Has India’s democracy failed its Muslims? Jailed scholar triggers debate
- Has the world’s largest democracy failed the world’s largest minority – its nearly 200 million Muslims?
- That question is at the heart of a polarising debate currently under way in India.
- The debate started with Sharjeel Imam, a 38-year-old Muslim scholar, who gave a lengthy interview to an Indian news website on September 29 from his prison cell in New Delhi.
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- Has the world’s largest democracy failed the world’s largest minority – its nearly 200 million Muslims?
- That question is at the heart of a polarising debate currently under way in India.
- The debate started with Sharjeel Imam, a 38-year-old Muslim scholar, who gave a lengthy interview to an Indian news website on September 29 from his prison cell in New Delhi.
Sources: Al Jazeera