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[quote]A friend of mine was telling me, from a research paper he wrote, that during the end of Moghul rule in India, the British rulers wanted to end the power of instituitionalized religion. They had noticed that the Muslim rulers (Aurangzeb and some others) were very religious and also knoweledgeable. Even in local towns and villages, the clerics were knoweledgeable and powerful/wealthy people with influence. The British started to replace the local imams with new ones who were not as influential or literate. This was a gradual process that over the decades was successful. The result was two fold. The community leaders were people who were poor, illiterate and with no influence. The community refused to follow them and elected other secular leaders who were more respected and wealthy even though lacked knoweledge of Islam. The other effect was the knoweledge of religion was taken away and we are left with ignorant mullahs.[/quote]
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