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The legacy of M.A. Jinnah is not a standalone instance of a well curated effort of Muslims that was appropriated & can’t be cloned in India. It’s a standalone instance as never again the West and Muslims would be on the same page again especially after a ‘crumbling East’ after ‘War on Terror’s military machine’ is uncontrollable by democratic means (Russia & Ukraine knows this better than anyone). Also, conflicts such as Oct. 7 incident has made Muslims experience a reality check that Zionists are not a party that negotiate. They don’t negotiate other than seeking expansion of their “gasliting cancel culture”.
In the Indian subcontinent, Zionist organizations such as AIPAC have openly declared their support for Hindutva and have sought to curb ‘democratic Muslim voices’ in the West and the world. Hindutva is as good as Zionism when it’s about opposing ‘democratic Muslim voices’. Both are aligned. Given the fact, most Muslim youth leaders are incarcerated in stringent penalties (UAPA) such as Umar Khalid, Sharzeel Imam & Meeran Haidar. The whole list of jailed Muslim youth is extensive and involves senior Muslim leadership such as E. Abubacker of PFI. A common factor about such Muslim leaders is that they all sought ‘Muslim rights’ within the constitutional framework of India. Whereby, the Indian regime of Hindutva deals with them as it deals with separatist groups. That is by ‘isolating & snaring’ and then incarcerating or killing. It’s a heinous equation for democracy loving Muslims who have failed to find a common ground with “the actors of global order” in an age of ‘war & civilizational conflict’. Muslim majority countries also act diabolically about Islamic issues and activists. For an instance, on the question of sticker currency (Naqad Asnam), when some muslim activists from India suggested that Muslim countries should not put stickers on their currency if muslim countries wish to take Islamic matters to OIC or themselves, the regimes tried to finish them off with the help of stooge Indian officials.
Given the argument on the Hindu-Muslim & West-Muslim relations today, there is no scope for Jinnah or any democratic Muslim leadership that can effect change in the status quo. It’s not a matter of lament for Muslims as much as this must be a worry for those who seek democracy abroad. Donald Trump, while knowing that ‘the age of democracy’ is over, seeks ‘peace in detente’ while curbing democratic voices at home and supporting non-democratic leaders abroad while Putin and Xi knowing the same seeks to curb the West. Meanwhile, democratic Muslims recede along with Mujahideen groups such as Hamas who is almost finished (sparing Arab militaries backed brigades that protect Arab towns), all this points out to the fact that the Western Military machines & “Republicans & Conservatives” in the West don’t seek any middle ground when it comes to Zionism and Israel. They seek confrontation and conflict in utter disregard of global peace in times of severe climate change, agrarian stress and financial strain. The West is in a ‘fatalistic lock’ with Islam on the Jerusalem complex. Along with Western opposition to any ‘Islamic resistance’ to China and India (US and allies banned all Muslim resistance in India & abroad as terrorists, TRF lately). Countries such as Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt and Saudi have committees that are in an emergency mode on Western Policy on East especially military policy. Its not as unfortunate as the fact the West abets ‘genocide and pogrom’ against poor Muslim communities in the Eastern world, they ignore killings of Christians too and disregard state institutions of the East.
To aggravate the woes of Muslims, their own organizations are non-transparent and responsible for race crimes & caste trials from Türkiye to India. Non-constitutional public trials, public humiliation and tirades of hostility is a lived reality in dirty politics of Türkiye, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India especially in the student politics. Muslim students are being thrown into the same old polemical cycle of sectarianism and identity politics that result in their mental and societal backward state. An identifier for such a scenario is that the current SIO team spends charity money on themselves (personal expenses & foreign trips) more than charity and policy work. They use charity money for harassment of specially identified individuals for political purposes of caste and sect (such as the spoiler schemes of ISI). Also, most of them are not resigning since a decade that defeats the whole point of enhancing experiences of emerging Muslim leaders. They haven’t done any global activism for Muslim students who are incarcerated. This is not to mean that left-leaning student organizations such as SFI, AISA or their Hindutva opposition are any good towards Muslims in India. The Indian Left is opportunist and feeds into Hindutva by conceding cooperative federalism that favors Hindutva.
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