Current Events > Hindu Nationalist mobs in India are hunting and beating Muslims

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgeva3/hindu-nationalist-mobs-in-india-are-hunting-and-beating-muslims

As President Donald Trump praised Indias Hindu nationalist leaders for their work on religious freedom in New Delhi Tuesday, hardline supporters of the government were rampaging through the city hunting Muslims.

Mobs tore through Muslim-majority neighbourhoods in north-east New Delhi, attacking individuals, burning homes, businesses, and places of worship, and targeting victims on religious lines. Officials reported that the death toll since Monday had reached 11 the deadliest violence in the Indian capital in decades. More than 150 people were injured, including a journalist for the JK24 news channel who was in a serious condition after being shot, according to reports.

Footage of the shocking violence circulated on social media, showing assaults, burning buildings, and heavily bleeding men being dragged through the streets.

https://twitter.com/NrcProtest/status/1232264025053921281

In one clip, a mob of police officers and locals surrounded a group of injured men lying in a pile. The mob pokes the men with long clubs, demanding they sing a patriotic song as they record the scene on their phones.

https://twitter.com/RanaAyyub/status/1232160349291515905

Its all because of the Citizenship Amendment Act, a controversial new law passed in December that creates a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants from three neighboring Muslim-majority countries, as long as they arent Muslim.

Opponents, who see the law as an attempt by the Hindu nationalist government to undermine the status of the countrys 200 million Muslims and redefine India as primarily a Hindu nation, have protested against the law for months. The latest flareup happened after a right-wing mob led by Kapil Mishra, a minister representing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhis government, confronted protesters on Sunday and told them his supporters would forcibly remove them as soon as Trump left town.

But the mob didn't wait that long, with the violence quickly taking on religious overtones.

Things have gotten much worse today, Zeyad Masroor Khan, a New Delhi-based journalist, told VICE News.

Khan said he had spent the day effectively acting as a coordinator, trying to pass on information and arrange emergency support to Muslims, journalists, activists, and anyone else targeted by the mobs. In one case, he put out an urgent call for assistance for a Muslim friend-of-a-friend whose house had been surrounded by a mob; the man had to jump on to the terrace of a neighboring building to escape after the mob set his house on fire.

VICE News spoke briefly to the man, but he said he was still trying to make it to safety before he could speak further.

Khan said much of the violence was coming from pro-government hardliners, targeting Muslims, journalists, civil society activists and anyone else viewed as an opponent of their brand of far-right Hindu nationalism, although there were also reports of violence from Muslim groups.

https://twitter.com/sharmaAvl/status/1232270094706728960

In one neighborhood, anyone with a beard was attacked, he said, adding that some people were putting Hindu nationalist flags outside their homes to try to avoid being targeted.

As well as the journalist who was shot, two journalists from Indian news channel NDTV were beaten by a mob as they filmed a mosque being burned.

Nidhi Razdan, executive editor at NDTV, tweeted that the attack on her colleagues only stopped after the mob realized they are our people Hindus.

https://twitter.com/Nidhi/status/1232224723196694528

The violence has been an unwelcome distraction for Indias Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as he rolls out the carpet for the first state visit by fellow strongman Donald Trump. But Trump was reluctant to make much of the issue, declining to criticize Modis legislative push to sideline Indian Muslims, and dodging questions over the violence in a news conference in New Delhi Tuesday.

We did talk about religious freedom, Trump said. In India, they have worked hard to have great and open religious freedom. They have really worked hard on religious freedom. I really believe that is what he [Modi] wants.

When asked about the violence, Trump simply said that he had heard about it, but it was up to India to handle.

Delhi authorities have responded to the violence by imposing curfews in parts of the northeast of the city. But Atishi, a Delhi politician for the Aam Aadmi Party, said Tuesday that it was time for the army to be called in.

https://twitter.com/AtishiAAP/status/1232287736473817088

Meanwhile, residents of New Delhi are adapting to a new atmosphere of fear in the city.

Its a very tense situation. Nobody I know is going out, said Khan, who is Muslim but lives in a Hindu-majority neighborhood. Today is the first time in nine years living here that Ive felt fearful.

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Bio1590 posted...

But Trump was reluctant to make much of the issue, declining to criticize Modis legislative push to sideline Indian Muslims, and dodging questions over the violence in a news conference in New Delhi Tuesday.

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muslims have been attacked in india for decades. their majority do not like them.

i read an article where a bunch of hindus killed a muslim man for stealing a cow to eat.
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Bio1590 posted...

As President Donald Trump praised Indias Hindu nationalist leaders for their work on religious freedom in New Delhi Tuesday, hardline supporters of the government were rampaging through the city hunting Muslims.

Well yeah.

I'm surprised he didn't outright cheer them on.

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DrizztLink posted...

Well yeah.

I'm surprised he didn't outright cheer them on.

He did partake in the fear mongering though because India's Muslim population is now like 14% or 15% of the total population when it used to be like 9% or 10%.
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The second largest Muslim population in the world

Shame on you, India
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India is a weird ass place

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religion must be eradicated. all of them are the same

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india being racist? Shocking.

I've seen documentaries on how they treat African immigrants who go there for school.

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apolloooo posted...

religion must be eradicated. all of them are the same

Pure buddhism is ok. I'm talking the vanilla philosophy before it gets mixed with religious stuff

apolloooo posted...

religion must be eradicated. all of them are the same

You know people will just find other reasons to hate each other, right?

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pres_madagascar posted...

India is a weird ass place

Not like the British did it or Pakistan or Bangladesh any favours >_>
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