Shaheen Bagh by Ziya Us Salam6/8/2023 ![]() Referring to the Hindu nationalist goal of turning India into a Hindu Rashtra (nation), she added, “Shaheen Bagh women came and built a wall between a democratic secular country and a theocratic Rashtra.” “People who have gotten their first political pushback have never forgotten what Shaheen Bagh did to them,” said Arfa Khanum Sherwani, senior editor of The Wire, a major Indian news publication. The Shaheen Bagh protest is also notable for being led largely by Indian Muslim women, ranging from students to stay-at-home mothers, who came out in droves to protest the Modi government’s discriminatory treatment against Muslims. Over nearly 4 months, Muslims took to the streets almost daily in large crowds in protest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the revocation of Muslim-majority Kashmir’s semi-autonomy, and other government policies discriminatory towards Muslims. ![]() ![]() Washington, DC - A panel comprising of renowned activists, authors, and journalists discussed the continuing impact of India’s Shaheen Bagh protest, a peaceful sit-in protest which lasted from December 2019 to March 2020, during an event held by the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) on January 9. ![]()
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