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We are going to see different opinions on the issue, and to be truly
informed we need to hear all points of view with an open mind. Dr. Javed Jamil
has argued his point well. If you have a point, please share it in the comment
section of this article below. This is one of the widely read blogs with over
1000 reads a day.
The news that Hindu population rate has declined over a period of time is
a matter of concern, all populations should grow proportionately. The
differential between Hindu and Muslim rate of growth is not significant, but
enough to sow the seeds of hatred by the opportunists. I pray sanity prevails
over extremism. I hope the extremist elements do not make a mess of the country
with this information.
I further pray that the terrorism
against brides for not bringing the dowry, and massacring the unborn babies is
stopped with a full blown agitation. The Hindus and Jains should take this up
vigorously, with greater zeal than the protests against animal
slaughter.
The solution to balance the proportionate growth rate can be found, here
is one way to look at it, and through discussion more choices can be
evaluated.
Hindu side: The Sadhus need to start getting married and have a family
life, and massacre of unborn and born female babies need to go away. I am not
sure if violence against women cuts down the fertility rate, whether it does or
not, this practice needs to go.
Muslim side: Educational and employment opportunities for Muslims should
be available proportionately, the more educated the people the fewer the babies
they would have. If Muslims are given opportunities on par with Hindus in all
spheres of life including education and employment, their population growth rate
would be identical as well.
Jains: Oppose the foeticide and violence against women with equal
zest.
Live and let live, after all we are
Indians, make our secular democracy stronger, it will ensure safe and
secure societies for millenniums to come. That is what America did, build a
sound secular society where every one can breathe, eat, drink, wear or believe
whatever the hell they want. .
God bless India
God bless India
Jai Hind.
Stop Female Foeticide to arrest Hindu Population
Decline
If they
still feel that rather than their own doing, Muslims are responsible for it,
they will have to understand that the larger growth rate among Muslims owes
mainly to poverty and relative lack of education. The best way to further reduce
the gap will be to ensure that more and more Muslim boys and girls get higher
education and employment. This will require reservation, both in education and
jobs. They must also know that women in jobs are likely to have less number of
children than the women not in jobs. Opening job facilities for Muslim girls
would therefore be a positive stop.
Dr. Javed
Jamil
“Hindu
Population falls below 80 percent” – this and similar headlines appear at the
top of almost all newspapers today. The debate is on again. It may rage in
coming days and hopefully for the ruling party will help its Bihar
campaign.
The data
show that
· While the general
population grew at the rate of 17.7% between 2001 and 2011, the growth rate was
16.8% for Hindus, 24.6% for Muslims, 15.5% for Christians, 8.4% for Sikhs, 6.1%
for Buddhists, and 5.4% for Jains.
· Indeed,
between 1991 and 2001, the Muslim population grew 29.3%, indicating that the
24.6% growth seen between 2001 and 2011 marks a slowing.
· According to
the National Family Health Survey-3, Muslim fertility is decreasing faster than
Hindu fertility, which means a narrowing of Hindu-Muslim fertility
differentials.
· The census
data, which was compiled in 2011, says India is home to 966.3 million Hindus,
who make up 79.8% of the population. There are 172.2 million Muslims (14.2% of
the population); 27.8 million Christians (2.3%) and 20.8 million Sikhs (1.7%).
The data also shows there are 8.4 million Buddhists with a 0.7% share of the
population and 4.5 million Jains, making up 0.4% of the
population
When an
analyst from Financial Mint of the Hindustan Times group called me last
afternoon on phone asking my reaction to the latest report, I had not yet read
it. When she told that it has shown Islam as the fastest growing religion in
India, my immediate reaction was that it was a global phenomenon. But then I
explained the difference between India and rest of the world. While the reasons
for fastest growth of Islam in the world owe significantly if not wholly to
conversion, in India the phenomenon is almost wholly to the higher growth rate
of Muslim population compared to Muslims, although the difference is fast
narrowing.
