Thursday, August 04, 2022

Rs 467.8 million for a Muslim boy.

"Afra Rafeeq, 16, had spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic condition that causes muscle weakness and affects movements and breathing." BBC. Then her one and a half year old brother Muhammed also showed signs of the disease. The treatment is prohibitively expensive. "One dose of Zolgensma cost 180m rupees (Rs 18 crore, $2.2 million) and had to be imported from the US." "That is when Afra shot a video with her cousin's help," which quickly went viral online. Money poured in and in 3 days the fund received 467.8m rupees (Rs 46.78 crore). "Afra had to make another public appeal, asking people to stop sending money." That is an astronomical sum of money for Indians and it was all for a sick Muslim boy. "Pakistani teenager Afsheen Gul suffered from a rare condition that kept her neck at 90 degrees." BBC. "The youngest of seven siblings, she never went to school or played with her friends." "For 12 years, Afsheen spent her life confined to her house in Mithi, nearly 300km, (186 miles) from Karachi city, in this painful condition." "Dr Rajagopalan Krishnan, a specialist of complex spinal surgeries at the Apollo Hospital in Delhi, offered to do Afsheen's surgery free of charge. Four months on Afsheen can finally walk, talk and eat on her own." A Muslim and a Pakistani. This is amazing because, "Unprovoked attacks on Muslims by Hindu mobs have become routine in India, but they seem to evoke little condemnation from the government." BBC. Muslim men have been lynched regularly on suspicion of smuggling cows for slaughter. wikipedia. "A 26-year-old Muslim, Litan Miah, was lynched by a Hindu mob...in Tripura's Sepahijala district." Maktoob. " "Sulli Deals', which surfaced in July, 2021, was hosted on content sharing platform, GitHub, staged 'auctions' for prominent Muslim women by using manipulated pictures of them without their consent, along with derogatory comments, and shared them online." The Wire. A degrading, humiliating sexual assault. "Thereafter, in January this year, the 'Bulli Bai' app came about which bore striking similarities to 'Sulli Deals' and also staged auctions for prominent Muslim women." But it is not just Muslims. "Hindu women critical of Mr Modi and the BJP were also put on a fake 'sale' on audio app Clubhouse, which said it has since suspended the room and taken action against accounts connected with it." BBC. A Hindu was denied spectacles while an 83-year old Christian suffering from Parkinson's Disease was denied straws for drinking, in prison in the Bhima Koregaon case. BBC. A forensics firm in the US, Arsenal Consulting found that evidence was planted in computers of activists in the Bhima Koregaon case. Scroll.in. In May, Punjab Police were stopped by Haryana Police and allegedly detained during transfer of Delhi BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga. Tribune. In 2021, 21-year old Disha Ravi was arrested by Delhi Police from her home in Bengaluru just for sharing a 'toolkit' by climate activist Greta Thunburg. The Wire. Delhi Police justified their actions by trying to link her with Khalistanis. Rs 467.8 million have proven that Indians are decent, soft and compassionate. Why then is the state so brutal? In the name of Hindus.

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