In February 2020, US Dictator, Donal Trump came to India to persuade Modi to tear up and destroy Indian Constitution. Fearless editor, Fearless Editorji, called his top reporter- Salik Ahmad- into his office. 'Indian Constitution is in danger' Fearlessji said, 'We have obtained original copy. It must be hidden from Modi's goons. If necessary, it should be smuggled out of the country. I call upon you, Salik Bahadur, to perform this heroic feat! Will you accept?'
'Fearlessji, it would be my honor', Salik replied dropping his trousers and presenting his anus for insertion of sacred Constitution. Sadly Fearlessji turned out to be 'footloose' in his ideology. Instead of tenderly and respectfully inserting Indian Constitution into a place of safety, Fearlessji shoved his dick up Salik's rectum. What was the result of this horrible action? Only two years later are we able to judge...
The India Forum is funded by a charity whose chairman is also the chairman of the Raza Foundation. It published the following cri de coeur by a young Muslim 'independent journalist' which was republished by Scroll.in. which received funding from Omidyar and is registered in Delaware.
The Shattering of the Muslim Hope in India
A young Muslim reflects on the collapse of constitutional promises and on the everyday fears and dilemmas faced by the minorities.
SALIK AHMAD
What is noteworthy here is that the editor is not saying this is one young Muslim's opinion. Rather, this is the situation of all Muslims. Apparently they used to have hope. Now that hope has shattered. Why? Because of the collapse of 'constitutional promises' and 'everyday fears and dilemmas'.
This is surprising. The Constitution stripped Muslims of all previous reservations and even caste based affirmative action. Muslim refugees who had crossed the border in panic were stripped of Citizenship. Non Muslim refugees were assured of it. The Custodian of Evacuee (later 'Enemy') property was empowered to harass Muslim property owners. The proportion of Muslims in India went down. Why on earth would Salik Ahmad pin any hope on the Constitution? It can be amended any which way. It has been amended every which way. Extra judicial killing on an industrial scale has been the method of choice for tackling any large scale insurgency. For smaller 'law and order' problems, majoritarian retaliation followed by one-sided curfews and patterns of arrest have been the norm since 1937. Why is this 'independent journalist' so fucking ignorant and stupid? Perhaps the answer is that he is being paid. What he writes is aimed at grant-renewal from entities registered, for Tax purposes, in Delaware.
There are 200 million Muslims in India. What percentage of them is Salik speaking for? Let us see
A few days ago, a friend and I were sitting on my terrace’s moss-blackened floor, having stolen an evening from Delhi life, looking at the fractals of a bare tree against an anaemic sky. He worked in one of those menacingly big MNCs, and was talking about how, as a Muslim, the office felt so alien to him.
Less than one percent of Indians work for 'menacingly big MNCs' in any capacity, let alone the management cadre. Though upper class Muslims may be well represented in the upper echelons, historically that anglophile upper class represented an ever tinier fraction of the Muslim population than the anglophile Hindu class did (at least in some parts of India).
Indeed, a Hindu from a small town or from a 'backward caste' would find a big MNC office even more alien than this Muslim.
“Everybody is so oblivious to the persecution of Muslims.
or persecution of Hindus from such and such caste- e.g. anti Brahmin sentiment in Tamil Nadu which some Iyers- who grew up in Delhi or Bombay- are oblivious of.
I wake up to a new video of lynching,
Murder of Brahmin priest by dominant caste people miffed that the fellow had been pre-booked for another marriage. 'Poonal snatching', verbal and physical abuse, incessant denunciation of Brahmins by senior politicians, discriminatory quotas etc, etc.
Obviously, if some rustic Iyer who got into an MNC office because of his IT skills, made any such remarks other more sophisticated Iyers would tell him to shut the fuck up. Concentrate on getting posted to San Fran, so as to get rid of your desi accent, or Frankfurt, if you don't want to work your ass off and prefer quality of life. India is a shithole. Leave. Do it for your kids, if not for yourself.
or another hate speech,
plenty of 'hate speeches' against Brahmins in T.N. Indeed, plenty of denunciations of 'Brahmin patriarchy' at J.N.U.
or a genocide-enabling cartoon,
But only Muslims in India, in recent years, have done ethnic cleansing. Hindus haven't. Genocide is a Muslim specialty though, no doubt, the War on Terror killed 1.3 millions, according to American sources. Why don't Omidyar and Soros and so forth publicize that fact?
but I go to office and find people discussing what place makes the best sushis
200 million Indian Muslims hopes have been shattered because Hindus keep talking about sushi. U.N must take action!
and what place makes the best cheesecakes.
