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The biggest lesson Muslims should take from the CJP protest is that nobody will fight for Muslim rights with the same urgency that Muslims themselves will. The protest exposed something Muslims in India have known for a long time, Hindu privilege is real.
As the organisers of this protest pointed out, permission was granted at the airport without having to go through the usual hurdles. Whatever the reason behind that decision, the larger picture remains the same, it is far easier for Hindus to protest against the government than it is for Muslims. Hindus can take to the streets, organize and express dissent with a level of freedom that Muslims simply do not have.
For more than a decade, Muslims have been dealing with lynchings, demolitions, custodial deaths, encounters, nonstop media vilification and the normalization of anti Muslim rhetoric. None of this happened in secret. Everyone saw it, everyone knew about it, yet Hindus remained silent despite having the social space and freedom to speak out.
The same people who now complain about media bias spent years using that very media as a source whenever Muslims were being targeted. They had no problem accepting media narratives when Muslims were being painted as criminals, extremists or villains. Suddenly, when the media turned against them, they wanted everyone to acknowledge how biased and dishonest it was.
What this protest really showed is that many Hindus only start caring about democratic rights when their own rights are affected. Muslims have been raising concerns about shrinking civil liberties, selective policing, media propaganda and state overreach for years, but those concerns were ignored. When Muslims protested against the CAA and NRC, students at Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University were met with police crackdowns, detentions, tear gas, baton charges and relentless media hostility. Images of police entering campuses, libraries and hostels were seen across the country.
Those incidents should have sparked a nationwide outrage about civil liberties and the right to protest. Instead, many either remained silent or justified what happened. The moment Hindus experienced a fraction of that pressure, protests began and suddenly democratic rights became a matter of national concern.
The majority community had the numbers, the social acceptance and the freedom to challenge the demonization of Muslims, oppose collective punishment and make it politically costly to target an entire community. For the most part, they chose not to.
Even today, they can still become a voice for Muslims, yet most do not and it is difficult to ignore this assuming ignorance because the facts have been visible for years.
The lesson for Muslims is to stop expecting others to fight battles they have repeatedly shown no interest in fighting and stop involving yourselves in battles where that support has never been reciprocated. Any community that relies on the goodwill of others for its rights places itself in a vulnerable position.
The CJP protest was not just about one issue, it revealed who gets the benefit of the doubt, who gets the space to dissent, who is allowed to be angry and whose suffering is expected to be endured quietly.