Thread by @gauravsabnis

And the thing is, it isn't even 5 full months yet and I only update the thread sporadically and yet look at how long it is!

https://twitter.com/tweepul/status/1504133204361777155

I literally just started threading those stories on a whim, never expecting it to be this regularly updated.

https://twitter.com/gauravsabnis/status/1453105434034851842?t=uho433Uv3QuFddWgc9wuFA&s=19

This full scale multi pronged attack on Indian Muslims by the RSS & BJP in recent years is following the 1930s playbook literally play by play.

Without realizing that even if you leave aside morality and just look at it logistically, the strategy makes NO sense in India.

Nazis went after Jews who were 1% of the population. Super easy tiny target with no other world power really caring about them. Their abhorrent goal was logistically not really that tough. And the world ignored the Holocaust for years until Hitler really started invading.

They are using that strategy against Indian Muslims, who form about 15-20% of the population, number more than the entire population of Brazil, are extremely diversely spread out, and have 2 billion other people of the same faith worldwide.

What is the endgame here?

What are these 200 million people, who have generally just gone on with their lives in independent India for 75 years, almost entirely staying out of the whole "global jihad" thing of recent decades, supposed to do in response?

Just bend over and take it?

Even if you lack the simple humanity, the simple morality, to say, hey, maybe we shouldn't vilify groups of people.

Even if you look at it cold blooded like playing a video game.

What is the possible positive endgame of this relentless attack on Indian Muslims?

Do you want to turn India into a 1.5 billion version of Israel and Palestine? Just put Hindus and Muslims in constant armed struggle, while living next to each other? Is that what the BJP wants?

Cos 200+ mn Muslims are way way way more than 6 mn Jews.

Us Hindus already hold the privileges and advantages and powerful positions and everything in India. The Muslims in our country have really no real power except in a couple of states. And even there, Muslims generally have progressive politics.

What more do we want??

What is the realistic possible endgame here, sanghis? You want 200 mn plus people to just disappear? Just sit and take it?

Why are you taking a generally calm and economically growing country and trying to start a full fledged civil war? Who exactly wins that?

I grew up in the brahminical sanghi ecosystem in Pune during babri and bal Thackeray days.

I know all their so called grievances.

None of them make sense whatsoever, from any perspective. All those grievances are as bullshit as this bizarre attack on Muslim women with hijab.

"Muslims can marry four women, no one else can."

Is one top grievance.

Completely nonsensical to get emotional over it, unless you also want to marry 4 women.

Even more nonsensical cos I know more polygamous Hindu men than Muslim men, regardless of the law.

Polygamy is practically non-existent even in the Indian Muslim community, when you look at all 200+ million of them.

For two obvious reasons. Biology. And mathematics.

Unless Muslims magically produce 4 times more girl babies, how can polygamy be more than just a fringe thing?

But I know fellow Hindus, privileged brahmins, who will get ultra sentimental about the civil code and always start their whines with polygamy.

No one actually knows more than 1-2 Muslims who have multiple wives. Most don't know a single such case personally.

"Muslims get special treatment and appeasement as shown by the Shahbano case."

What? What???

How the hell do 200+ mn Muslims in India get any kind of special treatment because the ex husband of one woman benefitted from some political chicanery in the 1980s?

Nonsensical!

"Muslims burst crackers, celebrate if pakistan wins."

It hardly, if ever happens.

Even if it does, what goes of your father? Especially in 2022 when India & Pakistan haven't played each other regularly for almost 15 years.

Just whine & move on.

Genocide is an overreaction!

"Muslims do jihad and terrorism everywhere".

Do they, really? Forget the rest of the world.

Remember all these horrific terrorist attacks in India. Add up all their victims.

I bet more people die on the train tracks of Bombay in a year than have died in all terrorist attacks.

Looking at how many Indian Muslims there are and how many have actually done something violent, again, genocide is an overreaction, no?

What is this supposed crime Muslims have committed exactly that sanghis are so angry at them for?

Existing?

"Muslims seduce our women and make them convert to Islam before marriage"

THE most nonsensical and Freudian of all grievances Hindus have against Muslims.

BJP's own investigation couldn't find a single case of "love jihad". It simply doesn't happen. And can't happen.

Sure, there are millions of Hindu-Muslim couples. Some of them have issues of abuse or coercion, like any community.

But the idea that a Muslim man has any advantage in the romantic realm in India is just outright false and creepily so. Like white US obsession with black men.

A Muslim man in India who "goes after" a Hindu woman is doing so at extremely grave personal risk, especially these days. Only true love would make someone take that risk. Not some random mythical reward for converting a Hindu woman, like incel sanghis fantasize.

"Muslims are converting our people"

They aren't. They just aren't. Not in numbers enough to notice anyway.

This is just a complete lie with no grounding in reality.

Sure, a lot of people in India are converting to different flavors of Christianity. Nothing wrong with it obv.

The number of Hindus converting to Islam in India is negligible to non existent and no different than people in other countries converting to Islam.

People have been converting to Islam for 1500 years.

Genocide seems like an overreaction no when it barely happens in India.

What else is left? Hijab and burqa?

Again, it is one thing to criticize them as practices, from a social reform and gender equality perspective.

But that's not what sanghis are doing, right? Not even pretending to "liberate" Muslim women like US in Afghanistan.

Sanghis are using hijab and burqa as a way to publicly humiliate Muslims and deny them education.

For what benefit exactly? No one can explain. Other than satisfaction at some random uniform rule being upheld. Bizarre cover for bigotry.

What else is even left? At least Nazis were saying Jews had more assets and more power than their percentage of the population. Not that it justifies genocide, but at least it was factual.

Indian Muslims are the exact opposite. They have way less wealth & power than population.

I'm at a complete and utter loss why so many millions of my fellow Indian Hindus seem hell-bent on starting a civil war with Indian Muslims.

I just don't get it. From any angle. I'm witnessing the worst collective self sabotage in history.