I am agnostic & non religious but- If I Were Muslim ….
“Would I be able to celebrate Eid after seeing the photograph of Junaid’s blood-spattered body lying lifeless on a railway platform in north India? Pehlu Khan, flung to the side of a pavement by a murderous mob, his tear-stained face crying out for help that never came? Akhlaq, was murdered over beef rumours, and the body of a man accused of killing him was draped in the national flag, with a senior minister present at the village? What sense would I make of this new lexicon where words like ‘vigilantes’ and ‘lynching’ are casual normalisations of collective bigotry?,” she asks. In her article published in The Week, Barkha further questioned that what would she feel to discover that her voice is now barely audible in the country’s political discourse because I am no longer needed to win elections? Or, that in the most populous state of India, not a single candidate of the party that stormed home with a mammoth majority was Muslim? Yet, for the last week, a question has been gnawing at me, nibbling away, bit by bit, at my conscience and sense of comfort: what if I were Muslim?” So I am not best qualified to see life through the prism of any religious identity. I concede that my secularism has suffered from a lack of mooring in faith. I suppose you could call me-as my beloved Twitter trolls will-(that dreaded word) a liberal, deracinated by her own lack of cultural roots.
Talking about this, Barkha wrote, “I am agnostic and entirely non-religious I do not self-identify with any religion and leave the required column blank in application forms. Journalist Barkha Dutt today took to Twitter and shared an article of her’s, in which she talked about what it would be like if she was a Muslim.
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