Almost every other day, newspapers are agog with stories about ‘dreaded Muslim terrorists’ being nabbed across the country. At the same time, savage violence unleashed by Hindutva groups continues unabated without any effective steps being taken against them. In the on-going ‘war on terror’, globally as well as within India, Muslims have come to be framed collectively as ‘terrorists’, while terrorism engaged in by people belonging to other communities is generally condoned or ignored altogether or, at least, is not described in the same terms. In India today, Muslim youths are being indiscriminately picked up and tortured by the police, in many cases falsely accused of being terrorists. Many of them have been languishing in jails for years now and yet no one ever seems to care.
Take the case of Muhammad Parvez Abdul Qayyum Shaikh of Gujarat. According to his aunt, Qamar Jahan, on the 2nd of April 2003, while he was on his way to fit a water appliance, he was arrested by CBI officer Tarun Barot and others. For three days his family knew nothing his whereabouts. On the fourth day, she says, ‘We saw the news and realized that Parvez had been
arrested under allegations of having a Chinese made pistol and some gun powder. However, this powder is used for cleaning the Aqua Guard machines.’
Parvez, she says, was brutally beaten and tortured by the officers, with Officer Vanzara allegedly asking Parvez to refer to him as *Khuda *(God)* *and beating him ruthlessly. While in jail they forced him to sign on blank papers. He was reportedly taken by the CBI officers to Gandhinagar where he was further tortured for 21 days. He was then charged in the DCP-6 case, Tiffin bomb blast case and in the Haren Pandya murder case (the last mentioned of which, incidentally, Pandya’s own father accuses Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as having instigated). He was sentenced to fourteen years in jail for the last-mentioned case, although his aunt maintains that he is innocent.
27 year-old Sardar, a Muslim youth, works as a plumber in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. He was arrested at the age of 17, some months after the February 1998 Chennai bomb blasts. The initial accusation against Sardar was that he had been involved in a street fight. He was apparently kept illegally imprisoned for a month, and only after that was an FIR was lodged against him. This
time he was accuse of carrying two pipe bombs and rioting. The offence was non-bailable. He was remanded and kept in the Vellore Jail for first fifteen months, even though there were no witnesses against him. The special court set up for the bomb blasts refused to let him be tried as he was a minor.
Eventually, nine and half years later, in the final judgment the court apparently found him not guilty of any of the charges put on him and he was acquitted, but only after having spent almost a decade languishing in jail, where he was brutally tortured. Even after his acquittal the police have
allegedly not stopped harassing and hounding him, and they still restrict his movements.
Noor ul-Hoda, the son of a desperately poor daily-wage labourer from Malegaon in Maharashtra, is yet another hapless Muslim man who has, so he insists, been falsely implicated as a terrorist by the police. In September 2006, he was picked up by the police from his home. On the same day, they brought him back, searched the house (without producing a search warrant), and, finding nothing, took him back into police custody. The next day the police charged Noor with possession of twenty books considered as ‘illegal literature’. While in police custody, he is said to have been forced, through torture and threats by his interrogators that they would kill his family, to
sign a blank piece of paper, which was later used as evidence of a ‘confession’. This was, it is claimed, used to charge him under the draconian MCOCA for allegedly being a member of the team that carried out the Malegaon bombings. This, he says, is completely false as he was at the
local mosque on the day of the bomb blasts. The local special executive officer has given an affidavit validating this. Noor claims that Police Inspector Sachin Kadum had threatened him thus: ‘Although I am aware of the fact that you are not involved in the bomb blast, we will still capture you and we will see if you can get out of this situation.’
In October 2006 Noor was taken to Bangalore for brain mapping and narco-tests. These proved negative, but the experience was harrowing. During the narco-test he was given powerful electric shocks and was badly beaten. His ribs were also battered. The doctor, Malti , asked him to say what the police wanted him to say or else he would be more deeply implicated in the bomb blast case. ‘When I did not repeat the words electric shocks were given to my ear’, he says. While he was in the custody of the Nasik police, they tortured him severely at the ATS office, saying that he should state what the police wanted him to—in other words, to give a false ‘confession’. ‘In the month of Ramzan while I was fasting I was beaten so much that I fainted’, he says. ‘Inspector Sachin Kadum and Inspector Khan Gekar used to abuse me and say that if you do not confess we will bring all your sisters here. We will make them naked and photographs will be taken and they will also be beaten,’ he adds. They also threatened to implicate Noor’s brother in the case. Finally, they were able to force him to make a false ‘confession’ by taking his signature on a blank piece of paper, but he later retracted this ‘confession’.
