Moin

[Damn. @Theonenameddamn]

Schools don't have teachers, hospitals don't have doctors, water has uranium, air is polluted, deforestation is at an all time high, the rupee is at an all time low, petrol prices are at an all time high, manipur is burning and after being the world's second-largest sugar exporter, we are now an importer. But yeah, let's talk about Vande Mataram.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I truly do not understand how Meta glasses are legal.

[gimo 🔻 @gimoxtweets]

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.

[naina @shutupnaina]

i hate how we dont have these basic things in india

[PeePee🎀 @peegzy1]

No one will ever admit it, but Google was enough.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

One #KeralaStory from the recent election results that communalists should note: a Muslim majority constituency, Thavanur, elected a Christian, VS Joy; a Hindu majority constituency, Kalamassery, elected a Muslim. VE Abdul Gafoor; and a Christian majority constituency, Kochi, elected a Muslim, Muhammed Shiyas. Despite some influence from the national trends in favour of identity politics, Kerala remains a model of communal harmony, a state where people see human beings first and caste or religion later

@incindia @inckerala

[Moin @bimzaalim]

@mememandir So sad, are you going to say something about this on here?

[Punk @Icarus_punk21]

What the actual fuckkkkk

How is this not the biggest issue in the country ???!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[gal౨ৎ @prtygal777]

Yet if it were a penguin or a monkey everyone would care

[MOHAMMED𓂆 @Mo7mmd30]

Everyone felt sad for the penguin walking alone and the monkey rejected by his mother. But this video is far more heartbreaking, yet it didn’t receive the same attention.

[Moin @bimzaalim]

@israelititan Every accusation is a confession

[Moin @bimzaalim]

@Delhiite_ @docnazia Rose petals for doing their bare minimum job

[Stereotypewriter @babumoshoy]

So the Oscar-nominated 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' is not banned even in Israel but India has banned it because we don't want to show Fatherland in bad light?

[Leon's Roundhouse @EconAfterDark]

how is this different from 9/11?

[Moin @bimzaalim]

@desimojito MashaAllah!

[Duke Of Nigeria. @xagreat]

The army that fired 355 bullets at a 6 year old child wants your sympathy.

It’s actually insane.

[mahrukh @parhloumahrukh]

why do Americans insist on saying eye-ran and eye raq, yet they can say Italy

[🪩 @bambinasalina]

how do I get a job at the united nations? i’m trynna get paid to do nothing lowkey

[🚬 @AgereBennn]

Any time I see whites talk about freeing Iran it’s just a tweet sexualising Persian women. This is the western metric for the freedom of women: sexual exploitation

[safija @safijas_]

i'm at that point in life where the second you show or say something even remotely pro-israel i will make a conscious decision to never want anything to do with you for the rest of my life