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Lebronwon
06/29/22 10:47:08 AM
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/india/india-udaipur-hindu-muslim-killing-intl-hnk/index.html

Religious tensions are flaring in India following the killing of a Hindu man allegedly by two Muslim assailants as authorities attempt to stop video of the brutal attack from circulating online. Officials in the western city of Udaipur, Rajasthan state, announced a curfew and blocked internet access after videos of the incident went viral on social media, triggering mass outrage across the country. In one video, two men can be seen beginning to attack the victim. In another, two Muslim men appear to confess to the crime and claim to have "decapitated" the Hindu man. However, police in the state told CNN Wednesday the victim had deep cuts all over his body, including slashes on his neck, but that he had not been beheaded. India's Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday said it had directed the National Investigation Agency -- the country's main anti-terrorism task force -- to investigate the case. "The involvement of any organisation and international links will be thoroughly investigated," it said on Twitter. The two suspects allegedly killed the victim, a tailor, after a post appeared on his social media account in favor of the now suspended national spokesperson for India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nupur Sharma, who made derogatory comments about Islam's Prophet Mohammed, Rajasthan police official Hawa Singh Ghumaria told CNN Wednesday. The victim was arrested on June 12 for allegedly "inflaming religious sentiments" and had since been released on bail, Ghumaria said. The two suspects have been arrested and an investigation is underway, the state's Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. Authorities in the state have responded by deploying more than 600 policemen to the area.

"This incident is very shameful," Ghumaria said during a news conference Tuesday, before urging the public not to watch the videos and appealing for calm. "There will be tension. There always is after such an incident, but it is all under control," he said. The killing has reignited the flames of an already volatile situation between India's Hindu majority and its minority Muslim community, that make up about 14% of the country's 1.3 billion population. Asaduddin Owaisi, a lawmaker and president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen political party, condemned the killing and demanded the "strictest possible action" against the suspects. "There can be no justification for it," he wrote on Twitter Tuesday. "Our party's consistent stand is to oppose such violence. No one can take the law into their own hands." Leader of the opposition Congress party Rahul Gandhi said he was "deeply shocked" by the incident. "Brutality in the name of religion cannot be tolerated," he wrote on Twitter. "We have to come together to defeat hatred. I appeal to everyone to please maintain peace and brotherhood." Hindu-Muslim tensions have remained a constant throughout India's modern history, occasionally erupting into violence, but analysts and activists say relations have worsened since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP rose to power with a Hindu-nationalist agenda in 2014. Since then, the ruling party has been repeatedly accused by rights groups, activists and opposition parties of stirring anti-Muslim sentiment. The BJP said in a statement on its website earlier this month that the party respected all religions. "The BJP strongly denounces insult of any religious personalities of any religion," it said. Earlier this month, India scrambled to contain the diplomatic fallout as at least 15 Muslim-majority countries condemned Sharma's remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. The incident sparked uproar among India's key Arab trading partners and calls from around the Gulf to boycott Indian goods.



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DanHaren22Champ
06/29/22 10:48:29 AM
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India = extremist country that gets somehow viewed as a moderate country by the west.
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Questionmarktarius
06/29/22 10:48:58 AM
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This is why a bunch of dead white guys were wise to burn a right to blaspheme right into 'Murrica's charter.
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voldothegr8
06/29/22 10:52:12 AM
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Religion was a mistake

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Solid Sonic
06/29/22 10:54:05 AM
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voldothegr8 posted...
Religion was a mistake

I always want to have this discussion but it's WAAAAAAAY too inflammatory. It's one of those things that I'd only throw out just to watch other people tear each other to pieces while I stand on the side, even if I feel like it's a legitimate topic of conversation to have.

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Questionmarktarius
06/29/22 10:55:47 AM
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Somehow magically get rid of religion, and we'll find some other damn thing to build ingroup-outgroup infidels around.
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FaultyCircuitry
06/29/22 10:56:31 AM
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voldothegr8 posted...
Religion was a mistake

How edgy

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Solid Sonic
06/29/22 10:57:05 AM
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FaultyCircuitry posted...
How edgy

Edgy, maybe, but not necessarily an invalid subject.

