Thread by @vsirnate

Let's call a spade a spade. Every mean-spirited piece of legislation or court ruling done in the name of 'equality' or 'emancipation' is just one more legislative stick with which to beat the Indian Muslim minority out of the body politic. I don't support it. #HijabVerdict

From NRC, CAA, Triple Talaq judgment to the Hijab row, to the made up 'love-jihad' cases, what we are witnessing is a PROCESS of the dilution of rights for Muslims. This is institutional violence yes, but it is also accompanied by bullying, harassment, attacks, lynchings and

other acts of open violence against minorities, including non-Muslim minorities.

I strongly predict a global backlash against such acts of the Indian state and the people who will be at the receiving end of this backlash will be Indians in other countries.

I want people to understand that in theory the Indian state does not really care about who wears what. If they did, we wouldn't have shirtless homeless kids on the streets.

What the state does care about is bullying a community into a political corner, NOT to emancipate anyone

(that's the lie they tell themselves. If they were serious about emancipation, ghoonghats would have been banned ages ago)

They care about how the basest instincts of The Hindu majority specifically in the Hindi heartland respond to such acts of state-led bullying.

When that response is one of superiority and pride (however misplaced), the bullying formula is working. I can't tell you what's needed to be done here, as there is so much prejudice to be encountered everywhere. All I can say is that no one wins here, except the BJP.