The United Nations has always had eye-watering double standards when it comes to India. You’ve seen what happened in France over the weekend. Now look at these 3 tweets and see if you can spot the shameless duplicity.
The liberal-Islamist camp remained silent on Sharjeel Imam’s Islamist Manifesto. But after ThePrint published this article, their concern is less about the ideas it exposes and more about the identity of its author.
And this is not just about Sharjeel Imam. The 1945–46 elections were fought over the demand for Pakistan. Muslims did not boycott these elections; instead, the Muslim League secured around 75% of the votes cast in Muslim constituencies in the provincial elections. In the 1945 central elections, it won all the seats reserved for Muslims, securing 86.7% of the Muslim vote. The League’s political rhetoric bears striking similarities to what Sharjeel Imam is saying today.
As you witness this outpouring of support for Sharjeel Imam, it is time to revisit what Babasaheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar wrote about Islam, Muslim politics, and the Partition of India. His writings are worth reading, not just to understand the forces that shaped Partition, but also to reflect on the future of your country and the security of your motherland.
"I appeal to Indian youths, Join the Army, Navy & Airforce. We will then decide to whom the nozzle to be turned"
That was tacit message & the great rebel strategy by Swatantryaveer Savarkar to attain the freedom.
Rare photo of 4 youths with their HERO prior to join the Army.
An article has been circulating in the print media, written by an IPS officer who goes by the name of Ibn-e-Khaldun Bharti, questioning Sharjeel Imam’s politics by branding him anti-secular, Islamist, reductionist, conservative, and everything else that can be deployed to delegitimise a political subject without seriously engaging with his ideas. One cannot help but wonder why the author chooses to conceal his identity behind a pseudonym.
To understand Sharjeel Imam, one must engage with critical theory, political philosophy, metaphysics, and the historical conditions that shape political thought. One cannot reduce his politics to the familiar binaries of secularism and communalism, or expect complex questions of Muslim political identity, representation, and resistance to yield to such convenient categories.
It is particularly disappointing that many academics who understand these complexities choose to remain silent, even as public discourse increasingly turns into an exercise in labelling, vilification, and intellectual simplification.
Sharjeel Imam’s critique of the Constitution, or his questioning of the political order it sustains, does not automatically amount to a rejection of constitutionalism. The Constitution itself provides for its amendment, while democratic politics must retain the space to question existing institutions, arrangements, and constitutional assumptions. A constitutional democracy that cannot accommodate fundamental criticism of its own framework risks reducing dissent to a privilege granted at the convenience of those in power.
His invocation of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Muhammad Iqbal must also be understood within the larger history of Muslim political thought in the subcontinent. They are part of our pre-Partition intellectual and political history, however uncomfortable that history may be. We cannot simply erase them from our historical consciousness because their ideas, political choices, or legacies are contested. To invoke Jinnah is not necessarily to endorse Jinnah, just as engaging with a political thinker does not amount to an uncritical acceptance of everything they believed or represented.
History cannot be understood through selective remembrance, nor can political thought be evaluated through guilt by association. The task is to interrogate, contextualise, and critically engage with these legacies, not to banish them from legitimate discourse.
The easiest thing for political polemicists to do is to call Sharjeel Imam an Islamist, reduce his arguments to a convenient ideological label, and present that label as sufficient justification for his political and social exclusion. In a climate where such labels can have consequences far beyond intellectual debate, this is a particularly dangerous exercise.
Defending Sharjeel Imam does not require agreeing with every argument he has made. It requires defending the right to engage with his ideas seriously, to examine them critically, and to resist the impulse to replace argument with accusation. The question is whether we are willing to confront the complexity of Muslim political thought in India, or whether we would rather consign it to a set of labels that make it easier to condemn than to understand.
#SharjeelImam
We’re coming to Mumbai… to fundraise for the @hindufund_ — to create a financial backbone to fund non-religious Dharmic organisations that are working for preservation & expansion of our Civilization.
Registration : https://t.co/jwJrjhOI4v
Date: 25 Oct 26 | Time: 10 AM – 1 PM | Venue: Grand Terminus, Mumbai.
ज्याँ द्रेज ने भारतीयों से खुदवाए गड्ढे, सान्याल की पॉलिसीज़ से आईं आइफ़ोन फैक्ट्री
द्रेज ने हमेशा की पैसा बाँटने की बात, सान्याल ने बताया- कैसे होगा वेल्थ क्रिएशन
द्रेज का 'ब्राउन सिपाही' बनने को आख़िर क्यों बेताब हैं लिबरल जमात?
@arpit_awadhi
A minor Hindu girl was dragged out of garba and slapped repeatedly in Nalasopara. Is Hindu joy, Hindu worship and Hindu womanhood now open to public humiliation? Why must Hindus keep proving they deserve safety at their own festivals?
https://t.co/Q1hT5YAbTU
Remembering the brave soldiers of the Azad Hind Fauj on its Foundation Day.
It was on this day in 1943, that the first provisional Govt, led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was formed, which eventually shook the British Empire and forced them to leave India.
Tributes to all 🙏
सैकड़ों मंदिरों को ध्वस्त करने वाला काला पहाड़ हिंदू से बना था मुसलमान
शस्त्र-शास्त्र में था पारंगत, समुद्री युद्ध कौशल से प्रभावित था बंगाल का सुल्तान
काला पहाड़ की इन्हीं खूबियों ने बनाया इस्लामी ब्रेनवॉश का शिकार, पूरा इतिहास बता रही हैं @Shh_Shaili
Sweet deal after joining NDA! Plot of land adjacent to Pathan family home in Vadodara that Yusuf Pathan had wanted since 2012 and was embroiled in a long legal/admin battle will finally be his. https://t.co/Gazu0o822G
Sharjeel Imam’s war on Indian secularism, Constitution and more: Read about his Islamist manifesto targeting Hindus, RSS and BJP while extolling Iqbal, Jinnah and Muslim League
@willofvalhalla writes
https://t.co/CEWJPxel7z
After this expose, some 'independent journalists' have started claiming that these emails are AI-generated. Shivani Gautam also made the same claim in a video.
I’m posting a recording of my email exchange with Shivani Gautam, captured directly from my PC screen.
AI ko itna bhi badnam na karo.