#anti caa

[rodrickheffeley]

Sign the Petition

Release Safoora Zargar

hey guys can y'all please sign and reblog this petition. safoora zargar was arrested during anti caa protests happening in india. she's pregnant and hasn't been released yet.

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[fictionisalwaysbetter]

If anybody cares, there is a pogrom taking place against Muslims in Delhi, India, right now. 34 people or so have died. They are being beaten, shot at, robbed and looted, their homes sacked. The police is not and will not do anything. The centre government is elated that this violence is taling place, after all this is the promise that made them the rulers in the first place, and the courts are helpless and useless. I will not insert any pictures at all because they are too disturbing to be even looked at. But should you care, yes, Muslims are being attacked mercilessly by the BJP and their hyper-nationalist goons and supporters.

[muslimah-in-academia]

That feel when you realise the most popular Indian political/cultural blogs on here are neo-lib covertly Islamophobic/soft Hindutva blogs

[fiovske]

communal violence has erupted in Delhi wherein mosques are being desecrated, muslim households are being attacked, muslim-owned businesses are being vandalized, muslim civilians and being hunted, beaten bloody and killed while hindutva goons (inclusive of Delhi Police) stand around and chant ‘jai shree ram’. and the media is spinning this to look like it isn’t CLEARLY the work of hindu nationalists under the bjp government who are specifically targeting the muslim populace of northeast delhi.

mind you this is the same government which has exercised a state-wide internet ban on Kashmir that is YET TO BE LIFTED. Kashmir is still under military lockdown and a large part of the bloodshed, the violence committed on its people by the indian government is barred from ever making the news or letting the rest of indian populace (who get their information exclusively from these media houses) know exactly how bad this situation is and who exactly (the bjp modi sarkaar) is to blame.

[haru-desune]

[image description: cartoon of little girl in a white dress with red polkadots, hair tied up with a matching bow. She's holding a piece of buttered toast and sticking her tongue out like the yum emoji.]

This is the Amul girl, mascot of India's most popular dairy brand. Over the last sixty odd years Amul and the Amul girl have been a household name, with their tagline 'Utterly, butterly delicious - Amul!'. They are also one of the best marketed brands in the country. One of the biggest parts of their marketing is the Amul Topical, a daily cartoon starring the Amul girl that comments on current events.

These topicals are a huge deal. It usually shows the Amul Girl as part of the event or interacting with the important people in the event. And it goes up every day, on newspapers:

Billboards

And more recently Instagram

But today I think they released their most hard hitting one yet. A response to the recent communal incident in Delhi, sparked by the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

I don't think I've ever the Amul Girl without a smile. The caption is a play on words from an old Hindi song. The song goes "Dil aisa kissi ne mera toda" - "someone has broken my heart". Here, they have replaced 'Dil' with 'Dilli' - "Someone has broken my Delhi".

There's no humor in this. No catchy subhead. Just a scared little girl, looking directly at the viewer. A plea for harmony and unity from a brand that calls itself 'the taste of India'

[1nsaankahanhai-bkr]

Me : I don't want to be political on this blog anymore

Also me , every fourth day:

If I see another person ( westerner or Indian ) saying that the recent protests in India were anti CAA and nrc I am going to bang their head to a wall. It was an anti government protest. CAA was just a stimulus.

It was six years of anger. Against gst, demonitisation, criminals being given big posts, incompetence, hypocrisy, lies, rising hatred and crimes and kashmir and many more.( most Indians were like "meh" when article 370 was abrogated, they were like right, no one should get special privileges . But then we kept quite when the inhumane lockdown happened and now we had to speak up because enough is enough) also mind that, most of the Indians ,including me who protested against government for Kashmir did so because we think Kashmir is a part of our country and no country men should be treated that way. It was not a muslim protest. It was India protesting against people who want to destroy the very idea on which this country is based. Yeah I know I am sounding like a Modi supporter because of my opinion on kashmir.

You know most of the protesters were middle class savarna hindu people. And you know what's our biggest concern with this government. Ki yeh log desh ki badnami kar rahe hai. They are the reason people are developing negative attitude against india. Our rights are not in danger. If it was an anti CAA protest we would have been the last people to go against them.

The protest was peaceful except for two times when police used force and it was affective as fuck. The government went from "nrc definitely aega" to " we never talked about ncr". Perfect example of a peaceful protest. ( fuck westerner leftist who are justifying looting in name of protest)

We Indians are very patriotic by nature and we often forget the difference between patriotism and nationalism and we did the same thing during this protest. People were out with national flags, photos of freedom fighters raising slogans like "vande matram" and "inkalab jindabad" which were associated with Indian nationalism , singing national anthem and patriotic songs. And most importantly claiming that they are better Indians then the people on other side of political spectrum. That's exactly what right wing people are doing for so long in their rallies . The only difference is saffron colour.

And I love to be the one who breaks this but the protest where neither anti national ( hello right wing people) nor an anti nationalism protest( hello left wing people) . It was one step away from being jingoistic.

Also note that only 37 percent of people voted for Modi, and even in those people most people did so because they saw no other alternative, which is true because we often forget that we have a parliamentary system and not a presidential election. It's just that right wing is louder.

In this post I bashed left wing , right wing, nationalism while being nationalist myself. Lol.

[queenofspring]

Delhi, the capital city of India is burning in the name of religion. This is exactly what modi and his filthy party wanted. They expected that by passing a law that harms a community would sent them berserk on streets, thus giving them an opening to start riots and massacre and then pin the blame on muslims. But to their shock, all hindus in india are not cold blooded monsters like him and it was the hindus who raised their voice, came out in support of muslims , they who knew the real meaning of the pledge they take daily . "India is my country, all Indians are my brothers and sisters".

