#muslims in india

[shoutingto-thevoid]

Exquisite latticeworks at the Humayun Tomb, Delhi

#latticework #Humayun tomb #Islamic architecture #historical monument #delhi #jaali goemetric patterns #fatehpur sikri #muslims in India #mughal empire #indo persian architecture

[no-bitch-i-cant]

#muslims in india #india #afreen fatima #pm modi #islamophobia #Instagram

[munaeem]

Bhagwa love trap

The concept of the ‘Bhagwa love trap’ in India has sparked a significant amount of debate and controversy. It forms part of a larger narrative surrounding ‘love jihad,’ a term some use to suggest a conspiracy by Muslim men to charm Hindu women into converting to Islam, which has become increasingly prominent in India in recent years. Conversely, the term ‘Bhagwa love trap’ (with ‘Bhagwa’…

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#india #Muslims #Muslims in India

[brunelsblog]

This post is so important to me. Al-Jazeera making me cry was not in my weekend bingo list but here we are. Curse you to anyone who is trying to turn this into a religious conflict when it's clearly about white supremacy. History will know you for the vile snakes that you are.

#muslim #jewish #india #synagogue #free palestine #palestine #gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

[shehzadi]

increasing anti-muslim violence in india. 3 lynchings in the last week in west bengal alone. more murders, more abuse, more torture is expected at this point against indian muslims and kashmiris (x), given upcoming elections and hindutva’s growing obsession with emulating israel. who better to take inspiration from if you intend to eradicate an entire group of people and steal land?

#ya allah when will india’s muslims wake up #! #india #m

[3025-jasmines]

because I am also Indian, I want to also point this out. freedom for colonized people everywhere also means freedom for Kashmiris that are under a brutal Indian occupation. the right to self-determination for all colonized people everywhere, from Palestine to Kashmir to Ireland

a good book to read to learn more about the relationship between Israel and India is “Hostile Homelands” by Azad Essa. India is looking to Israel treatment of Palestinians as a blueprint for its own crimes against Kashmiris, Muslims and Dalits. India is also complicit in furthering Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine - the Port of Haifa is currently partly owned by Adani Ports & SEZ, the founder of which is one of the wealthiest men in India, Gautam Adani (won’t come as a surprise that Adani is also very close to Modi and the BJP)

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #india #kashmir #israel is an apartheid state #israeli crimes #Muslim

[sscarletvenus]

someone wore this to the cricket world cup final in india. the channels broadcasting turned away the cameras and played ads.

he walked in front of millions AND the prime minister of India.

through this person's incredible bravery, Indians who stand with Palestine, Indians who have to spend their days under a fascist regime, have a representation that does them justice.

our voices of dissent have been crushed through harrowing persecution.

in 1981, India issued a postage stamp with the Indian and Palestinian flags flying side by side, and the words "Solidarity with the Palestinian people." India was the first non-arab country to recognize the state of Palestine.

the country i have lived in for 18 years is a dignified member of the post-colonial world. its citizens have moral backbones. they are often murdered or imprisoned for having it.

#i am so ecstatic that this person is not an indian citizen because otherwise... #everybody else in my country suffers due to these fascist maniacs who seek to represent us #and if i get any freaks interacting with this : i am not muslim #i am a bengali hindu and despite the vitriol hindutva maniacs spew online we have had some of the largest protests here in india #hopefully one day we too will be safe in our own country #palestine #free palestine #gaza genocide #gaza #gaza strip #gaza under attack #genocide #decolonisation #settler colonialism #imperialism #india #indiavsaustralia #india vs australia #australia #cricket world cup 2023

[leroibobo]

thazhathangady juma mosque in kottayam, kerala, india. like judaism and christianity, islam first reached present-day kerala via trade and migration from the middle east to the malabar coast from antiquity. the mosque dates back to the 9th-10th centuries.

#india #architecture #interior #worship #muslim #nmenam #abrahamic kerala #my posts #interesting how lotuses are in a lot of keralan jewish/christian/muslim art/architecture #reminds me of how pine trees wormed their way into nw european christmas

[maihonhassan]

When Maulana Tariq Jameel said;

“Zameen tumhara kuch nahi bigaar sakti agar tumhara asmaan se taaluq mazboot ho.”

I felt that !

