Modern Jihad: Entitlement of Special Status

(Chapter 14)

Pact of Umar Reintroduced

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Intermingling in society causes humans to adapt and see new things. It helps acquiring useful habits and discarding useless and cumbersome habits. This interferes with the culture. It dilutes the purity on which the entire edifice of different identities was created and which is the basis of Modern Jihad.

Ghettos

Often Muslims in India delve into ghettos, where only one type of people live. They wear same burqa, grow similar beard without moustache, wear white skull cap all day long.

These people occupy the physical space which may be less than 2% of whole landmass in India but when they go out, they find rest of the country as alien land. How can there be a process of integration in such vastly different landmass?

Politicians love this polarization. They actively help in creating such ghettos by ignoring when public land is occupied to create such ghetto. They ignore the poor hygiene and cleanliness standards in such areas. They do nothing to for the betterment of life standard in such ghettos.

When people from these ghettos get financially uplifted with better education, their ghetto mindset does not change. After living in a mental cocoon reinforced by physical ghetto, they have a different worldview.

Here the argument of brainwashing by Taqlid, in the mosque or teaching in Madarsa is being deliberately left out. Because without the base of ghetto, castles of Dar-ul-Islam are not built.

Compassion Creates Problems

Corporate world out of misplaced compassion, extends special facilities to its Muslim employees. These special facilities create their Special Status which in turn confirms the Pact of Umar stated in Chapter 11.

There are namaz facilities that include at minimum a prayer room allocation exclusively for one community with bathroom for wadoo. Adjustment in office time during Ramzaan fasting like early closing. Special halal-only catering at corporate events are offered. There is no equivalent accommodation exists for Diwali or Navratri fasting. These are the specific Pact of Umar restrictions in reverse. Instead of restricting the minority they are privileging one community over others. This is also an inequality in different clothes. But the Corporations are epistemologically blind to see it.

Lenskart

In April 2026, a leaked internal document from Lenskart’s staff uniform guide went viral, banning Hindu religious symbols like bindi, tilak, kalawa, and sindoor while reportedly allowing hijab and turbans. This sparked nationwide outrage, boycott calls, and accusations of religious bias and anti-Hindu discrimination, with claims of employees facing penalties like low ratings in audits for wearing these symbols. CEO Peyush Bansal called it an “outdated” policy, even though the document was issued only a few months before. Upon Criticism Lenskart withdrew the guidelines and issued fresh inclusive guidelines which permitted all the Hindu symbols.

Lenskart faced another controversy when it ordered its store managers to keep the Hindu deities near the legs and not in clear sight anywhere in the store.

Air India

Air India is another Tata group company. It is India’s premier airlines. Air India too issued similar discriminatory guidelines to its cabin crew. Screenshots from its cabin crew handbook went viral, showing restrictions on Hindu religious symbols like bindi, sindoor, tilak, and kalawa while on duty.

Air India clarified that the document was outdated, issued a formal statement on April 20, 2026, and emphasized no curbs on religious expression in current policies.

Indigo Airlines

IndiGo Airlines faced a similar controversy in late April 2026, shortly after Lenskart and Air India. Screenshots from its alleged internal grooming manual circulated online, banning Hindu symbols like tilak and sindoor while reportedly permitting hijab and turban. IndiGo issued a statement on April 24, 2026, denying the documents’ authenticity, calling them “incorrect,” and clarifying no such discriminatory restrictions exist in their grooming policy.

Kalyan School

A school in Kalyan, Maharashtra, allegedly forced students to remove tilak, bindi, bangles, rakhi, and sacred threads, prompting KDMC to issue a notice demanding clarification from the school. School director Swapnali Ranade denied the administration had issued any formal order banning religious symbols. But parents reported physical enforcement, like wiping off tilak, leading to protests and political involvement. The Civic body KDMC issued a show cause to the school.

Meanwhile, another incident of religious and sexual harassment has surfaced in Nagpur.

The Nagpur NGO Case

On April 20, 2026, Nagpur Police arrested Riyaz Fazil Kazi, the president and chairman of an NGO working with underprivileged children in the Mankapur area of northwest Nagpur.

Multiple female staff members filed complaints against him, forming the basis of the FIR. They alleged that Kazi used his position of authority to sexually harass and molest young Hindu women employed at the NGO. The alleged acts included hugging, kissing, and inappropriate touching.

Beyond the physical misconduct, the women alleged a pattern of religious coercion. Kazi reportedly pressured female staffers to wear a burqa, offer namaz, recite the Kalma, and adopt Islamic customs. He also allegedly created a fake Instagram account to track and stalk the women. Some of them were reportedly branded as “call girls” online, amounting to defamation and cyberstalking.

Kazi was remanded to police custody following his arrest. Maharashtra ATS joined the probe shortly after, citing the religious conversion angle as grounds for their involvement. More women came forward with complaints after the initial arrest.

This case is similar to TCS Nashik case with which this series of articles started. There also workplace authority used for sexual exploitation combined with religious pressure on Hindu women. Worse is that an organisation framed as a social service front was used for grooming, exploitation, blackmail, and religious coercion targeting women in subordinate positions.

This is a ladder. At the bottom is social conditioning against religious symbols. It appears to be at work place but its implications extend to the personal lives. Here is what I saw at a wedding in New Delhi.

Secular Empress

The wedding ceremony was in its final leg and the priest had announced that the gotra of bride was now changed to the gotra of her husband and their seating arrangement was exchanged. Priest said “Now you will rule the new household like Samragyee (Empress) but rule with love not by violence.”

The Empress had arrived. Let me tell you about the marriage and her secularism. The Marriage took place on Saturday noon. Very unusual choice of time for New Delhi’s hot summer. Empress wore rather ordinary clothes for the occasion including worn out footwear. It was her day but she had almost no makeup. She also did not wear any ‘Chooda’ which are bangles like ornament worn by newly wed women in Delhi and Punjab.

Her mother complained that she refused to apply henna/mehndi or turmeric which are routine rituals before the Hindu marriage. Empress had to attend her employment on Monday as Manager in a commercial Bank. We already know the workplace related issues.

Analysis

Social media discussions post-Lenskart and Air India controversies noted that “most corporates have similar rules,” with vague references to unnamed multinationals enforcing restrictions on Hindu markers under the guise of “international standards” or neutrality. The banning of religious markers of only Hindu faith has only one explanation which no one is referring to.

These selective guidelines confirm to the Pact of Umar as demonstrated in Chapter 11. The excuse of “international standards” or neutrality is mischievous. How can a discriminatory practice adopted in 6th century Arabia be relevant today?

The choice of religious and cultural symbols is lowest in the ladder of harassment. The rape and conversion is the top echelon. This is India’s secularism. First a person is trained to stay away from religious symbols and rituals. This is how the secularist is created in India.

Disdain for one’s own religion/faith is the next step. The offspring of this secularist is even more cut off from the religion and easy to prey for conversion. If not, the generation thereafter would be attempted. There is no hurry. After all this is going on for 1300 years.

The seven Dhurandhar women who walked into TCS Nashik were not fighting a workplace crime. They were the first institutional resistance to a thousand year old legal framework trying to reinstall itself inside a modern corporation.

This is the new secularism in India.

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