The dilemma of an Indian Muslim

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India, in its real form cannot move ahead if the government does not recognize the ongoing atrocities on the Muslims and brings it's largest minority community together, along with the other communities and discuss its's issues openly.

If a community (Muslims and Dalits) is sidelined in matters like killing in the name of love jihad, lynching in the name of cow and cold-blooded murdering because one wears a skull cap and the situation is over looked; rather than making sure that no such event takes place again, India cannot develop.

In my opinion, it has failed as a country, big time.

For a diverse nation like India, all the communities need to be empowered equally and fairly. For this, the majority should come in together and recognize the ongoing enormity and hatred towards the largest minority of the nation rather than shedding it off and pushing it under the door mat. They must recognize that the Muslims of India are in danger and its high time that a law securing Muslims’ rights should come into force, at the earliest. Until then, the community will have no faith in the government and the trust factor would be missing, always. The gap would widen and this very gap should and must go, not just reduced.

There is no point in talking about a Secular nation where the minorities don’t feel safe. The increasing number of incidents (Mohammad Bhatta’s murder, Dadri lynching, Junaid's murder) and the muteness of the establishment towards such cases since it came to power, says a lot about the ruling party too.

Did it happen in a day? No! The so called ‘Secular’ forces are responsible for the condition of Muslims today. The bitter truth is that they exploited the community over the past 60 years for their personal gains such that they are left of nowhere today, with almost nothing.

With the right wingers in power since 2014, they have been exploited even further, to the extend that the already suppressed community has no way out but to bear the brunt of past governments’ mistakes and misuse.
They have been pushed and sidelined to the core, slowly and steadily. They have absolutely no means to respond with. No proper political representation, no group that can speak on their behalf, nothing! Divided between Shias and Sunnis and Bohras and Barelvis and Deobandis and what not, the community can never be uplifted or united through a single representative. Another reason why its easier for the fascist forces to play their game.

Basically, the Muslim of today is worse than the one that was at the time of partition. At least back then, he had a face who could be represented on his behalf, which played a major role in the political movement of the nation building and shaped the outcome of a country which was scattered all across in different regions/cultures/castes into one unified land.

The Muslim of today is no doubt at the receiving end who can neither talk nor retaliate.

BJP government has made the situation even worse than it had been 25 years ago, when the law and order came down to rubble and the domes of Babri fell down in broad day light on 6^th of December, 1992. The government, police and army, all had failed to protect the rights of the largest minority and displayed how helpless they were. Once again, the fear of history being repeated has shaken the community within. The same feeling of insecurity has taken over the country. Difference is that it was just a city back then, Ayodhya, but now, the whole nation seems to be in its grip.

Killed in the name of love jihad, Muslims are facing the brunt of being faithful to a nation for which they openly rejected the call of an Islamic nation, Pakistan in 1947. They sided with Maulana Azad rather than going with Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

The cold-blooded murder of Mohammed Bhatta (Afrazul) in Rajasthan is not on Shambhu Lal alone. It is on all, yes, all those from the left and the right who have led down these secular Indians by claiming that India is tolerant towards Muslims and that they don’t need “Save Muslims” only law and that they are not being treated as second class citizens (even after the Sachar committee report, which clearly states that the most underprivileged community is that of Muslims, worse than Dalits).

The blood is on all those who advocate that a Charity/University or a Social Organization be made in place of the demolished Babri area in order to bring peace and harmony between the two communities. They fail to realize that by doing so, they are ignoring the very crux and base of India which made India different from other nations. That it would be a loss on the part of the Court, the ‘Justice’ system, the Constitution. Rebuilding would be the one and only way of ensuring the safety and security and give the message:

“Minorities, you are safe. And we are sorry for what happened in December of 1992. Here, we are rebuilding it and reassuring your right as an Indian and here, we are making sure that no such heinous crime takes place again and here, we promise that anyone and everyone involved will be dragged to court and you would be given justice”.

It is also those men and women who find it communal if one talks and raises his voice against the injustices towards the minority community of a nation. A nation which was just saved from being made into another Hindu Pakistan by the pioneers of the nation.

We are pushing the country behind, back to 1947.

Remember MA Jinnah and his wants? It was the same reason why he had kept the 14 points and upon which not being accepted had created Pakistan. He had feared this day. Let us not make it a reality! Let us not make another Pakistan. It was this fear of his that had led to the creation of an Islamic country beside the 'Secular' India.

The Indian Muslims who had stayed back, vehemently opposing the very idea of a separate state wanted equal share in India, as promised by the then leaders. Expecting a fare share in the system with full safety and security in almost everything.

Unfortunately, the events over the past 3 decades and the recent killings of ‘just any Muslim’ is really scary and alarming. Its putting a question mark for every Muslim. Are we safe? What should we do? Sit back and watch? Retaliate? Do what?

Can someone please solve this dilemma of an Indian Muslim?