Muhammad Hanif Adul Razzak Shaikh from Gujarat is yet another victim of state terrorism. On the 28th of April, 2003, around two dozen men rushed into Hanif’s house, but since Hanif was said to have been away attending a friend’s funeral in Himmatnagar, they dragged his brother, Yasin, to the police station where he was beaten up. They picked him up without an arrest warrant and detained him for twelve days until the 3rd of May, when Hanif came back and presented himself at the Crime Branch. He was immediately put into detention and the CBI searched his factory but recovered nothing.
Mohammad Hanif was in the business of making bags. The police claimed that the bomb which was used in the Tiffin bomb blast and in another such blast had been made in his factory. But when Hanif refused to accept these allegations, the police tortured him severely and even threatened to arrest his brother Yasin if he did not comply with their orders. After this, they allegedly forced a false ‘confession’ out of him to implicate him in the blasts. His interrogators tortured him mercilessly and he was then presented in court on the 10th of May 2003. There, Hanif refused to accept the charges against him, which allegedly prompted the magistrate to say that the police should take Hanif in for some more *khatirdari *(‘hospitality’), by which was meant even greater torture. During this remand, Hanif was said to have been subjected to third degree torture, brutally beaten and forced to sign numerous false statements. The forced ‘confession’ was apparently used as evidence to prolong his remand stay. He retracted his statement in the court but after appearing in court for the second time the judge ordered that he should be treated to some more ‘hospitality’. After this, he is said to have been compelled to sign another ‘confession’, on the basis of which he was sentenced to 10 years in jail. During the five years he has spent in jail so far Hanif’s wife as well as his mother died. A father of four, one of his daughters has tuberculosis. His small bag-making unit has been closed ever since he was put into jail and his family now lives in abject penury.
Maulana Mohammad Naseerudin of Hyderabad was arrested in August 2004 immediately after addressing a meeting of fellow Muslims at a local mosque. The Anti-Terrorism Squad accused him of conspiring to blow up a Hindu temple in Hyderabad, a charge that he denied. The next month he was released on bail, but on the condition that he would report to the CID office on a weekly basis. On 31st September, 2004, when the Maulana reached the CID office he found the Gujarat police waiting for him. They took him into custody, accusing him of incitement violence in Gujarat in his speeches in the mosque. In actual fact, so it is said, he had preached for relief and aid for Muslims in Gujarat who had been brutalized by the state, the police and Hindutva forces. The police failed to give any evidence at the time of his detention and subsequent trial, simply claiming that he was inciting communal hatred during his sermons.
The news of the Maulana’s arrest spread quickly and he was put into a bus and given a drug to incapacitate him. The protestors asked the police for the arrest warrant. 23 year-old Mujahid Saleem Azmi, a friend of the family, started questioning the procedures during the arrest, and, after some prompting by the expanding crowd, the police released the Maulana. A heated
exchange between Police Officer Narendra and Mujahid began. The officer shamelessly shouted at Mujahid, ‘Have you people forgotten Gujarat? I will finish you all off.’ Mujahid replied that he was not scared of his threats and that the officer should conduct himself on the basis of the law. The police officer then said that if he was looking for a warrant he would show him a warrant and took out his gun and fired point blank at Mujahid. The rest of the police officers started firing in the air. They pushed the Maulana back into the van and drove off. The ATS provided safe passage for the police to flee Hyderabad. Meanwhile, Mujahid, 23, was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Thousands of people collected outside the hospital and they asked for a case to be filed against the police. Several different Hindutva organizations came together to try and disrupt the funeral procession the following day. The police used their special division – the Greyhound Task Force – normally used to combat Naxalism to beat and tear gas the processionists. The Greyhound Task Force forced their way into Mujahid’s house and attacked the family with sticks.
