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On March 5, when Nasir went to look for an apartment, he knew enough about religious discrimination to know that he should look for a flat in a Muslim-dominated locality. However, what he had not accounted for was discrimination by fellow Muslims.
As Nasir entered the landlord’s house with a few friends, the usual set of questions that landlords are likely to ask were asked to them. However, when the landlord learned that they were Kashmiri, he first was rude to them and then asked them to leave at once.
“I had never expected to be treated this way in a Muslim locality. I had faced backlash even during the post Pulwama months, when I was in Uttarakhand, but yesterday when I was simply shown the door the moment the landlord heard about my Kashmiri identity, it was shocking,” says Nasir.
Nasir says that of late, when Kashmiris travel from home to Delhi or any other part of India, they bank on Muslims to come to their aid and help with accommodation, but such incidents only end up alienating them more.
“First I thought that maybe the atmosphere of religious intolerance in Delhi has led him to display this behaviour, but then I remembered that I had already phoned and told him my name. It was only after he realised that I’m from Kashmir that he bluntly showed me the door,” he says.
https://thewire.in/rights/kashmiri-student-delhi-landlord
We have come across cases where Hindu Landlord's deny room to the Muslims but now,
Even fellow Indian Muslims are refusing to grant a place to Kashmiris
How can we expect such people to raise voice against oppression of Kashmiris ?
