Azim

University of Waterloo

[Aasif Mujtaba @MujtabaAasif]

While returning from #Tripura, the pain of being Muslim in India refused to fade. Images of burnt houses and a destroyed mosque, the cries of mothers, and the fear in children’s eyes sent a chill down the spine. It is hard to understand how Hindutva hatred has reached even this remote state, where Muslims form less than 8 percent of the population.
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[Aparna @chhuti_is]

10 year old. Abandoned by father. Mother mentally unstable.
10 year old. Primary caregiver for her 5 siblings.
10 year old. Domestic worker.
10 year old. Kicked, punched, staved.
10 year old. Now on ventilation.
10. Year. Old.
India is not for beginners.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

One of the world's richest man has invested in hate in India. A News Channel he owns runs non stop Hindu-Muslim Propaganda. Here are a few collages of @AmanChopra_'s TV show #DeshNahinJhukneDenge.
Non Stop #HinduMuslimDebates on Ambani's Channel.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

The Supreme Court of India has acted in the MOST CRUEL manner in the bail plea of Umar Khalid. It has not just rejected his plea, but also, effectively, RESTRICTED him from applying for bail for the next ONE YEAR! What a terrible, terrible day for democracy.

SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

I am so glad to see the great awakening happening in America.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

After the Justice Atul Sreedharan episode, one can have no hesitation in stating that the Supreme Court Collegium under Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai has been the most ruinous Collegium in the recent history of the institution. The Collegium has not just betrayed the idea of judicial independence, but actively gutted it from within.

Under Justice Gavai, the Collegium has functioned nothing like a guardian of constitutional integrity. Rather, it has worked almost like a cartel of convenience by punishing honest and upright judges, rewarding pliancy, and normalising moral compromise at the highest level of the judiciary, not even leaving the very position of the Chief Justice of India.

The Gavai-Collegium has left a trail of upright judges who have been humiliated or simply abandoned, and mediocrities and questionable characters elevated to the bench for reasons best known to them. Justice Gavai’s Collegium represents not just a deliberate administrative failure, it represents a terrifying collapse of conscience. A dark day, yet again, for the Indian judiciary.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

#Apropos Neha Rathore’s “waging war against India” case: The Supreme Court of India was vested with extraordinary powers—to hear any matter under the sky if it so wills, to pass any order to do “complete justice”, to take up issues suo-motu if inclined—FOR WHAT?

When judges clearly see a pattern of frivolous cases being filed by state agencies against journalists, activists, or any well-meaning citizen exercising their fundamental right to criticise, what exactly stops them from “inclining” to take issue with such great abuse of criminal law in Neha Rathore’s case, i.e., the complete misuse of sections like “waging war against India” under the BNS?

Justice J.K. Maheshwari, the lead judge on the bench, “inclines” and “disinclines” on whether to use the court’s special leave powers to admit/not admit petitions every single day: often within a minute of hearing counsel. Seldom do we not forget that this power too was intended to be extraordinary, to be used sparingly. Simply because it has become a daily ritual due to the massive amounts of SLPs coming the Supreme Court’s way does not mean that this is any less of an extraordinary power.

And therefore, when such extraordinary power is already being used so liberally and routinely, why could similar “extraordinary” power or line of inquiry not have been used once more? To quash the absurd “waging war” charge against Neha Rathore? Why not summon the police officers who signed off on such a ludicrous FIR and ask them to justify their “application of mind”?

Given the clear pattern of harassment that people in the civic space face today, the foreseeable long-term consequences for Neha Rathore and others like her, and the chilling effect on free expression that we all feel, the Supreme Court could easily have waltzed in to save the day and send a clear, stern message that law is not a plaything to be so frivolously invoked with impunity.

Instead, Justice Maheshwari’s bench chose the comfort of procedure, advising her to approach the trial court ‘at the appropriate stage’. One cannot fault this as this may be the right thing—usually. But these are not usual times. When law itself is being weaponised, restraint looks like complicity. The Court had a duty NOT TO look away and simply flash the everyday procedure book on her face.

And let’s not forget, Justice Maheshwari has done far more extraordinary than what this could’ve been. For instance, in September 2020, as Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh HC, he issued an extraordinary gag order preventing the media from reporting on an alleged land scam that implicated relatives of then-Supreme Court Justice, and later Chief Justice of India, N.V. Ramana.