Cheesecake is Hindu conspiracy to suppress Muslims.
There’s Secret Santa
Secret Santa is RSS trojan horse. The paak Mussulman's spiritual and moral integrity is being subverted by evil Hindu sushi and cheesecake and secret Santa! Jihad those infidels! Jihad them but good!
happening and there are people chalking out their growth trajectories, and I just look around the office, wondering what this place is, or if I’ve come to a different age,” he said.
Indeed. Where are the camels? How come the boss isn't telling us which idolatrous temple to attack?
But then we worried about other friends who worked in outright communal workspaces, with colleagues needling them every now and then over their religious beliefs,
Which atheists consider a cool thing to do. Religious folk should not engage in such foolishness. Everybody's beliefs appear bizarre from some other perspective. Attack the shibboleth of another Faith and you have forged a weapon of skepticism against your own Credo.
and deduced that even an apathetic space was a privilege. And of course, we shuddered at the thought of what Muslims, especially the ones visibly so, in the informal sector—street vendors, rickshaw-pullers, etc.—might be facing every day.
This 'independent journalist' does not bother finding out what problems such Muslims actually face. This would not be difficult. Just talk to rickshaw-wallahs etc. There are many more of them in Delhi than there are guys working in MNC offices.
Being a print journalist who has worked in English newsrooms, I have been largely saved from such experiences.
Because the guy didn't do what journalists are supposed to do- viz. talk to the rickshaw puller.
I worked under some truly secular editors, and others, who, I later realised, were secular only because of the prevailing office culture—they turned out to be surprisingly footloose in terms of ideology.
How shocking! Did you know that editors were prostitutes? Oh. The term 'presstitute' is Indglish. Why did nobody tell poor, innocent, wide-eyed, Salik? He may well have yielded his virginity to some such 'footloose' person.
As the skies turned dark and the chatter of kids from the streets below petered out, my friend and I got up to take a walk. The conversation then turned towards what has become the staple of every conversation between young, privileged Muslims: Should we leave India?
Yes. It is a shithole. Get out while you can. But this is true for Hindus, Parsis, Christians...everybody. Seriously, Delhi's air will soon be completely toxic.
There was a time when I believed in the promises of the Indian state, but over the years and many painful reckonings later I began to see it for what it was.
See India for what it is- a Malthusian shithole. Very very poor countries aint gonna have wonderful State apparati. True, patriotic people may want to stay on to make the country richer and more secure. But these guys aint patriotic. They are whiners. They should emigrate, if only for the sake of their kids.
Even as I begin to write my thoughts, I feel a gush of anger, closely followed by an impulse to moderate my expression.
When a journalist begins to write his thoughts, he feels a gush of uncertainty- does he have enough facts? is his account fair and balanced?- and this motivates further investigation and getting better sources to confirm the gravamen of the article.
This is exerted either by a fear of the law or the anxiety to express an ‘acceptable’ shade of opinion.
So, the guy has no journalistic ethics. That's another reason to get the fuck out of India. Its journalistic standards have turned to shit.
This is the first mark of control and oppression, for it limits my voice, pre-setting the range of my vocabulary, and, thus, diminishes upon its very birth, the cry for my rights.
This fucker thinks he is Anna Akhamatova under Stalin. Perhaps some 'footloose' editor sodomized him. Or perhaps his Ammi put her boot up his ass because she wanted him to stop hanging out with friends on terraces and just get married already.
It is almost incredible how the law and the discourse-setters work together to sanitise testimonies and, subsequently, erode justice.
Worse still, they conspire together to shove 'footloose' editorial dick up Salik's ass. That is the real story here. You have to read between the lines. The law and discourse-setters have sanitized Salik's testimony. The fact is he was held down by Sushi eating MNC employees while various footloose editors, lacking sound ideological moorings, robbed him of his anal cherry. Either that or his Ammijaan shoved her boot up his ass. In either case the guy has a prolapsed rectum. This is eroding justice too much. Constitution is in peril!
There was a time when I believed in the promises of the Indian state, but over the years and many painful reckonings later
them 'footloose' editors sure are randy little buggers
I began to see it for what it was. When it came into being, it was certainly a child with considerable potential.
It stripped Muslim refugees of citizenship, got rid of reserved seats for Muslims, and took away affirmative action for Muslim Dalits.
