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Why I converted to Islam and buried my Hindu identity: Dalit Camera founder

Periyar had suggested Ambedkar convert to Islam. After years of research, I too found Islam to be the only religion in India that could annihilate the caste system.

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I learned one thing in my eight years’ experience with the Dalit movement through Dalit Camera assignments, and my research on caste for the last 14 years. Babasaheb Ambedkar was right when he said that leaving Hinduism is the only way to fight caste.

Dalit Camera is a digital platform that documents voices of Dalits, Adivasis, Bahujans, and minorities through a website and a YouTube channel by the same name.

Following his footsteps, I chose to leave Hinduism and embrace Islam on 30 January 2020 in Kodungallur, a historical town in Kerala’s Thrissur district. Kodungallur is where the first Indian mosque was built. I am now Raees Mohammed.

The date is significant. It is the day when the first Hindutva terrorist Nathuram Godse assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It is also the day when our beloved brother Rohith Vemula, who fought against caste discrimination in Hinduism, was born.


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 A religion for emancipation

In my childhood, as a devotee of Lord Ayyappa, I had been to Kodungallur six times. It is also where CPI-ML (undivided) Kerala state secretary Najmal Babu embraced Islam in 2015. Rationalist Thanthai Periyar (father) had said that if one wanted to annihilate caste in 15 minutes and live with self-respect, then Islam is the only solution. Periyar had also suggested to Babasaheb Ambedkar to choose Islam as a religion for emancipation.

In my years of research, I too found Islam to be the only religion in India with the strength to annihilate the caste system.

The anti-caste movement has been the longest ongoing socio-cultural movement in India. The main demand is to consider ‘untouchables’ as equal citizens in Hindu society, and to be located under the ambit of the Constitution rather than Hindu religion. But I was curious why this easy solution to annihilate caste via Islam has never been even a reference point in Dalit movement and Dalit literature.


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Fight for equality

In January, I was invited to Kodungallur to address a gathering on the dangers of fascism, and against the proposed National Register of Citizens, the National Population Register, and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.

Muslims are battling for their citizenship rights in Narendra Modi’s India today. But theirs is a battle different from the struggle of Dalits. The former is for justice and citizenship. The latter is for something as basic as self-respect, to be treated as an equal human being. In that sense, Dalits have it much worse.

This is when I embraced Islam and buried my Hindu identity as Ravichandran Bathran. I do not want to refer to my Hindu name because if you dive deep, all Hindu names only indirectly refer to caste, and I don’t want this Raees Mohammed to carry the old baggage. The name is not the real problem. After all, my parents named me with so much love. But the problem comes when the Hindu society attaches that name to a caste and instils a stereotype of the hereditary occupation of scavenging. My father was treated badly because the Hindu society said he did a job that was considered filthy. This is hypocrisy of the highest order. First, you enforce a traditional occupation on some groups, treat their members badly, and then blame the people rather than the caste system.

My parents chose a Sanskrit name, an unusual practice among my relatives, who always chose names that are easily identified with Chakkiliyars or untouchables. But like my parents, I too experienced unequal treatment.

My education and earnings did not change my identity, and never will. But we are fed with this lie by none other than the Dalit movements.

My father worked as a sanitary worker and my mother was a sweeper in a local school. For the last 15 years, I worked to address the discrimination and untouchability faced by my parents and tens of thousands like them because of their work — sanitation workers/sweepers/scavengers.

We belong to Chakkiliyar/Arunthathiyar caste in Tamil Nadu, who are called, especially by fellow untouchables, as migrants or outsiders. The reason being that Arunthathiyars’ first language is close to Telugu. During my research in undivided Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, and Karnataka, I found that in all these states, the sanitation workers were addressed as outsiders. It doesn’t matter whether they had migrated from other states. Interestingly, in all south Indian states, except in undivided Andhra Pradesh, sanitation workers speak Telugu. In Andhra Pradesh, they speak Hindi and a dialect closer to Odiya.

Scavengers and sweepers are not allowed inside the homes of upper-caste Hindus. Even the toilets are constructed outside the homes. Indian sociologists and anthropologists have a problematic understanding of caste and Indian homes, where Dalits have a separate entrance (as is visible from most buildings). Things are changing slowly in rural areas.

On the contrary, mosques have toilets within their premises. A toilet is not considered unholy. This is where I fell in love with mosques. I do not find any good reason why Dalits should continue to carry Hinduism on their shoulders.


