SINCE Narendra Modi’s Hindutva government came to power in India, life has been systematically made unbearable for Muslims. One after another, anti-Muslim laws have been passed, and a steady stream of tactics and conspiracies has been deployed to push them away from Islam. Attacks on mosques and their demolition continue as a grim, ongoing campaign. The saffron brigade has prepared a list of more than 3,000 mosques, shrines and dargahs marked for destruction. Another report claims that as many as three lakh Muslim sacred sites are now in the crosshairs. What began with three mosques has grown into hundreds, then thousands, and now hundreds of thousands. According to one estimate, more than 50,000 mosques have been demolished since 1947.

After the destruction of the Babri Masjid, Hindu extremists had already raised the slogan: “Ayodhya is only a glimpse; Kashi and Mathura still remain.” The Babri episode remains the darkest chapter in India’s so-called secular history. The Indian Supreme Court, in a decision widely seen as a betrayal of justice, allowed a Ram temple to be built on the site of a 500-year-old Muslim historical and cultural landmark purely on the basis of faith. The foundation stone was laid by Modi himself, an RSS pracharak and Hindutva prime minister, driving the final nail into the coffin of Indian secularism.

The BJP’s Hindutva campaign has accelerated sharply, with its ugliest face visible in Uttar Pradesh under the patronage of the state’s openly Hindu-supremacist chief minister. In September 2026, news emerged of the demolition of a century-old historic mosque in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh — a........

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