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This is a very superficial explaination. It doesnt get to the root of why monotheists like Muslims and Sikhs oppose being forced to say Vande Mataram.

This song, Vande Mataram appears in a fictional novel called Anandmath. The story of this novel is that a group of Hindu Sanyasis living in the jungles carry out a guerilla war against Muslims. These Sanyasis deitified land of Bharat into a Devi and call her Bharat Mata and worship her. This is the birth of the modern Hindu concept of Desh Bhagti. Many Hindu freedom fighters, especially Hindu Bengali revolutionaries took to this concept of DeshBhagti where Bharat the land is worshipped as a devi or Bharat Mata as taken from the fiction novel Anandmath.

Understandably, Muslims and Sikhs refuse to say Vande Mataram since we are not worshippers of any Devi or even the recently invented Devi known as Bharat Mata that the fictional Sanyasis in Anandmath worship. Our Isht is only Vaheguru not any Devi, fictional or otherwise

Yes I agree Paji. I couldn't find another meaning of it, just the first one I came to copy pasted it. That's why I write everybody doesn't sing it. That's their explanation of it on Wikipedia. It praises Hindu goddess, which like you said other Dharms don't believe in or worship, Sikhi doesn't do that.

I think Lata Mangeshkar did a song of it too. I've heard it I think in an old movie, can't remember which one though.

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