I live in a Muslim-dominated area. Some days back during Ramzan there was some disturbance that started taking a communal outlook. My brother and I had gone for an Iftar party in the neighbourhood and were dressed in traditional clothes , that is sherwani and salwar kameez respectively. On returning home, my brother and I were asked to change our clothes to jeans and T-shirt. Now when everything is fine I wonder what was the reason that we were asked to change our clothes and why I didn't find it odd. Were our clothes giving away our identity and is that identity linked to all kinds of fears and discrimination?
Ainee A. Farooqi
The above essay has been written by a child around your age. What do you think she is trying to convey?
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Answer:
What do you think she is trying to convey? She is trying to convey the situation of communalism where she lived in a Muslim dominated area which suddenly had some violence communal outlook due to which she had to dress-up like Muslims in order to save herself from the danger of being a non-muslim in that area.
Answer: She is trying to convey the situation of the place where she lived. It is a Muslim dominated area and there have been some sort of sudden violence communal outlook and maybe due to which
she had to dress-up like Muslims in order to be safe "danger" of being a non-Muslim in that area.
and she starts questioning about discrimination that non-Muslim’s go through, she also says that people define your religion
based on outfits you are wearing, and that Muslims are identified as very conservative in appearance
if I were the girl, I would have questioned that if I weren’t Muslim what would have happened to me just because I am not Muslim?