Muslims want to move on

As very important judgement would be delivered on RamJanam Bhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, the issue is no longer as inflammable for the Muslim youth as it used to be. They feel that preventing fresh unrest is more important. Sixty years since that suit was filed, and 18 years after the mosque’s demolition, the inflammatory issue seems to have lost some of its fire. Muslims once thought the mosque was a metaphor for Indian secularism and its rebuilding alone could restore their faith in their nation.



Today, the debate has little meaning for many among them, or at least the younger generation.

“Me and my Muslim friends may have together discussed this subject once in my entire life,” says Shabbir. “I think it is pointless to shed blood over one mosque when there are so many other mosques around the country.



It had anyway been locked for decades before the demolition. What happened was grossly unjust, but we have to move on.”-- Saif Shahin,editor and publisher,NewageIslam.com. Omar Ilyasi,Islamic scholar and Imam of Kasturba Gandhi Marg mosque of the capital said that the nation has to address other serious issues like poverty,social injustice and unemployment rather than this non-issue. “ I am of the firm view that both parties much accept the court verdict with all the humility,” he concludes.



Echoing the views of Omar Ilyasi, noted social worker and school teacher in capital,Maqsood Ahmed said,” I know for sure that this very issue is now not that important as it used to be for Muslims. Their priorities have changed. They are now more interested in getting good education and jobs. They would accept the court's verdict. I am ateacher in one of the minority schools of the capital and i can tell you with certain degree of confidence that even Muslims kids are not very much interested in this issue. My only worry is that some parties and leaders may to try to whip the communal feelings in order to gain politically.”



Noted historian and teacher in capital's elite Modern School,FerozFeroz Bakhat Ahmed is of the view that this very issue should be resolved at the earliest. There is no point that we concentrate on this matter rather working on other key issues.

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