More Muslims Are Urban Than the National Average

India's population is predominantly rural. In 2001, only 27.8% lived in urban areas, cities and towns of various sizes, showing a low degree of urbanization. Moreover, the tempo of urbanization has been quite low after 1981, with only about two percentage points rise in the share of the urban population over each decade. The Muslim population is also predominantly rural, but the level of urbanization among them has been higher than the population as a whole. In 1961, while overall only 18.0% of the population lived in urban areas, 27.1% of Muslim did so. This substantial gap has persisted; in 2001, 35.7% of the Muslim population was urban compared to 27.8% of the overall population.

In many states, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Chhattisgarh, the majority of Muslims live in urban areas. Muslims have generally been relatively more urbanized even in the past. By and large, India's Muslim population is less linked to land than the overall population. This is true even in rural areas. The 2001 census data show that whereas 40 percent of rural workers were cultivators among all religions; amongst Muslims, this figure was only 30 percent. Agricultural workers (cultivators and agricultural labourers combined) constituted 75 percent of rural workers overall but only 60 percent amongst Muslims. Experts believe that a number of historical factors lie behind the higher urbanization among Muslims in India.

As mentioned above, nearly 36 percent of India’s Muslim population lives in urban areas and an overwhelming majority of them are slum-dwellers. Due to poor educational standard, they have to engage in low-pay jobs and hence unable to afford better accommodation. The other reason is that Muslims prefers living away from non-Muslim kafirs; hence they are increasingly resorting to live in congested ghettos across the country that lack proper sanitation and other public facilities like fresh water supply, sanitation, electricity, schools, public health facilities, banking facilities, roads, and transport facilities. This is more pronounced in communally sensitive towns and cities. This ghettoized living seems not to be advantageous for them, because it makes them more isolated from the mainstream population, which adds to their backwardness.

In India, one can call these Muslim ghettoes as “mini Pakistans”, where they perform every anti-India activities, like burning of Indian National Flag, hoisting Pakistani flag, shouting anti-India and pro-Pakistani slogans, oppressing the non-Muslims residents if there be any in the vicinity and so on.

This picture is not confined to India alone. European countries are also experiencing the same thing. So, Mr Geert Wilders, in his essay “Islamization of Europe” writes:

But in all of these cities (in the West), sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world, a world very few visitors see - and one that does not appear in your tourist guidebook. It is the world of the parallel society created by Moslem mass-migration. All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Moslem neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity.

These are Moslem ghettos controlled by religious fanatics.. These are Moslem neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city…..There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region.

It is needless to say that the Muslim women are the worst sufferers of this increasing ghettoization, as Islamic custom of veiling prevents them to access the above mentioned civic facilities from beyond the confines of their ghettoes. This ghettoisation has multiple other adverse effects like inadequacy of infrastructural facilities, shrinking common spaces and creating an unhealthy living-conditions, vulnerable to epidemics of common tropical diseases like diarrhea, cholera, malaria and other water- and mosquito-borne ailments. The lack of these civic facilities undoubtedly plays hindrance to better progress of the community.

Islam has no Human Resource Development Program

Comments posted in reaction to the first part of this essay by many readers has made me fully convinced that the enlightened people have started thinking deeply about the role the Islam, a cult of hatred and violence, is playing in the world today. Most of them believe that the slavery of Arab religious imperialism in form of Islam is the root cause for the backwardness amongst Muslims globally. Concerning Muslims of India, a reader raised the question:

“Why they should be poor and backward in spite of ruling over India for 800 years compared to only 200 of the British! These colonial imperialist Muslims looted Hindu money and misused that money for merry-making and thus ruined them!”

He is quite correct. For example, once upon a time, the Muslim invaders from Afghanistan looted immense wealth from the Hindus of India and carried that wealth to their country. In addition to that, they carried hundreds of thousands of Hindu prisoners of war and sold them as slaves in the slave-markets that had mushroomed in all Muslim countries. So the question naturally arises: Why today, Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world?

There is no doubt that Islam is the culprit

Why? Because, Islam has no program, like Human resource development. It is man who creates wealth. If you do not educate and train people for creating wealth, how prosperity would come?

Neither the Koran and nor Hadith preach any lesson for turning the Muslims into a community of creative people. Allah never says in the Koran that, "O believers, you lead an honest, moral, ethical and a decent life, be educated by receiving education and raise your moral character." On the contrary, Allah gives them clean chit to commit any crime, every foulest deed and break every law through His promise that He would pardon their every crime and every misdeed for the merit of their accepting Islam.

Besides, Islam proclaims that, for a Muslim, launching a jihad or war against the kafirs is the highest virtue, higher even than a pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj), not to speak of lower virtues like prayer (namaj) and fasting (roja). Allah also makes the spoils acquired by looting in jihadi wars lawful to Muslims. So, according to Islam, Muslims are not supposed to create wealth by their brains and labor, but to acquire it from kafirs by doing jihad. Or in simple words, Muslims are directed to acquire wealth from a class of people by theft, burglary, robbery or by any other criminal means. Hence in Islam, there is no agenda like human resource development.

