Mohd Junaid, a volunteer associated with the ongoing student and youth led protests at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, has alleged that the Uttar Pradesh Police raided his home and detained several members of his family following his participation in the demonstrations.
https://t.co/R4ReEYOGQE
Across India, thousands of Muslims joined these protests against a fascist government that questions their existence. Now as they’re being singled out and persecuted, what is certain is that they will be forgotten.
No hunger strikes for them, no city shutdowns etc.
none of these grifty redemocratisation of an inherently broken nation mvmts will come close to the grit, political acumen and profound clarity with which sharjeel spoke, wrote and agitated. May Allah keep him safe and give him the courage and nek hidayat to sustain himself
Sharjeel went to prison for directly naming the NRC in Assam and the Detention Camps. He was far more incisive than Umar about how India had failed Muslims since 1947. And he was unapologetic about it.
It was a litmus test, because it tested the limits of leftist solidarity.
@krantinari nope, this is a symbolic ‘victory’ to deflect any actual change. they will ramp up the violence against minorities across the city and clear out the protest areas in the next few days in light of decreasing crowds
why did they pick junaid out of the thousands to harass? could there be a reason why that is? is there a particular name ascribed to the phenomenon, something that is also deeply compatible with the state perhaps? you should perhaps try spelling it out loudly
the bitterness and stark debilitating contrast has moved me quite closer and proximate to some kind of islamopessimism i cannot fluently elaborate, but khair
i need muslims to stop throwing their weight behind/being visible in these spaces as the secular monkey of the republic, they will not put their bodies on line to protect you, they will not even mention you in a public speech, you solely exist to further the fiction of hindustan
That 2500 people can be detained in Kashmir following an oddball attack that killed a SINGLE police constable (https://t.co/kcfcC6AL8o) tells you how tedious characterizations like "imperial boomerang" are when invoked to describe the Delhi Police's treatment of CJP protesters!
ek baar jaakar koi umar khalid ya khuda na khasta sharjeel imam--both students--ka naam le de inn protests me. the very “people” there will do to you first what police will do later.
for everyone insisting this has nothing to do with hindu nationalism, here's some historical context. the slogan "bharat mata ki jai" doesn't exist in a political vacuum. it emerges from the broader imagination of bharat mata that took shape in the late nineteenth century, most-
“stop distracting from students’ demand with other slogans” “students are the only aggrieved party” “protests show us that this can also happen to people like *us*”