In just one week, four innocent Muslims have been killed across the country — from 13-year-old Unaiz Khan to 65-year-old Roshan Khatoon.
Every Muslim knows, deep inside, that justice is unlikely to be served when the perpetrators belong to Hindutva mobs. And yet, despite this pain and anger, you will not find Muslims out on the streets calling for revenge against innocent Hindus. You will not see their homes being bulldozed in collective punishment, nor mobs demanding blood for blood.
Instead, there is silence, grief, and an unbearable sense of helplessness.
Last week, Monu Manesar — accused in the horrific burning alive of Nasir and Junaid — walked out on bail. At the same time, two Muslim youths accused in the killing of a Hindu revert were shot dead in what appears to be an extrajudicial killing.
These painful contrasts raise a haunting question in the minds of many:
Is there really one law for everyone in this country, or are some lives simply worth less than others?
Location: Pune, Maharashtra
Muslim youth was forced to eat cow dung and beaten up.
Hindutva activists, led by a transgender woman named Bipasha Manikam, forcibly fed cow dung to a Muslim youth, beat him, and verbally abused him.