I write for Д®xpressing her thoughts about terrorism, Barkha Dutt wrote, вЂњIf I were Muslim, how much helpless rage might I feel about radical Islamists and terrorists who soil the name of my faith and then leave me to carry the cross of condemning them.вЂќ I am agnostic & non religious but- If I Were Muslim вЂ¦. вЂњWould I be able to celebrate Eid after seeing the photograph of JunaidвЂ™s blood-spattered body lying lifeless on a railway platform in north India? Pehlu Khan, flung to the side of a pavement by a murderous mob, his tear-stained face crying out for help that never came? Akhlaq, was murdered over beef rumours, and the body of a man accused of killing him was draped in the national flag, with a senior minister present at the village? What sense would I make of this new lexicon where words like вЂvigilantesвЂ™ and вЂlynchingвЂ™ are casual normalisations of collective bigotry?,вЂќ she asks.

In her article published in The Week, Barkha further questioned that what would sheВ feel to discover that herВ voice is now barely audible in the countryвЂ™s political discourse because I am no longer needed to win elections? Or, that in the most populous state of India, not a single candidate of the party that stormed home with a mammoth majority was Muslim? Yet, for the last week, a question has been gnawing at me, nibbling away, bit by bit, at my conscience and sense of comfort: what if I were Muslim?вЂќ So I am not best qualified to see life through the prism of any religious identity.

I concede that my secularism has suffered from a lack of mooring in faith. I suppose you could call me-as my beloved Twitter trolls will-(that dreaded word) a liberal, deracinated by her own lack of cultural roots. Talking about this, Barkha wrote, вЂњI am agnostic and entirely non-religious I do not self-identify with any religion and leave the required column blank in application forms. Journalist Barkha Dutt today took to Twitter and shared an article of herвЂ™s, in which she talked about what it would be like if she was a Muslim.

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