(RAIR Foundation)—Yasir Qadhi is a Pakistani-tied cleric in Texas who cloaks his radical, anti-Hindu and anti-Jewish rhetoric in academic language – while preaching the same ideological hatred that fuels Islamic blasphemy mobs like the one that put 22-year-old law student Sharmishta behind bars in India.
A young Hindu woman, Sharmishta Panoli, sits behind bars in India not because she committed violence or incited a mob, but because she dared to grieve out loud. She condemned a Pakistani-backed Islamic terror attack in Pahalgam, where innocent Hindu pilgrims were brutally slaughtered. Her pain was raw. Her words were emotional. And for this, she was hunted, arrested, and is now rotting in jail without trial, suffering with kidney stones, denied hygiene, and barred from even basic reading material.
Why? Because she “hurt religious sentiments.” Translation: She violated a de facto Islamic blasphemy law – the same language used to lynch Hindus and Christians in Pakistan, now echoing in Indian courts. The most disturbing part? This didn’t happen in Pakistan, but in India—a Hindu-majority nation where Muslims are now using de facto Sharia (Islamic law) to criminalize the speech of the Hindu minority.
And yet, while Sharmishta fights for her life and dignity in India’s jails, Muslim leaders in the United States are preaching the exact same brand of targeted ideological hatred that got her imprisoned.
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