Amid all the fiasco surrounding the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) protests, the naked hate aimed at members of a particular minority community has hit a crescendo in recent weeks with people in constitutional positions making disparaging remarks.
Even, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a rally said, “The protesters can be identified by the clothes they are wearing.”
At a time when ministers and members of the ruling dispensation make derogatory remarks about their identity, a group of Muslim Twitter users started sharing pictures of themselves in various traditional wear to assert their identity.
Women wore ghagras, shararas or burqas, while the men donned the traditional kurtas.
Here are a few Twitter users who shared their pictures in tranditional wear, using the hashtag #MuslimTwitter:
Here’s my entry for #MuslimTwitter #BeingMuslim https://t.co/YskO9oG66O pic.twitter.com/4WtcD2nzyT
— ندا (@CatWomaniya) February 15, 2020
Move over guyses. Let me show off my gharara. https://t.co/rxSTXKCQvr pic.twitter.com/r6BI8xPrmD
— Sania Ahmad (@SaniaAhmad1111) February 14, 2020
If boomers can,
So can I. pic.twitter.com/FbYKuCNlj5— PunctureWaliBilli أم القط (@hazratbilli) February 13, 2020
My entry to #BeingMuslim #MuslimTwitter
When a cat visits you in the masjid ❤ pic.twitter.com/ee8NWBduKy— Amber Siddiqui (@ambersddq) February 15, 2020
My friend Razia is not on Twitter but she wanted to participate in the trend. So here’s her entry #BeingMuslim #MuslimTwitter https://t.co/0YjEiDv5q0 pic.twitter.com/BHUw07c0Ht
— Madhur (@ThePlacardGuy) February 15, 2020
Ok joining #MuslimTwitter with mom because why not?! https://t.co/XMU5OxebxN pic.twitter.com/30FPSoj0mQ
— Hasiba Amin (@HasibaAmin) February 15, 2020
Hijab is my identity.
I love hijab. #BeingMuslim#MuslimTwitter pic.twitter.com/pUl6BUfvW0— Ayesha Malik (@AyeshaM12221310) February 15, 2020
I mention where ever I travel “assertion of Muslim identity in the movement against #CAA_NRC_NPR is very imp because with the help of lies our identity shown as a problem”
Time has come to reclaim equal citizenship
Joining #MuslimTwitter with my favourite attire “Kurta Pyjama pic.twitter.com/gSVAAAM2qY
— Fahad Ahmad (@FahadTISS) February 15, 2020
Replugging the one I deleted earlier. Right out of the Mughal era #MuslimTwitter https://t.co/GkBxcuzRPy pic.twitter.com/FKsfxT1yXn
— Dr Nazma (@nazmaaman) February 15, 2020
Sorry, one more for #MuslimTwitter pic. From a visit to the Mehfil Khana in Ajmer, November 2018 pic.twitter.com/XPgaskqraW
— Irena Akbar (@irenaakbar) February 14, 2020
Back in 2019
Eid-Ul-Fitr with @MumbaiPolice pics :)#MuslimTwitter #BeingMuslim pic.twitter.com/rRKHKPGFxB— Manal Shaikh (@manalshaikhINFO) February 15, 2020
Here’s Mine #MuslimTwitter pic.twitter.com/vsSLzoqzxX
— Sam 007 (@Sam00722930860) February 14, 2020
Is this qualified for #BeingMuslim twitter?? https://t.co/W6uDAskinM pic.twitter.com/i0EtndffH2
— Md Asif Khan آصِف (@imMAK02) February 14, 2020
Just Mu$|¡m things.. #MuslimTwitter
Creativity, Innovation & Intelligence.. Overloaded. pic.twitter.com/yUXx6731mD
— вαwlí вαwrchí (@Divya_S_Rathore) February 15, 2020
Me in traditional Muslim attire#MuslimTwitter#BeingMuslim pic.twitter.com/mOaBqCac1s
— SHAHID KHAN ®️ شاھد خان बेरोजगार (@call8shahid) February 14, 2020