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Photographer who follows back 🤣
People who love Kashmir should definitely follow😍

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

I follow back everyone except Sanghis and Jews🤮

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

I request @himantabiswa ji to transport this retarded Bangladeshi ghuspetiya wh0re back to where she belongs

[Zeba Zoariah @ZZoariah]

As an Assamese Muslim woman, I find this argument more disturbing than the dance she is offended by. And coming from a former Bollywood actor, the irony is difficult to miss.

You built part of your own public career in an industry of cinema, music, dance and performance. Nobody should reduce your intelligence, faith or convictions today to the fact that you once performed on screen. So why reduce these Kashmiri girls to stage props because they danced on Independence Day?

If the argument is that schools should give girls more substance like debates, books, science, Kashmiri history, poetry, scholarship, sport absolutely. Make that argument. I would support it.

But that is not where this stops. Suddenly the Waqf Board is invoked. Islamic values enter the conversation. And Muslim children celebrating 15 August become a religious problem.

Why?

I come from Assam where indigenous Muslim communities have histories deeply intertwined with Assamese society. We did not remain Muslim by culturally quarantining ourselves from the land we belong to. My Assamese identity does not dilute my Islam. My Islam does not require me to constantly prove distance from India.

And Waqf is not some theological border checkpoint deciding how much Indianness Muslims are permitted to display. Muslim educational and charitable institutions do not cease being Muslim because children celebrate their country’s Independence Day.

So what exactly crossed the line here?

The dance? The girls? The Tiranga? Or Kashmiri Muslim girls looking completely comfortable with the Tiranga?

Because those are four very different objections.

There is another contradiction here that bothers me deeply as a Muslim woman you say Muslim girls should be taught to become scholars, intellectuals and scientists rather than stage props. Why assume a girl who dances cannot also become a scientist? Why is her intellect being measured against her willingness to perform?

A Muslim girl can study the Quran in the morning, solve equations in the afternoon, dance in the evening and grow up to disagree with the government of the day. None of those things cancels the others.

And please stop treating Muslim identity as something so fragile that a song, a dance or the Indian flag can contaminate it.

I am Assamese. I am Muslim. I am Indian. I have never needed to subtract one to authenticate another.

The tragedy isn’t Muslim girls dancing with the Tiranga. The tragedy is adults handing Muslim children an identity crisis and calling it protection.

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Kitab wechthei chakh toaph evaan

[The Nawakadal @thenawakadal]

10,000 Students Create Giant Map of India at SK Stadium Bandipora.

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Same energy

[KHAN @Aaqibk07]

New bawaseer in Kashmir 🤦‍♂️

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

@AussieSehar Which lake is this? Beautiful 😻

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Kem laancx gai Kashiri agadih

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

@Ambal_Real @DailyExcelsior1 Teri ramdi maa jo suwaroun se chudwaa ke aati hai uske photos dekh tu bkl mc.

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Haan bkl @DailyExcelsior1 walo dhoond dhoond ke Zaira ki purani pics lagao kutte ke pillo

[Daily Excelsior @DailyExcelsior1]

'Why Make Girls Dance': Zaira Wasim Slams JK Waqf Board Over School Event
https://t.co/hCUeck3fcf

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

@KashurTamok 🤣

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Politics aside, Iltija has very a likeable personality.

[Iltija Mufti @IltijaMufti_]

Dear @DailyExcelsior1 are you pretending to be oblivious to Zaira’s privacy & personal preference for the Niqaab? You are a local portal based in Kashmir. Surely expecting you to respect her wishes isn’t too much to ask for?

Take this picture down immediately. Your failure to do so will be seen as deliberate to subdue her into not expressing her thoughts freely. I’m sure you can do with her current twitter dp it’s it’s absolutely necessary.

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

@KashurTamok Yes aemis chu dil saaf

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Yadd bharith mushriq

[بب @ahadsoab]

Khawaja Naqshband Sahib whose maqam has been compared by historians to that of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani. The people of Nowhatta, remain under his guidance and protection. The foundational stone of this mosque was laid by the Prophet ﷺ himself.

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Yethen lukkan wanan Munafiq

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

@ismiisadi Cute God bless you both

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

@ooyeedar Yeh khabees hai saare. Zaira ko guilt trip karana chahte, jabki woh glamour world ko kab ka chhod chuki hai

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Pagal hehra buddeh dalla Why did you use this picture of her? Tum badmash beghairat buddhoun ne hi bheda ghark kiya kashmir ka

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

@metacolonial As a gamuk I disown her. ye gamich nahi zinhich hai

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Kitne badnaseeb hote haiw oh bache jinke maa baap aise chutiye hote hai

[Saynotolibrandu @saynotolibrandu]

My dad has shushed me away so many times for trying to talk during PM Modi's speeches. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Sanghis are the most uncivilised group of people on earth

[𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝙺𝚊𝚗𝚠𝚊𝚕 @itxbeenishhere]

Back when Indians vandalized a bakery simply because it was named “Karachi Bakery” in India.

Meanwhile, in Pakistan, we still proudly love Bombay Bakery, Delhi, Meerut and Bihari's food.

Know the difference in mindsets. That’s exactly what the Two Nation Theory was all about.

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Oh toh yeh iss godown ka showroom hai. Guys boycott this book from this leach’s niece

[Haseeb Drabu @HaseebDrabu]

Inverting a popular Kashmiri adage: binze kenan hyande-wend, te maam karaan wah wah! (The original has the uncle selling watermelons and the nephew declaring them delicious. Here, the niece is offering the feast and uncle is smacking the lips!)
It is the chanchabeel ..many flavours and textures. A sudden sweetness… then a perfect crunch. Come back to it as often as you wish; there will always be something to nibble at.
The book curates the variety like an à la carte and serves with the convenience of a buffet. Should I say a tasting menu of Kashmiri literature.
Well done, @OnaizaD .

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@Acharyanandanaa Teri maa ki chuuuuut bhi great ho gayi hai kothey pe chudwa chudwa ke

[🍁🍁Kashmiri🍁🍁 @kshmrexpedition]

Islam is under attack in Kashmir

[Zaira Wasim @ZairaWasimmm]

Just came across a clip from a school somewhere in Kashmir. Independence Day celebrations held for or by the Waqf Board.

I have a question. Isn’t waqf board a religious body entrusted with serving the Muslim Community. and ideally doing so while uplholding Islamic Values?

Then there is something almost comical about this institution: an organisation built around a religious and communal purpose, yet sitting so comfortably through something you would expect a religious institution to at least question.

It lends its name to celebrations that reduce our children to stage props and performers.

Why is the default way of involving children — and particularly girls — in public celebrations to make them dance to irrelevant songs? Why aren’t our institutions giving them something to think about, create, learn, discuss, build or contribute?

Especially in a place like Kashmir. Which has had a remarkable legacy of people who understood education as a means to enlighten minds, cultivate character and equip people with knowledge and spirituality.

What about the intellectual and cultural legacy of wonderful scholars of the past.

So if it’s an institution whose very existence is tied to religious purpose, you are taksed with deeper work of strengthening the communities spiritually morally, intellectually.

And to be clear: the point is not the children. Children are often simply made to participate in whatever schools and institutions put before them.

Perhaps that is the real tragedy here.

The question is what an institution chooses to facilitate, endorse and place under its own banner.