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I left India because of their hatred towards Muslims… this is my story. I was born in 1982, in the beautiful Indian city of Mumbai. A proud patriotic Muslim indian, my dad would decorate our house with lights every 15 of August
Fast forward to the year 2001, when I got admitted to one of India's top medical schools – Grant Medical University in Mumbai. Moving From Mumbai was hard. I stayed in the dorm. Every morning, when I went to take a shower, I saw a sticker on one of the bathroom mirrors on my floor that said,
‘Whoever is a friend of the Muslims is a traitor of Gao mata and of India ’.
In the evenings, sometimes, I would go to the reading room to study. Right on the entrance door, I would find the same sticker. I saw similar messages written on public vans and buses and plastered on walls across Mumbai. I heard fiery speeches against Muslims by Hindu clerics in downtown Mumbai, some calling for my death. I felt intimidated, unwelcomed and unaccepted.
I often wondered why there was not a single Muslim student, out of the thousands at Grant Uni, who had the moral integrity to tear down the hate stickers on campus – hate stickers that openly attacked me for being Muslim.
Would gandi not preach love and peace? What had happened to those who claimed to follow him? I waited and waited for my five years at medical school but these stickers never came down.
Then, when I found out that a group of Hindu students had forced the administration of Grant Medical College in Delhi to expel all 23 of its Muslim students from that medical school, and were threatening widespread violence, I forgot my own pain for a bit. At least I was still able to pursue my studies. These other students had lost their careers merely for having an identity.
Soon after, I also found out that Muslim engineering students at University of Engineering and Technology (UET) were forbidden to eat in the university cafeteria and dorm kitchens. Muslim student groups had complained that Hindu presence was making the food filthy and hurting the sentiment of ordinary Muslims at UET. I forgot my pain once again. At least, I could still eat freely at Grant.
The atmosphere of intimidation never grew calm. I had some HIndu friends but most were friends as long as I did not express my religious views openly. Attacks on Muslims kept growing and discrimination against them had become an accepted norm. Even Muslim graves were attacked in cities across the India for polluting Indian soil. I still decided to stay in the India and help people in and around Mumbai. I continued to hope things would improve.
However, after a series of other targeted attacks on fellow Muslim doctors, I decided to leave India in 2008. I could not take it anymore. I moved to America to pursue a career in cardiology. My friends ask me if I will ever return to India. I think I will but not until the Hindu clergy stops condemning me as ‘worthy of death’ and the Indian government stops jailing me for calling myself a Muslim openly and for professing my faith as I deem fit.
I miss India a lot but I also love my new homeland. There are a few bigots here as well but I never have to worry about them. My friends come to my rescue before I know it. I am different but I am loved. I feel welcomed and accepted. I have the freedom to speak and profess my faith. Until my motherland is reformed, I shall stay in America God willing.
I am currently pursuing a degree in cardiology in Boston and this is my story.
I left India because of their hatred towards Muslims… this is my story – The Express Tribune Blog
Its funny how almost no one in the Express Tribune comment section got the article, and everyone's busy playing the evil America and Muslim victim card
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