#Thread: Liberals and centrists continue to amaze me. Rohit Sardana was a horrible man who justified killings, dehumanised entire community and profited from it. Please stop preaching us how to react to his death, and stop sermonizing decency and humanity. 1/n
It is amusing how they react when people from oppressed communities reject to speak within their defined limits. Yours may just be difference of opinion with him, but him advocating for our killing is not difference of opinion for us. It is a straight death threat 2/n
which his colleagues continue to give. His reporting was enabling genocide and empowering Brahminical fascism. I am not going to mourn the death of any person like that. His crimes cannot be whitewashed and we will not let anyone do it. 3/n
I'd rather remember his victims, the people lynched, and their families who lost their loved ones because of Sardana's hate. I remember those whom he criminalised and who continue to be in jail. My thoughts and prayers with the families of the victims of Rohit Sardana. 4/n
Also, next time a fascist dies, please try to not feel sad about it. It is the most human thing to do.

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#Thread: When the state has failed its people and left them to die at the mercy of their immunity, there are people of all age and gender who've dedicated themselves in more ways than they can afford to provide help to those who need it urgently, it is truly, 1/n
to quote Charles Dickens, the best and the worst of times. Community led organisations, particularly those run by Muslims and Sikhs, coming forward with plans like Oxygen langar (case in point, the Hemkunt foundation) and creating a 100 bed COVID hospital in a week's time 2/n
(case in point, Jamat e Islami Hind in Nagpur) to control the situation is the graceful gesture this country should start appreciating more. Not long ago, these organisations and the community they represent were at the center of dirtiest of accusations like terrorism & more. 3/n
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23 Mar
Thread on elections:

1) Only CPIM can compete with BJP in hypocrisy and shamelessness. I mean they are calling the opposition coalition (Muslim League + Congress) communal in Kerala, equating Muslim League with RSS and subtly consolidating Hindus using Islamophobic
2) campaigns while in West Bengal they're themselves in alliance with Congress and a Muslim party ISF, founded by an Islamic cleric. In West Bengal they are appealing on the lines of social justice, Dalit emancipation and Muslim empowerment.
3) Their candidates in Bengal, most of whom would distance themselves from anybody visibly Muslim and would leave no chance to demonize them, are now flaunting pictures with Muslim men and women covered in skullcaps and Hijab. In Kerala, they once disowned their own party leader
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14 Mar
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.

1/n
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

2/n
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

3/n
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13 Mar
Thread on being stupid:

The issue is not that Muslims do not resist. The issue are the people who decide which 'actions' qualify as resistance and which don't. These people, mostly occupying central space in the anti BJP discourse in India,

1/n
have been there doing nothing but patronizing, schooling, appropriating and even disqualifying the anxieties, anger, struggle and resistance of Muslims since long. They appear to be woke and concerned at the outset but when you examine them closely,

2/n
you'd find all the elements of ignorant Indian elites who say 'don't spread negativity, speak positive things also'. A Muslim woman languishing in jail on fictitious charges is a symbol of bravery but a Muslim youth fighting back to

3/n
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28 Jan
Indian left/liberal activists ke liye ham products hain. Agar Zinda bache hue hain to inke liye dari bichayeñ aur inke inqalab ke naghme sune aur agar mar jayeiñ to inki kitaaboñ aur chutkuloñ ka mauzu ban jayeiñ..bas itni hi haisiyat hai inki nazar meiñ hamāri.
Inse puchiye kabhi Hindu radicalisation par apne logoñ par taqreer kyuñ nahi karte. Hamko aakar bata rahe ho ki Modi bahut bura hai..jaise hameiñ pata hi na ho. Inki kitaboñ mein lynch karne wale par tabsara nahiñ milega, lynch hone wale par milega.
Kabhi apne logoñ mein jakar research nahiñ karenge ki OBC Hindu, Upper Caste Hindu aaj itni badi tādād meiñ Modi ko kyuñ vote kar raha hai. Inki research hamesha ye hi batayegi ki Musalmanoñ ko kyuñ @asadowaisi aur @BadruddinAjmal ko vote nahiñ karna hai.
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24 Jan
Thread for young Muslims:

It's all okay & good to use social media, be in activism, raise voices but it is more important to have your presence felt. Conquer the spaces where our presence is negligible. It can be university spaces, opinion pages of leading news websites, 1/n
stages of the protests you participate in, and everywhere else. Be selfish, get recognised. Seeing a Muslim voice in place of none..It's not just your personal achievement, it's our. But also work for it. Work absolutely hard for it. Nobody's giving space here, you take it..2/n
Representation matters. While getting equal representation in policy making bodies will need a long battle, representation in these other spaces, especially popular media, is equally important. Learn to write. Before that, read and reread. 3/n
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