Lost Hope — Death of the Muslim In India
The title is exactly what you think — all hope is lost for Muslims in India. All we can see and hear is a veiled and, increasingly, open cries of annihilation of ‘Mullahs’.
The police, regardless of the ideology of the party in power or the geographical location, has been an active participant in the systematic demolition of our community — that does not surprise me at all. The cowards, who behave like mad dogs disguised in a state-sanctioned uniform, have an extensive history of torturing Muslim youth and raping the women relatives of Muslim suspects. The mad dogs have bitten and destroyed the lives of thousands of Muslims across the country and continue to do so. From throwing innocent Muslims in jails for decades to killing them in custody, the men in uniform have done it all. In the words of Tiken Jah Fakoly, whatever crimes the police commit, plus rien ne m’étonne.
What does surprises, not in any good sense, is the active participation of all formal institutions, constitutional and administrative, in what is undoubtedly the precursor to a genocide. The recent comments made by the former Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, has shocked me to the spine. He justified the controversial Babri Masjid verdict by “pointing out” that the act of building the Masjid centuries ago was the original sin, and not the demolition of Babri in December 1992. Subsequently, when Rajdeep Sardesai questioned Justice Chandrachud (using the title ‘Justice’ to emphasize the influence, not out of respect) about this controversial comment, the latter, quite shamelessly, defended his statement stating that it was taken out of context. He further claimed that several of his judgements which were “against” the government.
What Mr. Sardesai, the poster boy of “we will have a balanced and nuanced approach” brigade, ought to remind the former chief justice that the Babri Masjid case was not a matter of ‘government vs the opposition’ or ‘the right vs the left.’ It was a case of a minority religious institution being illegally demolished by an extremist majoritarian group in broad daylight. But until it is an issue that does not involve the Muslims masses (celebrities excluded), nobody in any chair of power is willing to stand up to such bullshit. My trust in the judiciary started eroding quickly following the Babri Masjid verdict, but now, after Tripple Talaq, Article 370, and the languishing of Muslim protestors in jail for half a decade, it feels as if the judiciary never really existed. It was always an extended arm of the RSS, waiting to be unleashed until the BJP gained a full majority. It’s done and dusted — Muslims will never get a fair opportunity for justice; anyone who says otherwise is either too naïve to comprehend the situation or a paid stooge of the regime itself.
Then comes the opposition — Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Akhilesh Yadav, Mamta Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, Tejaswi Yadav, K Chandrashekhar Rao, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, and Uddhav Thackeray. Every one of them is a staunch opponent of the BJP and, supposedly, of its ideology. However, to a great degree, these very leaders are responsible for the present plight of Indian Muslims.
While Mr. Gandhi, Leader of Opposition, never misses a single opportunity to emphasize how the upper caste has exploited the backward castes and that he wants to open a “Mohabbat ki Dukan,” he has not enough spine to stand up for the Muslims with equal rigour and sincerity. Muslims in the country have stood by the Congress through thick and thin, which, ironically, became the very reason for the grand old party taking us for granted. And Rahul Gandhi is no exception. In his maiden speech in the new parliament after the 2024 general elections, he thanked all the marginalised and oppressed communities in the country — Dalits, Adivasis, Backwards, Extremely Backwards. But somehow, he forgot to mention the Muslims. That was when I realized and got fully convinced that this man has nothing to do with the Muslims of this country.
When the six-year-old Asifa was raped, the Congress remained silent. When the convicted culprits of Bilkis Bano and her daughters were released and garlanded, Mr. Gandhi did not utter a word. He remained silent when Pehlu, Ikhlaq, Shoukat Ali, and several other Muslims were lynched by his ideological rivals. In hindsight, Muslims should have known better and refrained from supporting Mr. Gandhi or his broken party. The signs of they ignoring our plight were always there — they were the ones who refused to arrest and prosecute Narendra Modi after the 2002 pogrom of Muslims in Gujarat. How could the heir of Indira and Nehru fight an election against a man who was directly responsible for butchering thousands of Muslims in three days?
But the bigger signal against the Congress was the demolition of the Babri Masjid itself. If one man should have been held responsible for letting the demolition happen, who had all the power to prevent it but chose not to, it was the then Prime Minister of India, PV Narasimha Rao. He was a right-leaning politician, who not only oversaw the demolition of the Babri Masjid, but also the massacre of Muslims across India following the incident. It was a Congress government that did not take sufficient action against Bal Thackeray and his aides for their role in the 1992–1993 riots in Mumbai, which saw a state-sanctioned mass murder of Muslims in several pockets of the city. It was the Congress who denied even a single Lok Sabha ticket to Muslims in Maharashtra for the 2024 general elections.
