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I have seen many gatherings like this, and not just in the UK, and here is an uncensored ‘other side’. Gatherings like these are not just ‘a meal’ or ‘a celebration’, they are equally a demonstration of numbers, a seizure of public spaces, and a show of force of the global ‘Ummah’ over the national identity and distinct from it. It sets the precedent for a street veto. While an iftar is itself a communal meal, it is a tacit ‘this is how large we, the Ummah, are’ and therefore an act of ‘claiming’ (peacefully – for now at least) the heart of a Western (or Bharatiya) city, signalling a shit in the local power dynamic in favour of the Ummah.
Also, I don’t think I need to draw any parallels here with how this is received vs how let’s say Hindu public festivities may be stigmatised or shamed. So let us not dress this up as pluralism, inclusivism, or (the failed project of) multiculturalism. Community building? Yes, but to what end?
Ms. Ansari, history has a long memory. Gatherings exactly like this one were where the demand to split India was born and cheered.
Lets see if you can answer this honestly: can Hindus or Christians gather in these numbers anywhere in the Middle East? Can they pray openly in a public square with their ruler or mayor blessing the occasion? You know the answer.
And since you are moved to write about tolerance and belonging, look into the hearts and minds of your ummah — your brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. What do they truly feel toward the kafeer living among them? Not what they say in public. What they feel.
I have seen many gatherings like this, and not just in the UK, and here is an uncensored ‘other side’. Gatherings like these are not just ‘a meal’ or ‘a celebration’, they are equally a demonstration of numbers, a seizure of public spaces, and a show of force of the global ‘Ummah’ over the national identity and distinct from it. It sets the precedent for a street veto. While an iftar is itself a communal meal, it is a tacit ‘this is how large we, the Ummah, are’ and therefore an act of ‘claiming’ (peacefully – for now at least) the heart of a Western (or Bharatiya) city, signalling a shit in the local power dynamic in favour of the Ummah.
Also, I don’t think I need to draw any parallels here with how this is received vs how let’s say Hindu public festivities may be stigmatised or shamed. So let us not dress this up as pluralism, inclusivism, or (the failed project of) multiculturalism. Community building? Yes, but to what end?
Ms. Ansari, history has a long memory. Gatherings exactly like this one were where the demand to split India was born and cheered.
Lets see if you can answer this honestly: can Hindus or Christians gather in these numbers anywhere in the Middle East? Can they pray openly in a public square with their ruler or mayor blessing the occasion? You know the answer.
And since you are moved to write about tolerance and belonging, look into the hearts and minds of your ummah — your brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. What do they truly feel toward the kafeer living among them? Not what they say in public. What they feel.