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Who’s a Dalit?

Many people request me to drop the word ‘Dalit’ form Dalit Camera. Dalit is not a term to refer to the physical body of untouchables, it’s a revolutionary concept that Dalit Panthers conceived of. Now, I don’t have a caste. But being part of Dalit Camera is a sign of solidarity I show to Dalit Panthers, and to my beloved Muslim brothers and sisters.

For us, Babasaheb Ambedkar’s image itself is enough. It conveys his ideology and idea of justice.

So, Dalits and Muslims have a battle to fight. The fight of Muslims is constitutional in nature, but the fight of Dalits is social, which is more difficult. Many Dalits still do not know that they are being treated unequally because of Hinduism. It’s for this reason Dalits are not aware that they too might find themselves without citizenship one day.

Raees Mohammed, formerly known as Ravichandran Bathran, is the founder of Dalit Camera @dalitcamera. Views are personal.

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219 COMMENTS

  1. What prople do not know is :
    1) ISLAM SUPPORTS SLAVERY – Sex with “ma malakat aymanukum” (possessions of the right hand – slave girls) is HALAL, legal as per QURAN. QURAN recognises slavery as a part of society. Muhammad himself kept slaves. Civilian women captured by Muhammad after wars were either sold into slavery or became Muhammads / his 14 wives slave. Muhammad received 1/5th of the loot in property (including slavegirls after every military conquest).
    2) The SAHABAS (companions) of Muhammad would rape captured civilian females right on the battlefield. There is a record in SAHIH BUKHARI of how on one such occassion they consulted with Muhammad if they could ejaculate within the women or practice “AZL”. Muhammad opined that “AZL” wasnt necessary because “children were in the hands of Allah”.
    3) Muhammad killed an entire tribe of jews, including non combatants, including children that had pubic hair and sold the civilian women and children as slaves to purchase weapons. This is a documented fact in SAHIH BUKHARI of the BATTLE OF AZHAB in which the BANU QURAYZAH, a rich jewish tribe of traders, was butchered under the direct command of Muhammad.

    QURAN HAS MILLIONS OF FAULTS BUT THE BIGGEST STILL HAS TO BE THE RECOGNITION OF SLAVERY of both MALES and FEMALES. There are many documented instances of Muhammad selling and exchanging “slaves”, slaves captured after waging war against Kings that refused to “accept islam” in response to Muhammad’s letters beinning with “Aslim Teslam” basically warning those kings of the dire consequences of not accepting Muhammad’s “prophethood”.

    The Hindu VARNA system is plainly bureaucracy, it has got to be stupidity to leave something sensible and peaceful and decide to jump into an arabic stoneage political ideology.

  2. OK, now try to revert… You’ll know how peaceful Islam is ?

    I think you would have read Quan, and are aware of the aftermath of apostasy….

    Also, don’t come near me, who know you might blast shouting Ola – Uber… ? ?

  3. You might change the cult… But not the religion,

    You’ll always be a Sanatani, like everyone else in this world.

  4. I left islam because of its ragging terror around the globe… Baghdadi was not a terrorist for Muslims because if you look at the life of Mohammed, he was also a mass murderer and pedophile…. Though apostates are growing in number….

    Allah can never discriminates on the basis of religion, but in quran its written that, behead non Muslims where you find them…. So tell me how islam is peaceful?

    The truth is that Mohammad fooled people in name of Allah…

    Well its no wonder that only retard like you follow this cult called Islam.

  5. He doesn’t have a caste, he says, and yet he still refers to his Dalit identity several times and milks it for commercial gain. There’s no denying that casteism is brutal and needs toe be eradicated, but let’s spare ourselves this left-wing Hinduphobia/Islamic missionary activism dressed up as progressive thinking.

  6. okay okay, I don’t wanna be rude here, plese don’t mind but I wanted to say this very politely, You are a total motherfucker, I mean why the fuck you people always want to attack hinduism, can’t you people live in peace, if you don’t like hinduism it’s ok but what is the point to post on a fucking website, ohhh!!!! I got it because you want views by hurting the religious sentiments, dude Hinduism is manipulated by many outside invaders, don’t post anything without knowledge you idiot, It was varna system which can be choosen by choice it’s not by birth but some foolish brahmins tried to make moey from it by manuplating people’s mind and hinduism is universal religion,,,,, a way of life just like buddhism and taoism, if you don’t like the religious part of it, that’s okay but the philosophy part is good for everyone, people like you should get out of the country and what did you said, ” Islam ” then you should know that they thinks that whoesever don’t believe in allah should be killed immediately, they just look for themselves, first research the whole thinkg then take decisions and then you should post. Yoga and ayurveda came out oh hinduism ???

