Majority-Minority: how and why

Each country has two different groups: one who is oppressed and other oppressor. Their religion can be different but the stories of their ill-fated life are same. For example, in India Muslims pay the role of victim whereas Hindus of oppressor but very quickly this role gets inverted after some thousand kilometers. The very same religion and its sympathizers, Muslims, kill, torture, victimize Hindus and other minorities living in Pakistan. According to an article published in The Sunday Guardian date 6^th August 2015, number of Hindu population has sharply declined to 1.5% and there is no stopping of it in nearby future. On the other hand, Muslims can rightly play the role of minorities but their situation is far better than the minorities in Muslim countries, although Indian ruling class regularly try to portray Muslims as terrorists or as anti-national elements.

We can blindly generalize this phenomenon to other Muslim countries like Gulf countries, Malaysia where minorities’ life is even worse than animals. But western countries cannot claim to be immune to this majority-minority crisis. In fact, the very first such conflict between dominant and dominated has resulted in Crusades fought between Arab Muslims and European Christians as early as 10^th century A.D. The recent trend of islamophobia across Europe and especially in North America proves this. The concept of majority-minority is not uniquely related to religion as it surpasses religious structure and encompasses other factors too. Caste (in case of India), gender, race also decide who will be a part of majority camp and who will a part of those, who fight every day, each single hour to get what’s their right.