When the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) enters Mecca.

A THREAD!‌‌ #فتح_مکہ — While the Muslims marched towards Mecca, the Prophet had ordered 'Abbas RA to take Abu Sufyan RA and his friends to a spot from where they could easily view the Muslim army, its behaviour and bearing. Abbas RA did so and from a vantage-point Abu Sufyan RA &his friends watched..

Jammu Genœcide. A LONG THREAD.👇🏼

— After the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, thousands of Muslims were massacred and others driven away to West Punjab. — The kīllings were carried out by terrœrists Hīndus and Sikh militænts, aided and abetted by the forces of Maharaja Hari Singh. Terrœrists of the RSS played a key role in planning and executing the genœcide.

Hyderabad Police action 1948: Survivor recalls Operation Polo. A LONG THREAD.👇🏼

— Gulnar Khanum, was 16-year-old when India forcefully annexed the then Independent princely state of Hyderabad in September 1948. All the men in her house were massacred by the Indian army. — "I can never forget that September, it was thursday when the military entered the village. Many fled but we thought staying home can be safer. But the military men barged into our house, dragged all men in the family by their hair and aligned them only to shoot on their head.

Remember the Teenager Named #JunaidKhan?

1) Another year has gone by, and Junaid’s family is marking the 4th anniversary of the day when their beloved child was brutally killed. Another year, they continue to wait for justice. Each year, the voices who storm social media with.. hashtags #notinmyname, and #JusticeForJunaid seems to be getting lesser, as the numbers of right-wing hate mongers grows. Junaid, a teenager who was studying to be an Imam, was beaten, allegedly stabbed and thrown off the Delhi Mathura train.

Gandhi admired Hindutva icon #Savarkar as ‘lover of truth’, addressed him as bhai!

1) As one looks back at the history of VD Savarkar on his 138th birth anniversary, it is important to note that he was not at loggerheads with Mahatma Gandhi, as the common perception holds. Both of them enjoyed such a good rapport that Gandhi referred to him as “bhai".

2) Gandhi addressed Savarkar as “bhai” in a letter he wrote from Sevagram, Maha, on 22 March 1945 (Collected Works of Gandhi, e-book, Publication Division, GOI, Volume 86, Page 86)! Here's the text:

This year marks the 34th anniversary of the ghastly killings of Hashimpura Mohalla and Maliana village of Meerut district in which more than a 120 Muslims were killed by the UPs PAC and other custodial killings of more than 12 Muslims in Meerut and Fatehgarh jails...1/n There has been no justice even after three decades. By the Delhi High Court judgment on October 31, 2018, only half justice was delivered in the Hashimpura massacre case, but it still left many questions unanswered. What about Maliana where 72 Muslims were killed...2/n

34 yrs after custodial massacre of Muslims by goons in uniform, justice is incomplete!

The survivors and members of the families of those killed in the #HashimpuraMassacre organised themselves to move the SC in 1995 to make the report public &to prosecute those indicted in it... The SC refused to intervene, and instead asked the petitioners to approach the HC. The case remained unresolved in the HC, but the state government finally bowed to pressure in 1996 by filing criminal charge sheets against 19 personnel of the 41st batallion of the PAC...2/n

How anti-Muslim sentiments among the police officials led to #HashimpuraMassacre:

The crime dates back to May 1987, when communal tempers India were dangerously inflamed by the dispute over the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. The CongRSS govt by Rajv Gandhi had ordered the opening..1/n of the locks of the medieval mosque, allowing Hindu prayers inside the disputed structure, and this had sparked angry protests by Muslims in many parts of the country including Meerut, where fierce riots broke out. An estimated 350 people died in these riots...2/n

— It has been 34 years since the night of 22 May, 1987 when about 45 Muslim men from Hashimpura, a settlement in Meerut, were rounded up and packed into the rear of a truck of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC).
#HashimpuraMassacre — On that night of May 1987, 42 of those on board the truck were killed in two massacres in neighbouring Ghaziabad dist. One along the Upper Ganga canal near Muradnagar, nd the other along the Hindon canal in Makanpur in what hav since come to be known as the #HashimpuraMassacre.

— Two days ago, on Monday, May 17, a mosque in the central UP town of Barabanki was demolished by the administration in defiance of an order of the Allahabad high court. The Gareeb Nawaz Al Maroof Mosque had been around for at least six decades,...1/n

#RebuildGhareebNawazMasjid according to electricity bills held by its committee members, and was registered with the UP Sunni Waqf Board. "They demolished our century-old mosque. Thousands of people used to offer namaz here,” Maulana Abdul Mustafa, a mosque committee member said. #RebuildGhareebNawazMasjid

One thing was distinctly rotten about 2002 #GujaratGenocide: use of rape as a form of terror!
A LONG THREAD!👇🏻

Extreme cruelty and brutality has characterised all the big communal massacres of post-Independence India, but the Gujarat carnage stands out for its extensive...1/n and specific targetting of women, young girls and children, who were subjected to the most vicious forms of violence. Women suffered the most bestial forms of brutality, sexual violence, including gang rape, insertion of objects into their bodies, stripping, and molestation...2/n

#HindutvaBurnedDelhi #DelhiPogrom

"They burnt our mosques, they burnt the Quran and even drank liquor inside", said a visibly moved Farhana. No one could hold their tears. Everyone kept crying in the hall. It was the third day of our relief at Mustafabad. The next day I went to Madina Mosque at Shiv Vihar. The visuals were as if a wrath has been unleashed by monsters. The hindutva goons blasted the mosque with gas cylinders, even the fans melted down with the heat. After the fire cooled down, they came again to drink liquor there.