Muslims Are The (New) Dhimmis In A Hindu Rashtra
By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
30 October 2025
A government school teacher in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur district has been suspended following allegations that he made students perform postures resembling Namaz. The incident has led to protests by local groups and an inquiry by the district administration, NDTV reported.
According to NDTV, the teacher, identified as Jaboor Tadvi, is posted at the Government Middle School in Deohari village under Shahpur police station limits. The suspension followed complaints from some parents and residents who claimed that Hindu students were being taught postures similar to Namaz "under the pretext of yoga and Surya Namaskar."
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Ridiculous, to say the least! Is this teacher so asinine as to teach the postures of Namaz to a majority of Hindu students in these religiously volatile and over-sensitive times? Doesn't he know the dire consequences of his 'misadventure'? Hindus themselves claim that all postures of Namaz are Yogic postures. Some fanatics even say that early Islam, precisely Muhammad, plagiarised Patanjali's Yog Sutra and incorporated that in Namaz. P N Oak, the apology for a historian who claimed that Taj Mahal was a Hindu structure called Tejo Mahal, once said that since Namaz was Yoga, Muslims must accept the fact that nothing in their faith was original. Now there are so many like him who abuse Muslims with nonchalance.
The problematic attitude of the neo-Hindus (though not all) is that they brazenly abhor Muslims and avoid interacting with them (Muslims). So, the general perception is that whether they perform Namaz or Surya Namaskar or even admire the religious texts of Hindus, they (Muslims) do it with a hidden agenda. In short, the neo-Hindus are like a majority of intolerant Muslims and poor Muslims are the neo-kafirs or pariahs. They're the Dhimmis in a Hindu Rashtra.
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian
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