In addition to that, there lies a great risk in educating and enlightening Muslims, as in that case it would be very difficult for the mullahs to brainwash them and hence they may start questioning Islam itself and refuse to believe its unscientific and irrational diktats. In such a situation, the mullahs would fail to keep their hegemony and vested interests. Due to this reason, during the British rule in India, the mullahs prevented Indian Muslims from receiving British-instituted secular education and confined them to madrassa education so that they might not learn anything beyond the Koran and Hadith.

To explain this, a reader comments: “Now, see what happened after the British people took over India from Muslims. They were liberal .They spread education and modernity in India. They treated all equally. They encouraged those who were willing to acquire knowledge. Hindus grabbed the opportunity and rose to eminence in British India. At the same time Muslims chose to remain inside the cocoon they wove around them. Mullahas prevented the Muslim mass from going to schools and colleges except to Mosques and madrassas where they studied only Koran. By the time Britishers left this country Hindus were in dominant positions where as the Muslims were cycle repairers, umbrella makers and odd mechanics devoid of modern education.”

It is another glaring example to show, how Islam is pulling Muslims backwards in their race of progress and civilization.

Rapid Population Growth, another Reason for Muslim Backwardness

 In their sinister design to outnumber all other non-Muslim population, Muslims try swell their number through fast-breeding, which would aid their capture of political power and establishment of Islamic rule. Due to this reason, compounded by religious scruples, they deliberately reject family planning measures; instead, they try to produce as many children as possible; the culture of polygamy also helps the process. An example may be cited to make the reader aware about what horrible dimension this effort may reach to. In a The Times of India press report, dated 26 June 2007, a Muslim couple in Rajasthan produced 23 children in their 24-year married life. A friend informed me that that a Muslim man has produced 29 children out of his two wives in the state of West Bengal.

In India, Muslims are at liberty to follow the Shariah law in civil matters, which permits Muslim men to keep four wives. If each wife gives birth to 5 children, it is possible for him to raise 20 children without facing any hurdle. The mullahs always keep close watch on the women of their locality so that the housewives may not avail any family planning measure or approach a clinic for this purpose. If Muslim women take to family planning measure, the mullahs often convene a kangaroo court that directs the husband to divorce his wife. The husband finds no other alternative but to comply with the order under the threat of social excommunication. It is projected by many that, aided by higher growth-rate, India’s Muslim population would rise to 340 million by 2041. It will undoubtedly lower the quality of life of the Muslim populace, although it would give them greater political clout and advance their ambition for capturing power.

Even for a middle-class family, it is not possible to provide adequate food and nutrition alone to so many children, not to speak of good education and upbringing. Raising so many children also ruins the economic backbone of a family. This unbridled grow-rate is one of the major reasons of rampant poverty amongst Muslims.

This kind of unbridled breeding amongst Muslims obviously create a community, poor mental and physical development, backward in education, poor in health and stricken sickness and malady.  with intellectually retarded stupid people. To describe this dismal state of affairs, the Sachar Committee writes:

“In the field of literacy the Committee has found that the rate among Muslims is very much below than the national average. The gap between Muslims and the general average is greater in urban areas where Most of the women and 25 per cent of children of Muslim parents, in the 6-14 year age group, have either never attended school or have dropped out.”

The Committee further observes,

"(Due to this intellectual backwardness) The participation of Muslims in the professional and managerial cadre is low. The presence of Muslims has been found to be only 3% in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), 1.8% in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and 4% in the Indian Police Service (IPS). Muslim community has a representation of only 4.5% in Indian Railways while 98.7% of them are positioned at lower levels. Representation of Muslims is very low in the Universities and in Banks. Their share in police as constables is only 6%, in health 4.4%, in transport 6.5%. Substantially larger proportion of the Muslim households in urban areas are in the less than Rs.500 expenditure bracket. And therefore, the access to government schools for children of Muslim parents is limited.”

The analysis suggests that, due to rapid growth of population, or giving birth to many children, a Muslim child experiences a significantly greater risk of being a victim of malnutrition, underweight or stunted than a Hindu child belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) category. However, relative to this group, the SC/ST children as well as Other Hindu children also have a higher risk of being underweight and stunted. Indeed, the differences among the three groups are relatively small and not significantly different from each other.

In conclusion, the evidence shows that Muslim children are at a slightly higher risk of child-malnutrition than Hindu children. However, they are less likely to be underweight or stunted than SC/ST children. But in two regions—the North and the East—the rate of low birth-weight babies among Muslims actually increased sharply between 1992–93 and 1998–99, with Muslims performing much worse than the all-group average for the two regions. There is an enigma in the finding that Muslims have a marginal advantage over other Hindus in infant and under-five mortality as the Muslims are comparatively more urban and hence they can avail better clinical and medical facilities for child birth in government hospitals in the cities and towns.

But they suffer a disadvantage in child nutrition as they are unable to feed so many children they produce for rapid growth of population with the aim of turning India into a dar-ul-Islam in quickest possible time. It is not difficult to understand that these undernourished children are destined to grow up as intellectually retarded people incapable of receiving modern education and unfit for securing better, even moderately paid, jobs in a highly competitive job market.

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(To be continued)