By JIM YARDLEY
Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times
Hindu holy men awaiting a ruling Thursday on a site claimed by Hindus and by Muslims.
A long-awaited decision on control of India’s most disputed religious site splits the land into three portions to be divided among Hindus and Muslims.
NEW DELHI — In a case that spanned centuries of religious history and languished in the legal system for six decades, an Indian court issued a historic ruling Thursday on the ownership of the country’s most disputed religious site by effectively handing down a split decision: granting part of the land to Hindus and another part to Muslims.
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What got my attention in this article are two things: the first one is how colonization leaves deep scares. It said in the article that before British ruling, Hindus and Muslims were living peacefully altogether, which is not quite the situation nowadays. Indeed, colonizers claimed that they were colonizing in order to civilize those colonized people. However, in most cases, when they had to leave, they didn't make sure that their goal was achieved, and in most cases, they left local problems.
ReplyDeleteThe second thing is how Hindus and Muslims are fighting over a location.
I understand that it means a lot for a religious group to pray in a holy place. However, I made a connection between this situation and the situation that we are seeing in New York. What is the problem of building a mosque next to ground zero? As far as I'm concerned, I think that making a confusion between Islam and terrorism isn't right.