#kashmiri muslims

[localrants]

جسے لکھا گیا ہے آنسوؤں سے میں وہ تحریر

میں دھرتی ہوں شہیدوں کی، مجھے کہتے ہیں کشمیر

Jisse likha gaya hai ansuo'on se, mai woh tehreer

Mai dharti hun shaheedo'n ki, mujhe kehte hain Kashmir

5th February, Kashmir Soliditary Day.

76 years of imprisonment, lockdown and law amendments. Let Kashmir be free!

[papenathys]

It's just so telling how Penguin India markets books about Kashmir depending on the author's religion.

[ultfreakme]

Freeing Palestine is India's fight

I've seen lots of posts about how Western countries and their populations should be concerned for stopping the genocide in Palestine but Indians are involved in this as well.

India has a HUGE Islamophobia problem, from the day India became what it is, this country exists the way it does through conflict regarding religious majorities and it is a problem we must acknowledge.

Collective punishment has often been carried out indiscriminately against Muslims in India- Muslim people's houses in Madhya Pradesh have been demolished without warning. This has also happened in Uttar Pradesh and in 2023, Haryana(300 businesses and homes). These were all normal innocent civilians who had proper legal paperwork showing their purchase and ownership of their home and land, but the police did not care. In many of these instances the police stood by and were involved in demolition and all of these were under BJP-majority and ruled areas. The recent Ram Mandir was built on the demolished land of Babri Masjid(it was built in the 14th century before India as it was even a THING, its destruction & demolition on the claim that it was Ram's birth place is unfair). Hate crimes against Muslims run amok and there are multiple cases of violence against Muslims in India.

PM Modi of the BJP party has been consistent in maintaining positive relations with Benjamin Netanyahu and the occupying force of Israel. A majority of the military equipment for India comes from Israel, and India has constantly been neutral in UN council meetings when decisions regarding Israel are brought up. A spyware called Pegasus, developed by the occupying force of Israel was used to surveil politicians, journalists, activists etc severely breaching right to privacy and threatening freedom of speech.

Worse; India has been using the Israeli strategy of colonizing Palestine with Kashmir. Jammu & Kashmir is a union territory which basically means they are allowed to function independently on most fronts but India has been seeking to integrate J&K into itself and has been extremely hostile to its Muslim citizens and are currently intensifying their occupation efforts. There have been consistent internet and communication blackouts since 2018 and it is STILL ongoing.

India invited Israeli officials to Kashmir to open 'Centers of Excellence' which are supposedly for agricultural innovation but everyone in J&K are concerned and see it as India taking an opportunity to intensify its occupation with Israeli help.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, several Kashmiris told Middle East Eye the Israeli agriculture hubs would deepen India's occupation in the region and accelerate its settler-colonial project. "Earlier, we would draw the parallels between Kashmir and Palestine or India's intimate alliance with Israel. But now they are bringing Israel to the Valley in the form of these institutions - which will be "agro-oriented" in name - but we all know that Israel will physically help India in Kashmir to turn it into a proper Palestine," a Kashmiri academic based in Istanbul told Middle East Eye.

In 2016 Coalition of Civil Society said there are more than 8000 'disappearances' of people in J&K. There are mass graves with over 2000 bodies being found with these unlawful activities being attributed to the Indian Security Forces. That's just scratching the surface of decades of violence and human rights violations enacted by India.

BJP is not shy about its ties to the RSS and promotes Hindutva(I've seen people citing the literal meaning of the word as evidence that it is harmless but the word is a label given to an embraced by extreme right-wing groups who are open about their Islamaphobia. Meaning of the word becomes pointless when actions speak otherwise).

India is an occupying force on J&K, it's suppressing Muslims, demonizing them and further marginalizing them in the name of 'Hinduism'. It buys from Israel and endorses them. As Indians, it is key that we do whatever we can to stop the genocide because we are unwittingly being used to fuel this and are being radicalized to hate on our neighbors, the people we share our land and history with.

Even outside of the ways in which the current government is shamelessly supporting Israel, India's history is rife with colonization. The British had occupied us, forced us into fighting each other, into prioritizing meaningless differences to suppress each other. We were once starved by occupying forces, violated, killed. Our land is also covered in blood shed by colonization.

What are we doing if we don't speak up? If we don't stop this? Do not follow the propaganda conflating extreme right-wing ideologies with the identity of being Indian. Don't buy into the idea that India is "for Hindus", we are so ridiculously diverse, there are 100s of languages and religions in this country.

Free Jammu & Kashmir, free Palestine, stop Islamophobia.

[curtwilde]

The orange gang's silence about the kumbh mela disasters reveals their hypocrisy more than anything else does. For something that so deeply concerns the religion that they claim to care about, you would think they would hold the party that claims to work in their interests more accountable? But they're not and everyone knows why that is - they never cared about hindus and hinduism to begin with. All that jazz was and always has been a thinly veiled cover for their hatred of Muslims.

[katrinaftw44]

Colourization I did today of a Kashmiri woman. I have very little detail on the original b+w as it's from Pinterest.

I haven't done a colourization in months but I had no wifi this morning so I did a colourization because I couldn't do much else.