The report
is sure to infuse huge activity in the Hindutva lobby. Even decades before the
Partition, they had a keen eye on demographic realities in the country. If the
country got partitioned, it was not merely because a section of Muslims led by
Jinnah demanded it and they got it. It was also because certain Hindu lobbies
deliberately allowed, even facilitated it. While the Muslim supporters of
Partition believed they would be able to carve a better future for Muslims in a
separate country, the Hindu supporters thought that he Partition would in effect
partition Muslim population, and Hindus would have an overwhelming dominance in
what would become new India.
And seen
from their point of view, they were perhaps right. If the country had not
witnessed Partition, India would have had about 50 crore Muslims out of about
155. This would have been around 33 per cent of the population. With that kind
of Muslim share, Hindus would not have been able to achieve the kind of total
dominance they have achieved on almost all fronts. They have ensured enacted
legislations like Art 341, which has blocked any conversion of Dalits to Islam.
The constitutional guarantees to Dalits are less out of love for them and more
out of the desire to maintain the current demography. They have also ensured
that while almost half of the population of Hindus get reservation in jobs and
colleges, Muslims do not get it. With much less than the adequate Muslim
presence in political institutions, Administration, Executive and Judiciary,
they have sidelined Muslim influence in the country.
The data
have clearly shown that the fall in the growth of Muslims has been far more than
that of Hindus in the last decade. This clearly shows that Muslims have adopted
FP measures in increasingly large numbers. But Hindutva lobby will again cry
foul trying to prove that “Muslims marry four wives and produce 25
children”.
The truth
however is that if Hindu population has been showing a declining trend, it is
almost wholly due to their own fault. Their dislike for daughters has grown
despite severe laws against Sex Determination Test. Reports have shown that in
the 9-5 years age group, the Male/Female ratio among Muslims is 950 compared to
925 among Hindus. In Muslim families close to me, there are many with more
daughters than boys or only daughters. I have seen this rarely in Hindu
families. The Hindu experts forget that the growth rate within a community
ultimately depends upon the number of fertile women and not men. If they are
really interested in maintaining their lead in the population, they will have to
produce more daughters and not kill them in the wombs of their
mothers.
If they
still feel that rather than their own doing, Muslims are responsible for it,
they will have to understand that the larger growth rate among Muslims owes
mainly to poverty and relative lack of education. The best way to further reduce
the gap will be to ensure that more and more Muslim boys and girls get higher
education and employment. This will require reservation, both in education and
jobs. They must also know that women in jobs are likely to have less number of
children than the women not in jobs. Opening job facilities for Muslim girls
would therefore be a positive stop.
Another
important step would be to involve more and more Muslim NGOs in health and
education and to grant them funds. I am saying this on the basis of my personal
experience. Around 2000, I organised mother and child care and vaccination camps
in around 200 Muslim villages of District Saharanpur. The performance of those
camps was so overwhelmingly superior to the camps organisation by District
Health Administration that CMO called for a special meeting to analyse this.
While the number of vaccinations in the governmental camps would not exceed 8-10
a day, the numbers in our camps would cross 100 mark, and in one camp it crossed
400. ORG even conducted a survey in these villages and found huge success rate.
This was mainly due to the lack of credibility for the government teams in
Muslim villages.
Lastly,
Hindutva organisations should refrain from making it a big issue. If they do, it
will only prove to be counterproductive. The rate of the decline of their
population is too slow to warrant any panic, and with time this gap is bound to
decrease. Let this issue not allow an already galloping communal situation to
worsen further.
· Dr Javed Jamil is India
based thinker and writer with over a dozen books including his latest, “Quranic
Paradigms of Sciences & Society” (First Vol: Health), “Muslims Most
Civilised, Yet Not Enough” and “Muslim Vision of Secular India: Destination
& Road-map”. Other works include “The Devil of Economic Fundamentalism”,
“The Essence of the Divine Verses”, “The Killer Sex”, “Islam means Peace” and
“Rediscovering the Universe”. Read more about him athttp://www.worldmuslimpedia.com/dr-javed-jamil. Facebook
page:https://www.facebook.com/javedjamil2015. He can be
contacted atdoctorforu123@yahoo.com or
91-8130340339.
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