Hyderabad Dalit murder case: Time for liberal Muslims to shun silence on Nagaraju’s dastardly killing
FirstpostSaner elements among Muslims should take adequate steps to thwart attempts by fundamentalists to hijack the entire community for their divisive agenda “Sir, why is it that all terrorists are Muslims?” While I was teaching at Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, a Class XI student asked me this question during a discussion on current events in the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. There was no protest by the “Lutyens’ Gang”; “108 Former Civil Servants Gang” went missing; and the “Award Wapsi Gang” was nowhere to be seen. This is something many organisations, grieving Hindu parents and families have been alleging for the last so many years — that there are forces active in Kerala that are targeting young women, brainwashing them in the name of “superior religious studies”, and pressurising them to convert into Islam. Given the fluid communal situation in India, saner elements among Muslims should take adequate steps to thwart attempts by fundamentalists to hijack the entire community for their divisive agenda.