I understand that Rahul Gandhi has suffered immense personal loss as his own father and grandmother sacrificed their lives for the country. Any person who suffers such tragedies is bound to be more compassionate and empathetic towards the oppressed and downtrodden. Sadly, that doesn’t seem to be the case with Mr. Gandhi, who has, very apparently, turned a blind eye towards the Muslims. In fact, none of the opposition leaders are courageous, courteous, or considerate enough to refer our community as Muslims. Their word of choice is “minorities,” which includes Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Christians, and more. It may be a legitimate term technically, but speaking beyond the jargon, no other minority in India is as villainized and dehumanized as the Muslims (though Christians are catching up the race). Have we ever heard in the past decade that a Parsi, or a Jain was lynched by a mob? Has ever a policeman in uniform shot three Sikhs in a moving train full of passengers, just because they were Sikh? Being referred to as “minority” now feels like being robbed of our identity even in suffering oppression, as if the Jews in Nazi Germany were not Jews but “minorities.”
In short, Rahul Gandhi, or any other leader, except a few in Southern states like MK Stalin, are not bothered about Muslims. They will continue to fight the BJP politically even if the government strips our right to vote, acquire education, participate in trade (like they’ve been doing in MP), or wear a skullcap. If such a day comes, God forbid, the secular parties will protest saying, “we will not allow the government to restrict the minorities even when they are not wearing a skullcap!” The lesser we talk about traitors like Akhilesh, Pawar, etc., the better it is. They practically thrived and survived on Muslim support, and when the time came, Mr. Pawar convinced Madam Gandhi not to take action against Modi and Shah for their role in the 2002 pogrom. Akhilesh abandoned the Muslims during the 2017 riots of Muzaffarnagar, which gave away the sheep in the disguise of a tiger.
But the primary culprit in the opposition is and will remain Rahul Gandhi, for his apathy towards Muslims and his cowardice to acknowledge and stand with his staunchest supporters of decades. The entire Muslim community must sing this couplet of Shakeel Badayuni to Mr. Gandhi,
Mujhe chhod de mere haal par, tera kya bharosa hai charagar,
Ye teri nawazish-e-mukhtasar mera dard aur badha na den…
The next shocker has been the apathy of the liberal journalists like Rajdeep Sardesai, Barkha Dutt, and Shekhar Gupta. They have, willingly or not, become a rationalizing weapon against the Muslims. Instead of seeing for what it is, an RSS-backed movement to disenfranchise Muslims in India, which may also lead to a genocide in the near future, they have turned the argument into ‘BJP vs the Congress.’ The likes of Shekhar Gupta have become enablers of the media machinery that dehumanizes Muslims — all in the garb of finding a balance and a farce of avoiding ‘whataboutery’. Their quest of finding nuance in mob-lynching incidents or anti-Muslim riots or Islamophobic directives like the Hijab ban shows that they are just polished, more sophisticated, and synthesized versions of the likes of Sudhir Chaudhary or Arnab Goswami.
Mr. Sardesai, who is admittedly the first-hand witness of what happened in Antop Hill in 1992–93 or in Gujarat in 2002, is absolutely at ease while talking to the members of the BJP and writing books about the Modi-centred general elections, all with a clear conscience (if he has that at all). If he really was a sensitive, morally alive human being, the horrors of Antop Hill or Gujarat would’ve never allowed him to give the BJP a platform. People like Mr. Sardesai hide behind the cloak of secularism, whereas in reality, they are apologetic Manuwadis at best. This shows that the most prominent “secular” journalists may cry when a Muslim boy is lynched or a Muslim ghetto is burned down, but they will soon forget it and will be more than willing to give the (mass) murderers a platform to rake up the TRPs.
Yes, there are some exceptions — Ravish Kumar, Nikhil Waghle, Raju Parulekar, Abhisar Sharma, Ashok Wankhede, Sohit Mishra, Ajit Anjum etc. However, they are nowhere near as popular among the masses as the television journalists like Rajdeep Sardesai, not because of the lack of calibre — most of these names are of a much superior quality — but because they don’t have a platform on television. Even media houses like The Wire, Alt News, and Newslaundry cannot match the influence that an India Today commands. Even YouTube, which is the only platform available to independent journos, is dominated by coward media houses like The Lallantop, who could not defend their own Muslim employee, and The Print, which is managed by Shekhar Gupta, who, I am confident, would have tried to rationalize the Gestapo and Auschwitz in Nazi Germany, in the name of having a “nuanced and balanced” opinion on current affairs.