    • God did not make death, only “Love thy neighbor as thyself, the 10 Commandments “Moses wrote of me” & the Lord’s Prayer thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” proof by resurrected-ascent into heaven Son Jesus Christ to live forever, eye witnessed the way to God “before the world was” Saint John 17:3-5.

  7. First of all casteism when it came to being wasn’t bad. It was called varnas and actually was a noble concept.. It degraded over time and it’s unfair to blame Hinduism for the menace. It’s like how the MLAs who are supposed to be public workers now roam about thinking of themselves as kings.. It’s a social failure and not a religion issue.

    Second, the whole middle East is burning due to sectarian violence and this article claims only Islam can “annihilate” casteism. Stopped reading it right there because it doesn’t make sense when Sunnis can’t accept Ahmadiyas as Muslims. Whar doesn’t make sense is most likely propaganda.

    FYI – as a Hindu, I and almost all of my “higher caste” friends don’t discriminate and think it used to happen in past. Now we eat from the same plate as our “dalit” friends.

  8. Discrimination exists in Abrahamic religions. Both killed people, destroyed places of worship, annihilated civilizations, segregated people.
    Hinduism never did. But Hinduism gets the bad name.

  9. Periyar had suggested Ambedkar convert to Islam.
    Of Course. PERIYAR DID NOT HIMSELF CONVERT TO ISLAM, because he wanted to retain his influence in Tamil Nadu. I didn’t realize he was so diabolical. By advising Ambedkar to convert to Islam he was trying to kill two bids with one stone. Get rid of Dalit leader who could raise dalits against him power and with Ambedkar gone takeover orphaned dalits, without prominent leader, in his fold and increase his power.

    Periyar’s advise was like ” Chadha ja beta suli per allah tera Bhala kare”. But Abmbedkar was not stupid, which can not be said about Raees Mohammed or Ravichandran Bathran, Rees mohammed wants to become even dumber in believing in nonsense like world was created six thousand years ago., rather than becomin scientifically minded.

  10. Leaving one’s religion and adopting the other faith proves lack of self confidence and weakness of an individual it can be thought that a person born of some father does not like the birth one got through that father, he may wish to change his or her father to feel satisfied,how silly it looks that you abuse your self?Again I believe the rigidity and flexibility are core difference between two.The draw backs have totally been ignored by this convert from Hinduism to Islam.Becuse reason has now no place in his life.Let good sense prevail upon this convertee and come back to Hinduism which believes in the prosperity of all.

  11. You are such a retarded fool! For those of you who are Muslims feeling pride after reading this and got another chance to attack us Hindus, I say go eat sh** morons, not because you are Muslims but because you are such ignorant people that even Allah would be thinking that how these numbskulls came to be? The author of this sh**ty crap, ever try reading history of India rather than just taking crap of what has already been said to you. Caste System? Yea well this system was brought upon by Westerners/Outsiders who always xame to conquer India and this Concept of Caste System was another divide and rule policy. And Mughals were no different, killed countless hindus to make them Muslims and this procedure is still visible. “Taj Mahal a wonder!” Yea right, ever thought about thise workers who lost their hads so that they can’t build another one? Ever heard, talk about treating everyone equally. And for those idiots who don’t know a sh**, a little knowledge for you retards, I don’t know if you’ll even Understand. Sanatana Dharma has “Varna System”, at a certain age of your childhood you were sent to Aashram (School for reference, although not close enough to describe the word), After 12 years of education, they were assigned their roles according to how much they have learned, and we did not had books so you might think what knowledge? It was life morales and understanding of the world fools! And all this was to maintain balance between society.
    If one does not accept its role, society would fall. In old time, Kings Role was to look out for his people cause he can do it, Brahmins to educate/show right path, Merchants to keep economy up, normal people had different roles like farmer, labours etc. This is how society functioned without crumble. Suppose if merchant stopped doing his job and wanted to become King and by asking for equality and farmera started riot, that kingdom will fall. And it’s not hidden that cauz of corrupted Kings, Kingdoms have fallen. What is wrong being given roles according to your education and understandigs? How is it Caste System? Go and 1st of all educate yourself before asking about what you deserve. Even Mughals came to conquer India and destroyed so many things.

