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Stereotypes Of Religion
Since my childhood, numerous ignominies were heaped on me because of my religious background. Being a Muslim, I have been given different crockery to eat and drink in few of the Hindu households.They considered me as polluting; I have been rendered as a beef-eater, constantly stereotyped as belonging to a religion of terrorism. Today religion is valued more than human life. The vicious blame game politics is intensified today where even expressing dissent is rendered as anti-national by those who claim to be nationalists and carry out their bloodshed politics in the name of God. They are the ones who have the least knowledge about religion. They fail to comprehend that humanity is the religion one should follow. I ponder over the question that
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