- Syed Suhaib Abdullah
On the 10th of January 2018, this 8-year-old girl was abducted by six Hindu men near her home in the Kathua area of Jammu. She was subjected to brutal rape for four consecutive days and then tragically murdered. As the gory details of the rape and murder of this angel-like little Muslim girl began to unfold, the entire Muslim community was shell shocked. Not surprisingly, the main conspirator was a temple head named Sanjay Ram. He invited his nephew who in turn invited his friends to commit this heinous crime. Sanjay along with his nephew abducted and raped the child in Jungle before taking her to a Temple where she was raped by four other men repeatedly for four consecutive days. After satiating their lust for four days, these barbarians finally thought of killing the child. While others prepared to kill her, Khajuria, one among the culprits stopped them and so that he could rape her one last time (Earth must have yearned to swallow all humans here). The minor child’s uterus was damaged and her body mercilessly mutilated.
But that was not the end of how uncivilized and moronic these Hindutvadis can become. BJP politicians along with Hindu Ekta Munch, while waving the national flag of the fascist Indian state, carried out protest rallies in support of rapists and demanded their unconditional release in Kathua. Surprised? Well, one must not, for we all know how deep-rooted their hatred against the Muslim Community is and the fact that they and their national army has been using rape as a weapon of war in Jammu and Kashmir since past more than three decades. When it comes to us, Muslims, their national flag and even temples become strategic positions and symbols to execute horrendous crimes against us. They didn’t even stop there! Their Hindutva professors wrote a book blaming Muslims for the crime and absolving rapists! Madhu Kishwar, the author of the book, is a professor at Indian Council of Social Sciences Research.
The agony of this incident will not go away. We remember Asifa and numerous others who became victims of the most despicable acts perpetrated by Hindutvadis.
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