While @_YogendraYadav's intent may have been to support Umar Khalid, the piece is riddled with all the usual ingredients of the 'good Muslim vs bad Muslim' fallacy.
Good job, @OmairTAhmad, @AdityaMenon22 and others who've called this out.
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Apart from these fallacious arguments already pointed out, there were some absurd remarks about the Left as well. While Yogendra Yadav has always been anti-Left in his political views, these latest remarks are quite silly for a public intellectual of his stature.
1. "He looks beyond the revolutionary fantasies of a violent overthrow of the Indian State and is willing to engage with the messy ways of democratic politics"
Who in the mainstream Left in India, apart from the Maoists, engages in this "fantasy"? This is an absurd caricaturing.
2. "A young Muslim would settle for one of the two compromises: forgetting Muslim-ness or curbing rebelliousness. Most Leftists I knew chose the first path. They turned atheists."
Does Mr. Yadav really think people become atheists because they are persecuted for their identity?
3. "Being any shade of the Left is a strict no-no in the Muslim political life so far."
The very many Muslim politicians associated with the Left in India, and especially Kerala, would like to disagree with such exaggerations.
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