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Amit

@amit_tushar

14 Jan

Widespread collective dissent by muslims in both political and cultural spheres is the only pathway towards guaranteeing their survival and dignity.

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We, the majority, must enable for them the cultural institutions, legal guarantees and protections of the public sphere to speak and organise without fear and hesitation by providing material and ideological support.

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We must remember that all this anti-minority violence is being done in our name, to make us feel safe & powerful.

So we must repeatedly and consistently undermine these narratives.

We can do this by deradicalising our own. By stopping the hate where it begins: at our homes.

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Amit

@amit_tushar

14 Jan

Women in patriarchal relationships have been brutalised for so long, there's a special term for it: Intimate Partner Violence (IVF).

1 in 3 women in India is likely to have been subjected to intimate partner violence

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Intimate partner violence involves abuse of a physical, emotional, or sexual nature.

And yet "only one in 10 of these women formally reports the offence to the police or healthcare professionals".

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Out of the 17 globally acknowledged Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), number five focuses on gender equality and the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls by 2030.

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Amit

@amit_tushar

13 Jan

In 2017, the Centre had opposed criminalizing marital rape, stating that the same will have the effect of destabilizing the institution of marriage.

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The reason why men legally get away from being legally prosecuted for rape within a marriage is an exception to Section 375 of IPC, "which exempts forceful sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife from the offence of rape, provided the wife is above 15 years of age."

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It is now the Petitioners' case that this same marital rape exception 'violates a woman's right to dignity, personal and sexual autonomy and her right to self-expression enshrined under the Constitution of India."

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Amit

@amit_tushar

13 Jan

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There is now a fresh rot of pro-Hindutva groups on @Reddit, including a sub-Reddit titled “Muslimahs for Hindu Men,” "where Muslim women and children are sexualized in the most grotesque, dehumanizing and violent ways imaginable"

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As we speak, there are open calls for the abduction and rape of Muslim women being seen and heard on @Reddit with vast gleeful participation of H men.

If this is not evidence of a thriving ecosystem, then what exactly is?

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This has a long history in our majority culture.

Savarkar justified rape as a legitimate political tool by Hindutva leaders

He urged Hindu men to treat Muslim women as “enemies” in his book Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History,

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Amit

@amit_tushar

13 Jan

We still live in the same world where 127 muslims were arrested under UAPA for attending a 3 day seminar in Surat in 2001.

It took 19 years to acquit all of them. 5 of them died in the long trial process

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Ask yourself: how are muslims supposed to organise publically against these Dharam Sansads which are an existential threat to their lives?

Wouldn't they again be risking 20 years of incarceration or worse of they tried?

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And let's not forget what happens after the court acquits you. You are still branded a suspect and a terrorist with links to armed groups in Pakistan.

This is an unlivable reality for muslim scholars, activists and journalists.

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Amit

@amit_tushar

11 Jan

For me, M Kesavan's article wasnt just about UP elections. It was about how we as a people imagine ideas around freedom and security.

It was about how we choose to live and die under successive governments without anything fundamental changing.

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Why do our expectations from those who protect us have nothing to do (anymore) with demands for safety, public health and collective well being?

The idea that covid deaths are a natural phenomenon has a firm hold in public conciousness. It's isn't seen as a preventable collapse of a system. Because our media doesn't ask questions about what went wrong.

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