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LordMarshal
06/29/22 11:00:50 AM
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Religion is literally made up.

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Solid Sonic
06/29/22 11:01:15 AM
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Religion exists to make death more comprehensible.

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CARRRNE_ASADA
06/29/22 11:04:40 AM
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voldothegr8 posted...
Religion was a mistake


I agree, but fanatism is the culprit.

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Bio1590
06/29/22 11:10:11 AM
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DanHaren22Champ posted...
India = extremist country that gets somehow viewed as a moderate country by the west.

Does anyone actually think it's moderate? They have like a 2.5-way religious war that's been going on for hundreds of years, and that's not even bringing up tensions involving the religions with smaller numbers of followers, AND THEN that's not even getting into their caste system...

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haloiscoolisbak
06/29/22 11:13:38 AM
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FaultyCircuitry posted...
How edgy

Nice argument. You know he's right though

If you believe there's a God with a plan for you, you may as well believe in magic and Santa Claus. There's no difference at it's core, all 3 obviously don't exist

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Solid Sonic
06/29/22 11:14:35 AM
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It does bring me a pang of misery to know that existence ceases at death.

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FaultyCircuitry
06/29/22 11:30:16 AM
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haloiscoolisbak posted...
Nice argument. You know he's right though

If you believe there's a God with a plan for you, you may as well believe in magic and Santa Claus. There's no difference at it's core, all 3 obviously don't exist

It *isn't* obviously at all. There is a lack of evidence to believe in them, but that doesn't mean we can say that God factually doesn't exist.

The very concept of a god is one that cannot be proven nor disproven. It is a waste of time to try to do either. Both sides are approaching it with absolute beliefs based in faith of some sort.

Faith that one exists, faith that despite there being no possible evidence to disprove the existence of one that there surely isn't one.

Magic, as is shown in fantasy and kids shows, doesn't. That said there is power in ritual, in performance. Clearly no self-proclaimed witch can manipulate natural forces, but the rituals they do can affect how they approach events in life without knowing. A spell to bring about love isn't bringing their true love to them, but it might make them subconsciously pay closer attention to body language of someone and realize they're mutually interested etc.

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SSJPurple
06/29/22 11:54:05 AM
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FaultyCircuitry posted...
It *isn't* obviously at all. There is a lack of evidence to believe in them, but that doesn't mean we can say that God factually doesn't exist.

The very concept of a god is one that cannot be proven nor disproven. It is a waste of time to try to do either. Both sides are approaching it with absolute beliefs based in faith of some sort.

Faith that one exists, faith that despite there being no possible evidence to disprove the existence of one that there surely isn't one.

Magic, as is shown in fantasy and kids shows, doesn't. That said there is power in ritual, in performance. Clearly no self-proclaimed witch can manipulate natural forces, but the rituals they do can affect how they approach events in life without knowing. A spell to bring about love isn't bringing their true love to them, but it might make them subconsciously pay closer attention to body language of someone and realize they're mutually interested etc.

Except making up something ridiculous and then saying well you cant disprove it is a garbage defense.

Maybe there are a thousand gods all of which are invisible blueskinned featherless bird-people that control the world through telepathy.

You cant disprove it

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FaultyCircuitry
06/29/22 12:00:36 PM
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SSJPurple posted...
Except making up something ridiculous and then saying well you cant disprove it is a garbage defense.

Maybe there are a thousand gods all of which are invisible blueskinned featherless bird-people that control the world through telepathy.

You cant disprove it

The thing is there is just simply no way to know, so if you don't believe in a thing just leave it at that. You don't believe, but you can't know.

Either way, it doesn't fucking matter. These kinds of religious violence are far more rooted in political strife than anything to do with religion.

The people in power wield religion as a cudgel to get people to act how they want them too. It's not as if were there no religions that these acts would stop happening.

Hating the tool used instead of the root of the problem is weird as fuck. There are millions upon milllions of religious people the world over that are peaceful and kind people.


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Solid Sonic
07/01/22 8:40:58 AM
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Bump to get topic locked.

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