Begged Rights, Borrowed Voices: Stop Gazing at Muslim Women and Fix Your Broken Homes

How India's elite feminism thrives on caste pride, borrowed empowerment, and weaponising Muslim women to cover up its own systemic failures.

For decades, the feminist space in India has been dominated by women who come from upper-caste, urban, English-speaking, and privileged backgrounds. These are women who have never stood in line for a public toilet, never been denied a seat in a classroom, or been kicked out of a home for menstruating. Their feminism is filtered through convenience, not lived struggle.

And yet, these are the loudest voices when it comes to talking about Muslim women’s rights.

Why?

Because turning Muslim women into symbols of oppression gives these elite women a false sense of empowerment — borrowed from courtrooms, not their religion — while distracting from the humiliation and discrimination they themselves face within their own families and communities.

When Empowerment Is Borrowed, Not Given

Let’s be honest: every major right Hindu women have today — the right to education, to property, to vote, to divorce, to remarry — was not granted by their religion. 👉 It was begged from courts, forced through protests, or handed out as political compensation.

If Hindu women were really treated like goddesses, then:

• Why were they burnt alive for dowry?

• Why were they banned from temples during periods?

• Why are daughters still killed in the womb?

• Why did courts need to intervene just to let them inherit property?

This is the result of pushing a stubborn, patriarchal system to open its gates — and even now, those gates are half-closed. Stop calling it your empowerment.

Feminism That Serves Caste, Not Justice

The women leading India’s feminist narratives are almost always upper-caste. These women have their own toilets, private spaces, and assistants. So, the decades-long delay in constructing a basic ladies’ toilet in the Supreme Court doesn’t bother them. It doesn’t affect them.

The reality — elite women don’t fight for basic rights because they’ve secured them for themselves. What remains is not public service but image maintenance.

They don't want Bahujan, Dalit, Muslim, or tribal women entering their spaces, sharing their platforms, or questioning their silence. Equality ends where caste pride begins. The language of inclusion is used only when it benefits their status.

Stop Looking Into Muslim Homes — Clean Your Own First

Muslim women in India are treated like exhibits.

Always under a microscope.

Always questioned.

Always asked to “prove” their freedom.

👉 But here's the truth:Islam gave us rights through our religion — not because we begged, not because a court felt pity.

We have financial independence, the right to property, consent in marriage, and the dignity of being seen as individuals in our faith.

But this reality burns many.

The fact that Muslim women don’t have to fall at the feet of a patriarchal priest or politician for dignity is unbearable to those who did. So they mock the hijab, twist our scriptures, misquote our lifestyle — just to feel better about their own condition.

This isn’t empowerment. It’s jealousy, masked as concern.

It’s distraction, not solidarity.

And it’s rooted in caste shame — because they cannot question their own religion, but they feel entitled to question ours.

No More Explaining, No More Appeasing

We are done explaining ourselves to those who refuse to see us.We are done justifying our faith to people who haven’t cleaned their own houses of caste, gender violence, or religious hypocrisy.We are done accepting lectures on rights from people who still won’t allow their daughters to marry outside caste, or their widows to remarry without shame.

This is not feminism. It’s a bandwagon. It’s a borrowed voice riding on court verdicts, hiding behind caste walls, and peeping into Muslim homes to escape looking in the mirror.

Let the Mirror Break — and the Truth Shine

The truth is simple:

You didn’t get your rights from your gods. You got them from the very system you now use to play superior. And now you use that system to silence Muslim women, not uplift them. You talk of freedom, but your religion tied your legs. You talk of justice, but your caste system never gave you any. You talk of equality, but your feminism thrives on exclusion.

If you really care for women, start in your homes.

Question your temple rules.

Question your inheritance laws.

Question your silence when Dalit girls are raped.

Question your discomfort when Muslim women speak.

Conclusion: Fix Your Feminism Before You Preach Freedom

The weaponisation of Muslim women to hide the failures of Hindu society is a national shame.

Let those who speak of nationalism start with respecting boundaries.

Let them fight their own battles inside their broken structures.

Let them stop peeking into our faith and pretending it’s for our liberation.

We are not your distraction.

We are not your punching bag. And we are definitely not your token.

Muslim women stand dignified — not because of borrowed rights, but because our religion never stole them in the first place.

Before you roar about women’s rights, better check if your feminism and supremacy is built on the bones of caste, silence and hypocrisy.