#umar khalid

How do we fight against this monstrous machine of lies and falsehood? The purveyors of hate and falsehood have so many resources – money, pliant 24×7 news channels, lots of them, troll armies, and the police too. To be honest, Rohit, it makes me feel pessimistic at times. At times I also feel lonely. Lots of people far more privileged than me who were together in this fight against fascism, in the movement against CAA-NRC/NPR, today choose to remain silent when I am singled out for these lies. It makes you feel unwanted. It makes you feel a stranger in your own land. The only thing I find succour in in such moments is the realisation that none of this is personal. That my persecution and isolation is symbolic of something larger – the persecution and isolation of Muslims in India right now.

At least three separate investigations into the 2020 Delhi Riots seek to establish exactly what transpired at the Jafrabad metro station in the last few days of February.

These investigations are the reason that political activist Umar Khalid and university students such as Safoora Zargar of Jamia Millia Islamia, Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal of Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a recent MBA graduate Gulfisha Fatima are in prison.

This metro station is also a short walk from the spot where Kapil Mishra of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gave his now infamous speech on 23 February at Maujpur Metro Station, hours before the violence started, giving the Delhi Police three days to disperse protestors opposed to his government. “After that we will not listen to you,” he said in the presence of a senior policeman.

The video evidence was deemed so important that activists moved the Delhi High Court as early as 25 February 25, when the riots were still in progress, to request all surveillance footage and electronic evidence be preserved.

Five months later, on 26 July, an additional sessions judge of a district court at a bail hearing was pushed to harshly criticise the police’s “inscrutable indolence” in gathering the CCTV footage.

Defence lawyers argued that the footage was essential to exonerate their clients.

Yet a reading of the chargesheet in Khalid’s case shows the Delhi Police, inexplicably, waited for five months before writing to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on 30 July 2020 to preserve the video footage captured by the surveillance cameras installed at the Jafrabad Metro Station and the Maujpur Metro station, 1.5 kilometers apart from each other.

Let me first first start with who they are. Khalid and Imam are Indian Muslims who have been in jail for the past five years. Charges against them are heavy. It is cited in the mainstream news that Khalid and Imam were protesting against the current government of India led by Narendra Modi of BJP, which is claimed to be a "Hindu nationalist party that is oppressing minorities in India". Except, there's more to the story.

Umar Khalid, is the son of Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas who used to be in the now banned SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India), which was associated with the Indian Mujahideen, an Islamist terrorist organisation that has been responsible for numerous deadly coordinated bombings across India especially in the mid 2000s. Here's a video about their far reaching effects. Do watch it to understand the context when you read about PFI later on. Khalid himself claims that he is a communist and not a practising Muslim. How Khalid identifies has little to do with why he was arrested though. Khalid had a decisive role in a larger conspiracy, he was not arrested "just for giving a speech ". Sharjeel Imam too, the son of politician Akbar Imam, IIT Bombay and JNU educated "activist", was not arrested "just for his speech about cutting off Siligur corridor from India".

Both the Shaheen Bagh and Deli riots started as a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act of India (CAA, which was about giving a fast tracked citizenship to Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian refugees from Bangladesh and Pakistan) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC, a government effort to give proper identification to all Indian citizens, something that every single country in this world has). Why would anyone oppose a law that would give shelter to persecuted refugees and make sure citizens have their legal rights? Below are two links to the summary of the chargesheet on the grounds of the arrests of Khalid and Imam. They literally conspired with Islamist groups like PFI and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind to foment violence in northeast Delhi, which claimed several lives.

Moreover, look at Sharjeel Imam's old Facebook post. Translation below.

Here Imam is saying "Pujo (Durga Puja) preparations are going on, this is why, Inshallah, we must protest against fascism and superstition, because in this season, most comrades of CPI(M), enamoured with the beauty of idols, are engaging in idolatry. It is hard to tell if comrades 1) are doing idolatry because they are cultural Hindus, 2) have done ghar wapsi (embraced Hinduism again), 3) they haven't been honest, or 4) this is the new policy of Marxists. Because of this confusion, revolution is on hold by one month (that's usually how long the festivities around Durga Puja last). May Allah protect you."

Just look at that. Don't Bengali communists have any shame left they're still supporting this pervert prophet Muhammad and child Aisha's rape product? Now take a look at Indian leftist ⬇️.

Look at the language of this person. Juxtapose this guy's statement about Sharjeel Imam with his previous statement about an attack in Kashmir by the terrorist organisation "The Resistance Front" which stems from Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Basically, are Indian leftist marxist sickularist liberandos and other malcontents seriously now arguing that inciteful hate speech should be seen "poetically, not literally"?

Muslim comrade: "My Muslim pookies, your strength lies in numbers and capability of violence, lets break Siliguri corridor of the kafir India and show them what we did in 1947"

Indian leftist: "tehee, it's just resistance against fascism you sanghis!!! it's poetry, like ghazal, you hindutva monkeys would not understand uwu"

Lmaoooooo