Posted on 04/28/2024 8:18:12 PM PDT by RandFan
Six years ago, a Muslim boy returned red-faced from a well-known school in the northern Indian city of Agra.
"My classmates called me a Pakistani terrorist," the nine-year-old told his mother.
Reema Ahmad, an author and counsellor, remembers the day vividly.
"Here was a feisty, little boy with his fists clenched so tightly that there were nail marks in his palm. He was so angry."
As her son told the story, his classmates were having a mock fight when the teacher had stepped out.
"That's when one group of boys pointed at him and said, 'This is a Pakistani terrorist. Kill him!'"
He revealed some classmates had also called him nali ka kida (insect of the gutter). Ms Ahmad complained, and was told they "were imagining things… such things didn't happen".
Ms Ahmad eventually pulled her son out of school. Today, the 16-year-old is home-schooled.
"I sensed the community's tremors through my son's experiences, a feeling I never recall having in my own youth growing up here," she says.
"Our class privilege may have protected us from feeling Muslim all the time. Now, it seems class and privilege make you a more visible target."
Ever since Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept to power in 2014, India's 200 million-odd Muslims have had a turbulent journey.
Hindu vigilante mobs have lynched suspected cow traders and targeted small Muslim-owned businesses. Petitions have been filed against mosques. Internet trolls have orchestrated online "auctions" of Muslim women. Right-wing groups and sections of mainstream media have fuelled Islamophobia with accusations of "jihad" - "love jihad", for example, falsely accuses Muslim men of converting Hindu women by marriage.
And anti-Muslim hate speech has surged - three quarters of incidents were reported from states ruled by the BJP.
"Muslims have become second-class citizens"
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
What will happen in the West where you have these different communities mixing? Talk about a tinder box. I think some Freepers have warned me about this...
Ping
Have they read what the Muslims have done to the Hindus in India? It’s a two way street and only one side is reporting. The Hindus are fighting for survival as well.
Probably still better than being a Hindu in Pakistan.
They’re just not compatible.
Stakes are raised with Nationalism and Nuclear weapons !
So are the Christians. After all, the Hindus and muzzies persecute Christians on a daily basis in India 🇮🇳.
All of the Hindu Indians I currently know
like Modi and do not trust Muslims.
For once, the Muslims are the recipients of grief. Don’t feel sorry for them.
Are there really still 200 million moslems in India?
Maybe he is...
Will the BBC do a story on the persecution of Christians in India?
Will the BBC report what Muslims are doing to Christians in Nigeria and numerous other countries?
Mohammedans is the correct word.
Bangladesh is doing better than Pakistan now. More corporations are setting up in Bangladesh but you’re not seeing the same kind of investment in Pakistan.
If the author wants to convince me that Muslims are oppressed in India,
Don’t start out with 9 year olds having a mock fight in school.
Oh the horror.
Poor baby.
Not.
How are Hindus treated in Pakistan I wonder.
Exactly.
Muslims are not always, or even usually, the victims.
Now they get to see what the other side experiences at the hands of their coreligionists. Suck it up.
Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.
Or the persecution of ANYONE not a muslim by muslims.
I won’t buy goods made in Pakistan any more than something made in China.
If they hate us and want us dead, they are not getting my money.
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