जिस संगठन में पढ़ने लिखने की कोई परंपरा नहीं है, जहां सूचना के आगे सोचना नहीं है, वहाँ JCB लगा कर किताबों के स्टाल को ध्वस्त करना ही होगा । इसमें हैरानी कैसी ? पढ़े लिखे होते तो नफरत फैलाते ?

CJP Protest started in the name of students but has now descended into "Hum Dekhenge" and "Bas naam rahega Allah ka." The leftist's obsession with Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s radical poems, those promising to smash every idol and topple every throne, has suddenly awakened again. What is the real meaning and agenda behind this nazm? Why are certain explosive lines deliberately repeated from every stage? Is the Jantar Mantar CJP protest slowly turning into yet another jihadist campaign demanding the release of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam? @rahulroushan

1/5 Sharjeel Imam has given an interview detailing his Islamist manifesto. Surprisingly, no storm has been kicked up over pronouncements that are so unapologetically anti-liberal, anti-secular, anti-democracy, anti-Constitution—in a word, anti-national. 2/5 He openly calls the Constitution fascist, labels secularism a trap, and denounces democracy as a contrivance to deny Muslims their political rights. 3/5 The piece is a litany of indictments against the liberal class. Imam rejects any difference between liberals and Hindutvadis. In his essentialist worldview, all Hindus are the same, unanimous in denying Muslims political power they claim as a divine right. 4/5 Inadvertently, Sharjeel has recognised something that liberals have been fighting shy of acknowledging: that Hindutva’s idea of India is anchored in the same “overarching nationalist framework”— that Muslims are Indians above all else. 5/5 For more, read this Opinion article by Ibn Khaldun Bharati, who looks at Islam from an Indian perspective: Sharjeel Imam’s Islamist manifesto will be forgotten. The silence of liberals will not theprint.in/opinion/sharjeel…