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Cheeta-Meharats: Indians that are Hindus as well as Muslims!

Here’s something very interesting from across the border (and I’m not referring to their semi-naked, near-nude actresses): there’s a community in India whose members are Muslims as well as Hindus. They’re known as the Cheeta-Meharats, and are mostly settled in Ajmer, Pali, Raj Samand, Bhilwara and Udaipur (I believe this area was known as C.P. once). Their population is a million and a half, and about 70 percent live below the poverty line (an improvement over the rest of India, where about eighty percent are perpetually hungry).

So what’s so interesting about them? Well, it seems they follow both the Islamic and Hindu ways of praying. They pray in mosques (like Muslims do) and t hey also pray in Hindu temples. They celebrate Eid and Diwaali, and they probably drink cow piss as well. There are just three rituals of Islam that the Cheeta-Meharats have to compulsorily follow – sunnat (circumcision), dafan (burial) and eating halal meat. They have traditional Hindu weddings (making seven rounds around the sacred fire), as well as marrying in the Islamic manner (“nikah”).

Both Muslims and Hindus have tried to convert the community to their religions, but without success. No one knows why, how or when they started following both religions, but their population indicates that they’ve been like this for at least two hundred years or so.

Source: Times Of India

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39 responses to “Cheeta-Meharats: Indians that are Hindus as well as Muslims!”

  1. Mohammad Yusha Avatar
    Mohammad Yusha

    It seems like Hindus haven’t made up their mind as to which excuse they want to use for the destruction of the Babri mosque. Was it because there was a temple there before or was it the because it was the birthplace of Ram? Your comments on how Islam is responsible for the destruction of non-Muslims’ places of worship is outrageously stupid. I remember your comment on how Islam teaches cruelty to animals and when I provided you with proof on how Islam teaches kindness to animals, you shut up. Now you have come with the same kind of nonsense. According to you, every wrong act of a Muslim is because of Islam. You are a disgusting hypocrite. I think you just said, “But being someone who respects all faiths I will not get into it.” LOL, you have shown a lot of respect for the Islamic faith by attributing every wrong act of Muslims to Islam, and also by coming with baseless and senseless accusations against Islam.

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  2. Hend Avatar
    Hend

    Yusha

    “As for the Babri mosque, demolishing it because of something that may have happened 400 years ago is the most ridiculous and pathetic excuse that someone can come up with.”

    Aren’t you cribbing about Babri after 20 years?
    Aren’t you complaining over Naqba after 60 years?
    Aren’t there fatwas to kill the Danish cartoonist and Salman Rushdie even now?
    Crying over something that happened long ago…sounds like Ashura to me.

    Read about horrific suppression in the Iberian peninsula during the muslim rule. Populations were murdered and Churches were destroyed.

    400 years of illegal encroachment does not make it legal. Ofcourse Babri is none of your business.

    But here is some material which should be of your business, read fully.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_non-Muslim_places_of_worship_into_mosques

    Please entertain me more with your illogical arguments, I await.

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  3. Hend Avatar
    Hend

    Also you are silent on the counter proofs requested by me…what happened, ‘not existing’?

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  4. Hend Avatar
    Hend

    Shakir…can you answer why muslims were damaging everyone’s places of worship? is this what islam teaches?

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  5. Shakir Lakhani Avatar
    Shakir Lakhani

    Hend: you’re just like the illiterate north Indian who’s still resentful of the fact that his ancestors were the slaves of Muslim kings for almost a thousand years.

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  6. Hend Avatar
    Hend

    Yusha

    Thoughout history Muslim regimes have been the most repressive on other people. Continues even today.

    If Hindus really hated mosques, there are about a few thousand such temples which were destroyed and converted into mosques. Babri has become and issue because of the importance the north Indians attach to Ram in terms of their faith. What you should denounce is the shameful act of Babar who destroyed the Janambhoomi temple (existence of Ram is not the issue but that of temple is the issue) and also the 17 time destruction of Somnath temple by Mahmoud of Ghazni. Justice cannot be expected to be one sided in your favour.

    It seems you have also learnt from Shakir the art of questioning and insulting the faith of others by questioning the existence of Ram. I think this debate will degenerate further if I were to ask you for similar proofs about Allah and the prophethood of Mohammad. But being someone who respects all faiths I will not get into it.

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  7. Mohammad Yusha Avatar
    Mohammad Yusha

    >>>Culture of destroying other people’s places of worship was brought into the subcontinent by Islam.

    @Hend: That is pure nonsense. Right from the time of Prophet Mohammad, non-Muslims have been given freedom to have their own places of worship. Non-Muslims lived in peace under Muslim rule for around 800 years. As for the Babri mosque, demolishing it because of something that may have happened 400 years ago is the most ridiculous and pathetic excuse that someone can come up with. The whole issue (read excuse) was that it was the birth place of Ram (who did not even exist).

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  8. Hend Avatar
    Hend

    Shakir

    “Let’s assume that Babar destroyed a temple and built a mosque over its ruins 400 years ago, How does that justify the destruction of the mosque and the ensuing killing of 2000 people”

    If you are generous enough to assume the first part of the statement then OFCOURSE the destruction is justified.

    Wouldn’t you think the same way if some one was to break the Qabah and build a temple there?

    your question implies that it is ok to destroy temples but other way round is not ok?

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  9. Hend Avatar
    Hend

    Oh so you are still trying to come to terms with the justification for the creation of Pakistan? Fear not, no one in India questions it anymore. It is a non issue for us.

    By the way it is not my assertion, it is a fact. Internal matter of India. Period.

    We will deal with it according to our laws and judicial process. Archeological survey of India is involved in the process. Court will weigh all the eveidence and decide. Babri is a non issue for us now.

    As for giving justification…you don’t have the right to ask any before you answer my questions regarding destruction of Hindu temples, Somnath…list is endless and ofcourse includes the destruction of the temple by Babar.

    Talking of illiteracy, there is no shortage of such examples in your country. Thousands of temples have been destroyed, not one or two. Culture of destroying other people’s places of worship was brought into the subcontinent by Islam, please rmemeber this always.

    The problem is people like you who are blind in one eye.

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  10. Shakir Lakhani Avatar
    Shakir Lakhani

    Hend: Let’s assume that Babar destroyed a temple and built a mosque over its ruins 400 years ago (even though there’s no proof that he did it). How does that justify the destruction of the mosque and the ensuing killing of 2000 people? Shouldn’t the Supreme Court punish those who did it? Re. your assertion that Babri Masjid destruction is an internal matter of India: it proved that it was necessary to create Pakistan to save Indian Muslims.

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