Thread by @ARanganathan72

Snare the fundamentalists but spare the fundamentals.

Selective Submission And The Quest For A Muslim Identity. My essay in @SwarajyaMag. [Long-read.] swarajyamag.com/ideas/selectiv…

Islamophobia:

1. Irrational fear of believers of Islam among non-Muslims.

2. Rational fear of discussing Islam in its entirety among Muslims. (Snare the fundamentalists but spare the fundamentals.)
swarajyamag.com/ideas/selectiv…

Horrific. Prayers for the families of the victims. This is the second terror strike on this Sufi shrine; the 2010 attack had killed 42.

Praying at a Sufi shrine or Dargah is expressly admonished in the Holy Koran (35:13-22 46:5 27:80 22:73) & forbidden in the Hadith (Bukhari).

Shafiqur Rahman is correct on Vande Mataram. He is a good Muslim.

Considering anyone else other than Allah as a deity, worshipping it, bowing before it, is expressly forbidden in Islam (Al-Tirmidhi) and also the Holy Koran (17:22-23; 12:40; 3:64; 5:55)

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1140918885413208064

Owaisi said Jai Bhim.

Jai Bhim said THIS: anandranganathan.com/2017/04/14/amb…

Islam absolutely forbids, through the Holy Quran (verses 2:221; 60:10), the marriage of a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim man.

Let those Muslims who advocate to the contrary have the guts to say they don't believe in the order of the almighty Allah.

https://twitter.com/UnSubtleDesi/status/1144933029229412353?s=19

Snare the fundamentalists, spare the fundamentals.

But you can't snare the fundamentals. You would be killed. Sooner or later.

That's the reality. Only fools believe otherwise.

#KamleshTiwariMurder

Make NO mistake. If Dr Ambedkar was alive today, for what he said here, he would have been beheaded. ISIS style.

The honest truth? I wish I was as brave as Kamlesh Tiwari, to be able to say whatever came to my mind - the fundamental principle of Free Speech. But I am not brave.

Because when the State doesn't back you, bravery turns into bravado.

And the price for bravado is beheading.

Of course I abhor 295A, the so-called Blasphemy law, and want it to go as it prevents acceptance, if not approval, of criticism of religion.

But let us be clear. There was no Blasphemy law or 295A when Rajpal was killed in 1929 by Ilm-ud-din for publishing Rangila Rasool. 1/2

2/2 Courage to punish blasphemers comes not because of the absence of such law but because of the presence of an order by Allah (33:57) that wants blasphemers punished.

Salim says it was fair to kill Kamlesh Tiwari. Ilm-ud-din said the exact same thing after killing Rajpal.

Holy Quran 33:57: "Those who abuse Allah & His Messenger, Allah has cursed them in this world & the Hereafter & prepared for them a humiliating punishment"

Let those Muslims who advocate to the contrary have the guts to say they don't believe in the order of the almighty Allah.

"I would definitely NOT condemn his killing. He DESERVES this fate."

My god. I sat next to him just yesterday in a debate. We were talking so amiably. This is a shock. (video via @TimesNow)

It is better to confront the bigot than to boycott him. (video via @republic)

The US House of Representatives just voted 405 to 11, to recognise the Armenian Genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Turks.

Democrat @IlhanMN REFUSED to vote in favour of this recognition.

1.5 million Christians were exterminated. In cold blood.

VILE.

Indian Muslims revere a holy book based expressly on which Pakistan State declared Ahmadiyyas to be non-Muslims in 1974.

But Indian Muslims will condemn the Pakistan State for the persecution of Ahmadiyyas, not the Holy Book.

Snare the fundamentalists, spare the fundamentals.

Do you call a doctor who follows Gray's Anatomy a Radical Doctor?

Do you call a scientist who follows Lehninger a Radical Scientist?

Then why do you call a Muslim who follows the Holy Book a Radical Muslim?

My views on @TimesNow, with @RShivshankar. #IndoctrinationCampExpose

STOP your victimhood. And stop celebrating the sham indictment by the OIC, that believes as much in religious tolerance as Hafiz Saeed believes in Ahimsa.

