#NOT IN MY NAME

“Dear Ma, I am home. You wanted me to buy new clothes in Delhi, but fate has landed me in heaven, where you don’t have marauding mobs. I am home. Yours, Junaid.” This was a letter read out by Junaid’s 22-year-old brother Mohammed Asaruddin, who called it a “letter to his mother from heaven”.

“Even I was called a terrorist in college. This issue is of identity and we have reached a point where we are having to conceal skull caps and other symbols that define Islam,” Asaruddin added to the crowd at Jantar Mantar,

The protests were being organised in New Delhi, Kolkata, Allahabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Patna, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Lucknow, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram on 28 june 2017. Similar protests be held in London, Toronto, and Boston on June 29.

even kids with placards were joining the protest #notinmyname

Over the last 3 years, mob lynching in India have increased to a total number of 48 cases. In 2017 till june, there were 18 cases registered related to mob lynching, the numbers are increasing" a protester mentioned, who doesn't want to be named. It all started when a 50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq was dragged out of his home and killed by a mob of at least 100 in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri over rumours that he had stored beef and followed by a beef ban in India! Cow is believed to be scared animal in Hindu mythology. Until 2014 there were no such cases which is so bizarre and inhuman.

Some section of people said, this all took course under the current government BJP who was never bothered to take action against such terror. On 28 June 2017, civil society come out to the streets with a campaign Not In My Name and urged the Govt to take action against those acts by so called Gau Raksha.

"Who are they to decide what to eat and what dress" were the slogans raised in the protest?