Thread on #SorryAsif:
Have been seeing a lot, quite a lot of Hindu people writing and saying #SorryAsif for what one "gumrah" OBC youth did. I do not subscribe to watching this whole incident as an isolated incident or the attacker singularly as one misled youth.
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Have been seeing a lot, quite a lot of Hindu people writing and saying #SorryAsif for what one "gumrah" OBC youth did. I do not subscribe to watching this whole incident as an isolated incident or the attacker singularly as one misled youth.
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Those apologizing to Asif (on Twitter & Facebook) are just covering up the mass radicalization of Hindu youths in India. There are too many misled youths out there in the Hindu community. Such incidents are too frequent to be seen in isolation and
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too arbitrary to be categorized as planned violence. These incidents are the result of the mass radicalization. It is injustice to countless Muslims who suffer and survive such brutalities daily if this incident is reduced to one Yadav. Furthermore, even this facade of
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Sorry is coming after they couldn't give themselves any moral justification of beating up a 12-year-old boy for drinking water from a temple. Had he been accused of theft, or beef consumption, or love jihad, like past incidents none of them here would be seen apologizing.
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Hindu temples, religious spaces and religious leaders are involved in perpetuating this. Moreover, the important question here to ask is whether do other members of the Hindu society ensure that their fellow community members not harm Muslims?
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Do they proactively campaign and fight against the groups who are using their religion to kill and torture Muslims? Do they even challenge those who are perpetuating Islamophobia? I can safely say that the answer to all these questions is in negative.
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The silence from the Hindu society is the consent given to those committing hate crimes. It is a fairly simple arrangement: either you are fighting against those who are committing such acts or you are not. 'Sorry Asif' and 'one misled OBC youth' is violence of
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another kind: white-washing the crimes and denying the much needed discussion of radicalization of Hindu society. As I write this, another Muslim youth has been lynched to death in Jharkhand on allegations of theft. Your sorry is of no use to us.
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