Quotes about Communal Conflict

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It is a dream that the Hindu and Muslims can ever evolve a common nationality and this misconception of one Indian nation lies gone far beyond the limits and is the cause of most of your troubles and will lead India to destruction if we fail to revise our notions in time.

He was arguing to reserve some states as Muslim states by designation. 7 years later he would insist on a separate homeland. India was partitioned and Pakistan and Bangladesh resulted but at a fearful cost of tens of millions of lives.

Marine Le Pen

Without a policy restricting immigration, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to fight against communalism and the rise of ways of life at odds with laicite - France's distinctive form of secularism - and other laws and values of the French Republic.

Azim Premji

This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.

Bashir Assad

You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.

Amartya Sen

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

Stephen Biddle

The underlying dynamic of many communal wars is a security problem driven by mutual fear. Especially in states lacking strong central governments, communal groups worry that other groups with historical grievances will try to settle scores.

Tom Paulin

Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The real picture that I now find is quite as bad, and something even worse than anything ... suggested .... There has been a definite attempt on the part of Hindu mobs to exterminate the Muslims. They have killed, indiscriminately, men, women and children en masse.

The Hindus of Bihar had retaliated brutally to the earlier Muslim ethnic cleansing terror against Hindus. The atrocity by their own co-religionists was very shocking to the party leaders who realized for the first time that the "Blood for Blood" slogan and other incendiary oratory could have disastrous consequences. They realized that they had lost control and influence over their own followers and became really frightened as they seemed to be forced to accept the Muslim unreasonable dictates or accept the uncontrolled internecine civil war that ended up killing over 2 million Indians and displacing, raping and wounding more than 15 million more in the largest mass migration in human history.

Sheri Berman

Because authoritarian regimes lack popular legitimacy, they often manipulate and deepen communal cleavages in order to divide potential opponents and generate support among favored groups. So when democratization occurs, the pent up distrust and animosity often explode.

Peter Maurer

Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.

Communal Conflict Quotes