Meanwhile, the Maulana was transferred to a prison in Ahmedabad, where, it is said, he was forced him to make a ‘confession’. He appealed against it, but the special POTA court denied the appeal and accepted the ‘confession’ of Maulana produced by the Gujarat police. His first bail application took four long months to be heard from the day of his judicial custody. A judgment on the bail application took another year. The application was rejected on the grounds that he was ‘anti-American and pro Osama bin Laden’. Another year passed and the high court upheld the POTA court’s order. Six months later, the Supreme Court asked for a swift trial, but rejected bail. Two years have passed since the Supreme Court’s order and yet nothing has happened. The Maulana continues to languish in jail and is presently seriously ill. He has only one kidney, a thyroid problem, and early signs of arthritis, none of which has been taken into consideration during his time in prison. His illnesses have worsened. He cannot walk or handle food that he has to chew, but yet, despite several appeals, the authorities continue to refuse to send him to hospital. In the meantime, the police have also arrested two of his sons for allegedly conspiring to take revenge for his arrest.
Scores of cases of innocent Muslims being deliberately targeted by agencies of the state, in addition to Hindutva forces, abound across the country, and the situation seems to be getting worse with every passing day. This is not to say that none of the several blasts that have occurred in India in the last several years could have been the handiwork of Muslims. Sympathisers of some fringe radical Islamist outfits or Muslims seeking to take revenge for the atrocities and large scale slaughter of their co- religionists, as in Gujarat, might well have planned some of these, and Muslim leaders themselves have rightly called for stern punishment for their perpetrators. However, the mounting indiscriminate arrests, torture and detention of vast numbers of innocent Muslim youth across the country in the name of countering terrorism not only makes a complete mockery of our claims to secularism and democracy but is a perfect recipe for making Muslim terrorism a self-fulfilling prophecy. And, to make matters worse, at the same time as the hounding of innocent Muslims continues, Hindu mobs are allowed to operate free of any effective restraint, lionised as ardent ‘nationalists’ as they continue to wreak murder, mayhem and naked terror on Muslims, and now, as in Orissa and Karnataka, Christians. That, surely, is no way to combat terrorism. Far from it, it can only further exacerbate the problem.
Note: The details of the above-mentioned cases have been procured from the testimonies submitted to the jury of the People’s Tribunal on the Atrocities Committed Against Minorities in the Name of Fighting Terrorism organised by Anhad and the Human Rights Law Network in Hyderabad, 22-24th August, 2008.
Photo: Fruit Seller, Mumbai
If authorities including police should act fairly in order to bring the peace in the region !
Leave Hindu muslims and christain aside, first treat every one as citizens of this country, don’t communalized the terror with Hindu / Muslim colour.
Developed confidence amoung the citizens with support and security, don’t allow private funded media to bring up with their stories of terrors, let ever one feels the responsibility of security of their mother land. so that real face of terror must be track and bring them to the justice !
The State in India is culprit for marking many men, irrespective of thier religion, putting them in jails on frivolous charges and stuff. Many minorities are harrased by other majorities. So all those men should start bombing innocent people? May be kashmiri hindus should have become terrorists as well? And Dalits should have been bombing for a long time!!!
Why do you keep mentioning Gujrat? If you do so, others can say Gujrat happened because of Godhra. And quite possibly you would then argue back saying Godhra was again a Hindu conspiracy. We can keep backtracking it untill very primitve time in History.
The community needs to get rid of persecution complex which has set in deep and is spreading more. And it is not limited to India but worldwide. It is a sorry state of affair and it shows pathetic failure of muslim leadership in this country. Show me one Maulana Azad….
It is unfortunate that a lot of innocent people also get caught into the vortex of anti terrorist operations.
However, the terrorist network is so extensive that this many a time can even passed off as collateral damage. A far better synch amongst all the intelligence agencies is needed to be able to give better results.
It is quite paradoxical that while some try to establish that police and others falsely arrest, torture , obtain confessions under “duress’ and innocents are left to languish in jail for long!
On the other hand,there is lot of media hype over arrest of Muslim terrorists, after every bomb blast and they supply further information about others involved in serial bomb blasts!And there are encounters with police also!
Hence, it becomes very difficult to come to any definite conclusion.
If we are to condemn the fake arrests and fake encounters, we are obliged to strongly condemn Muslims indulging in terrorist activities.Islam and terrorism are poles apart.Islam taboos both “suicide” and “homicide”.
“Jihad” is the one Arabic word which has been overused and misinterpreted in contemporary world.The only jihad allowed to Muslims till the last day is “Jihade Kabeer”(the great jihad), which entails Muslims to struggle with unbelievers with contents of the Holy Quran in debates only!Hence, those who encourage terrorism, help terrorists or harbour them shall not be deemed Muslims at all.
We are Indians first and Muslim next. We have to be true Muslims to become true citizens.We should so conduct ourselves that nobody harbours any misgivings about our citizenship or patriotism.
