: Why many young Muslims are leaving India #IndiaNEWS One afternoon in February 2019, in a genteel neighbourhood in Patna, a couple of children gathered in front of a house and screamed: “Pakistan

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Why many young Muslims are leaving India #IndiaNEWS
One afternoon in February 2019, in a genteel neighbourhood in Patna, a couple of children gathered in front of a house and screamed: “Pakistan murdabad� – death to Pakistan. Earlier that morning, Indian fighter jets had crossed the line of control in Kashmir and, according to the government, struck a Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp in Pakistan’s Balakot in retaliation for a fidayeen-style attack that had left 40 paramilitary soldiers dead. The airstrikes had been greeted with jubilation across India. But nearly 2,000 kms from the border, in the capital of Bihar, the sloganeering outside his home left Aamir disturbed. It wasn’t the content of the slogan that bothered the 35-year-old engineer who had grown up in Patna, studied mechanical engineering in Bengaluru, and now works at a consultancy firm in Noida. Aamir told me that he believed that the children – “barely seven-eight years old� – had picked his house because it was one of the few Muslim homes in a Hindu-majority neighbourhood, and perhaps the most easily identifiable since his mother wore the hijab. “These kinds of things really hit you hard,� he said. “We have lived in that house forever, I was born there.� The episode reinforced what had been on Aamir’s mind for...Read more

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