Deliberately or otherwise, the president of the All India Muslim Jamaat, Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilvi, has reignited the debate over what is more important for Muslims in India, their religion or country. Maulana Bareilvi was criticising India’s pacer Mohammed Shami, now playing the Champions Trophy in Dubai, for taking a swig of an energy drink on the cricket field when he should have been fasting or keeping his roza during the ongoing month of Ramzan.

The Maulana is entitled to his views because, after all, so much in every religion lends itself to interpretation and comprehension, but in openly criticising Shami in a video that........

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