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Mediation Case: 2006-10-18 Indian caste system

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Request made by: Hkelkar 18:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Where is the issue taking place?

... in Talk:Indian caste system

Who's involved?

... Me User:Hkelkar, User:BhaiSaab,User:TerryJ-Ho

What's going on?

... The dispute is over the Caste System among South Asian Muslims, the relevance of the same and the relevance of Islamic scripture in the mandate and implementation of the same.

What would you like to change about that?

...I would like to emphasize that there are two perspectives regarding the origins of the Muslim Caste System. Bearing in mind that Muslims in South Asia have several caste systems per the sources that I have stated in the article and the talk page Talk:Indian caste system. The Muslim editors allege that the entire South Asian Caste System is borrowed from Hinduism. My sources suggest a more complex dynamic. Some of the Muslim Caste Sytems were adaptive, done so by Hindus who were forcibly converted to Islam. Others were sanctioned by Islamic Fatwas by Islamic clerics based on their interpretation of Quranic verses.I believe that the objections of the Muslim editors are more motivated by religious zeal than by cool objectivity and are an attempt to whitewash the issue of Caste among Muslims.

Would you prefer we work discreetly? If so, how can we reach you?

...Contact me whenever you want and I will respond as promptly as I possible can. Reach me by talk page or by email from the wikipedia interface .

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"Others were sanctioned by Islamic Fatwas by Islamic clerics based on their interpretation of Quranic verses."

They may have been sanctioned - Hkelkar is unable to prove the fatwas established the system, which is currently what's written in the article. BhaiSaab 18:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

• The issue seems to be different: The article is about Indian Caste System and as per the prevalance and history it should include a major portion on the development of Hindu caste system and its religious validity.Kelkar instead is bent on including a major element in this article on stratification in other religions specially Islam and downplaying the existence of caste whose origins are enshrined in Hindu religion.

As a serious and non persistant editor I take offence to attributing the tag of religious zeal this editor has levelled above - these comments are antiWP:AGFTerryJ-Ho 23:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah! The wonderful world of WP:NOR violation above. Misplaced Pages is about WP:V and all of my edits are scholarly and verifiable per WP:RS. Some of Terry's edits are verifiable (most are from unreliable sources or misquoted/mis-cited from reliable sources as I see it). I have no objection to him putting the adequately sourced parts of his perspective, However,Terry wants to go Ahmadinejad on my edits and censor them altogether. He refuses to admit even the possibility that some scholars assert that the Muslim Caste System was promulgated by the interpretation of Quranic scripture and not a Hindu xerox copy (see my refs to Habib's book on the islamic Caste System and the Research paper by Y.Sikand+ the works of Bhimrao Ambedkar I have cited). Terry responds by character assassinations of the authors and trying to divert the issue by some good-old-fashioned Hindu-bashing and conflating unrelated issues to try to color the perspective of viewers.

What I suggest is that the mediator judge ONLY the reliability and content of the sources and not the rhetoric and dialectic of users like Terry (or even that of mine if you feel that I am using rhetoric). If the mediator can bring himself to do that then dandy! I have had a decent experience with mediators (see my AMA mediation regarding Tipu Sultan where Terry tried to fire up some anti-Hindu sentiments and failed User:Martinp23/Desk/Archive/Three; also see his AfD nom on Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Anti-Hindu) and so am, as always, happy to follow the sacred WP:AGF with any mediator whjo bravely volunteers to resolve this hideous mess.Hkelkar 00:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

• Another incivility - AhmadinejadTerryJ-Ho 00:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• On your point it would be better to go straight and find the Fatwa that established this system among Muslims independent of the Hindu Caste system and still no personal attacks.There have already been at least three in this page TerryJ-Ho 00:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Regarding your charge "::Ah! The wonderful world of WP:NOR violation above".Although sometimes used to designate similar groups in other societies, the “caste system” is uniquely developed in Hindu societies.Encyclopedia BritannicaTerryJ-Ho 00:41, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Ahmadinejad is awesome. BhaiSaab 00:43, 19 October 2006 (UTC)