One may ask: Why Neha Rathore’s case? Another may ask: Why NOT Neha Rathore’s case? Some argue she can follow the regular procedure, starting at the trial court. But others may argue the Supreme Court could have done more to push back against clear state overreach. What neither side can argue over is the sheer frivolous nature of the charge against her—“waging war against India”. The Supreme Court definitely could have—in my head, should have—but it did not. And that’s quite telling in itself.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

Why can’t the Supreme Court of India take suo-motu cognizance of this blatant violation of its judgment? Or, is that extraordinary power reserved for dogs, cats, cockroaches only? Founding fathers and mothers must be really proud of the current lot of Supreme Court judges.

[The Muslim @TheMuslim786]

लोकेशन : कानपुर, उत्तरप्रदेश

पेरेंट्स मीटिंग के दौरान स्कूल पहुँची मुस्लिम महिलाओं से प्रबंधन की ओर से कहा गया कि वे बुर्का उतारें, अन्यथा उनके बच्चों का रिपोर्ट कार्ड नहीं दिया जाएगा।

[Akhilesh Yadav @yadavakhilesh]

जुल्म करनेवाले न भूलें नाइंसाफ़ी की भी एक उम्र होती है।

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Do watch this important video of @sudhirchaudhary ji exposing Sonam Wangchuk and his links with the deep state.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Jab bhi koi Hindu parv aata hai unko garmi honi lagti hai aur unki garmi shaant karne ke liye humko unki denting, painting karni padti hai. This is the Chief minister of the largest state in India with the most provocative speech against minorities. There have been encounters in Uttar pradesh this week and news channels are celebrating it. There is a curfew in Bareilly and hundreds of Muslims are being arrested. The silence of the judiciary, the institutions, the media, our public intellectuals in this open season of hatred against Muslims is the reason this apartheid is being normalised.

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

बेरोजगारी का विस्फोट हो गया
है।

[Aasif Mujtaba @MujtabaAasif]

A Muslim identity is enough to be lynched, tortured in police station, murdered by Police, have doors broken at night and taken forcibly, have their women abused, have their houses bulldozed. All possible in India, largest Democracy.

[Ashraf Hussain @AshrafFem]

क्या मुसलमानों के घरों का दरवाज़ा तोड़कर इस तरह घर में घुसने कि अनुमति है?

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Dancing in front of mosques with hateful, provocative and inciting songs is an expression of religion.

A mere banner that says "I Love Muhammad" is grounds for FIR.

Mother of democracy

[Muslim IT Cell @Muslim_ITCell]

Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh📍

Muslim youth holding “I Love Muhammad” placards were detained and dragged to police stations today.

When devotion becomes a “crime” and love for the Prophet Muhammad PBUH is treated as law & order threat, it exposes the ugly face of state bias.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

One of the laws Gandhi resisted in South Africa was a law that allowed the police to enter a dwelling without any warrant even in the presence of women/children.

78 years after independence, this is what we subject our Muslim population to under the guise of “security”

[Sahal Qureshi (Hakim) @IMSahalQureshi]

Location: बहियल, अहमदाबाद (गांधीनगर)

हमेशा मुस्लिम विरोधी स्टैंड ही क्यों लेता है मीडिया?

गुजरात और देश का मीडिया दिखा रहा है कि बहियल में मुसलमानों ने हिंदुओं के डांडिया/गरबा पर पथराव किया और हिंदुओं की दुकानों में आग लगाई। जबकि हक़ीक़त यह है कि पथराव दोनों तरफ़ से हुआ और दुकानें मुसलमानों की भी जलाई गई। लेकिन गिरफ़्तारी सिर्फ़ मुसलमानों की हुई। वह भी घरों के दरवाज़े तौड़-तौड़ कर।

क्या गुजरात के गृहमंत्री @sanghaviharsh ने और गुजरात के @dgpgujarat ने क़ानून से ऊपर उठकर इस तरह से घरों के दरवाज़े तोड़कर मुसलमानों के घरों में घुसने की स्पेशल परमिशन दी है? और आख़िर कौनसे क़ानून के तहत दंगों की FIR में सिर्फ़ एक पक्ष (मुसलमानों) को ही आरोपी बनाया गया है?

जिस व्यक्ति के सोशल मीडिया पोस्ट से यह बवाल शुरू हुआ उस व्यक्ति की अब तक गिरफ्तारी क्यों नहीं हुई? क्या उस हितेश बैंकर के ख़िलाफ़ मामला दर्ज किया गया है जिसने I Love Muhammad लिखनेवालों को जाहिल कहा है?

✍️ सहल क़ुरैशी