Then there’s the Indian society at large, which is not an outright supporter of the BJP, but are apathetic to Muslims. Not more than 38–40% Indians voted for the BJP at its absolute peak, indicating that an overwhelming majority is not actively aligned with the anti-Muslim ideology. What is shocking is the eery silence of this majority when the 38% call for blood. While some of them may be scared for their own wellbeing, most of the “apolitical” lot wants nothing to do with the Muslims at all. If you are wondering why I did not mention the names like Rana Ayyub, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, or other Muslim journalists or politicians like Barrister Asaduddin Owaisi, it is because they don’t really matter to these “apolitical” non-Muslims. For them, Muslims are like rats and they themselves are like the Jains — it is fine if someone else kills the rats.
The pseudo-secular society who doesn’t directly vote for the BJP is just glad not to have their hands dirty, or at best, they feel as much sorry as they would feel if, in the words of Narendra Modi, a puppy gets stomped under the tyres of their cars when a Muslim man is lynched or an Asifa is raped and murdered. That’s it, and not an inch more. Even those Hindus who have Muslim friends have a deep infatuation with the BJP and are willing to live a dual life — having a Muslims bestie and voting for the Butcher of Gujarat. Those Hindu “friends” are not willing to mingle with us the moment we grow beards or post something against the oppression. In other words, they are willing to be our friends only if we are willing to hide our identities or suffer in silence.
If we speak, they will and they do hide. So, when the Muslim friend burns in a riot, the Hindu friend will retweet the news and then undo it if his/her Sanghi family tells them to, which they definitely will. It is highly likely that not a single Hindu friend of ours will stand up for us when a mob with saffron flags, swords, and tilaks on their foreheads marches into our houses to kill our men and molest our women. The most likely thing that they will do is pray to one of their favourite “gods” and hope that the man holding the bloodied Trishul has a change of heart.
And this is true for all Hindu “friends” — Upper caste and Dalits. In fact, history teaches that the lower-middle caste and the lower caste Hindus are more likely to play the role of bloodthirsty monsters, while the children of upper and middle castes study at Ivy Leagues and Russell Groups. Once the Brahmanical forces get rid of Muslims, their next target will be the Dalits, and they will show them their “true” place, which is the place reserved for servants, as per Manusmriti. Whether or not the zombies are aware of this is inconsequential to the fact that the BJP has succeeded in filling them with anti-Muslim hate, and they yearn for Muslim blood at all times. And when the time comes, they will have it, without hesitation, remorse, or regret. The sad part is that I will not be surprised at all when this happens.
The factions mentioned above are external from the purview of the Muslim community. However, there are some sections within the community that are equally responsible for the dehumanization of Muslims in India, if not more. The first section is the celebrity class, and I have two names in particular — Shah Rukh Khan (actor), and Javed Akhtar (thinker/writer). Each of them represents a sub-section of celebrities who are enablers of hatred against Muslims.
Shah Rukh Khan is the pop-culture Muslim celebrity, who does everything anti-Islamic, makes weird comments about religion, does idol worship, criticizes religious practices, and then uses Quranic verses randomly or attends some Iftar party to show his Muslim roots. This is a free country, and such people are entitled to practice and perform whatever they want. The problem begins when all the Hindus want all the Muslims to be like Shah Rukh Khan or Aamir Khan, or Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (who admitted to finding peace in Geeta). A great example of pop-culture Muslim is the Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan — who made a weird claim of Azan being a Raag Bhairavi. Renowned comedian Zakir Khan, who has posted images of him with Vibhuti on his forehead, is another example of a pop-culture Muslim, oft willing to bow down to a Hindu deity, if need be, but stay silent when an Asifa is smothered or a Pehlu Khan is lynched.
