Imagine this: in the heart of the Kashmir Valley where over 97 percent of the population are Muslims, three women were arrested for distributing Quran! What was their crime? They were distributing copies of the Holy Quran. Think about that for a moment. Arrested, humiliated, and criminalized, for simply sharing the divine scripture with their fellow believers. Just a few years ago, would any of us have thought that such a day would come? That the very book that defines our existence would be treated as contraband?

This is the stark reality of the Hindu totalitarian state that occupies our homeland. Its war is against our land, our people and against our very faith. The brutal military administration ensures that ahead of the holy month of Ramadhan, Quran distribution is cracked down upon with full force, while at the same time, alcohol—explicitly forbidden in Islam—is being circulated, sold, and promoted with absolute impunity. Every forbidden, every Haraam activity is being facilitated, funded, and encouraged, while the very essence of our faith is being criminalized. And when it comes to their sponsored Amarnath Yatra, the highways of Kashmir are sealed, the military machinery is put into overdrive, and every resource is mobilized to ensure its smooth execution. The contrast could not be starker.

Are you watching, my brothers and sisters? Do you not see what is unfolding before your very eyes? Your sacred book, your lifeline, your guide, is being banned, while every corrupting force is being unleashed upon your society. And who is there to speak up? The religious scholars? The ones who should have been on the front lines? But what can we expect when so many of them are busy in Munazara Baazi, engaged in petty debates rather than resisting the storm that seeks to erase our identity?

We have been warning about this for years. The occupier’s project is about de-Islamizing our land. Their goal is to strip our faith of its revolutionary essence, to domesticate it, to transform it into a mere relic of rituals—harmless, apolitical, and compliant. A faith that does not resist, a faith that does not liberate, a faith that does not challenge their grip over our homeland. And if we do not rise, if we do not unite, if we do not resist, then we ourselves are complicit in this slow strangulation of our religious and cultural existence.

The time for complacency is long over. This is an existential battle. They are attacking our land and its soul simultaneously. The question is—how long will we allow it to continue?