LordOfTheUnderworlds
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That is because they did not undergo ritual of conversion ; just counter political model is not enough for de-Islamization, it only temporarily addresses half of the problem. Apart from being a political ideology, Islam is also a religion (even though the ideology is purely political; there is hardly any spiritual aspect, it uses religious rituals and passes on to future generation as religion) and hence part of his identity. Most people need some strong identity and sense of belonging to a group at some point in life, especially the young adults.I lived in a country called Tajikistan for 3 years, where India has been helping them out with many different projects such as opening up factories, and IT centers. We are also reported to have a military base there. To give a background of Tajikistan, it is almost identical to Iran culturally and linguistically. It is a former soviet republic, so they never had any Islamic rule of any sorts for the past hundred years. They were thoroughly secularized by the Russians during soviet rule. As a result, it is called a "liberal" muslim country. One day, I was having a conversation with a Tajik student in one of their libraries, where I was tutoring him English. We both happened to be the same age. The conversation somehow veered towards the concept of evolution. It became quite heated, with me giving him all the scientific evidence and proof of evolution, with his only retort being "my ancestors were not monkeys". I went over and got a biology book, opened up the chapter on evolution, and tried to explain it to him again. His faced turned red, and in one sudden movement, he tore off that page from the book, and threw the book on the floor. He then shouted "non believers like you will not understand. All your science books cannot convince me to go against the Quran. Better you also rid yourself of this belief, or it is the hellfires for you in your afterlife!". This was all in broken English of course.
The librarian, upon hearing the commotion, came up to us and asked what the whole ruckus was all about. She then had a look of absolute shock when she saw the torn up book on the floor. I immediately told her that it was of his doing, and I was about to apologize to her on his behalf. But he suddenly started saying something in Tajik to her, and she stood there silently listening. After a few minutes of his rant, she gestured for him to leave. She looked at me and said " You cannot talk of these subjects here". I was shcoked. I had the impression that this was some progressive liberal country. She and many others later, tell a very similar narrative. The youth are far more religious and radical than their previous generations, and are starting to come under wahhabi infuence.
If this is the state of a so called liberal muslim country, I shudder to think of what these fundamentalist Islamic republics are like.
To make good soldiers also you need to start training in same age group.
Basic structure of Islam is just a primitive military syllabus Prophet Mohammed used to create a loyal army to serve him and his guidelines on all random matters to his band . It worked for him in his time and it works now. Due credit to him for understanding and exploiting the psychology of this age group.
So in a rigid religion like Islam where the breaking down of this basic structure is not allowed at any cost, any reform or political brainwashing will only have temporary effect and the next generation is always at risk of going back to the roots, especially at the age when one needs identity and sense of belonging to a group. Because religious identity is mostly acquired by birth not chosen like a purely political ideology.
Even if parents are non-religious, the child will be identified with the religious identity his parents were born into.
Religion needs rituals. Rituals have strong effect on people's psyche since the very primitive human beings. So complete de-islamization needs an alternative religious identity and a ritual of religious conversion. (even if a person is non-religious, it is needed for the sake of future generation).
Replace the Tajik with a Pakistani or Indian Muslim in the above example.
India and Indian religions have so far failed in this regard. To great extent this is because of Caste system and exclusionist nature of Brahminical religion. Especially with respect to North-west and East Bengal. To be fair Sikhs didn't get enough time in north-west and half of Punjab is indeed de-Islamized. Nonetheless it is still partial failure and Islamism thrives in world to such large scale because of this (partial) failure.
So if India has failed so far, who will help Pakistan and in general the Muslim masses of the continent of India? Who will offer them redemption?
Can Jesus save them?