Umbrella ☔

As a teenager, I once decided to attend one such Tablighi Ijtema, simply to understand what actually happen at such gatherings. What I witnessed left me deeply disturbed Cows were being slaughtered openly as part of Qurbani, while sermons were being delivered about how Muslims and Hindus were fundamentally different. I distinctly remember hearing the assertion that a "saccha Muslim" would never interact with a Hindu and many such unsettling things That day I walked out of that crowd with a very different understanding of the kind of religious indoctrination that can take place behind the label of faith Those scenes stayed with me and profoundly shaped my perception of Islamist extremism, a perception that, current events seem to reinforce almost every day