This will be a rant and I need to vent it off somewhere or else I might punch someone. Apologies in advance. I will be making some serious allegations; I’m not making these lightly or in jest.

I live in a bed space with 4 Hindu roommates for the past few months in Bur Dubai. Yesterday, they were celebrating (drunk, got booze especially for the occasion) that “katuas” (‘the circumcised’/Muslims) were butchered on the streets in Delhi and that a Mosque was demolished. As the only Muslim in the room, I kept quiet and they started chanting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ along with the chants made in a video they were watching. In Hindi they said ‘Look how he’s being dragged’, ‘Saalon ko unki aukaat dikha di’ among other things.

After about 30 minutes of this ordeal, I broke my silence and said in a broken voice (and extremely sad) that if they realize what they are doing is wrong. They replied (all interrupting/adding each other’s sentences) that they were illegal citizens, blocking roads and Anti-National. Then one of them then said to me in a rude way, “Behen chod, agar itna emotional ho raha hai to apne ghar mein rakhle bhosdike” (“… If you are so emotional about the subject, why don’t you keep them at your home?… “)

I left the room for a smoke, and just couldn’t imagine the audacity and evil of these vile human beings, especially making a living from UAE (a predominantly Muslim country).

Thank you for reading.