Why are Muslims lagging behind?

Every society has some form of social stratification. In India this was originally done on the basis of one's knowledge, skills and merit, called 'Varna' Over the centuries it kept on degrading until it came to be based on birth rather than merit.
Thus powerful non meritorious groups cornered most of the rights and wealth and oppressed the weaker.

This lead to the easy conquest of India by foreign invaders initially Muslim and later European. The promise of Islam to the downtrodden was, that they would be released from their social bondage and be equal amongst all others. This hope was dashed for the people who converted from Hinduism to Islam still remain unfulfilled, and in fact have gotten worse.

Little known to most people is that Muslims of the Indian sub continent are still subject to exploitation, not by others, but by their fellow Muslims.

Since there is no acknowledgement of the caste system and distinct and fairly rigid social stratification in Muslim society, no solutions have been sought.

As a result Hindu Dalits receive greater opportunities for education and economic progress than the Muslim Dalits, who are held back by their faith and their society whose places little or no emphasis of education of Muslims.

While rest of India has progressed, it is indeed a sad state of affairs for the Muslim population who continue to be oppressed and discriminated by their fellow Muslims.

When things are unsatisfactory or bad, people usually can analyse their situation in two ways.
1. Why have we fallen behind,  and do we need to do to catch up and overtake others?
Those who take this approach, assume responsibility and make progress. Unfortunately they represent are a very small minority.

2. The second and dangerous is to ask, 'Who did this to us?'
Muslim clerics and the political leadership of the Muslims have convinced the vast majority of Muslims that they must seek revenge against one and all who are not Muslim for their own plight. So America and Europe, communists or Hindus and Buddhists are at blame.

Blaming others helps to stir up passions and demands for revenge and provides a convenient escape route to leaders of the Muslim community who have failed and continue to fail our Muslim brothers and sisters.

If the vast majority of Muslims are angry and frustrated they are probably justified. This anger is manifesting itself in many negative ways which rather than benefitting, is further harming the Muslims themselves.

Below is given the Caste System and its historical development along with relevant links for the interested reader.

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Majority of the Muslims in the Indian sub-continent are treated with total disdain and disrespected not only by Arab Muslims but also by high caste Indian Muslims.

Though this goes against the teachings of Islam, in reality, almost all Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani people who got converted to Islam are considered lowly.

The High Castes of Muslims in India are called  'Ashraf' (noble)
All the descendants of Muslim invaders are Ashraf
In terms of hierarchy they are as follows.

1. Syed      (Those who trace their direct ancestry to the Prophet Muhammad)
2. Shaikh   (Those who are of direct Arab ancestry)
3. Mughal  (Those who trace their direct ancestry to Mongols, Turks, Uzbeki etc.)
4. Pashtun (Those who trace their direct ancestry to Iran and Afghanistan)
Then there are the high caste converts like Muslim Rajputs

Amongst Muslims, virtually all economic, social, cultural and political power is in the hands of the Ashraf who are a small minority amongst Muslims (approximately 15%)

Indians who got converted to Islam, and their descendants are considered lowly, by the Ashraf and called 'Ajlaf '(low born),  they are bracketed as the lower castes of Muslims in India

Discriminated and untouchable groups of Islam in the Indian subcontinent and include the  following;

Julaha (weaver),  Ansari, Kunjra, Dhobi, Halalkhor Qasai (butcher), Nai (barber),

Arzal (Dalit) which included sweepers, shoe-makers, etc. were considered even the lowest of the low born of the Ajlaf are the Dalit Muslims.


Education and geographical mobility has changed the profession of many Muslims, but they are still classified by their earlier family professions.  There is some mixing between the different categories, but the percentage is so small that its negligible. Thus the advent of Islam has not changed the social status of most Muslims particularly the lowest and poorest in Muslim society.

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Why Pakistan will fail

Not every country is a civilisation.  A country is just an inhabited  parcel of land. 
A civilisation like India is a stable, progressive open ended society. It not only accommodates but celebrates diverse people, cultures, religions, languages etc. continuously blending them inside a melting pot to create a better and richer homogenous society.  

Amongst its greatest sins, Britain for its own political purposes brutally tore asunder the Indian civilisation by partitioning India in 1947, into India and Pakistan.  To make Pakistan viable they turned a blind eye and tacitly encouraged Pakistan's annexation of Balochistan, and the capture of large part of Pashtun, and Kashmir area with help of British officers. 

When countries like former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Pakistan are created by any artificial means be they military and or political means, yoking all sorts of people, and cultures together by force, we get dysfunctional societies. Akin to a messy bitter salad, they can be held together only by force and fear and in the case of Pakistan a after-life in paradise.

Pakistan is an artificiality, created by political skullduggery and extreme violence, justified on the  basis of 'the incompatibility of minority populated Islam within a Hindu majority populated secular, independent India. 

Pakistan's leaders may have won the land and its resources but not the peace. 

Possessed by unreason and the fervour of religious hatred, Pakistan rejected its Indian civilisational heritage in search of a new identity, and till date has not found one. 

Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.

Throw into this salad we call Pakistan, Urdu as the official language (spoken by only 10% of the people). 


Most Pakistanis struggle with, how to relate with their fellow Pakistanis and their country, except hatred for India and America.

Add to this salad a gigantic dose of intolerant Islam, which is not only intolerant of non Muslims but intolerant of and possessed by hatred for all of the other 72 sects of Islam. Its also intolerant of all modernity. So the murder of non Sunni muslims is encouraged by the state and the clerics.

