the previous one but of whether this diversity, secularism will be sustained? Will India stand as a model for coming generations and not allow clash of civilisations prediction to touch is borders?
It is left to the nation and make a choice whether to be secular and continue the legacy of this land to accommodate various cultures or to adopt the extreme stand against Islam.

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