  12. You must listen the words of jamitha teacher the quran teacher who is leave from islam from kerala alone fight against the terrorist of islam

  13. Iam happy that u left sanatana dharma..we do not want wastes like you..please be happy where your tiny mind and regressive thghts can be nurtured…cover ur woman….beleive in blood sacrifices and etc…why not buddhism or jainism…the factnis…u r paid ….u r a paid puppet…

  14. Hinduism is not a religion, it is a way of living. It is Sanadhan Dharma, which comprises of everlasting virtue. If some people convert to Islam, if they are poor, will the middle class and upper class Muslims allow them to be inside their house? Will they give their children to marry these Dalit converts’ children. Never. The casteism remains because of the poverty. Once they are financially sound, they will get recognition in the society. Who, if the forefront Dalit politicians or the poor Brahmins get acceptance in the society? Definitely the powerful and rich control the society. That man is foolish with no individuality to convert to a religion which says to wipe off the people of other Faiths from the Esrth.That man would have worked for rights of his people in the mother religion itself and tried to uplift others of the brothrern. He is a coward to run away. Muslims also fight in the name of sects, like Shias, Sunnis and so on. As time passes, this man will not get this reception and will experience insult from that religion. Wait and see. Conversion is a pandemic which should be eradicated from the globe, may it be any Faith- Hinduism, Islam,Christian or any.

  15. Dude are you high on opium when write,because of Gandhi cancer like you are in this country who want to eat it like termites and run to pakistan. Have some shame for the soil air which nourished you to.

  16. you are a black stain on society… dalits are Hindus and we all are brothers…we believe in prosperity and union. You joined Islam because you are a coward and a value less creature, don’t forget you forefather have sacrificed their lives just to uphold their sanctity and integrity of dharma..

    • How can a person follow that religion.. whose so called holy books are speaking against his caste? How can he be in a religion where their is a system like caste system which considers him low by birth… which considers him to be born from feet? How can he be in a religion, whose history is always against him.. and always degraded him.. like Rama killed shambukah, Dronacharya took eklavya’s finger. He needs to find a religion.. where he is not looked down upon.. where people are considered equal

      • Give me single reference from arsh granth which speak against any one’s caste or varna. You people are curse on planet that doesn’t read holy books and come on conclusion by reading propaganda.

      • @maatermind im not saying people don’t support caste system.. Most higher caste do promote caste discrimination. Not denying that truth.. But the point i want to explain here is the misconcepted story of rama killing sambukha. sambukha being born as a sudra decided to penance himself to be in a world of gods.. At the first all beings were righteous and did penance for each other welfare and as the time passed humans started being corrupt and evil and they started using the power of pence to get unnatural bonds. So power of penance no longer existed to reach the eternal world and those living once who wish to reach there need to either complete his life in a good waybor die from the hand of demi gods or gods under their blessing.. Rama came to sambukha and asked him to stop wat he was doing where sambukha really at any cost wanted to reach there( eternal world). Thus with the permission of other 4 sages, rama sent sambukha to heaven being him one of the gods in the heaven world. So basically if rama was discriminating him he would not have reached heaven and moreover 3 out of those 4 sages were sudra and they became sages under their great will and desire to be a sage.. The writer of ramayana also belong to a sudra caste.. 2nd story of dronacharya and eklaviya.. Dronacharya started teaching started teaching shetriyas to win the battle with ravana.. And ekliviya was a good guy who wanted to learn to archery from dronacharya.. Dronacharya had the fear of ekliviya being a man of ravana would kill him after learning his skills.. Even though ekliviya had only the desire to learn archery. Even after not allowing him to learn, ekliviya used to hide and listened all the techniques and he performed much better than the pandavas.. Dronacharya was happy as a teacher as one have learnt a technique seeing him in the same time was sad as he belonged to enemy’s group.. So he asked him to cut off his finger, in fear of him. The moral here is the value of teacher. A teachers responsibility is not just teaching others its also to understand others well before judging him in the first view. So please understand the story well before you make a comment. There is no doubt minorities are facing discrimination in this country especially in North. Tat doesn’t mean u should read the stories in a wrong way

  17. Religion is ones mother! It’s a culture. One who doesn’t understand his mother and culture cannot understand another mother or religion! What had he learnt about Hinduism to compare with another religion? Hinduism is the most secular and not a one god religion. Vedas say to read it, to live it and even to challenge it. Which other religion will allow to challenge its holy book? So this is all a game which Indian slaves are playing.