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Raj Thackeray, known for his seasonal anti-Muslim hate speeches, made a comment a few years ago — “we want ‘patriotic’ Muslims like Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and Ustad Bismillah Khan, not like the ones in Bhiwandi or Behrampada.” He specifically referred to Bhiwandi because the city has a history of resisting oppression, though it has been largely neutered today. Thus, there are two images for a Muslim — one who is clean shaven and dances in Ganesh Visarjan processions, and the other who has a beard and will not donate in the local Ganpati mandal. You are acceptable to the Hindu society, including the “secular” lot, only if you fall into the first category. In the eyes of the Hindus — Sanghi or Ganga-Jamuni ones — one cannot be a true Indian if one refuses to revere their gods. The second category, which forms the majority of the Muslims in India, will continue to be dehumanized, so that as the time comes when the land must be cleansed, their blood feels like water and smells like bleach.
The other sub-faction of enablers within the community are the likes of Javed Akhtar. They are atheists, have nothing to do with Islam, but will never let go of an opportunity to punch down and criticise the Muslims. They will criticise Islam, make derogatory comments on Islamic scholars, openly call for the demolition of every Masjid in the world, and yet be accepted in the society. Naseeruddin Shah, who ironically hails from the sacred city of Ajmer, did a film called A Wednesday, which was based on the serial train bomb blasts of July 2006. The movie depicted a bunch of “Muslim terrorists” and how a common man decided to take revenge and kill them. However, as it turned out, all those arrested in suspicion of the said blasts were acquitted by the Bombay High Court in 2025. Will the makers of A Wednesday apologise for making yet another Islamophobic movie that depicts Muslims as beastly and terrorists? They won’t and nobody will ask them to apologize, because, as long as they act against the Muslims, nobody really cares.
The next section that is responsible for the decline of Sunni Muslims, and whose actions (or inactions) have been shocking, to say the least, are the educated elite. These are Sunni people who got an opportunity to acquire high-quality education, rise to high-profile corporate positions, run successful businesses, and count themselves among the top 1% of this country. However, instead of using their resources — financial and non-financial — for the benefit and upliftment of the society, they turned their backs on the community. At best, they pay their Zakat and some additional donations to some organization linked with their “Peer Sahab.”
These “elite” Sunnis have no real empathy with the plight of poor Muslims. In fact, they try as hard as possible to separate themselves from the rest and assimilate into the larger elite society, which is almost entirely comprised on Hindus. They will never take initiatives to talk to poor families, motivate parents to educate their children, or sponsor education for those in need. When confronted, all they do is blame Islamic scholars and leaders for the plight of the Muslims, totally avoiding their own inactivity and neglect. These are the people that will never speak up on the platforms they have access to, like LinkedIn, against the atrocities being committed against their fellow Muslim brethren in the country. They are either too afraid of displeasing their corporate masters or are coward enough to believe that speaking up may cost them the comforts of life that they so enjoy.
This elite group also includes the businessmen of major Indian cities. There are Sunni businessmen who have net worths of hundreds of millions, if not billions. Most Sunni businessmen are arrogant towards the Ulema, indifferent to the growing anti-Muslim hate, and apathetic towards the oppression that poor Muslims face. In many cases, these businessmen themselves are found exploiting Muslims, like establishing illicit relationships with helpless Muslim widows in return for food and support for their children. These businessmen will never say a word against the government but will send birthday wishes to the local and national oppressors. Even worse, these businessmen also act as pet dogs of the regime and bark at poor Muslims who call for action against the oppression. Make no mistake — such businessmen are equally complicit in the crimes against Muslims, regardless of them being trustees of famous Sufi shrines and coveted Islamic seminaries.
However, when the dark day dawns, none of these “elite” Muslims will be spared. Their professional degrees, their corporate positions, their friendships with the Hindus, their money, their birthday wishes — nothing will help them. On the contrary, if history teaches us something in this regard, and history is a great teacher, these high-class Muslims will be the first in line to be butchered, because butchering them will be the easiest task for the rabid fascists as they have no courage to resist. Their women will be the first to fall, and they will have no choice left but to be ravaged. When the dark hour comes, some of them may even try to hide their Muslim identities by outwardly converting to Hinduism or Buddhism, but even such heresies will also not save them. Only their children who live in the West, enjoying the life away from poor and filthy Indian Muslims, will be spared. Those children will not even have the opportunity or the willingness to come to rescue their parents and will be forced to live a life of immigrants, facing insults in the West at the hands of right-wing conservatives. After all, it is the Western idea of ‘Islamic terrorism’ that has taken its most satanic form in India.
