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[Arshia Malik @arshiaunis]

As an Indian woman from Muslim heritage, I write this rebuttal with the clarity and directness that comes from living the reality @Ilhan only tweets about from afar. Ilhan Omar’s claim that India has reached the “eighth stage of genocide” against Muslims is not analysis. It is reckless, fact-free propaganda that insults every one of us who actually live here, work here, raise families here, and exercise our rights every single day.

If there were even the beginning of genocide, our population would not have exploded. In 1951, Muslims were about 9.8% of India. By 2011, we were 14.2%. Today we are estimated around 14.5–15%, heading toward 18% by 2050 according to Pew projections. From roughly 35 million in 1951 to over 200 million now. Absolute numbers have multiplied nearly six-fold while the country’s overall population grew far slower in percentage terms. Genocide does not produce the world’s largest Muslim-minority population that keeps growing faster than the national average for decades. It produces mass graves and fleeing refugees. We have neither.

We vote in every election in the world’s largest democracy. We contest seats, win them, become MPs, ministers, judges, IAS officers, doctors, engineers, and business leaders. Three Presidents of India have been Muslim. We serve in the armed forces and police. We own businesses, run hospitals, produce films, and dominate segments of entertainment and sports. This is not the signature of a community facing extermination.

We are thriving and prospering — with real data and real lives. Yes, like every large community, we have internal challenges — lower average literacy and educational enrollment in some metrics, pockets of poverty, and the need for better skilling. But the narrative of uniform victimhood is a lie told by people who have never walked through a Muslim-dominated area in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, or Kerala and seen the middle class, the professionals, the entrepreneurs, and the young women studying medicine and engineering.

Prominent Indian Muslims — from business (Wipro’s Azim Premji built one of India’s largest companies), to cinema (generations of stars and directors), to sports, academia, and medicine — show what is possible when talent meets opportunity in a free society. Millions of ordinary Muslim families have moved from villages to cities, from informal work to formal jobs, from one generation of limited schooling to the next pursuing professional degrees. That is prosperity in motion, not persecution.

We enjoy specific rights and accommodations that Hindus as a group do not. This is the part Omar and her echo chamber never mention. Indian Muslims operate under a parallel personal law system for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and maintenance rooted in Sharia. Hindus do not.
After independence, Hindu personal law was comprehensively reformed and codified into a uniform framework (Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu Succession Act, etc.). Muslims retained the right to follow their own religious laws — including provisions for polygamy (up to four wives) and differential inheritance rules that the Hindu majority surrendered decades ago.

We also have constitutional minority protections under Articles 29 and 30 that allow us to establish and administer our own educational institutions with significant autonomy — rights the Hindu majority does not claim as a group because it is not classified as a minority. The Waqf Act gives Muslim institutions unique control over vast religious and charitable properties in a manner unparalleled for any other community.
In short: the Indian state has gone out of its way, through personal laws and minority safeguards, to preserve and accommodate Muslim religious and cultural identity in ways it has not extended equivalently to the Hindu majority. These are not “equal rights” in every narrow sense — they are deliberate accommodations that give us more space to live according to our traditions than the majority community receives under the same Constitution.

As a woman from Muslim heritage in India, I have the full protection of the Indian Constitution plus the framework of personal law. The criminalization of instant triple talaq in 2019 removed a specific vulnerability that existed under uncodified practice. I can study, work, vote, travel, criticize the government, wear what I choose (or not), and practice my faith openly — all while living in a country where my community’s population share has steadily risen for 75 years.

@Ilhan Omar’s “eighth stage of genocide” rhetoric is not solidarity. It is the lazy export of American culture-war talking points onto a country and a people she does not understand. It erases the agency of 200+ million Indian Muslims who are neither cowering nor waiting for rescue from Washington. It cheapens the word “genocide” while real atrocities happen elsewhere.
Stop peddling foreign fantasies about our lives. We are here. We are visible. We are voting. We are building. And we reject your narrative with the facts of our own existence. That is the view from inside — not from a podium in the United States.

[Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar @Gurudev]

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[neha @nehamaglani]

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[neha @nehamaglani]

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[neha @nehamaglani]

My joining has been postponed TWICE because of your broken system. Who will take responsibility?

Fix this NOW or tell me who will answer for my lost opportunity.

#EPFOFailure #DigitalIndia #SystemCollapse #EnoughIsEnough

[neha @nehamaglani]

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[neha @nehamaglani]

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[Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar @Gurudev]

Those who are vandalizing Hindu temples are not only hurting the sentiments of more than 1.2 billion Hindus but also insulting the ten Sikh Gurus and undermining the sacrifices they made to preserve Sanatan Dharma. Everyone should work to unite humanity rather than divide communities.

#CanadaHinduTemple

[Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar @Gurudev]

The Tirupati laddu row has inflicted a deep wound and rage in the Hindu psyche. It is high time that temple management is overseen by, and handed over to, religious leaders and devotees, rather than self-serving officials, ruthless business people and politicians.
#TirumalaLaddu #TirupatiControversy

[neha @nehamaglani]

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[neha @nehamaglani]

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[Following Sri Sri @FollowingSriSri]

Learn and unlearn from the past and move on with creative zeal and enthusiasm. The trying times brings out the best in you, The rewarding times gives the best of the world to you. Life is a combination of both! - Gurudev @SriSri

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[Following Sri Sri @FollowingSriSri]

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt itself is a punishment. - Gurudev @SriSri

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[Following Sri Sri @FollowingSriSri]

Expecting respect shows our weakness and giving respect to people irrespective of who they are or what their standards are shows our wisdom. - Gurudev @SriSri

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[Following Sri Sri @FollowingSriSri]

When every action of yours is preceded by witnessing, then every move you make in this world becomes perfect and significant. - Gurudev @SriSri

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[Following Sri Sri @FollowingSriSri]

Many seek pleasure in this or that but the wise man just smiles. The real rest is only in knowledge. - Gurudev @SriSri

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[Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar @Gurudev]

#Dhanteras means the day of wealth. Whatever you put attention on that grows, whether abundance or lack. Recognise the abundance in nature and remember all the blessings you have received in life and feel grateful for it.