According to the FIR, Aparna Kurup faces charges including provocation to cause riots, outraging religious feelings, hurting religious sentiments, and promoting enmity between groups. All this for questioning and criticizing Islamic scholar Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar, who said that women should remain confined to their homes and that public appearances by women lead to great destruction. From facing death threats to facing an FIR, the so-called feminists and "Smash the Patriarchy" brigade have gone completely silent. It seems her leftist friends and ecosystem have also left her. The loudest champions of free speech suddenly discovered the value of silence.