But what it allowed itself to become, a lot of times with wilful transgressions, pausing but never really atoning for its crimes, only suggested that the initial assessments were erroneous and premised perhaps on an unfounded optimism.
Smart Muslims emigrated. So did smart Hindus. This was even before Sushi eating MNC employees started holding down wide-eyed believers in the Constitution while 'footloose' editors went to town on their anal cherries.
Despite the progressive Constitution giving it nearly all the thrust it needed to become a secular state,
but not as much thrust as that of 'footloose' editors
it could never become that. On the contrary, it has now become quite a majoritarian state.
It always was a majoritarian state. However, Pakistan and India agreed to halt exchange of population. Why did they do so? Because both sides wanted an underclass to provide cheap labor. But then the West too permitted immigration of South Asians for the same reason. The point about being as poor as shit is that rich people want to exploit your labor power. On the other hand, they may pay a little money to hear you whine about how shitty your natal shithole really was. Obviously, this is funnier if you are still living in that shithole. On the other hand, this may be because you have grown fond of the attentions of 'footloose' editors.
I see and remember ... the faces of the Muslims who have spent their entire youth in prison because of wrongful incarceration.
This never happens to Hindus- right? Still, it's good to know that Americans funded 'India forum' and 'Scroll.in' because it drew attention away from Guantanamo Bay. Salik is fighting the good fight for Uncle Sam by distracting attention from the 1.3 million Muslims killed in a War against Terror which ended terribly for everybody except Iran and the Taliban.
If there was a metaphor for what the Indian state does to its Muslim citizens, it is that of the police torturing the 23-year-old Faizan during the violence that broke out in Delhi in February 2020.
But, this metaphor is predicated on the notion that Muslims will attack policemen and Hindus- just because the American President is visiting India- even though, within a day, the Hindus will massively retaliate and then even the Police got in on the action.
The man is lying on the ground, along with other Muslim men, writhing in pain, and the cops are forcing him to sing the national anthem while prodding him with sticks.
But, if the Police Commissioner hadn't been a pussy and if the police had opened fire immediately the first time one of their own got knifed, there would have been no riots. Muslims would have been safer. Why did Delhi not see any post-Babri violence? It is because an IPS officer gave shoot to kill orders the moment one of his men was stabbed. The result was that Delhi remained trouble free while Bombay went up in flames.
Faizan dies later, quite apparently killed by the state.
Whereas policemen were killed by Muslims and therefore, by Salik's logic- by Islam.
More than two years later, there is not a flower of justice on his grave.
Nor has Islam been punished for killing policemen during the Delhi riots. On the other hand, the flower of Salik's anal virginity may well have been plucked by 'footloose' editors.
Writing in 1962 for The New Yorker, in an essay titled “Letter From a Region in My Mind”, the Black American writer James Baldwin noted, “They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was criminal power, to be feared, but not respected, and to be outwitted in any way whatever.”
Were Muslims brought to India as slaves? No. They came as conquerors who enslaved Hindus. Strangely, Hindus did not appreciate this at all. Sad.
I see and remember the face of Faizan’s mother.
Did she see and remember Salik's face as one of the people who came forward to comfort her?
I see and remember the horror and the plea for mercy in the eyes of Qutbuddin Ansari from 2002; the tears in the eyes of the lady in Karnataka, who was forced to take off her burqa to enter the school where she had been teaching for years;
she was teaching in a girl's school. In Islam, women must take off their veil when in a space reserved for women. This is because boys might put on a burqa to sneak in.
the faces of the Muslims who have spent their entire youth in prison because of wrongful incarceration; and the pain in the eyes of fellow Muslims, every time I see them raise their hands in supplication.
But does Salik remember his own anal violation at the hands of footloose editors? I do even though I wasn't there. Yet the image is growing more and more vivid to my mind's eye.
Salik raised his hands in supplication but Footloose editors did not care. They continued to thrust away at his pink, puckered, asshole laughing heartily. Some even forced the fellow to sing National Anthem so as to increase their perverse pleasure. Others were cramming Sushi and Cheesecake down his throat which they then used as a repository for their sperm. Such is the fate of innocents Muslim in Modi's India. They may spread hands in supplication for insertion of Constitution as a suppository. What they are getting is anal intrusion by ideologically footloose editors. As James Baldwin, who was homosexual, said 'First they come for our assholes but nobody says anything because that would be like homophobia right? Then they force us to write worthless shite but nobody says anything coz that would be like against the Freedom of the Press, right? Then they turn out never to have existed because we made them up and everybody just gets on with their life as though nothing happened!'
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