@Rajan, @Milind
The moment you saw that there was no argument to be done agianst Muslims, you started sermonising. Don’t you feel any sympathy towards human being when they are Muslims. You really deserve those corrupt policemen, who rob you day and night. You should try to file an FIR and feel ‘patrotism’ and ‘collateral damage’.
I am not sure whether this comment of mine is correct. But lemme go ahead and say it anyway..
All the harassment and hatred that hindus have against muslims…..they dont have it in a equal scale against christians, not even against Sikhs who demanded their own country (same like how muslims demanded pakistan)……FYI, i am not talking abt VHP,BAJRANG DAL….i am not talking abt aam-aadmi…
i think the hatred comes from the fact that when muslims demand anything it all comes from the basis of their religion…..they wanted Pakistan coz they wanted Islamic state…they want urdu to be state language coz only muslims primarily speak that language….they want sharia law coz again its based on Islamic teachings…..
I think the hatred comes more easily becoz there is a feeling among hindus that no matter how benevolent you try to be with muslims, muslims will still side with people from their own religion and hence by extension, countries with same religion…..this is the biggest problem of totally identifying yourself based on your religion…
I am not saying muslims should not be religious……i am just saying that dont start protesting here in India…..if saddam is executed in Iraq…dont support Kashmir separatists….dont support MF Hussain, if you condemn Taslima and Salman Rushdie….
I just want to give an idea of how the majority looks at muslims…..i am sure that muslims also might have problems the same way….hope someone here can tell me what they are….so that people can understand what a hindu and muslim see when they look at each other…..
Sorry for digressing from the topic, but i have already condemned the indiscriminate harassing of innocent muslims….so i will stop here.
Asghar Ali Engineer is one of the many Maulana Azads around, but you do not have eye to see them. And by any standard, who told you that the Maulana was a good leader. Nobody bothered to pay heed to his advise and Patel even went to the extent of telling him that he is not at par with them. This is fact and we find people make Patel an icon and mould Modi in same die. Shouldn’t we ashamed of our first home minister?
Veritas!
If people are bent upon having ‘misgivings’ about you, its like you cant shut the mouth of a foul speaker. If intelliegence gathering is ‘which masjid you visit for namaz’ then we already have a ‘dossier’ for mosques ‘extremist’ and ‘moderate’. To India Today (incidentally Aaj Tuk group) a Barelvi Masjid (whatever that means to them) with a badly written piece of board castigating all viz Deobandi, Mahdavi and Qadiyanis (All bad and we use the very same stick to beat Muslims out of their ‘hardline’ on ‘Qadiyani Muslims’ etc) and their entry restriction. Now, isnt the analyser of this board aflicted with the mentality of total ban on Non+non Caste-Hindus in temples of fame?? To them, its is a matter of practice and ‘aastha’. To a true Muslim, Islam and country counts at same priority, but for these fools, ‘aastha’ is above law of the land and they make even boulder of ‘mountain size’ float in sea. I used ‘fools’ because I have lot of non-Caste and Caste Hindus, for majority of them, facts are more than what you assume by listening to ‘grandmother’s’ bedtime stories earlier in you life. As we go away from these bedtime stories due to ‘molecularisation’ of Indian family, we find the tribe of ‘reasonable’ Hindus increasing. Atleast, at this front we need to be optimistic.
Its a sad state of affairs of the police in the country. If such police is let loose across then every state will seek “Azaadi”. Sometimes this sounds like a plot of a C-grade Bollywood movie
- The question is why should the cops do all this and what they get out of it. Incompetency cannot be the only excuse.
- Where are the representatives/MLAs/MPs who instead of protesting against Taslima Nasreen or for Saddam Hussain can bring forth genuine issues?
- Why do not the Lawyers fight these cases?
- The govt. should be severely taken to task for such cases. I know that police is the last agency people can trust but this is outright shameful.
- This cannot be a religious issue. Its a far serious social issue for the matter in which cops deal with the avg. man.
- We need to build awareness of these issues to raise public consciousness. If the person is released the people should pursue the case to get compensation.
If these folks are innocent, why is the community not fighting for them?. There is a secular government in Delhi led by a gentleman from a minority community and nobody has yet accused our Supreme Court of discrimination, and which is headed by a dalit. In india, the legal system is supposed to be impartial with layers for petitioning and rendering justice.
