Indian Imam invites Pakistani PM, but not Indian PM

[hinduwoman]

Nothing is more hilarious and pathetic than a religious leader desperately trying to stay relevant

Trust Syed Ahmed Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, to score a political point where none exists. The anointment ceremony of the naib imam, or the imam's deputy, is a religious function. But Bukhari has used it to create a political controversy by inviting Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif for the function on November 22 while ignoring Indian PM Narendra Modi.

Bukhari defended his decision by saying that he had the right to choose his guests. "Modi claims to be the prime minister of 125 crore Indians but conveniently and deliberately avoids addressing Muslims. He has shown he doesn't like us. He is the one who has been maintaining distance from the community. So, I too chose to maintain my distance," he said.

However, other Muslim leaders, including All Indian Muslim Personal Law Board member Kamal Farooqi, said such acts gave the entire Muslim community a bad name. They insisted that it was no longer a "personal function" when the Imam signaled that the Pakistan PM was preferable to the Indian PM. They stressed that Bukhari didn't represent Indian Muslims.
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The only notable omission from the list of 200 guests for the investiture ceremony (Dastaarbandi) of naib imam is Modi. Bukhari claimed the guest list was drawn up after consultations with a nine-member committee and each member was of the opinion that Modi still hasn't done enough to win the community's confidence.
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He added that he was willing to relent though and invite Modi if he "makes an open and frank declaration that he will look into injustice done to the community, promise jobs and development and assure that security agencies such as NIA will not be misused against us."

Sad.
He is no longer treated as an important figure by the current party in power in order to get muslim votes; and in spite of his fatwa before general elections for muslims to vote en masse for the Indian Congress, the muslims did not vote as he wanted.

And now he invites the PM of a country with whom India is having a low scale war going on at this very moment.

Either he is hoping this will lead to extremist Hindu reactions or it will terrify Modi into submission.
He does not understand that old rules of the political game is changing.

 

[Sarpedon]

When indians speak in english, why do they still use the hindi numbers? crore, lakh, etc? Why do they speak entirely in english EXCEPT for that?

 

[whichphilosophy]

When indians speak in english, why do they still use the hindi numbers? crore, lakh, etc? Why do they speak entirely in english EXCEPT for that?

This is natural. You will find Filipinos who speak English also using Tagalog for certain tems. They will greet in Tagalog etc.

 

[bilby]

When indians speak in english, why do they still use the hindi numbers? crore, lakh, etc? Why do they speak entirely in english EXCEPT for that?

There is no English equivalent; It is much more comfortable to use multipliers with which one is familiar, but to do so in English requires compounding two words in place of one - lakh becomes 'hundred thousand' and crore 'ten million'.

Vedic numbering blocks digits in twos, after the first group of three, so while westerners talk mainly in thousand - million - billion (1,000 - 1,000,000 - 1,000,000,000), Indians would instead use thousand - lakh - crore (1,000 - 1,00,000 - 1,00,00,000)

Less commonly seen is arab - which is 100 crore, or 1,00,00,00,000, and for which there is an equivalent English word - billion.