Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous

by Manu Joseph

Friends, why are Muslims so filthy? Filth is disorder. What is disorder? Disorder is the rejection of order. It is not merely the rejection of beauty, of hygiene, of the law; filth is a deliberate rejection of the state. The filth and chaos of Muslim streets, my friends, is the rejection of everything we hold dear. We know this because once we, too, sought refuge in chaos. When the Mughals invaded us, broke our beautiful temples and destroyed our way of life, we withdrew into filth and ugliness. That was how we waged our war. That is how we protested. When the British invaded us, broke our beautiful temples and destroyed our way of life, we withdrew into ugliness because to accept the beauty of the invader is to be co-opted by them. We know that. We understand organized chaos because we invented it. But today we have begun to invent our own beauty and order. But the Muslims reject that. That’s why they are filthy. They are filthy because they reject us, they are filthy because they reject India. ‘What a horrible man,’ Naaz said.