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New Delhi: The \u2018I Love Muhammad\u2019 campaign has rapidly gained momentum across India, sparking arrests, poster removals and widespread anger over what Muslims describe as blatant discrimination and selective policing.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, prominent cleric and Ittehad-e-Millat Council chief, Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, was arrested for supporting the campaign and has been sent to 14 days\u2019 judicial custody. His detention came a day after police clashed with worshippers carrying \u2018I Love Muhammad\u2019 posters following Friday prayers. Over two dozen people were detained in the crackdown.<\/p>\n
Similar scenes unfolded in Mumbai\u2019s Malvani locality, where police forcibly removed \u2018I Love Muhammad\u2019 banners while threatening legal action against those who reinstalled them. Local residents accused authorities of applying double standards, pointing out that political hoardings and Hindu festival banners appear across the city without permission yet face no such police action. \u201cIf our posters are taken down, then remove Navratri and Diwali ones too,\u201d said a resident, calling the move discriminatory.<\/p>\n
In Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Kanpur, Lucknow and Moradabad, police registered FIRs and detained Muslim youths who displayed the slogan during Milad processions, terming it a \u201cnew tradition.\u201d By contrast, Hindu groups were allowed to hold counter-campaigns with slogans like \u201cI Love Ram, I Love Yogi, I Love Bulldozer\u201d under full police protection. Rights activists noted that while at least 1,324 Muslims have had cases filed against them and 38 arrests confirmed, no action has been taken against Hindu groups who openly staged provocative rallies.<\/p>\n
The targeting of Muslims has drawn strong condemnations from religious and civil society bodies. The All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat termed Raza\u2019s arrest a \u201cblatant attempt to silence peaceful dissent\u201d and warned of deepening communal polarisation. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind also denounced the arrest, calling it a misuse of state power and a dangerous assault on India\u2019s democratic ethos.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a textbook case of selective justice,\u201d said social activist Khalid Rahman. \u201cMuslims are criminalised for peacefully expressing love for their Prophet, while Hindu groups receive protection for provocative campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n
Analysts say the controversy, which has now spread to Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Gujarat and Telangana, is being politically exploited to sharpen communal divisions ahead of elections. For Muslims, however, the message is clear: their faith is being singled out and their rights curtailed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf saying \u2018I Love Muhammad\u2019 is treated as a crime, then India must ask itself what freedom really means,\u201d remarked a youth from Kanpur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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