Is there an effort to make these gentlemen martyrs doe newsbytes? or are they guilty as charged?.
It is hard to belive that a country led by a Sardar, with a woman as the President, a christian as the top leader of a powerful political party, a country that has powerful secular parties in Government and opposition, a country that is the home of Mahatma, a country that has tremendous religious freedom is the evil country that some turn it out to be.
We all have colleagues from all spectrums and faith, we interact with them for work, we respect them on the basis on their work and not on their individualities.
@Urdudaan,
If you stopped personal attacks and paused to consider, you would understand that I have always supported the cause of the Muslims.
I have never wanted them to be discriminated against, I have always wanted Hindus to live in harmony with them. I have believed that it is important for Muslims to educate them, so that they have a better share of voice.
And why should I want Muslims to suffer?? Just think!!!
There are two types of terrorism: one is terrorism by individuals and the other is state-sponsored terrorism.
Terrorism by individuals is not the liability of their community, because actions of individuals are basically arbitrary as there are all sorts of people in all communities.
Nor is such terrorism of far-reaching consequences because of their limited nature, as the state can intervene immediately to set right the affairs, make sure that justice is done and that such mishaps don’t recur.
Terrorism by state is but the liability of the majority community, because the laws are set and implemented by them – at least by the condoning of a majority of them.
This terrorism is of far-reaching consequence, as there is no one on the face of earth to redress the grievances of the victims.
Now the laws are usually based on the moral values adopted by the majority community. Based on this aspect Quran divides the human society into two groups – the “People of the Book” and the polytheists.
The basic difference between the people of the book and the polytheists is that the former has a belief in one God, divine scriptures (giving moral laws) and Day of Judgment, where as the latter lack it. So the moral values of the former are fixed and non-relative since it is based on the scripture. The latter do not have the support of scriptures for their morals, even though they may adopt good morals based on intellectual adaptation.
For example how Muslims view murder? Their idea on it is fixed, as is expounded by the Quran:
“If someone kills another person – unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption in the earth – it is as if he had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives life to another person, it is as if he had given life to all mankind”. (Chapter Al-Ma’ida: 32)
So I view murder of an innocent leading to my doom in my hereafter, for which I myself alone will be accountable there. If I murder an innocent Hindu, I cannot claim to God that I was settling accounts for Godhra, because I firmly believe Godhra is for God to settle on the Day of Judgment.
The problem of relativism of morals can be illustrated by an argument I had with a beloved Hindu brother here on the Godhra issue. He argued that Muslims had murdered one million Hindus in Bangladesh, to which Godhra incident pales in comparison. So in his view a thousand more Godhras are justifiable till Hindus becomes at par with Muslims.
You can see the danger lurking in this logic – any atrocity can be easily justified or explained away by comparing with incidents supposed to have happened in bygone eras, whether they are true or false. This is simply the law of the wild translated into the human society. This is the principle advocated by people like Underground Indian, above.
The conventional Muslim interpretation is that Muslims, Christians, Jews etc are the People of the Book while Hindus etc are polytheists. However some Muslim scholars have opined that Hindus too should be considered as People of the Book since they claim to believe in one God and possess scriptures and belief in hereafter in some form. The fact that India has a democratic system and equitable laws lends support to this claim.
I remember reading how one Hindu brother who was the relative of a victim of Kanishka Plane bombing responded when the perpetrators of the bombing were acquitted after a protracted legal battle. He said they will be called into account before God on the hereafter. This was something which moved me very much. This brother, by his birth, is not supposed to believe in the Day of Judgment, still his moral disposition led him to this logic.
Let us all learn something from this and guard ourselves from committing any iniquity to our fellow brothers for which we will be answerable on the Day when the cases of Kanishka bombing, Godhra incident and Bangladesh genocide will be reopened.
Harassment of innocent Muslim youth by police and investigating agencies is a well known fact and it is certainly having a bad psychological effect proving counter productive at times. The theory of action and reaction is always there whether we agree or not. Having said that, there could be no justification of a terror act, whatever the circumstances as there is no justification of any innocent person being falsely implicated and tortured by the police. Don’t blame Muslim leadership for lack of condemnation of terror act as it has always been quick to condemn in the strongest words any act of violence and terror. The national media, print and electronic, is guilty of ignoring this anti terror stand of Muslim leadership even though it is quick enough to pick up the slightest thing it can to tarnish their image. The pro active attitudes of Deoband and other Muslim organisations against terrorism has been the most welcome and timely step culminating in anti terror conferences throughout the count besides issuing Fatwa’s. This is what the Muslim leadership is require to do. No body is against a tough terror law, there are apprehensions only against it’s misuse, which was rightly highlighted by Mr. YG in this article.