#maulana #tariqjameel #connection #allahswt #urdu #quotes #islamicreminders #islamicquotes #life quotes #urdu lines #urdu adab #urdu poetry #urdu stuff #fav #deep quotes #deep writing #lit #aesthetics #pakistan #india #urdu language #urdu literature #powerful #spilled emotions #spilled truth #writer and poets #muslim supremacy #muslimquotes #poems and poetry #daily reminder

[bfpnola]

definitely a longer piece so these excerpts are far from showcasing everything this piece has to offer! read the whole thing on your own time, and in general, just check out jewish currents, an educational, leftist, anti-zionist jewish magazine!

Every August, the township of Edison, New Jersey—where one in five residents is of Indian origin—holds a parade to celebrate India’s Independence Day. In 2022, a long line of floats rolled through the streets, decked out in images of Hindu deities and colorful advertisements for local businesses. People cheered from the sidelines or joined the cavalcade, dancing to pulsing Bollywood music. In the middle of the procession came another kind of vehicle: A wheel loader, which looks like a small bulldozer, rumbled along the route bearing an image of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi aloft in its bucket. For South Asian Muslims, the meaning of the addition was hard to miss. A few months earlier, during the month of Ramadan, Indian government officials had sent bulldozers into Delhi’s Muslim neighborhoods, where they damaged a mosque and leveled homes and storefronts. The Washington Post called the bulldozer “a polarizing symbol of state power under Narendra Modi,” whose ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is increasingly enacting a program of Hindu supremacy and Muslim subjugation. In the weeks after the parade, one Muslim resident of Edison, who is of Indian origin, told The New York Times that he understood the bulldozer much as Jews would a swastika or Black Americans would a Klansman’s hood. Its inclusion underscored the parade’s other nods to the ideology known as Hindutva, which seeks to transform India into an ethnonationalist Hindu state. The event’s grand marshal was the BJP’s national spokesperson, Sambit Patra, who flew in from India. Other invitees were affiliated with the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), the international arm of the Hindu nationalist paramilitary force Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), of which Modi is a longtime member.

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On December 6th, 1992, a mob of 150,000 Hindus, many of whom were affiliated with the paramilitary group the RSS, gathered at the Babri Masjid, a centuries-old mosque that is one of the most contested sacred sites in the world. Over the preceding century, far-right Hindus had claimed that the mosque, located in the North Indian city of Ayodhya, was built not only upon the site where the Hindu deity Ram was born but atop the foundations of a demolished Hindu temple. The RSS and its affiliates had been campaigning to, in the words of a BJP minister, correct the “historical mistake” of the mosque’s existence, a task the mob completed that December afternoon. “They climbed on top of the domes and tombs,” one witness told NPR. “They were carrying hammers and these three-pronged spears from Hindu scripture. They started hacking at the mosque. By night, it was destroyed.” The demolition sparked riots that lasted months and killed an estimated 2,000 people across the country.

The destruction of the Babri Masjid was arguably Hindu nationalism’s greatest triumph to date. Since its establishment in 1925, the RSS—whose founders sought what one of them called a “military regeneration of the Hindus,” inspired by Mussolini’s Black Shirts and Nazi “race pride”—had been a marginal presence in India: Its members held no elected office, and it was temporarily designated a terrorist organization after one of its affiliates shot and killed Mohandas Gandhi in 1948. But the leveling of the Babri Masjid activated a virulently ethnonationalist base and paved the way for three decades of Hindutva ascendance. In 1998, the BJP formed a government for the first time; in 2014, it returned to power, winning a staggering 282 out of 543 seats in parliament and propelling Modi into India’s highest office. Since then, journalist Samanth Subramanian notes, all of the country’s governmental and civil society institutions “have been pressured to fall in line” with a Hindutva agenda—a phenomenon on full display in 2019, when the Supreme Court of India awarded the land where the Babri Masjid once stood to a government run by the very Hindu nationalists who illegally destroyed it. (Modi has since laid a foundation stone for a new Ram temple in Ayodhya, an event that a prominent RSS activist celebrated with a billboard in Times Square.) The Ayodhya verdict came in the same year that Modi stripped constitutional protections from residents of the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir and passed a law that creates a fast track to citizenship for non-Muslim immigrants, laying the groundwork for a religious test for Indian nationality. Under Modi, “the Hinduization of India is almost complete,” as journalist Yasmeen Serhan has written in The Atlantic.

