Loss Of Favorable Narrative Worries Muslim Intelligensia

In the aftermath of the jihadi-inflicted bloodletting in the Kashmir valley, Rana Ayyub tweeted “we have screwed up Kashmir like never before”. That is as close to a mea culpa we are going to get from this jihadi sympathizer. We have other jihadi sympathizers like Beydoun and Werleman trying to appeal to the Hindu better senses by saying that India can learn from Indonesia. While that is wrong on many levels, what it tells you is that they are realizing that constantly attacking and trying to shame Hindus is not working.

Let's try to analyze these two thoughts. Have the Hindus become shameless? No, we have not. So something else has happened. As Thakur in Sholay tells Kaliya - jao ja kar Gabbar se keh do, Ramgarh walon ne pagal kutton ke samne roti dalna band kar diya hai. Yes, the Hindus (despite what their leader utter in public)  have realized that appeasement of Muslims or appealing to their better senses has never worked. So instead of ignoring a red herring name like Gyanvapi for a mosque, or a Hindu symbol at the bottom of a mosque wall or maqbara or living in cities named after genocidal maniacs, and accepting the status quo in the name of social harmony, the Hindus have said ENOUGH!!

They have decided to ignore distorians like Habib, Thapar et. al. They have begun to question the very nature of Indian secularism which is founded on Hindus guilted into accepting the Mughal years as the glory days of India while ignoring our real history. They are noticing and rejecting movies with not so subtle pro-jihadi narrative with the evil Thakur, benevolent Maulana and kind Rahim Chahcha. 

This began in 2014 with the election of our first true Hindu conservative as the PM who rejected to toe the familiar lines, the tropes associated with that office. No iftar parties or wearing mesh topis or keffiyeh or taking the foreign dignitaries to Taj Mahal. To the chagrin of some, he does insist on “sabka saath sabka vikas” but that is a side effect of his love for the nation and propensity to look at the big picture. And in that light he cannot be faulted. 

Since then an awareness has crept into the Hindu psyche as it is clearly visible on social media and other arenas. A new generation of historians like the mysterious Bharadwaj or Vikram Sampath or J Sai Deepak et. al. have questioned and demolished what used to pass for Indian history. Griha vapsi programs run by RSS, Agniveer group, Arya Samaj have challenged and attempted to stem the demographic rot. Twitter handles like @GemsOfBollywood have changed the way people look at movies.

These are small changes but together they show a trend that is challenging the leftist-jihadi ecosystem and changing the Hindu consciousness. While that does little damage to the ecosystem the trend clearly worries them. This loss of pro-Muslim narrative built on the backs of selfish and useful idiot Hindus is a very scary specter for them. 

It is this loss of narrative and sense of control that scares people like Ayyub, Shahid Siddique and other so-called Muslim social leaders. That narrative made them relevant, rich, and powerful. They are not afraid of this so-called Hindu hate - they know Hindus are a pacifist lot. They are afraid of irrelevance.