mr. arshad khan can u tell us how many hindu people are in pakistan work as a top management, but i can tell u our one of the great president is muslim. please think twice before u speak.

Here is an extract from the speech made by Obama a couple of days ago. Just replace Blacks with muslims and see how well it fits the situation in india. This just goes to show that discrimination is the so starkly same, irrespective of where its carried out. To get more details see the now publicly available Sachar committe report to see the gruesome details.

"Understanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrived at this point. As William Faulkner once wrote, "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.

Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students.

Legalized discrimination - where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, or the police force, or fire departments - meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations. That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between black and white, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persists in so many of today's urban and rural communities.

A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families - a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened. And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods - parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement - all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us.

This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. They came of age in the late fifties and early sixties, a time when segregation was still the law of the land and opportunity was systematically constricted. What's remarkable is not how many failed in the face of discrimination, but rather how many men and women overcame the odds; how many were able to make a way out of no way for those like me who would come after them.

But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn't make it - those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations - those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. For the men and women of Reverend Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician's own failings."

See the full speech here.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hisownwords/

I hate all the guys who speek of CASTE, CREED, COMMUNITY etc. These are the mantras of EVIL, SELF centered and people who do not know science and do not use their own brain

Basically we all are human. Every one of us have same structure. People with brain and own thoughts do not believe in these mantras.

Dear Javed
If you are really Javed and muslim then You should not forget Gujrat, just remind it for a while and you will came to know that How happy and safe muslims are in India. You are comparing the muslims of India with Pakistan, had you ever been to Pakistan, I know you had never, You had just seen Pakistan in your rubbish movies like Border, Mission Kashmir and Hindustan Ki Kasam. I pray for you that such inncents would never and ever happened to your sister and mother. Till then I will wait for your comments.