By TCN News,
Karaikudi (Tamil Nadu): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram addressed an Eid Milad-un-Nabi program here yesterday and stressed on the need to correct discrimination against Muslims in appointments or disbursal of loans. He opposed the tendency to term as alien the religions that originated in foreign lands, saying the followers of such religions are very much local. He also made it clear that for fault of a few, entire community cannot be held guilty.
Addressing the program held on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi (on 12th Rabiul Awwal), Chidambaram rejected the idea to brand those religions that came into India from outside as alien. He said all religions practiced by the people of the country should be deemed Indian.
On holding entire community for wrong of a few, he said: “Not all the practitioners of a religion followed its tenets in a disciplined way and the aberrations of a few persons should not be extended to a community. The faults of a few people should not lead to faulting the religion per se,” he said.