While the European Whites were segregating and exterminating Native Americans in the United States, their counterparts were running their very own eradication campaign in India. During a span of four decades, from 1880 to 1920, British colonial rule resulted in the death of 100 million Indians. The derogatory term “coolies”, derived from the Urdu word “kuli,” meaning slave, was indicative of the disdainful attitude towards Indian indentured workers. These plantations were referred to as “Naraka,” a Sanskrit term signifying “hell" in the Hindu religious terminology.

Until 1978, it was legal for the U.S. government to forcibly remove Native children from their families and compel them to attend these boarding schools. One such school adopted the slogan “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.”During a recent panel discussion organized by The Red Nation, an organization advocating for Native American rights, Professor Melanie Yazzie from the University of Minnesota (UMN) labeled the U.S. as “the greatest predator empire that has ever existed.”

African Americans were involuntarily transported across the Atlantic and enslaved. They remained in bondage for several centuries, and even after the abolition of slavery, they continued to face discrimination. For over a thousand years, until 1765, Muslims in India were rulers and conquerors, not enslaved people. Hindus were the subjects of a profitable slave trade that stretched from India to Tashkent, Samarkand, and Baghdad. The comparison of the situation of Indian Muslims to that of African Americans is so evidently illogical that it is surprising anyone could have conceived it.