    Hinduism is applicable even in the most modern system. Caste is political and it will be kept alive as long as pseudo secular parties and anti Hindu parties exist. For Hindus to unite and stop the civilisation from ruining, we need political party or the pseudo secularists will ruin it for money.

    The man who converted here did it for selfish reasons. The media which is propagating is funded to do this!

    Many people including foreigners are converting to Hinduism so we are happy to see some rubbish out of Hinduism!

    Let him try reading the new religion’s holy book. He is going to miss our library.

    Your media is one deplorable anti Hindu media

    • The Thing is he was inspired by Ambedkar and got converted to Islam. If he was really an Ambedkarite, he would have converted to Buddhism. And he says he did all Research. If he had actually researched Ambedkar, he would have known that Islam is the worst thing which happened to this World.

    • Really ..very true….

      People blame hinduism and easily sell their soul hust to fulfil their targetted goals and selfishness.
      Hinduism is not only the religion which is mother of all other faiths.

  18. Good decision. Welcome to Islam.
    By seeing this high cast. Hindu will cry at new converts telling you will lose monetary benefits that government give.
    If that is the case I recommend higher caste people to convert to Dalit to enjoy the benifits that government provide.

    • Don’t worry, soon you muslims too will be crushed beneath the feet of Hindus. At that time Lord Kalki won’t see religion, but will only see the doers of wrong which will have all sorts of people, even Hindus, but islam will vanish that day and you people will see it too. Convert, don’t convert, one day you will all die by the hands of the Hindus.

  19. What a rubbish article again by theprint. Definitely theprint wants to make everyone anti Hindu and appease musalmans to create another Pakistan but this drama won’t hapoen again. Dr. Ambedkar clearly said many harsh things on Islam. Converting to Islam by taking name of Ambedkar is a mockery of himself. The one who wrote this article is definitely not Dalit and it sounds more like propaganda to make more divisions among Hindus. Caste system is dead. One more generation and caste system will be history forever. Read “Pakistan or Partition” by Dr. Ambedkar to understand reality of Islam

  20. Allah SWT sends Prophet Adam(AS) to this world. As guidance always he send messengers for guidance to human race.
    Allah SWT sends always only one message I.e Islam is since time immorial, since man stepped his foot on the earth.

    Islam – or guidance to humanity – is nothing for submitting our will to the WILL of Allah!
    Allah SWT send more than 125,000 Prophets (avatars) to different times, and different continents.

    The last of series of messengers ie avatars (Adam, Nouh before 100Kyears ago), are the lineage of Abraham (5000yrs) are Moses, Jesus,…..the Last one to be Mohammed, peace be upon him and peace be to all messengers. Message is simple, Nobody worthy of being worshiped except Allah.

    Like all earlier prophets Moses, Jesus all has brought Islam, however humans (popes, pandits, Moulana’s) who control the religions has twisted the message to their desires.

    Actually, this is the last of many 100s of civilizations, and focal point of this civilization is Middle East, and started by prophet Ibrahim (pbuh), almost 5000yrs ago.

    Earlier focal points of civilization probably on each times india, china, Japan, America, Mexico, etc. These civilizations started and ended. Whenever the message got too much courrpted, ALLAH started new message (new avatar).

    Today’s father of civilisation is prophet Abrahim (peace be upon him). His lineage has 3 major prophets  prophet Moses, prophet ISA (peace be upon him), prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him). Current period, the only charter given by Allah is Quran, it is upon all humans.

    Ref: all religious Texts

    • Abraham is the father of civilization? A man who was prepared to kill his own son to appease the voices in his head?
      Don’t make me laugh.

  21. This is unfortunate that some one is discriminated on the basis of caste. But to my surprise when I started my schooling approx.54 yr back,one child who used to sit with me was from the community reffered by the person above.One other side a JAT boy used to sit.neither my teacher nor my family members ever questioned this.But when I may be around 10 yr old I saw that few people were not allowed in temple.However they used to have their own temple.Fooding habbit was different as these people used to eat non veg food after killing an animal on special occasions like marriage etc.Even then whole village community used to help them at every occasion and there was no frictions of any kind till the time politics entered into the picture.However it would be wrong on my part if I certify that their morale may not get affected by all this.At the same time,society does not have any respect even for a person of other caste if he was engaged in this type of job. When I grow older one of my muslim friend told me that they don’t allow lower caste muslim to sit on the same charpai.

