A young Hindu woman, Sharmishta Panoli, sits behind bars in India not because she committed violence or incited a mob, but because she dared to grieve out loud. She condemned a Pakistani-backed Islamic terror attack in Pahalgam, where innocent Hindu pilgrims were brutally slaughtered. Her pain was raw. Her words were emotional. And for this, she was hunted, arrested, and is now rotting in jail without trial, suffering with kidney stones, denied hygiene, and barred from even basic reading material.
Why? Because she “hurt religious sentiments.” Translation: She violated a de facto Islamic blasphemy law – the same language used to lynch Hindus and Christians in Pakistan, now echoing in Indian courts. The most disturbing part? This didn’t happen in Pakistan, but in India—a Hindu-majority nation where Muslims are now using de facto Sharia (Islamic law) to criminalize the speech of the Hindu minority.
And yet, while Sharmishta fights for her life and dignity in India’s jails, Muslim leaders in the United States are preaching the exact same brand of targeted ideological hatred that got her imprisoned.
Take Yasir Qadhi, the radical cleric who leads the controversial East Plano Islamic Center in Texas. His family came from Pakistan – a country where people are routinely lynched, jailed, or executed for “blasphemy.” Now in America, Qadhi spreads the same ideological poison, targeting Hindus and Jews with veiled hostility and incitement, cloaking it in academic jargon, and pretending to champion “interfaith dialogue.”
But listen closely. Qadhi has compared Hindutva to Nazism, accused India of preparing for a “Rwanda-style genocide” against Muslims, and urged his mosque members to mobilize against Hindus and Zionists. These aren’t just political buzzwords – they’re ideological code. “Hindutva” and “Zionist” are terms often used by Muslims to disguise their deep-seated hatred for Hindus and Jews. It’s a rhetorical trick: attack the core identities of these groups while pretending to oppose only fringe ideologies. In reality, Hindutva is simply Hindu identity and nationalism, and Zionism is the Jewish right to self-determination. To demonize either is to demonize the people themselves.
This is ideological warfare under the beard of religious leadership, and it’s exactly the type of narrative that fuels Islamic mob behavior in India—the very same behavior that landed Sharmishta in a jail cell.
Qadhi claims to oppose extremism, but his messaging fosters it. He portrays Muslims as perpetual victims, despite the fact that in India, it is Muslims who demanded Sharmishta’s arrest. It is Muslims who burned with rage over her video, filed police reports, and celebrated when she was dragged to jail in tears. They enforced Sharia blasphemy codes under the mask of democracy, and radicals like Qadhi are laying the exact same groundwork here in the U.S.
Ask yourself this:
Do you honestly think someone like Yasir Qadhi – who whines constantly about “Islamophobia” while demonizing Hindus and Jews – is not aiming to bring blasphemy laws to America?
Do you think a man whose ideological homeland is Pakistan, where Hindus and Christians are tortured and killed for alleged insults to Islam, wouldn’t push for hate speech laws that criminalize criticism of Islam?
Because that’s exactly what this is.
This isn’t just about India. It’s not just about Sharmishta. This is about a global Islamist movement that wants to control what you say, what you think, and how you worship. And in every place it spreads—from West Bengal to Texas—it starts the same way:
- Claim victimhood.
- Demand legal protections.
- Silence critics.
- Criminalize speech that challenges Islamic supremacy.
- And finally: Punish the blasphemers.
Sharmishta is just the latest warning sign.
Americans must wake up. If we don’t stand with her – if we don’t call out radical clerics like Yasir Qadhi right here in our own backyard—we will see this happen on our soil, and fast. We’ll watch our free speech vanish under the boot of Islamic censorship, enabled by leftist “hate crime” laws—blasphemy laws in disguise—and enforced through media complicity.
Now is the time to rise. Not later. Not when it’s too late.
