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"If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal." — Fidel Castro

[Meme not OC]

On 2nd June, 12 yrs ago, Mohsin Sheikh was lynched in Pune by 2 dozens of 'nationalists' and later on Murdered by the system when the court while releasing the murderers said - "They were provoked by his religion"

Mohsin was an IT professional residing in Pune and on 2nd June he was just going through his normal routine and while he was returning to his place after offering Isha, a group of HRS identified him by his clothes and attire (kapdon se pehchano) and lynched him to death.

Before Nazi Germany became Nazi Germany, ordinary Germans were told things like this:

Jews are becoming too many.

Jews control too much money.

Jews live separately because they don’t want to integrate.

Jews are more loyal to each other than the country.

Jews are changing the nation.

Germany is becoming unsafe because of them.

Germany needs to be stronger with them.

And a lot of regular Germans genuinely believed it.

Not monsters.

Not some cartoon villains.

Normal people.

Young people too.

People who thought they were protecting their nation.

And history showed where that road ended.

Now read this

"Muslims are increasing too much".

"They only stay among themselves".

"They are changing the country".

"They are dangerous".

"They don’t belong here".

"They are a threat".

"We need to be stricter with them".

"We are being too soft".

Sound familiar or no?

Because this is exactly what so many Indian Gen Z have been hearing since childhood.

Be it online.

Be it at home.

From politicians.

From reels.

From comment sections.

From forwarded messages.

Repeated so much it stops sounding hateful.

It starts sounding normal.

And that is the dangerous part.

Not just support for the current regime.

There are people genuinely angry at the current regime because they think it is still too soft on Muslims.

Too soft on minorities.

Too soft on "anti nationals".

Too soft they say

How fucking shocking is that?

Then people point at Muslim neighborhoods and go "see? they live separately."

Brother no one wants to live cut off.

No one wants poor roads.

No one wants neglected areas.

No one wants to be boxed into one locality.

No one wants to live in an area that stinks of shit.

A lot of Muslims today live in concentrated areas because exclusion became normal.

Because housing gets denied.

Because distrust builds.

Because people become unwelcome in places their own families lived in not even that long ago.

Then the neglect itself gets turned into proof.

Proof they don't integrate.

Proof they are different.

Proof they are somehow the issue.

They created the wound and then blamed the wounded for bleeding.

And here is the thing people really don't want to hear

When you keep humiliating people.

When you keep treating them like a threat.

When you keep denying them dignity.

When you keep teaching a generation that they are hated.

eventually some of them stop believing they can ever belong.

And when that happens, pain hardens.

Fear hardens.

People become angrier.

More desperate.

More extreme.

That does not make extremism right.

But pretending oppression and dehumanization have no consequences is a lie.

We can literally see this in places like Palestine. Jews who were genocided just 75 years ago, justify genocide of Palestinians.

Dehumanization doesn't stay on one side.

It poisons everyone.

It pushes one side into cruelty and pushes the other into becoming harder, angrier, and sometimes monstrous too.

And then both sides bleed while politicians keep giving speeches.

That is why normalizing hatred is not "just politics".

It is not harmless.

It changes what people are willing to tolerate.

It changes what they are willing to excuse.

And eventually it changes what they are willing to do.

History has shown this already.

Way too many times.

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Just let people read it.