Explosive claim by UM Kiren Rijiju:
Rahul Gandhi’s scuba-diving visit involved a ₹26 crore expenditure and was used to build opposition to the Great Nicobar Project.
He questioned who funded the alleged campaign, Was it Congress or external interests?
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.
Nagrasu Gurdwara management has held a press conference, alleging that the Nihangs involved have created an atmosphere of fear in the area.
Reports also claim that a 60-year-old devotee was held inside the premises.
What's often ignored is that such actions also make local Sikhs in Uttarakhand uncomfortable.
A handful of goons from Punjab are damaging the image of the Sikh community and creating unnecessary tensions in a region known for peace and harmony.
🚨 NEWS OF THE DAY
Kupwara, J&K: A Kashmiri Pandit family that was DISPLACED from the Valley 36 years ago has RETURNED to its ancestral village in Langate and OPENED a restaurant 🔥
BREAKING NEWS 🚨
This time, Israel has targeted the strongest faction of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
A few hours ago, the Israeli Air Force launched a massive strike on the ancestral home of Hezbollah's current leader, Naim Qassem, resulting in his death.
Shri Akal Takht Sahib called Bhagwanta and asked him about the video. Bhagwanta said the video was fake. Shri Akal Takht Sahib then told him to name any two forensic laboratories in India of his own choice. Bhagwanta himself selected the two labs.
Both laboratories reportedly concluded that the video was real and showed no signs of AI generation, fabrication, or tampering.
Now, instead of accepting the findings of the very laboratories he chose, Bhagwanta is challenging Shri Akal Takht Sahib.This is unprecedented in Sikh history.When Maharaja Ranjit Singh was declared guilty by Shri Akal Takht Sahib, he did not challenge its authority. He appeared before the Akal Takht, accepted the decision, and sought forgiveness.
Bhagwanta chose the labs.The labs gave their verdict. Now Bhagwanta is questioning Shri Akal Takht Sahib itself.
The issue is no longer the video.The issue is whether Bhagwanta thinks he is above Shri Akal Takht Sahib.
Kashmir in last 24 hours.
• Mohd Shafi, power dept employee arrested for allegedly providing shelter to Lashkar terrorists.
• Tariq Ahmad, Forest Department employee arrested for providing logistical support to Jaish terrorists
• Three Hizbul terrorists Aizaz Ahmed, Arbaz Ahmad and Nasir Ahmad arrested with grenades & explosives.
All Kashmiri muslims with Govt jobs. Govt benefits, Stable careers.
But we're still expected to believe the Kashmiri Pandit genocide was a myth and terrorism has nothing to do with religion.
Not a single woman or child. Only military-age men.
That’s because they are not refugees. They are soldiers, and this is a religious war of conquest.
Europe needs to wake up.
Bajrang Dal activists in Indore busted a hotel room where a Muslim man from West Bengal was found with a Hindu girl in a compromising situation.
Recovered: 20+ debit cards, multiple Aadhaar cards, rudraksha mala, condoms & sex power tablets.
The 1967 diplomatic horror that Congress erased from history.
When China falsely accused young Indian diplomats K. Raghunath and P. Vijay of spying over a simple photo, they were dragged by their necks, stripped, and brutally beaten by a mob of Red Guards on a Beijing runway.
Red Guards beat and kicked two Indian diplomats in wild scenes at Peking airport to-day before they left by air for Hongkong after being expelled from China accused of spying.
The Second Secretary Mr Krishnan Raghunath and the Third Secretary, Mr. P. Vijay were dragged and pushed, held by the neck and arms among a crowd of Red Guards several hundred strong.
They were punched and kicked and Red Guards waved red books of Mao Tse-tung’s quotations at them. Other Indian diplomats were hit and Third Secretary,
C.V. Ranganathan was made to bow his head by the crowd who tried to force him to kneel on the runway.
Embassy staff who tried to go to the aid of the two expelled, diplomats were manhandled and kept away.
The response from the ruling Congress government? Utter paralysis. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi openly admitted in Parliament that it was “not possible… to outline the steps the government might take.”
From the complete surrender of 1967 to the 2008 secret MoU signed with the Chinese Communist Party with Rahul Gandhi right at the table the paper trail of appeasement is clear.
Congress buried the 1967 Beijing horror: When Red Guards lynched Indian diplomats.
1967. The Cultural Revolution raged. Mao’s Red Guards ruled Beijing’s streets. And two young Indian diplomats, K. Raghunath and P. Vijay, were made an example.
Their crime? Taking a photograph. China accused them of espionage. What followed was not diplomacy. It was a state-sanctioned mob attack.
On a Beijing runway, both were dragged by their necks. Stripped and brutally beaten by Red Guards as officials watched. Their diplomatic immunity was shredded in public. India’s flag trampled by a frenzied crowd chanting Mao’s slogans.
This wasn’t a misunderstanding. It was humiliation by design. Beijing wanted to send a message after the 1962 war: India’s diplomats could be treated like spies, India’s sovereignty like paper. But back home, the Government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi downplayed the assault. No white paper. No national outrage campaign. The incident was filed away, erased from textbooks, and absent from Parliament debates. Why? Because it exposed Nehruvian China policy as naive and Congress diplomacy as toothless.
Raghunath and Vijay survived. But the silence that followed was a second betrayal. Their ordeal deserved to be etched into national memory as proof of Chinese brutality and the cost of weakness.
Today, as we face new border standoffs, remember 1967. Remember what happens when we forget. Remember what happens when political convenience buries national honour.
Two diplomats. One photograph. One brutal truth Congress hid: appeasement never bought respect. Only resolve does.
India must never forget the men who bled for the Tiranga 🇮🇳 on foreign soil.
Tulamula is not just a temple. It's a reminder of a home waiting to be reclaimed.
For us Kashmiri Hindus, Mata Kheer Bhawani's sacred shrine is where faith meets memory, and memory fuels the hope of return.
Exiled from the Valley, never from their roots.
#KashmiriHindus