My views on @TimesNow with @navikakumar. #IndiaMuslimHeavenDebate

So @Tejasvi_Surya tweets a quote by a Muslim, verbatim, and is branded an Islamophobe.

STOP peddling the victim card that has no expiry date and a pin known to anyone who has seen Deewar.

My views on @TimesNow
with @navikakumar. #IslamophobiaLieExposed

Economic boycott of Hindus is but an extension and result of the rampant hinduphobia preached during the anti-370 abrogation and anti-CAA protests where such calls were also made.

My views on @TimesNow with @navikakumar. #HinduPhobiaOnTape

The chargesheet of Tahir Hussain exposes the vile propaganda of those who claimed that Delhi riots were were not riots but a pogrom, that Hindus weren't victims in it.

My views on @TimesNow with @RShivshankar. #TahirFundedHinduHate

Zakir Naik is a hero for me. The world needs more Zakir Naiks.

To understand why, do hear my views on @TimesNow with @navikakumar.
#GandhiZakirFile

In India, a Muslim daughter is entitled to only half of what her brother is.

But this does not seem to bother the feminists and the activists. After all, they fight for equality.

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1293083298890158080?s=20

SHOCKING scenes in the heart of cosmopolitan Bengaluru, where a Muslim mob is on a rampage over a social media post on Prophet Muhammad by a relative of the Dalit Congress MLA.

No emergency, no intolerance, no fascism. Ignore. Move on.

"Those who abuse Allah and His Messenger, Allah has CURSED them in this world and the Hereafter and prepared for them a HUMILIATING punishment" 33:57.

Let those Muslims who advocate to the contrary have the GUTS to say they don't believe in this order.

And when the decapitated heads ask: is this not intolerance, their cries will be stifled by the poster boys of secularism.

My views on @TimesNow with @RShivshankar, on Blasphemy and the Bengaluru mob violence. #BengaluruRiotPlot

Shocking scenes from Sweden, with mobs going on a rampage, pelting stones, hurling burning tyres.

Where are the defenders of Freedom of Expression? Or are they going to rationalise the rioting, instead, as Freedom of Expression?

Do not marry your women to polytheist men unless they believe in Islam; a Muslim slave is better than a polytheist even though he may attract you. - Holy Koran, 2:221

Let those Muslims who advocate to the contrary have the guts to say they don't believe in this order of Allah.

"...The Hindus are right when they say that it is not possible to establish social contact between Hindus and Muslims, because such contact can only mean contact between women from one side and men from the other." - Dr BR Ambedkar columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pri… (h/t @yadavvarun_)

HORROR in #Paris. The teacher, Mr Samuel, didn't insult the prophet himself, merely showed the cartoons depicting him while he was taking a class on Freedom of Expression.

An enraged teenager beheaded him. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…

President Macron: We will not give up on the cartoons. Samuel Paty was killed because Islamists want our future. They will never have it.

Now the Arab world has called for a boycott of French goods. Erdogan says Macron needs “mental checks".

Stand with Macron. #StandWithFrance.

Anyone who is perceived to have abused Allah or his messenger will, sooner or later, meet the fate of Kamlesh Tiwari or Samuel Paty. It may take a week, a month, a year, a decade; but it will happen.

My views on @TimesNow.
#ImranIslamophobiaLie

Horror again in France. Three killed, two of them beheaded, in a terror strike inside Notre Dame Basilica in Nice. BBC reporting that the attacker shouted Allah-hu-Akbar.

Who holds the tail and who the neck of Vasuki? Which way is the Mandara rotating? Who will drink the Halāhala? Who will save our Universe?

Anyone who cherishes liberty, equality, fraternity, stands today with the French President @EmmanuelMacron.

My views on @TimesNow with @RShivshankar. #IndiaWillBackFrance

The horrific attacks on Hindus and Christians in Bangladesh and other countries are being explained away as a reaction to Islamophobia.

What is Islamophobia? Here I define it, on @TimesNow with @RShivshankar.