A big blame for the situation growing so hopeless for India Muslims also goes to the Miyan culture. All the Sunni Muslims of India are affiliated to a handful Sufi families, many of which are based in Uttar Pradesh. These families have strong disputes among themselves that have nothing to do with religion. In fact, the most prominent families have infighting, which often becomes a public spat. These disputes are presented as religious disputes among the masses and result in a mass infighting among the Sunni public across the country. Followers of Miyans A, B, C, and D fight with each other, downgrade each other’s religious status, and continuously find ways to outclass each other, not in terms of educational or religious or community service, but in terms of entourages and muscle power.
At a time when Sunni activists are languishing in prison, Muslim youth being lynched across north India, houses of Muslims being bulldozed, and several such grave atrocities being committed, the Miyans are busy building their legacies. In the past decade itself, tens of crores of rupees have been spent in UP alone on the construction of domes and compounds of shrines. It is quite ironic, hypocritical even, that lavish tombs, minarets, and domes are being built for Sufis who preached simplicity, modesty, and compassion all their lives, by their own children, no less!
And then there’s the glamour part — the annual anniversaries and frequent gatherings. Most of these “Islamic” gatherings are very similar to music concerts, if you remove the Quran and Hadith recitals. The people who attend the programs of their specific Miyan behave more like fans than seekers of knowledge. We grew up listening to stories of the great Sufis who secluded themselves from worldly affairs, ate less, spoke few words, and preferred a life of anonymity. What we are witnessing today is nothing of that sort, quite the opposite.
A typical program looks like this. The concert starts after sunset, fans start gathering when the night sets in, but the Star arrives very late in the night, often after midnight. The star arrives with his entourage, his bodyguards punching and kicking the awestruck and often delirious fans, and the entire gathering gives him a standing ovation. The star gets on the stage, performs for a little while, maybe half an hour or an hour at best, and leaves as the crowd goes berserk. Before the star graces the stage, a few newcomers or some retired artists perform to kill time, which nobody pays attention to. And soon after the star leaves, the fans vanish in minutes. The typical cost of such a program ranges anywhere between one lakh rupees to tens of lakhs, depending upon the Stars and their popularity trends.
Every year, each of the big stars attends dozens of such programs. If we count the wannabe stars, the retired stars, and the out-of-fashion stars, the number of programs would run in several hundreds, without exaggeration. Simple arithmetic would suggest that each year, Sunni Muslims spend hundreds of crores on such programs, which benefit nobody, but the businesses affiliated with such programs and the stars themselves. The saddest, most dystopian part is that not a single problem affecting the Sunni community at large gets resolved with such programs. One needs to be a blind follower or extremely stupid not to see this monumental destruction of Sunni resources year after year.
The more sinister face of this Miyan culture is the unspoken treaty of exclusivity between these families. They will never tolerate any sincere Sunni face that challenges their authority and vulgar opulence. The moment there is a voice speaking the naked truth, these families resort to oligarchical tactics, doing everything in their might to destroy the character and credibility of the outlier. Until and unless the dissenting voice turns itself into a praising supporter, there is no mercy. Like in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston can only end up loving Big Brother. Soon the star’s kid, regardless of whether he is worthy or not, will ascend to the throne, and the cycle of sucking the resources from the pockets of well-meaning Sunnis shall continue to function.
But the stars, kids, and their agents forget the imperative fact — the enemy of Muslims will strike them first. No matter how much they stay away from “political” issues and stick to their “religious” functions, they will be butchered almost as mercilessly as their blind followers. The only privilege they will have to see their blind followers lay down their own lives to protect them, but eventually, they will have no escape. Their multi-million mansions, their 100-car entourages, their expansive real estate interests, their hidden political connections with the regime — nothing will save them.
The same goes for the large Sunni institutions — the Islamic seminaries and the missionary organizations. Every year, more so in Ramadan, representatives of these institutions spread across the major money centres of India and take away the Zakat money from those obligated. Almost entirely, the representatives work as salesmen and get a commission of anywhere between 20% to 50% of the total amount collected, including the Zakat funds. The people who truly have the right on Zakat funds — the poor, widows, orphans, and other people in need — have been deprived of their right for decades, due to these organizations having access to people who are obligated to pay Zakat. Several Islamic seminaries of UP and Bihar receive funding from the state governments, and the lecturers in these seminaries are paid salaries fatter than an average engineer in tier-1 cities. Instead of encouraging smaller seminaries to become independent, these large institutions are the largest receivers of Zakat funds in the country.
