THE population of Muslims in India is more than 13.4 percent according to official data, making it the largest Muslim minority population in the world and the third-largest Muslim population overall. However, India, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, is currently implementing fascist ideas, with Muslims being its special target. While India calls itself the biggest secular state, the ruling BJP is following the agenda of Sangh Parivar to eradicate Muslim identity. Thousands of Muslims are being victimized under the guise of Gau Raksha, Love Jihad, the Controversial Citizenship Law, the cessation of Holy Quran education and riots aimed at killing Muslims. To the outside world, these atrocities are being masked as mob lynching, hidden behind a facade of pacifism, secularism and democracy. If this is not the Muslim holocaust and genocide, what is it?
The RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) is set to complete a hundred years in 2025. Before that, it aims to pave the way to make India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ and is rapidly moving towards fulfilling its dangerous ambitions. Historically, we see figures like Shivaji, a ruler of the Maratha Raj, whose birthday is celebrated with great fanfare in so-called secular India today. From 1947 till now, the repeated riots against Muslims in India are clear evidence of extremist thinking. Devotees of Narendra Modi have initiated a new cycle of violence against Muslims, chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
Dr. Gregory Stanton, head of the international organization Genocide Watch, has warned numerous times that a genocide of Muslims is currently underway in India. He states that India has entered the final stage of genocide and that the complete annihilation of Muslims in India is only a step away. According to Dr. Stanton, the persecution and systematic massacre of Muslims in Kashmir and Assam were the first stages. The destruction of the Babri Masjid and the construction of the Ram Mandir in its place is also part of this nefarious chain.
Under the leadership of the RSS and the patronage of Narendra Modi, extremists in India have fully prepared for a Muslim genocide. While the RSS mentally conditions people, especially the Hindu youth, to be enemies of Muslims, it also provides practical training in weapon making and operation. Displays of weapons and the shouting of hateful slogans in processions under the names of Ram and Hanuman have surpassed the stage of merely harassing and terrorizing Muslims.
The identity of Muslims is being systematically erased through issues like Vande Mataram, Surya Namashkar, Yoga, cow sanctity, and triple talaq. Numerous instances of state interference in Muslim personal law are evidence of Muslim hostility. Extremist organizations like Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Shiv Sena, Hindu Maha Sabha, and Ram Taran Mandal are fundamentally anti-Muslim. Attacks on mosques, amendments to Muslim Personal Law, and the humiliation of Muslims are significant parts of the teachings of these extremist sects. An Indian Muslim intellectual has remarked, “in a way, the message is being given to Muslims silently that they should leave here.”
Despite Muslims making up about 15% of India’s population, there is not a single Muslim Minister in Prime Minister Modi’s Cabinet. For the last nine years, the sting of Hindutva has resounded throughout India, with international experts warning of the threat of genocide against Muslims. Why is the Islamic world oblivious to its responsibilities? Is it not the duty of the Muslim Ummah to exert economic, political and diplomatic pressure on Israel and India to stop the ongoing atrocities?
—The writer is contributing columnist.