[sheltiechicago]

Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir

A Kashmiri Muslim bride looks through her veil during a mass wedding

Photograph: Mukhtar Khan/AP

[meherya]

crazy that it's been now proven (again) that india has been actively targeting sikhs in the diaspora... if people in our community aren't even safe abroad to what measure are we safe within that country

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[shehzadi]

in india, more houses belonging to muslims bulldozed (x, x). shrines and madrasas demolished (x,x,x). kashmiris forced to attend modi’s speech during his visit there (x,x,x). caa bill passed (x,x). muslims attacked during friday congregational (x,x) and taraweeh prayers (x,x,x). all in the last month.

[3025-jasmines]

because I am also Indian, I want to also point this out. freedom for colonized people everywhere also means freedom for Kashmiris that are under a brutal Indian occupation. the right to self-determination for all colonized people everywhere, from Palestine to Kashmir to Ireland

a good book to read to learn more about the relationship between Israel and India is “Hostile Homelands” by Azad Essa. India is looking to Israel treatment of Palestinians as a blueprint for its own crimes against Kashmiris, Muslims and Dalits. India is also complicit in furthering Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine - the Port of Haifa is currently partly owned by Adani Ports & SEZ, the founder of which is one of the wealthiest men in India, Gautam Adani (won’t come as a surprise that Adani is also very close to Modi and the BJP)

[divinum-pacis]

A Kashmiri Shiite Muslim lights a candle on the graves of her relatives while offering prayers for the salvation of the souls of the departed, during Shab-e-Barat, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Kashmir, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

[molkolsdal]

Kashmiri Muslim women ride in a boat (Shikara) on Dal Lake in Srinagar, 23 March 2005.

Tauseef Mustafa

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[shehzadi]

increasing anti-muslim violence in india. 3 lynchings in the last week in west bengal alone. more murders, more abuse, more torture is expected at this point against indian muslims and kashmiris (x), given upcoming elections and hindutva’s growing obsession with emulating israel. who better to take inspiration from if you intend to eradicate an entire group of people and steal land?

[certified-yapper-guy]

do you even know the meaning of the word hindutva?

also, you keep speaking about that fucking "hindu upper caste allowed mughals/britishars to invade" or wtev

Alright let's say you are right. (This is how debates work actually but not like you know)

What about the Kashmiri pundits (omg they are brahmins???!!!) killed. The women raped and murdered and converted forcefully into islam. Ismalists litreally fucking burning down the houses of kashmiri pundits??

Also are you from a lower caste? Because if you are you can speak about it now. My family now, techinically comes in SC category. But by roots, from my mothers side, We were brahmins. And before you say "Thats not possible, a brahmin marrying to shudra"

Well idk what to tell you tbh, Because it was a couple genrations back too. Yes in THAT time. I don't owe you an explaination or anything, but just know that the person from my mother side married to the shudra family by choice AND support of parents.

So I can infact speak, from actual experience, of my paternal grandparents and the stories they have about their grandparents, about caste discrimation and all that thing you talk about. The hindu hate you try to show is all just a facade.

You just want attention.

Oh by the way, don't bother correcting my english, it isn't my first language. Also stop trying to perpetuate hate. It isn't cool to do so.

Hinduphobia isn't cool

Stop trying to pit people against each other. I know what people like you are trying to do.

Oh also, Stop posting under hindublr if you don;t know shit. I have friends. Hindu (upperclass brahmins) almost all of them are that. Not even their grandparents (knowing my caste) have ever discriminated against me. And trust me I have had people back in school do that, but honeslty, it still doesn;t make me hate brahmins or all hindus because Ik that that kind of shit is subjective. It differs from people to people.

i know what jindutva means. it’s not just “Hindu pride” or whatever the fuck sanghis try to brand it as—it’s a political ideology that tries to push a majoritarian nationalist agenda.

i don't give a fuck if you're 'a peaceful hindu,' as long as you sit silent, and ignore the hate and violence being spread in the name of YOUR religion, you're a fucking bigot.

hinduphobia is not real and never will be.

on kashmiri pandits, yes, their suffering was real. No one denies the violence, displacement, and trauma they faced. (kashmiri refugees literally get reservations in govt institutions). but if you think that talking about caste oppression somehow erases that, YOU'RE just falling for the whataboutism trap. no one is saying one cancels out the other—except right-wingers who weaponise kashmiri pandit suffering only when it suits their narrative, while ignoring caste violence, lynchings, or the horrific treatment of muslims, christians, and dalits today.

looking at history through a saffron tinted glass doesn't change the present.

your caste history? cool, i’m glad your family made choices that broke caste barriers (bare minimum). but a few inter-caste marriages don’t magically erase casteism in India. just because you personally didn’t face caste discrimination from brahmins doesn’t mean caste oppression isn’t an institutional reality. dalits are still lynched. manual scavenging still exists (and govt is hiding data). caste is still a material reality, not just some outdated concept.

the people who actually pit hindus against the marginalised are the ones in power. calling out their bullshit isnt the same as 'creating a divide'.

lastly, i will keep using the hindublr tag, i want you lot to feel uncomfortable in the dystopia you live in.

[dreamertrilogys]

Land by Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001), a Kashmiri American Muslim poet