Those who troll me for my support to Asad Owaisi & #Aimim. Give me a better alternative under present system and I will take your criticism. If you’ve to fight & survive under the present political system then you have to try & work within the system. Right now he’s our best bet.

It’s easy for people take potshots at Mr Owaisi for his trust in constitution. What he’s saying is truth on paper but not on the ground yet keep in mind he’s battling for Muslims for Triple Talaq & CAA under immense pressure when others you voted 73 years didn’t utter a word.

Some say what difference Mr Asad Owaisi with is 5 or MLA of Aimim going to make & he would not get power. Understand how coalition politics works. Even 2 MLA can make a Govt. More importantly Owaisi has boosted the morale of the Muslims of Gujarat & UP who got a new confidence

And keep in mind others will respect Muslims only when they have ability to win on own. Till some years ago Muslims were not even given ticket from Muslim constituency by congress & others. Aimim won from Aurangabad & broke that wall. Now others forced to give tickets to Muslims

Then there are Sarkari Muslims from north India who demand answer from Owaisi on all topics concerning Muslims. They have voted for Congress, SP, BSP & AAP all their lives & dont even elect AIMIM Sarpanch. They don’t question those they voted all life. But treat Owaisi as Khalu

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,

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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,

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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

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save lives of his people amidst a pogrom is pure stupidity. That means, they will speak of you (they rarely speak for you, and that too, when they are out of options) only when you can be presented as someone who couldn't do anything except becoming a victim of the state.

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If you did something nonetheless, you're stupid. You're stupid if you are not a victim, if you refuse to be one. Simply put, Muslims will fail to receive any solidarity, recognition, support or love if their being cannot evoke emotions of pity or helplessness.

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Yet another day another Muslim lynched.
A man identified as Anis from Kakori area in Lucknow was beaten to death in a village in Unnao on the suspicion of being a thief on Sunday.

Circle Officer Bangarmau, Anjani Kumar Singh, said that the incident took place late on Sunday night and a case of culpable homicide, not amounting to murder, has been registered against five persons, reports IANS

The deceased was said to be aimlessly roaming in the area when the local residents suspected him to be a thief and beat him up severely, according to reports.bPolice took the injured man to Bangarmau community health centre, where doctors declared him dead.

The deceased’s father Raees claimed his son was innocent and beaten to death when he had gone to Behta Mujawar area and demanded immediate arrest of the accused named in the case.

#Islamophobia_in_india

it wasn't just muslim women who "led" the caa protests. it was muslim men too. have you ever wondered why this image of "strong" muslim women "who don't need muslim men" is projected by liberals and the left? notice how they decentred sharjeel imam from the shaheen bagh +

protests and turned it into a women's issue completely...? as if the citizenship amendment bill called into question the citizenship of women only. why this targeted erasure of muslim men from the narrative? where there were women, there were men too. talk about the saviour +

gaze, lmao. you'll find it in droves in indian liberals and leftists.

oh, and btw, i'm not saying this as something i "feel". it's very very real. the cpi(m) report on the delhi pogrom even stated that "women leading the protests did not allow their stage to be used for +

muslim fundamentalist propaganda." notice how the movement is being hailed as women's only when ALL members of the muslim community were being affected? and simultaneously presenting this picture of women against the more "fundamentalist", "radical" picture of muslim +

society, which is, of course, muslim men. and it wasn't just this report, literally everyone fell into this forced dichotomy, a dichotomy that was forced upon us, in order to drive a wedge between men and women of the community. therefore it becomes very important to +