So far the protests in delhi was peaceful, but few days before bjp terrorists started "pro-caa protests" and unleashed riots on the streets. People are being killed , shops and houses destroyed ,all in the name of religion.

They knew they failed when muslims and hindus stood together against them in streets.

They knew that the anti CAA protesters are not going to set the country on fire .

So they took the initiative themselves , to destroy this nation, worlds biggest democracy, which prided on the words "unity in diversity".

[99liners]

CAA protests;

okay, i want to talk about something important. let me start off with the fact that i'm not an American and i live in India. so basically, i am asian, brown and also a Muslim.

this in no means is saying that i do not support BLM, i do, i support the protesters and their cause. yes, i signed all the petitions.

i want to use this as a platform to talk about a similar thing that happened in India during November, 2019 - March, 2020, when lakhs of people took to the streets of India (all over the country) to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) being passed by the government. according to which, the government will be discriminating us based on our religion and strip people off their citizenship. yes, you heard that right. so we took to the streets to protest and the police brutality was through the roof. not only did they beat up civilians on the roads but also raided national level universities to beat up the students for protesting against the government. we live in a democracy, it is well within our democratic rights to raise questions and protest. the government is directly responsible to us, the prime minister's office. (its in our constitution, the president is not answerable to the people but the PM is.)

i study law at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). on the night of 15th December, 2019, police forcefully entered our main gates (they've no jurisdiction inside the gate btw) and beat up students protesting peacefully on the road. 24 consecutive expired poisonous tear gas shells which maimed a student, lathicharge (beating with the police batons), shot with rubber bullets, you name it we went through it. they raided the hostels, and beat up the kids who weren't even part of the protest. they kept hurling abuses at the students and also kept saying "jo log kashmiri hai, un madarchodo ko maro pehle" (the people who look like kashmiri, beat up those mfs first). yes, that's verbatim btw, i'm not exaggerating.

i can go on and on about that night really, so instead you can read what happened in AMU here. i also have the original investigation report by the committee that is mentioned on that site. 

other universities faced similar and worse atrocities. you can read how brutally Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI) students were beaten up, here and how local goons who feel that Hinduism is threatened but the presence of Muslims in the country entered another national university, Jawaharlal Nehru University and beat the students up with metal rods, you can read about it here.

and yes, none of the perpetrators of these attacks are arrested. even if they were, they are out on bail now.

we boycotted classes for months but got ZERO justice, instead, now under the guise of lockdown, the government has been arresting the leaders of the protests. lmao, you know the first the government did when lockdown started? they cleaned the graffiti off the walls of the universities which the protesters had made. they cleaned off fucking graffiti which were just quotes by historical figures in the spirits of dissent while the doctors kept begging them for PPE. the government clearly have their priorities set straight. 

the women of the country took to shaheen bagh (Delhi) when the students were attacked and sat there in protest for 101 days. even in cold temperatures of below 1°C. mums with their one month old babies sat there, old ladies as old as 80+ sat there too. literate, illiterate both the groups of people sat there and they meant to sit there indefinitely but because of lockdown that wasn't possible and they had to vacate the place. oh, even they were attacked (more than once) by a guy carrying a gun who was ready to shoot at the protesters while the police WATCHED. they fucking stood there and watched. a guy advanced towards the attacker with his hands raised saying “let’s talk calmly” and that fucking privileged jackass shot the protester in the hand. all the while, the police just watched. you can read about it here. (he said "only Hindus will have their way in this country.")

a 4 months pregnant PhD student of Jawaharlal National University has been jailed without any justification. her case is still not being heard before the court and she's being denied basic human rights, living in a prison during a fucking pandemic. an excerpt from the Print, "Zargar, a 27-year-old M.Phil. student from Jamia, is over three months pregnant, and was arrested by the Delhi Police’s special cell on 10 April. She was later denied bail and, on 21 April, charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). She was associated with the Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC), and was part of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests organised by university students in December and January. She was arrested for allegedly leading the anti-CAA protest at Jaffrabad metro station in February."

this is nothing, most of the Muslim people arrested during this protest haven't been released or are simply forgotten. lawyers were not allowed in the police station to bail them or being allowed to talk to them. most lawyers in the country signed up their numbers and other contacting details on the Internet with their locations so that if someone was arrested, they could call them up and the lawyers would bail them out (free of cost).

this discriminating and draconian bill not only affects the muslims but also the people on the lower rungs of the social ladder. i don't believe in caste. i do not agree with the system but it existed widely at a time when i wasn't even born, so there's not much i can do about that. but right now the government is bringing up the caste again, people who are Vaishyas and Shudras will also be stripped off their citizenship while being sent to detention camps. yes, India is already stocked up with their detention centers. so yes, i wasn't there at that time but i am here right now and i refuse to be okay with the government discriminating against us based on caste and religion.

lmao i totally forgot to mention the riot that broke out in February, 2020 which resulted in a recorded deaths (murder) of 53 civilians (mostly Muslims). that's the recorded death count but according to various people who were present in Delhi at the time and witnessed the riots happening, they claim the missing persons report (unreported) is in thousands. and over hundreds were killed. you can read more about the February 2020 Delhi Riots here.

there's so many more incidents that happened, and all the government has done is: NOTHING.

our current PM is the prime suspect of the Gujrat Riots 2002, which was a pogram led by him and it killed over thousands of muslims who lived in gujrat.  

i didn't write this here to ask you for help, no, instead i want you guys to read this and remember this. don't forget our voices, because we're all together in this fight and the others to come. forgive but please don't forget.

like faiz ahmed faiz said, "bol k laab, azaad hai tere."