@jemin_p@AteeqAl25175623 But why is it illegal in a secular country? Individual dietary choices being governed by religious sentiments dosent sound very secular to me.
@IKON1436 Naivety ki dukaan hai IMs, fitnah is not because of cow or religious sentiments. The problem is highly radicalised hindu society which will find another reason to lynch innocent muslims.
@jakuzzee@BDUTT My sister gave me a distress call I left everything and went to her place got everything packed and brought her back home along with her 2 year old daughter. It has been 12 years she is happy and safe and that toddler daughter will appear for 10th board exams this year.
Yesterday, we uploaded a video on the Bhopal incident in which a Muslim youth was assaulted, publicly humiliated, and abused with remarks against Allah in the name of “Love Jihad.” Within minutes, Meta removed the video in India citing the new IT Rules.
It is alarming that videos showing mob violence are taken down faster than action is taken against those accused of carrying it out. Journalism means documenting realities and asking questions, and we will continue to do that.
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We spoke with Sharjeel Imam
"I'm niche because I want to be"
"I can say for sure that the intellectual class threw me under the bus, but the masses did not"
"...my friends from IIT helped with my legal costs, all of them non-Muslims"
"We are fighting a very difficult battle. There are no easy answers here"
His name is Mohammad Aamir Khan.
On the night of February 20, 1998, his mother asked him to buy medicines from a shop in Old Delhi. He was 18 years old.
He never made it to the shop.
Men in plain clothes stopped him on the street. He did not know they were police officers. They took him to an abandoned building. For seven days, he was held in illegal custody. He was tortured. He was forced to sign blank sheets of paper.
Then the Delhi Police Special Cell produced him in court and charged him with 19 counts of bombing across Delhi, Ghaziabad, Rohtak and Sonepat between December 1996 and October 1997.
He was presented to the media as a terrorist.
His family was never informed. They spent days searching police stations before finding out what had happened.
He spent 14 years in prison. Through torture. Through solitary confinement. He watched case after case fall apart in court as evidence was shown to be fabricated.
In 2012, he was acquitted in 17 of 19 cases. Two cases remain pending. He had already served more time in jail than the maximum sentence he could have received even if convicted on all charges.
He walked out of prison in January 2012.
His father had died while he was inside. His mother had suffered a stroke so severe she no longer recognised him when he walked through the door.
The National Human Rights Commission directed the Delhi government to pay him compensation.
The amount was Rs 5 lakh.
No officer from the Delhi Police Special Cell was charged. No one was suspended. No inquiry was ordered.
He wrote a book about what was done to him. He called it Framed As A Terrorist. My 14 Year Struggle To Prove My Innocence.
He now helps other wrongfully accused prisoners navigate the system that destroyed him.
India gave him Rs 5 lakh and called it justice.
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@Ghazala2402 Not all schools in Delhi are following this water break thing, ideally they should close schools in such heat kabhi kuch hadsa ho gya kisi bacche ko stroke ho gya who will be responsible.
@sanobeee I was recitation parindey ki fariyad and my nana happened to pass by, he stopped and said yeh to Iqbal ka kalam hai went his way with a smile on his face. May Allah have mercy on him.