Arrest of Mohammed Zubair is a Prelude to Genocide

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The arrest of prominent Indian Muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair by Delhi Police should be interpreted as a prelude to genocide, given it takes place amongst a concerted effort by the authoritarian Modi regime and its radicalized Hindu nationalist supporters to silence journalists and activists who report anti-Muslim hate crimes.

The Modi regime knows it can only get away with ethnic cleansing and genocide if the lights are turned off, and the international community kept in the dark, even though it has made a secret of its intent to transform India into a Hindu-only nation, one where Muslims, Christians and Sikhs are subjugated or expelled. 

BJP parliamentarians, members, and workers call for the repression, deportation and genocide of religious minorities on a near daily basis. It’s spokesperson Nupur Sharma only recently called Islam’s beloved Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) a “rapist” and “pedophile” on live television.

She remains free, as do the extremist Hindu leaders who urged their followers to commit genocide against Muslims at a religious convention in Hardiwar, last December, but Zubair now languishes in prison for “hurting religious sentiments” because of a joke he made about Hindu nationalism in 2018.

His was arrested following a complaint from a fake Twitter account that has only one follower:

His arrest has drawn scorn from the international Committee to Protect Journalists:

But there’s no sign the Indian Government is backing down. It has launched a campaign to silence its critics on social media by withholding targeted accounts, particularly those that report anti-Muslim hate crimes, including me, Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub, Kashmir activist Muzzamil Ayyub Thakur, human rights activist Pieter Friedrich, and many others.

This has also drawn strong condemnation from the Committee to Protect Journalists:

Journalism is essential for a functioning democracy, but India can no longer make credible claims to such. Under Narendra Modi’s increasingly tyrannical rule, India’s democracy has been degraded and downgraded to an “electoral autocracy.” It now ranks 150th for freedom of the press. It’s cracking down on dissenting journalists wherever it can find and reach them.

During the past year, the Modi regime has criminalized journalism in India occupied Kashmir; hacked 40 prominent journalists using the Israeli spy tool Pegasus; planted evidence on the computers of journalists and activists, and then arrested them on bogus charges; and now blocking hundreds, if not thousands, of social media accounts.

This should send a chill down the spine of every human rights activist, remembering the United Nations partly blamed the Rwandan genocide of 1994 on an absence of international media attention. 

The mass killing of 800,000 ethnic Tutsis could’ve only occurred in total darkness, which is why the Indian Government is turning off the lights in India.

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