Now create an untenable marriage between, a free market secular democracy with 'Sharia'. Then hand over the country to be managed and ruled by heads of 200 wealthy feudal landowners, a group of elites, the Mullahs and the Army.


Pakistan has always been a military dictatorship, sometimes masquerading as a democracy.  The army dominates all aspects of socio-political-economic life in Pakistan. 
This Pakistan is actually  mercenary state willing to do whatever anyone is willing to pay for. War, terrorism, drugs, genocide, nuclear proliferation etc. 
During the Black September conflict (Feb 1970) between Jordan and the Palestinians,  Pakistani troops led by Brig. Zia Ul Haq actively supported the killing of 25,000 Palestinians in 11 days 
(more than killed by Israel had in previous 20 years).

Pakistan has been propped up by huge inflows from America, the West, and later the Arabs, and the Chinese, basically to create problems and troubles for others. 

With a supply of almost unlimited funds and sophisticated weapons, Pakistan has been until recently encouraged tacitly and often openly by the global community  to raise, arm, support, finance and legitimise numerous armies of terrorists.

Funded by Saudi Arabia and UAE, knowingly ignored by America, the Chinese provided  the Pakistanis technology to make 125 nuclear weapons. 

Within Pakistan all institutions of the state except the army, which are essential to ensure good governance, law, order and justice have been transformed into mere facades. All news is heavily censored. while terrorising its own citizenry is the order of the day. 

All this power to disenfranchise the vast majority of Pakistani people, Pashtuns, Kashmiris, Baloch, Sindhi and Muhajir (refugee) people. Then seize the properties and wealth, rob, loot, kill, rape and massacre, these very people who are Pakistani citizens.

Pakistani government is so inefficient and ineffective, and corruption so rampant that there is next to nil tax collection and civic services, healthcare and education infrastructure are dismal. 
The army runs a massive empire processing and exporting illicit opium based drugs valued at a staggering US$ 9 Billion per year. Its Fauji Foundation generates its own revenue stream of nearly 2 Billion US$ per year.

To ensure all power remains in the Army's hands enemies have to be created and threats have to be conjured up, while fantasies of empire have to be sold to a dumbed own population.
Hence Pakistan which has made terrorism and war as the national industry, has major disagreements and ongoing conflicts with every one of its neighbours and within its own provinces. 

It has become the worlds leading proliferator of nuclear weapons and the global capital for breeding and providing sanctuary to terrorists, who continuously fan out across the world.

Education is meant to illuminate. In Pakistan religious seminaries and formal schooling  indoctrinate and dumb down the population. The young are taught fictional versions of history, science art literature, etc. misinterpreting the Koran,  instilling in them a false sense of supremacy and glory, both past and future. 

Except those who have had the privilege of quality private education, three generations of Pakistanis have developed rabid hatred for everyone, even themselves, As a result they are capable of creating nothing and are instinctively destructive in nature. 

Due to their problematic nature, and low quality education, Pakistanis are out of sync with the modern world. Naturally they are shunned by global institutions of higher learning and international employers. 
The credibility of their certification is suspect as is evident that Pakistani universities issue degrees to graduates which are mostly unacceptable to any other country.

The bulk of expat Pakistani workers perform manual unskilled jobs and these too are being whittled down by employers in the Arab Gulf and elsewhere. The loss of valuable  foreign currency remittances that help support the Pakistani economy adds to strife at home.

At every international forum Pakistan had been obtaining until now legitimacy and support from powerful nations like America, China, and the European Union, trading immoral, destructive and criminal behaviour for the sake of political and military expediency.


Its been a while since the world particularly America have grown exhausted by Pakistani double dealing. They now openly and vociferously view Pakistan not as a partner but as a dangerous infection that needs to be exorcised. The global demand for fixing Pakistan as a state promoter of terrorism has become very shrill and urgent.

Now with the latest FATF recommendation to place Pakistan on the 'blacklist', Pakistan is scheduled to be sanctioned and will thus be economically and financially cut off from the rest of the world. Foreign remittances from expatriate Pakistani workers will not be possible to be sent,  nor can the International Monetary Fund nor the World Bank lend money to Pakistan. 

Pakistan is in reality a hollow, unstable State. In spite of all these problems, Pakistan has only been able to survive till now  by the iron hand and hard shell of a well funded Army. 
Now as the government slides rapidly into bankruptcy, with little or no recourse the funds to the  
political-military class will be severely limited. Still the Army will gobble up 50% of the decreased budget leaving the nation and the people in the lurch.

Pakistani people are protesting the hyper inflation that has begun to grip Pakistan. As frustration and anger erupt, numerous other skeletons are  tumbling out of the cupboard. 
The people are up in arms demanding an end to forced abductions, killings, loot and molestation by the Army and authorities. Pakistan is a giant tinderbox just beginning to catch fire and ready to explode very soon.

As a result of these and numerous other factors, Pakistan is a nation in rapid and terminal decline. What will be the likely fate of such a country? 

There appears to be only one possible outcome. 
Within a decade, the unsustainable entity, 'The Islamic Republic of Pakistan' will disintegrate

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Interesting Viewing:

Hindu Vs Muslim - Who is better by Lee Kuan Yew - Former Prime minister of Singapore.
American Empire of the 21st Century by Gurvinder Singh
Only 18% of Pakistani women have received a 10 year school education.

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