#IndiaVsIslamistTerror

The means (impersonation and coercion) do not justify the end, where the end is interfaith marriage, in itself a wonderful thing.

My views on @TimesNow with @RShivshankar, on Love Jihad. #YogiOutlawsLoveJihad

There is nothing called Radical Islam.

I explain why. #IndiaAgainstIslamistHate

All Waseem Rizwi did was to petition the court. And now his co-religionists are out on the street burning his effigy & demanding his death.

And all those who have cried INTOLERANCE these past seven years have sneaked under the mattress like a plastic bag.

HORROR in the heart of Delhi as a bloodthirsty mob goes on a rampage in a Dalit locality just because a Dalit man married a Muslim woman, a union forbidden in Islam.

PINDROP silence of all those actors and activists who claim to fight for Dalit rights.

Arrest Amanatullah Khan? What are you talking about. The man is a hero.

This 2019 BSP candidate from Meerut, Haji Qureshi, had announced a reward of 51 crores to anyone who BEHEADED Charlie Hebdo journalists. He lost by just 4,500 votes. 5,81,455 people (47.8%) voted for him.

Whenever I start quoting verses verbatim there's always a panellist who heckles me.

I'd have thought if you love a book, preach it, recommend it, you'd be well chuffed if I was quoting from it and spreading the word.

Itna khauf kyon?
#GitaLibraryAttacked

Never fails to amuse me that in our country Secularism means Hindus having to admire, love, and respect those who believe, and repeat at every available opportunity, that Hindus are the worst of creatures and will roast in hell for being unbelievers. What an amazing country!

If I as a Hindu claim that Muslims are the worst of creatures; do not marry a Muslim, am I a communal bigot? Yes, you are, the communist tells me.

And then I quote him the exact verses and ask him again. Watch what happens. (via @CluelessEngg)

To Muslims lambasting the Taliban for asking women to cover themselves & adhere to a strict dress code, well, it is Allah who has prescribed that dress code for Muslim women (24:31; 33:59; 7:26)

Don't hate the Taliban just because they are following Allah's order and you aren't.

Here I explain, in detail, why I applaud and stand with the Indian Muslims who have welcomed Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Because they are not hypocrites; they are unapologetic, like Jinnah and Iqbal; and I respect that. #TalibanIslamistTerrorBack

There is NO 'Indian Islam' as Naseeruddin Shah claims; you either believe in every verse of the Quran or you don't.

And so in condemning the Taliban, Shah, perhaps deliberately, ends up snaring the fundamentalists but sparing the fundamentals.

My views:

The targeting of @AnanyaJamwal2 by Islamic terrorists and terror apologists is shocking. The State MUST provide her adequate security.

But all Ananyas and Anands should wisen up and understand: this is a lost battle. I explain in detail why:

Jitendra Tyagi aka Wasim Rizvi is sadly a marked man. Accused not only of blasphemy but also of apostasy, he is the candle that has been lit at both ends. His punishment has been ordered by the holy book. Nothing can now be done.

My views on @TimesNow.

You want hateful words to be prosecuted but are fine with calls for annihilation of kafirs 40:70, with Hindus being labelled the worst of creatures 98:6, with disbelievers being threatened with eternal roasting 4:56? Kyon? Darte ho?

My views on @TimesNow:

@TimesNow Kishan Bharvad was 27 years old. One of his FB posts was considered blasphemous by Muslims. He was arrested. He apologised. That was not enough (33:57).

Kishan was BRUTALLY murdered by Shabbir, Imtiyaz, and Maulana Ayyub. Kishan has a month-old daughter.

We are a failed State.

PM @narendramodi, you HAVE to step in. The situation is scary. Kishan Bharvad’s post wasn’t even abusive - he said for his God what Muslims say for Allah every day - and yet it was considered blasphemous. Is a religious book above Constitution?

My views:

Poverty or illiteracy are not responsible for Fundamentalism, fundamentals are. And they are eternal. You can be from Harvard or Oxford or IIT and still go on to ram planes into buildings or charge at temples shouting Allah-hu-Akbar.

My views on @TimesNow