Ever since we have known, the Muslim religious communities in India have also been a minority. Never have they once been treated as majority nor have they ever become as such. One major factor that separates them from other communities is that they have a lot of other religious and cultural routines that make them very different from the other communities in the country.
Coming to the Muslims in our country, we have a range of Muslims from various categories. In simple, the Muslims in India are very different from Muslims in other parts of the world. If you look at the Uighurs that live in China, they are an ethnic minority group that lives in Xinjiang. Almost half of that city's population are the Uighurs. They are of an estimated 11 million people. These Uighur Muslims have been around for thousands of years and they speak a language that is really familiar to the language of Turkey, ie., Turkish. The common belief is that their ancestors may have come from a previous homeland of the Turks in the northern part of central Asia. Some Uighurs don’t accept that Xinjiang – officially an “autonomous region” – is part of China, and their claims are that their ancestors used to own this area before the Chinese Han and Tang dynasties established their dominion in the area. Evidence has been uncovered that up to one million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are being held in “re-education” detention centers in Xinjiang, according to a report by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. When asked about the same, the state of Beijing outrightly denied any mistreatment and they went on to claim that these camps are “vocational training centers” which help push out extremist thoughts by the Islamist separatists, as well as giving people new skills. However, a 2018 report by Amnesty International report unearthed the fact the arbitrary detention of Uighur Muslims across the province was widespread. The exile group World Uighur Congress claims detainees are held without charge, and forced to undergo attempted indoctrination by shouting Chinese Communist Party slogans.
While moving on from the Uighur Muslims to the Kashmiri Muslims the main difference is that they have been struggling for basic human rights over the past 90 years. From the time of. Independence to today, their community has seen uncountable, horrific things. Things that a person will never be able to endure. Although people were killed, women raped, and honor was lost, there was not one instance in the whole history of Kashmir where they bowed down to the Indian forces and said that they surrender. It finally came to a dark point in 1948 when the UN had to intervene to ensure the safety of the Muslims living in Kashmir. The UN ensured that the people of Kashmir would have a better life. But, that just remained what it was, a promise. Nobody paid heed to the horrendous situation of Kashmir. The world pushed it under the carpet with the name of 'removing terrorism'. Not even international organizations paid heed to the saddening situations that the Kashmiri Muslims were living in. The worst part of this is that they still continue to live like this, even today.
The Rohingyas as we all know is a Muslim minority that is concentrated in the Rakhine state in Myanmar. Another thing that everyone should know about them is that they are one of the most persecuted communities in the world. They can also be found in other parts of the world like refugee camps in the neighboring country of Bangladesh and other countries as well. The Rohingyas make up for one-third of the population in the state with Buddhists populating the rest of the two-thirds. Just like the other two communities that were discussed earlier, they too face the same problems.
The one thing similar in all these Muslim communities is that they all have been victims of discrimination and violation of basic human rights. From the beginning of their lives, they have been facing all types of injustice from government inequality to even international issues. Their whole lives have been full of ups and more downs that they have reached a stage where they do not know if they will be free or not.
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