MINORITIES PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION

Religious Minorities

Where muslims are in majority, or where governmental power is in their hands, their attitude towards the non- muslims is oppressive. Where they are in minority, their attitude is disruptive. This thing applies to some extent in the case of followers of other semetic-religions - Christianity and Jewism also. But the jews have since concentrated themselves in Israel alone, and a large part of Christians have since modernised and humanised their religion to some extent.

There has been some difference in the approach of democratic countries and communist countries in regard to minorities. Democratic countries like U.S.A. and U.K. have adopted the Hindu principle of Equality of treatment for all religions. They allow equal concessions to the followers of all ways of worship and provide common law and equality before law to all citizens in their countries. As such, those states are in practice secular or unconcerned with religion, although they are declared or undeclared Christian states. But such states also are specially alert in respect of muslim minorities, because the Christian population and rulers of those states better understand the true nature of Islam. There are historical reasons behind it. World wide conflicts continued for centuries between Christian and Islam. After the First World War, when Islam had become a very weak political power, and communism had emerged as a new challenge to Christianity and democracy, the conflict between Islam and Christianity had slightly come to a stand still. Communism had taken the place of Islam. Communism and communist countries had become the first target of Christianity and Christian states.

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