By Apoorvanand
Apporvanad writes an important Twitter thread that helps in recognising Islamophobia in India.
- Indian Islam is superior to Islam outside.
- Indian Muslims have resisted radicalization, have not allowed themselves to be radicalized.
- Indian Muslims are very liberal.
- Muslims are generally orthodox.
- They are too religious.
- There is no liberal, progressive leadership in Muslims.
- They do not invest in education, hence Backward, conservative clergy are their leaders.
- Muslim women are oppressed by Muslim men.
- Muslim women paint Krishna and donate it to a temple.
- Do not you about Holi by Nazeer Akbarabadi?
- Urdu is such a lovely language! Muslims are used as a vote bank.
- Oh! President Kalam was so Indian despite being a Muslim.
- Muslim men are so ‘attractive’! They donot come out of their shell. They suffer from perpetual victimhood.
- Why cannot they vote for the BJP? Are they so intolerant?
- RSS has a viewpoint. We should listen to it and have a dialogue with it.
- “IUML, Kerala is a communal party and Badaruddin Ajmal is also communal!”
- Why cannot Muslims sing Vande Mataram and say Bharat Mata ki Jai?
- OH! He was with the PFI! How to defend him!
- You have to condemn Muslim communalism when you criticize Hindu communalism. Condemn the hate speech of both sides please!
- Muslim birth rate is declining fast.
- Muslims cannot overtake Hindus in India.
- No worries. When attacked, Muslims should not agitate as Muslims, they should say it is an attack on the Constitution, on the idea of India.
- To talk only about the persecution of Muslims would be self-defeating, people should be made to understand that something larger is at stake.
You can add to the list just to understand how Islamophobia germinates, take root and turns into a genocidal project.
This thread originally appeared on Apoorvanand’s Twitter timeline