The Hindus and the Muslims Should Be Friends

    I guess since 1971--from before my conscious time on the earth, well over 50 years ago--Pakistan and India had never gotten into so much hostility and violence. Scary stuff. (Perhaps my syntax and grammar are scary to boot?). Kashmir has been part of the dispute and the killing, a land claimed by both sides. This current scrape had begun on April 22 of this year, 2025, where a massacre led to some heavy, kinetic, acts by both sides. People and assets being attacked, killed, on either side of the Pakistani and Indian divides.

    Things have been tense between them for many years. All the years since they have been independent, gaining their independence from the British rule of colonialism, capitalism via mercantilism, as it were. Both these countries have strong governments with millions upon millions of destitute and poor masses, but both upwardly mobile classes off workers and 

    Long before the British Empire, the Muslims had ruled the original homeland of the Hindus in this amazing subcontinent of languages and cultures, jungles, plains, deserts, and mountains, of ancient temples and religions, even Buddhism deriving from the more ancient Hindu. A large world of mysteries and enigmas, to guys like me and a few others. Newer traditions such as Jainism and Sikhism have resulted have emerged, alongside the bigger faiths of the Ganges and the Himalayas, and the spreading faith of Islam.

    This country has a few hundred million Muslims, was separated from Pakistan and Bangladesh a few generations ago, with their hundreds of millions of Muslims.

    It is not all Hinduism versus Islam, but that is how the cultures and the current politics have evolved until today.

    Power, control, economic, and land rights over Kashmir and Jammu. It is not all religious, but the differences are backed by these cultural and power-faith dynamics.

    Could we learn to get along? Most of them do. I hope better heads prevail.

    The respective governments seem to be calming things down.

    When will the next big inter-governmental war happen? Is this it?

    I am thinking they are bringing themselves back from the brink. The edge of greater violence and potentially awful destruction, to include nuclear weapons. 

    Unthinkable.

    Hindus and Muslims should respect each other, and get along. Easy for me to say.

    I should have a well paying full-time job.