[Reader-list] India state-run banks 'turn away Muslims': BBC

[Javed]

Dear Rajen
Thanks for your detailed mail. I should clarify that:

- I did not write that news item - it is from BBC, and not written by a Muslim

- Why do you, as a Hindu, have to get offended by such a post? It is
not directed against Hindus. It is talking about the state-run banks.
Are you assuming that by criticizing stat-run banks this report is
criticizing Hindus?

- Are you suggesting that all Muslims are wrongdoers, hence they
should not get accounts in banks?

- Muslims (especially those living in particular Muslim-dominated
neighbourhoods) being rejected by banks, loan companies and credit
card companies is a reality. Several banks have clear instructions to
their managers to avoid giving services to people of certain origins.
Many news items have appeared on this issue, if you are inaware of
them.

thanks

Javed


On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi
<rajen786uppinangady at gmail.com> wrote:
> Javed,
> it is travesty of truth to say that the "muslims" are discriminated in
> India, typical of british and their known strategy of divided and rule.,
> that usage of media to manipulate the public opinion as we, in India have
> not yet come out of the hang over of british rule of 250 years, nor is the
> effect of "muslim rule" on the society will easily get accustomed to rule of
> laws in democratic nation whee faith is not the criteria for delivery of
> good governance.
> It is common sense that the wrong doers always take defense of the faith to
> cover up the wrongs, irrespective of the faith.! Be it a muslim or christian
> or hindu or jain or sikh, it is the deviants who project their
> victimhoodbecause of their faith.!Any number of poor who can not open the
> account for want of id proof is not a new issue, by the way, it is Taha, who
> wants freedom, but not identity to be counted as citizen of India, who has
> been vehemently using the similar arguments about the id.When a nation has
> an approach of respect to all faiths, oldest party divides the nation on the
> basis of faith, caste and language and regions, national identity is lost,
> to great extent, with faith id being stressed by behaviour, dress and any
> other national id is seen as "imposed" is the hallmark of intolerence of the
> individuals, who again organise themselves with followers of faith, to
> indulge in first bite into national coffers, and amusingly we have plenty of
> "seculars' who like this as this way.! Primarily, supposed majority in the
> nation is so badly divided that if muslims riot and being seen as communal,
> with NGOs, it is immediately rebutted that the NGO is not communal,but if
> hindus are not divided and stand above the caste and creed, the organisation
> is communal unlike the eucharistic or jamaath .?Unfortunately, when a hindu
> is attacked, other hindus think of the attack as not on hindu or on a human,
> but on a individual of a caste and do not get concerned of deviant
> behaviour.
> If a muslim or a christian is attacked for any issue, it becomes ciommunal
> attack by all hindus........! If a few students are unable to get their
> accounts opened, if they happen to be a particular faith followers it
> becomes an issue of discrimination as if other students are not
> discriminated at all in the system in the guise of caste.? All paper work
> asks for faith, caste for any governance, why, would you please enumerate,
> but the same forms are filled by those who want the document, be it a
> driving license or passport.Why is it then discrimination.?
> regards,
> rajen
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> India state-run banks 'turn away Muslims'
>> By Sanjoy Majumder BBC News, Delhi
>>
>> State-owned banks in India have been accused of discriminating against
>> the country's Muslim minority.
>>
>> India's minorities watchdog has received a record number of complaints
>> from Muslims who say they have been prevented from opening bank
>> accounts.
>>
>> India's Muslim community is among the poorest in the country.
>>
>> Some bankers say it is not so much their religious background, but
>> their economic status that makes it hard for Muslims to get banking
>> facilities.
>>
>> The National Commission of Minorities says that there has been a 100%
>> increase in the number of complaints it has received over the past
>> year from Muslims who say they are being prevented from opening
>> accounts in state-run banks.
>>
>> Reports say the worst case took place in the southern state of Andhra
>> Pradesh, where some 90,000 Muslim students were unable to open
>> accounts to deposit scholarship cheques given to them by the
>> government.
>>
>> Official reports frequently put Muslims at the bottom of India's
>> social and economic ladder - even beneath than low-caste Hindus.
>>
>> Their economic status means they are often excluded by private banks,
>> which prefer more well-to-do clients.
>>
>> Already a number of reports have suggested that India's Muslims fare
>> poorly when it comes to getting access to quality education or
>> employment opportunities.
>>
>> This latest finding will add more pressure on a government which is
>> seen as doing very little for the country's largest minority group.
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10718243
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> Rajen.
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