I despise both the Hindutvawadis and the Chinese Communists, but in the grand scheme of things, the latter are far worse and harmful to the Muslims than the former.
The Hindutvawadi is the devil we know.
China hates Islam and Muslims so much that despite knowing full well that what it is doing to the Uighurs will open it up to a barrage of criticism from the international community, and also potentially jeopardize its relations with Muslim countries and their populations which it is keen to strengthen relations with, it went ahead with it anyways.
Let’s be honest, there are a lot of people in the world who hate us Muslims. Hindutvawadis are just one such category of people. The Islamophobic European Far-Right are another. The Chinese Communists are another.
Each of them try to hurt us in a different way. The European anti-Muslim bigots constantly try to provoke us by publishing sacrilegious caricatures of our blessed Prophet. Various European countries have also banned some of our fundamental religious practices, like female veiling, infant male circumcision, animal sacrifice and Halal food, and even minarets on mosques.
The Hindutvawadi, no matter how fanatical, doesn’t steep that low. They don’t want to ban the burqa or the practice of khatna or even the calling of adhan on loudspeaker. Nor do they dare commit sacrilege against our Prophet and our Quran.
I think the reason is because the Hindutvawadi, unlike the European anti-Muslim bigot or the Chinese communist, has religious sensibilities of his own.
So the real threat of the Hindutvawadi to us Muslims is not in terms of our freedom to practice our Religion, but a danger of harming us socially, politically and economically.
The Chinese Communist have taken their anti-Muslim bigotry to genocidal levels. They justify their mass detention of millions of Uighur Muslims in the name of rooting out religious extremism. Of course, they have exploited that term by using it vaguely. In reality, they are detaining people for things like keeping Arabic names, growing a beard, wearing a skullcap, going to the mosque regularly, fasting in Ramadan, not drinking beer or eating pork, and the like. According to the Chinese Communists, these are examples of “religious extremism”!