Mr. Sikand is beating a dead horse: be nice, play fair, or else there’ll be more attacks coming. Nothing new here – he’s singing the same tune as apologists for any other typical terrorist outfit.
It’d be nice if the likes of Mr. Sikand contemplate on the harm that’s done by reinforcing the injustice-against-Muslims-hence-militancy theme.
To put it in perspective: Hindus too can list a mega-ton of injustices against them by Muslims over the past 1000 YEARS. How about an article titled, “Manufacturing Hindu extremism, the Islamic way” circulated to the majority of middle-class Hindus? We know that we have plenty of material, starting with the razing of Somnath temple.
@ sudie
You are right as the private funded media would bring the stories of Modi, Advani, Raj even they cough and sneeze ?
Likewise, the same media should bring to their viewer about the stories of the leaders protested against Tasleema and Saddam ?
Viewers want to look their point of view afterall they are also a part of this country ?
The Babri Masjid demolitions, the riots after that, as well as the Gujarat riots need to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Not only that, the perpetrators need to be brought to book and punished. Those who deserve the death penalty should be awarded that.
There is no doubt that VHP and Bajrang Dal are terrorist outfits. It is also true that the police are communal.
HOWEVER, THAT STILL DOES NOT MEAN THAT TERRORISM IS JUSTIFIED. Any act in which innocents die is completely unacceptable.
The Ulema of Deoband condemning terrorism is a very welcome step. The Hindus also need to appreciate that slowly, Muslims ARE speaking out against terrorism. The most recent opinion polls show that there is a sharp drop in Muslims who find suicide bombing unacceptable.
Let all live in harmony, and none carry a chip on their shoulder.
The people who demolished the mosque, the riots after that, as well as the Gujarat riots, Orrisa and Mangalore are the sole source of terrorism in India, we need to ban all these organisations including RSS, BJP, BD, VHP and Shiv sena, SIMI, HUJI in order to bring the peace in India, moreover the media who are supporting these organisation need to be banned.
The birth of recent terrorism acts by misguided youths has its genesis in the hatered started by right wing Hindu organisations somewhere around Babri demolitions, which helped them to polarise communities. If I recall last five decades, communal riots took place in the vicinity, in a patern whenever there were national meets of RSS and most front runners use to be Hindu refugees, who had migrated from present day Pakistan and since they had suffered, they needed a vent to display their anger. It should have cooled down with times, but the polarisation after Babri, human right voilations in Kashmir/Gujrat and the mis adventures of ISI, all put together, a deadly concoction is ready to destroy the lives of poor and innocent muslims in India. The Indian Muslim community should outright reject terrorism and condemn it in strongest possible terms. The community should informally police the situation and help administration to catch the culprits, as otherwise the community will be playing into the hands of anti national right wing organisations of both Hindus and Muslims. It is a wake up call for Indian Muslims.
@Zahed,
You are sounding a very positive note, which I appreciate. Let nobody live in denial. Let us manfully accept facts and make a positive choice to live in harmony.
This forum is also serving a useful purpose of letting people freely express their opinions.
@Milind,
I say so based on your reaction:
“It is unfortunate that a lot of innocent people also get caught into the vortex of anti terrorist operations.”
So, while we are discussing that “almost all” cases that the police have presented have neither proven to be genuine nor have they been able to stop further attacks. The point being discussed is that police and intelligence agencies are either not doing their job (unaccountable) or are being made not to do so.
But your comment suggests as if the point being discussed is “of the 100, 10 were mistaken as criminals” which is not the case/point here.
@Urdudaan,
There is a mix of genuine and real encounters which happen, the proportion of which is difficult to determine.
There is absolutely no denying that innocent Muslims are harrassed, or that the police is communally biased. The point is, it does not happen all the time.
I am really sorry that I cannot tell you what I do for the Ummah because it is done purely fi sabil Allah and not for earning brownie points with human beings. However, suffice it to say that if you were to mention to any individual in my circle that I do not care for Muslims, they would be aghast.
If what you say about me is true, may Allah (SWT) forgive me. If it is untrue, may He forgive you.
Wa akhir dawaana an alhamdolillahe Rabb ul Alemein