Muharram 2020: Attacks against Shias follow the same old script

Those who never wished you on Eid e #Ghadeer and Eid #Mubahila or 13 Rajab will now spit a “Happy New Year” in your face in #Muharram. Your most somber time of the year is their time to celebrate Yazeed.

Those who could not care less as thousands of you were bombed in #Azadari processions and gatherings will now object and mock your flagellation and other acts of devotion.

Just days ago, ISIS-affiliated terrorist groups warned you against setting up Sabils for distributing free food and water in the name of Imam Hussain. But liberals using #German scientists as their DPs will not come out to support you – instead they will write lengthy posts mocking your faith and justifying Yazeed’s massacre of the Holy Prophet’s family.

False neutral and commercial liberal types will tell you how their parents use to stuff themselves with #Haleem. But they will leave out the systematic hate being spread against your Azadari from mosques and drawing rooms all over Pakistan.

Be ready to be asked to justify what others do to their bodies of their own free will. Be ready to be selectively insulted by haters for what Zameer Akhtar has to say – even if you don’t agree with it. Be ready to be insulted by drawing room geniuses on how you alone are responsible for spreading COVID 19 and not those who abandoned caution earlier for other public events like Independence Day.

Because your right to practice your faith freely is gone. And the attacks against you from Sipah e Sahaba, liberals and some hyper political Shia mullahs follow the same Banu #Ummaya and Banu Abbas script.