By: Kayhan Int’l
The country which calls itself the world’s largest democracy with a rich polyglot culture of religious, ethnic, and lingual tolerance with emphasis on Hindu-Muslim harmony and respect for the rights of all citizens, seems to be changing track.
The trend in India today is that of bigotry, hatred, mob lynching, beating and burning alive of people, especially Muslims by thugs posing as Hindus in violation of the peaceful tenets of Hinduism, while the police look the other way and the government keeps mum.
The UN and world countries are viewing with increasing concern the growing bouts of organized violence and bloodshed.
On Monday, the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Seyyed Abbas Musavi, expressed horror at the recent mayhem in New Delhi and felt that Iran as a brotherly country having age-old ties with India, should break its silence.
He said: "We are very sorry and deeply saddened for the incidents that have happened. We consider India a country of religious tolerance.”
Last week, while the white supremacist President of the US, Donald Trump the terrorist, was dining with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, thousands of Muslims in the same city were being beaten and terrorized by the hired thugs of the ruling extremist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Delhi police, who report directly to the rabidly anti-Muslim Home Minister Amit Shah, either stood idly by or escorted the mobs. The violence raged across the north-east of India’s capital for four days as mosques were set alight, Muslims were burned alive in their homes or dragged out into the streets and lynched.
Trump in his visit to India hailed Modi as a champion of religious liberty even as the Indian government has adopted policies targeting Muslims.
He publicly accepted Modi’s word that he treats his countrymen fairly without regard to faith and religion and made no mention of the months of nationwide protests – both by Hindus and Muslims – over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which has been widely criticised as discriminating on the basis of religion, in particular for excluding Muslims.
According to political scientists, the amendment Act is considered to be unconstitutional. The major opposition political parties in India state that it violates the Constitution’s Article 14 that guarantees equality to all. They all agree that the new law seeks to make Muslims second-class citizens of India, while preferentially treating non-Muslims in India.
As it is evident by the nationwide peaceful protests held for the past few months in India against the CAA, the majority of Hindus who believe that peace is the essential part of their religion, have come out in tens of thousands in support of their Muslim compatriots against this act.
The concept of "Ahimsa” or non-violence forms a cardinal principle of Hinduism. Then, could these gangs attacking and killing Muslims and spreading hatred, be called Hindus?
No they are not Hindus, as the Hindus themselves are testifying against the policies of hatred and bloodshed spread by these lawless and anarchic elements, intent upon destroying India.
Residents in Mustafabad, an area right on the edge of Delhi badly affected by the riots, reported seeing mobs armed with metal rods, wooden sticks, kerosene and matches coming in trucks from the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
Uttar Pradesh, whose BJP Chief Minister, the blatantly Islamaphobic Yogi Adityanath, is notorious for inciting the worst state-sponsored attacks, detention and torture of Muslims in a crackdown against the anti-CAA protests.
It should be recalled that even before Modi became Prime Minister, he was considered as the symbol of an Islamophobe. As Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had been charged with complicity in the sectarian riots of 2002 that left more than 2,000 Muslims dead.
It is now clear that the notorious terrorist outfit Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which draws inspiration from the Italian Fascist Benito Mussolini and the German Nazi Adolf Hitler, is controlling the BJP government from behind the scenes.
The only solution to save India from turning into a dictatorship of anarchic elements, is for Modi to publicly distance himself from RSS, dismiss Amit Shah, as the opposition is demanding, and repeal the CAA and similar unconstitutional acts.
The trend in India today is that of bigotry, hatred, mob lynching, beating and burning alive of people, especially Muslims by thugs posing as Hindus in violation of the peaceful tenets of Hinduism, while the police look the other way and the government keeps mum.
The UN and world countries are viewing with increasing concern the growing bouts of organized violence and bloodshed.
On Monday, the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Seyyed Abbas Musavi, expressed horror at the recent mayhem in New Delhi and felt that Iran as a brotherly country having age-old ties with India, should break its silence.
He said: "We are very sorry and deeply saddened for the incidents that have happened. We consider India a country of religious tolerance.”
Last week, while the white supremacist President of the US, Donald Trump the terrorist, was dining with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, thousands of Muslims in the same city were being beaten and terrorized by the hired thugs of the ruling extremist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Delhi police, who report directly to the rabidly anti-Muslim Home Minister Amit Shah, either stood idly by or escorted the mobs. The violence raged across the north-east of India’s capital for four days as mosques were set alight, Muslims were burned alive in their homes or dragged out into the streets and lynched.
Trump in his visit to India hailed Modi as a champion of religious liberty even as the Indian government has adopted policies targeting Muslims.
He publicly accepted Modi’s word that he treats his countrymen fairly without regard to faith and religion and made no mention of the months of nationwide protests – both by Hindus and Muslims – over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which has been widely criticised as discriminating on the basis of religion, in particular for excluding Muslims.
According to political scientists, the amendment Act is considered to be unconstitutional. The major opposition political parties in India state that it violates the Constitution’s Article 14 that guarantees equality to all. They all agree that the new law seeks to make Muslims second-class citizens of India, while preferentially treating non-Muslims in India.
As it is evident by the nationwide peaceful protests held for the past few months in India against the CAA, the majority of Hindus who believe that peace is the essential part of their religion, have come out in tens of thousands in support of their Muslim compatriots against this act.
The concept of "Ahimsa” or non-violence forms a cardinal principle of Hinduism. Then, could these gangs attacking and killing Muslims and spreading hatred, be called Hindus?
No they are not Hindus, as the Hindus themselves are testifying against the policies of hatred and bloodshed spread by these lawless and anarchic elements, intent upon destroying India.
Residents in Mustafabad, an area right on the edge of Delhi badly affected by the riots, reported seeing mobs armed with metal rods, wooden sticks, kerosene and matches coming in trucks from the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
Uttar Pradesh, whose BJP Chief Minister, the blatantly Islamaphobic Yogi Adityanath, is notorious for inciting the worst state-sponsored attacks, detention and torture of Muslims in a crackdown against the anti-CAA protests.
It should be recalled that even before Modi became Prime Minister, he was considered as the symbol of an Islamophobe. As Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had been charged with complicity in the sectarian riots of 2002 that left more than 2,000 Muslims dead.
It is now clear that the notorious terrorist outfit Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which draws inspiration from the Italian Fascist Benito Mussolini and the German Nazi Adolf Hitler, is controlling the BJP government from behind the scenes.
The only solution to save India from turning into a dictatorship of anarchic elements, is for Modi to publicly distance himself from RSS, dismiss Amit Shah, as the opposition is demanding, and repeal the CAA and similar unconstitutional acts.
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