To achieve its goals, the RSS has worked via a dense network of organizations that call themselves the “Sangh Parivar” (“joint family”) of Hindu nationalism. The BJP, which holds more seats in the Indian parliament than every other party combined, is the Sangh’s electoral face. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is the movement’s cultural wing, responsible for “Hinduizing” Indian society at the grassroots level. The Bajrang Dal is the project’s militant arm, which enforces Hindu supremacy through violence. Dozens of other organizations contribute money and platforms to the Sangh. The sheer number of groups affords the Sangh what human rights activist Pranay Somayajula has referred to as a “tactical politics of plausible deniability,” in which the many degrees of separation between the governing elements and their vigilante partners shields the former from backlash. This explains how, until 2018, the CIA could describe the VHP and Bajrang Dal as “militant religious organizations”—a designation that applies to non-electoral groups exerting political pressure—even as successive US governments have maintained a warm relationship with their parliamentary counterpart, the BJP.

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The most extreme figures in the Hindu nationalist and Zionist movements were especially frank about the nature of their partnership: “Whether you call them Palestinians, Afghans, or Pakistanis, the root of the problem for Hindus and Jews is Islam,” Bajrang Dal affiliate Rohit Vyasmaan told The New York Times of his friendly relationship with Mike Guzofsky, a member of a violent militant group connected to the infamous Jewish supremacist Meir Kahane’s Kach Party.

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In 2003, Gary Ackerman—a Jewish former congressman who was awarded India’s third-highest civilian honor for helping to found the Congressional Caucus on India—told a gathering of AJC and AIPAC representatives and their Indian counterparts that “Israel [is] surrounded by 120 million Muslims,” while “India has 120 million [within].” Tom Lantos, another Jewish member of the caucus, likewise enjoined the two communities to collaborate: “We are drawn together by mindless, vicious, fanatic, Islamic terrorism.”

#reaux speaks #hindutva #nationalism #islam #religion #india #narendra modi #south asia #muslim #new jersey #Bharatiya Janata Party #history #resources #jewish currents #anti zionism #palestine #islamophobia #afghanistan #hindu #jewish #free palestine #israel

[no-bitch-i-cant]

#muslims in india #muslim aid #islamophobia #Instagram

[munaeem]

The Growing Tide of Ex-Muslims in India: Exploring the Reasons

In recent years, a significant shift has been observed within the Indian Muslim community. Reports and discussions on the rising number of ex-Muslims, also known as apostates, have caught the attention of many. While it’s challenging to determine an exact figure, some sources estimate that there may be a substantial population of ex-Muslims in India, numbering up to one crore (10 million). The…

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#Ex Muslims in India #Ex-Muslims in India #Islam in India #Muslims in India

[slicedblackolives]

I regret tossing out my NCERT SST textbooks in the raddi, they were proof of how far the overton window has shifted in less than a decade, with standard government approved textbook material about minority rights in 2015 being borderline seditious in 2024. my political science and sociology textbooks in 2016 and 2017 had entire chapters on babri masjid demolition and the 2002 pogroms and how BJP rode that wave of hate into electoral victory, and now that same material can only be published in online-only paywalled journals at the threat of lawsuits, violence, and denial of FCRA licenses.

#and my 11th-12th poli sci textbooks had entire chapters on Babri masjid demolitions #India #Ayodhya #ram janambhoomi #I am just #so exhausted and trying to focus on my interview tmrw but this entire situation feels completely completely hopeless #terrified for my Muslim friends #I kept my trashy YA novels instead can u imagine

[janaknandini-singh999]

Leftists vs Hindutva with Ram Mandir vs Babri masjid treating it like which came first "chicken or egg"?

#I stand with neither like why can't they just build both the things in the city? #I fully disagree with the violence on muslims and other sects committed by hindus tho like that's not what this secular country stands for #but at the same time I wanna celebrate a historic moment #idk? #desiblr #desi #desi aesthetic #desi tag #desi stuff #hindutva #ayodhya #hinduism #islamophobia #hinduphobia #india #politics #nationalism #history #religion

[divinum-pacis]

March 2024: An Afghan refugee prepares shawarma at his food stall during Ramadan in Delhi, India. [Meer Faisal/Al Jazeera]

#religion #islam #muslims #people #food #ramadan #india #divinum-pacis

[daaft-prick-69]

These things are not taught in school. Mr Gandhi completely twisted the teachings of Gita and turned Hindus into self-loathing cowards who can't fight back in the face of injustice.

#gandhi #India #hindus #Muslims #death #surrender #shame