People who lived at different times had different ethics and rules for society and governance. Religion was also ritualized quite differently at different times. What was ethical 500 years back may not be today. Even norms change in 10-15 years. Corporal punishment was so well entrenched part of Indian school system when we were studying, but now it will put teacher in jail. If Babar demolished temple it might have been accepted norm those days . The society was still barbarous and should not be compared with today's more evolved cultures. We will be going back centuries behind if we continue to speculate what was before Taj or Babari Masjid. I think we, led by intellectuals with global progressive vision, must move ahead and look at past only from academic point of view. Learning from more progressive nations like South Africa we should never forget that this country belongs to one particular nationality which is uniquely identified, irrespective of religions. When last I went to Egypt people used to recognise us and call us smilingly 'Indian, India, Amitabh, Sharukh.'...but no one ever called me 'hi Hindu'.
We are too obsessed with Islam. Never forget Islam is almost 50 percent of the world population. I can't believe we can wish it away. Also do we mean to say that 50 % of the population which inhibit is MISGUIDED?
We must not always draw fuel from past to fire our present.
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