Yet, when the time comes to stand with the public — communal riots, selective bulldozing of Muslim homes, mob-lynchings, etc. — none of these institutions come forward. They continue to be moot spectators even at gravest of times, like the abrogation of Article 370 and the subsequent oppression of Kashmiri Muslims, the Delhi pogrom of 2020, the Babri Masjid verdict, etc. They take all the money Sunni public has after spending on concerts, and in the hour of need, they abandon the poor Muslims to die, rot, and be humiliated time after time. What’s equally horrible is the quality of work that these institutions are claiming to deliver. Every Sunni institution in India, with no exceptions whatsoever, is mediocre at best in whatever they do. Even the thought of excellence is alien to the management of these institutions.
While these institutions continue to be funded largely by Sunni public, there is no credible record of transactions or publicly available audit reports. And frankly, nobody from the public is ever bothered to ask or hold them accountable for their complacency and morbid apathy towards the general public. When a leader of a prominent Sunni organization orders the public to postpone the Mawlid processions in the name of maintaining peace, nobody from the community is willing to say on his face that he wants the community to bow down and accept their fate of being mentally enslaved. When the right-wing fascists make blasphemous statements or call for the blood of Muslims, these very leaders take every effort to tame and neuter the Sunni public, to the extent that Sunnis can now tolerate the Burqa of our daughters being stripped in broad daylight without any public outcry.
The actions of such institutions and their managers prove time and again that they are working hand in hand with the government, or at the very least, are a bunch of cowards unworthy of being referred to as Sunni leaders. They try their best to please their political masters and are extremely cautious of not being noticed by the Gestapo of this fascist regime. They may live in clock towers, perform Umrah 12 times a year, and Hajj every year. They may build shiny seminaries or be felicitated by bling followers or paid artists across the country. They may share the dais and click selfies with the who’s who from within the regime. They must remember that they will not be spared. They might be sent to the detention camps (refer to Assam) at the very end, they might live a bit longer but not with dignity, and when their time comes, it will be as painful as it would be for others.
Last, but definitely not the least, the Sunni public itself is to blame. Yes, majority of us are uneducated. Yes, majority of us live in ghettos. Yes, most of our youth smokes or does drugs. But these excuses will not rescue us. For decades, we have neglected the hard questions — how we can become financially independent, how we can become more educated, how we can become a political force, how we can stop a random Sanghi from raping our women or a bunch of rabid dogs lynching our children. Instead of finding answers to these questions, we continued to be absorbed in ignorance and false sense of invincibility that has destroyed us completely from within.
We followed the film stars, who never bothered for us, did not even identify as one of us. We supported politicians who refrain from even referring to us as Muslims and choose to categorize us as “minorities” simply because they don’t want to upset their Gestapo-loving, Muslim-hating voters. If it assures them of an election victory, people from the Congress and its offshoots, and even the left parties, will kill every Muslim child, rape every Muslim woman, and enslave every Muslim man without a hint of regret. We were and continue to remain too naïve to see this absolutely apparent truth.
Whatever little religiousness was left in us, we spent it on the numerous Miyans and organizations. We let the true and sincere Ulema starve. We abandoned the teachings of the great Sufis. But we kept filling the pockets of the flashy and glamorous few, who treat us like a bee in a glass of milk. Those glamorous few are arrogant to such an extent that a poor Sunni labourer can never dream of shaking hands with them, and there’s not even the question of sharing a meal. But our collective psyche is so messed up, that the more arrogant one is the higher regard we hold them in. It is so irrational and absurd, that it can be equated to a victim of physical abuse garnering more and more respect for its victimizer with every lash. And hence, we never questioned such “leaders” when they kept abandoning us in moments we needed them the most.
So, my dear Sunni brethren, be prepared for a dark, painful death. Because it will come, if not for you, then for your children. You will be humiliated, assaulted, abused, tortured, and killed in the most brutal of ways. No one will come to your rescue. No matter how much you cry in pain, no matter how much you scream in fear, no matter how much you suffer in silence: you were, are, and will be alone. Not just because the film stars, the fellow countrymen, the secular politicians (read ‘Rahul Gandhi’), the Miyans and the Sunni organizations don’t care about whatever happens to you, but because you chose to trust them even when they kept failing you for every single time.
Now, suffer, and do not complain.
14 Rajab-ul-Murajjab, 1447
