Razia asked me how the Ayodhya verdict panned out. I am sure she knew about it already but just wanted to know what I thought. So I told her. Then we philosophized about it. Then she said these days anywhere any bombing happened, a clamour would ensue that Muslims were bad. This was a different turn and I said of course it was wrong and unfair to target the community as a whole. She said her community was given to hot-headedness(Berki is the word she used) but there were people like her who just minded their business and for who that itself was a struggle. Next she went off-track again and said while only Muslims ate meat before, now everyone was copying them. I don't know if she meant it had something to do with the Berki behavior. I was puzzled by this piece of information and asked what she meant. She said animals like chicken,goat etc. were created in this world only so that Muslims could eat them but now others were eating them too. I said meat eating preceded religion. I had to assert it again before I could get a "Oh really? I had learnt it otherwise... " from her.
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