Violence In Ramzan, Anxiety On Ram Navami: Multiple Attacks On Muslims During T ...
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[*]Rabia’s husband was killed a day before Ramzan after their son was targeted for being Muslim, one among several incidents pointing to a wider pattern.
[*]Across India, iftars disrupted, namaz criminalised, and everyday interactions have escalated into violence, including multiple killings.
[*]As Ram Navami unfolds, past trends and fresh tensions, from Uttam Nagar to Mumbai, have heightened fears of further communal flashpoints.
It was their wedding anniversary, and the evening before Ramzan. In Rabia’s home, the rhythms of celebration and devotion had begun to overlap. Preparations for the first suhoor, the meal eaten before dawn during Ramzan, were underway, the kitchen alive with small, familiar routines. Her husband, Mohammad Umar Din,had come home early, carrying a cake to mark the occasion. They were waiting for their children to return from school.
Rabia remembers the exact moment the day broke. Her 15-year-old son called. “Come quickly,” he said, calling from a stranger’s phone, almost losing consciousness by that time. “They are beating me badly.”
When Rabia and her husband, a 41-year-old goods vehicle driver, reached the spot near their son’s school in northeast Delhi’s Nand Nagiri, a crowd had already gathered. Their son had been pulled into a scuffle among children and singled out. “He’s also from that community, take him too,” she recalls them saying before they beat him. His only mistake, she tells Outlook, was that he was Muslim, targeted with slurs like “katwa” and “mulla.”
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Her husband hadn’t gone there to fight but to protect his son. By then, however, the situation had already spiraled. Instead of calming down, the crowd turned on him. “So, you’ve come to support your son? We’ll deal with you too,” they said, before the confrontation escalated into violence. What followed unfolded in seconds. As they turned into a lane, a man emerged from his house and began firing. One bullet struck Umar Deen in the chest.
“I was shouting, ‘Don’t kill him, please, for God’s sake,” says Rabia, breaking down. “But they didn’t listen.”
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