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I have been using wikipedia for almost 12 years.It is very helpful indeed.I am a hardcore journalist with almost 30years of experience.I wanted my profile to be in wikipedia not to market myself for business but to make sure that my huge contacts and people in my network could probably work together in something more meaningful where we can undo the wrongs created by people who have greed for money and power.Knowledge seekers use knowledge to make this world better for others some use it for vested interest and personal benefit. I hope wikipedia guides me.

My name is irfan sheikh I have been born from a Brahmin Mother and a Muslim father.I have never in my life seen my mother abusing or criticizing a Muslim neither did I see my father ever criticizing or abusing a Hindu.But as I grew up I found there is racism.People called me Michel or Kalia. I am dark in complexion.But as I started growing in media a big lobby started seeing me as a Muslim.My mother had to face many hardships because she came from a Hindu family.I felt the pain in my childhood but then I forgot about it in school.But in college it was there but my friends in Delhi were cool about my looks.I camouflaged everything not so good about me with my sense of humour. People laughed at my jokes and my wits.Girls were crazy about the words that I uttered eventually I became the center of attraction of any party. This was the time when I joined Newstrack. India Today way back in 1990.That was the time when the Ram Mandir yatra was taking place.It was the time when L.K.Advani was calling the shots.VP Singh was in power.Then P V Narashimha Rao came to power and the Babri mosque was demolished.There were blasts in almost 14 places.The divide in the society was clearly visible.But my DNA never accepted this divide in the society as I was born due to the love between these two community.I could never understand the hate story.But the truth is this hate story helps the politicians do communal politics.The narrative of hate helps people sell weapons.

Terrorism thrives on hate.Ram was maryada purushotam Ram.He stood for justice.He left his own beloved wife Sita after he was questioned by a dhobi.Ram rajya proved that there was rule of law.During that regime Ram stood for everything that was right.Ram would have never approved of the militant thought of lynching a poor man just because he belonged to a different cast.The Islam that Hazrat Mohammad preached is not the Islam that is propagated by people like Hafeez Sayeed.

When media plays into the hands of corporate and political leaders it does immense damage to the society.But those who trade in weapons of mass destruction need hate to grow in every nook and corner of this earth.America is world's largest democracy and welcomes people from every corner of this earth.Displaying the power of tolerance and convergence but as we see it here in India we are failing to achieve what Americans are able to do. I am also the founder President of Muslim Gau Raksha Sangh and am trying to educate the kids of minority community to protect the cow.Our Holy Prophet Hazrat Mohammad said cow milk is good for health and ghee has medicinal potency while the meat is harmful and toxic for the human body. Krishna,Jesus Christ and Mohammad all had soft corner for the holy cow.Its time the Indian government banned cow slaughter.