  22. He who can convert once can convert again. The only failure of Ambedkar was that he converted. They say Islam is in danger, I agree. Fight for your rights and religion my dear dalit brothers.

  23. Ravichandran alias Raees Mohd is extremely gullible, greedy, patience-less and misinformed person who claims fake research on social and religious matters. He appears to have never studied Dr Ambedkar’s books and thoughts on various social and political matters of India.

    Constitution of India gives not only equal rights, but also special reservation to SC/ST/OBC communities of all religions. Ravichandran never bothered to think why muslims claim reservations in the name of SC/OBC if there is no caste discrimination among them. Now Ravichandra aka Raees would justify the terrorism (jihad) all over the world in the name of islam–He would justify recent attack on Bangluru’s Congress MLA Srnivas Murthy’s family by muslims.

    This fellow should have learnt about conditions of SC caste people in J&K under muslim CMs before scrapping of article 370, conditions of SC Hindus in Pakistan. He should have learnt about SC caste Mr Jogendra Mandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jogendra_Nath_Mandal) and his fellow millions of Dalit Hindus’ highly terrible treatment at the hands of muslim rulers of Pakistan.

    He says that sweepers are not allowed to enter the houses of upper caste Hindus through the main entrance, then will rich muslims allow sweepers to enter to their drawing rooms?
    He must become a Jihadi now onwards. If it is true that Periyar recommended Islam to Dalits then I would say that Periyar was a super stupid person.

    By writing this comment I am wasting my time over a greedy person whose expectations are too high. By the way I am totally against caste system among Hindus and struggling to annihilate caste system by large scale intercaste marriages among Hindus. I am surprised that OBC/SC caste people are not ready to do intercaste marriages among themselves and keep doing within caste marriages. No upper caste person or group is preventing them from doing intercaste marriage among themselves, but they do not want to leave the caste system and blame upper caste people for all their problems. I myself belong to OBC caste.

  24. A very good life story.My only humble request is to kindly mention about the previliges you have enjoyed being SC/ST reserved candidate.Does your new community brothers and sisters enjoy the same privileges.

  25. Islam is said to bind people together. This is only a half truth. For Islam divides as inexorably as it binds. Islam is a close corporation and the distinction that it makes between Muslims and non-Muslims is a very real, very positive and very alienating distinction. The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is the brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. There is a fraternity, but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation. For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt and enmity. The second defect of Islam is that it is a system of social self-government and is incompatible with local self-government because the allegiance of a Muslim does not rest on his domicile in the country which is his but on the faith to which he belongs. To the Muslim ibi bene ibi patria is unthinkable. Wherever there is the rule of Islam, there is his own country. In other words, Islam can never allow a true Muslim to adopt India as his motherland and regard a Hindu as his kith and kin. That is probably the reason why Maulana Mahomed Ali, a great Indian but a true Muslim, preferred to be buried in Jerusalem rather than in India.

  26. Very good decision. Islam will teach you way of life and equality which none can give you.
    Excellent brother either u are black or sweeper or a garbage cleaner, u will have same respect as others. Like Bilal had with others no discrimination, discrimination is a sign of paganism with hindus do. Better leave it forever, and come to real and true path of success.

    • How islam teach you good lesson about life ??
      What islam teach you hates those who hates islam ?
      what Islam teach you terror attack only weapon to save islam ?
      what islam teach you convert dalit and spread islam trouble to the nation ?
      your islam soo poor thats why you covered target dalit …..

  27. I believe value education is the cure to caste system, we see it slowly declining as humans progress. The new generations’ values won’t be rooted in petty superstitious beliefs.
    Caste and varna where created by people for selfish reasons, it’s not a part of sanatana dharma. Don’t use such platforms to promote hidden agendas.

  28. I believe value education is the cure to caste system, we see it slowly declining as humans progress. The new generations’ values won’t be rooted in petty superstitious beliefs.
    Caste and varna where created by people for selfish reasons, it’s not a part of sanatana dharma.

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