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Beaten and humiliated by Hindu mobs for being a Muslim in India

By Geeta Pandey
BBC News, Delhi

Published2 September
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A Muslim man was paraded through the streets as his crying daughter begged the mob to stop hitting him
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Unprovoked attacks on Muslims by Hindu mobs have become routine in India, but they seem to evoke little condemnation from the government.
Last month, a video that went viral on social media showed a terrified little girl clinging to her Muslim father as a Hindu mob assaulted him.
The distressing footage showed the 45-year-old rickshaw driver being paraded through the streets of Kanpur, a city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, as his crying daughter begged the mob to stop hitting him.
His attackers asked him to chant "Hindustan Zindabad" or "Long Live India" and "Jai Shri Ram" or "Victory to Lord Ram" - a popular greeting that's been turned into a murder cry by Hindu lynch mobs in recent years.
He complied, but the mob still kept hitting him. The man and his daughter were eventually rescued by the police. Three men arrested for the attack were freed on bail a day later.
A few days later, another viral video surfaced showing a Muslim bangle-seller being slapped, kicked and punched by a Hindu mob in Indore, a city in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. The attackers could be heard abusing Tasleem Ali and telling him to stay away from Hindu areas in future.

In a police complaint, he later alleged that he had been "beaten by five-six men who hurled communal slurs at him for selling bangles in a Hindu-dominated area and robbed him of money, his phone and some documents".
But in a strange turn of events, Ali himself was arrested the next day after the 13-year-old daughter of one of his alleged attackers accused him of molesting her. His family and neighbours have strongly denied the accusation. They said it was inconceivable that the father of five would do something like that.
And eyewitnesses, quoted in the Indian press, said he was attacked because of his religious identity and the molestation accusation against him seemed to be an afterthought.
The two attacks were among several instances of anti-Muslim violence in August, but the last month by no means was cruellest for India's biggest religious minority group, with a population of more than 200 million.
A 'Not in my Name' protest against anti-Muslim killings in India in Delhi, on June 28, 2017
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image captionCritics say anti-Muslim violence has risen sharply since 2014 under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Similar attacks were reported in the preceding months too - and many made headlines.
"The violence is overwhelming. It's rampant and common and also very acceptable," says Alishan Jafri, a freelance journalist who's been documenting attacks on Indian Muslims for the past three years.

He says he comes across "three-four such videos every day" but is able to verify only one or two which he then shares on social media.
Religious faultlines have existed in India for a long time but, critics say, anti-Muslim violence has risen since 2014 under the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Communal violence is not a recent phenomenon, but it grows in sync with the strategies of those in power and political mobilisation," Prof Tanvir Aeijaz, who teaches politics science at Delhi University, told the BBC.
"The distrust was always there but cleavages have been sharpened now by religious nationalism and ethno-nationalism."
During Mr Modi's first term in power, there were numerous incidents of Muslims being attacked by so-called "cow vigilantes" over rumours that they had eaten beef, or that they were trying to smuggle cows - an animal many Hindus consider holy - for slaughter.
The prime minister did not condone such attacks, but was criticised for not condemning them quickly or strongly enough either.

Prakash Javadekar, a senior BJP leader, told the BBC that "the government believes that lynching is bad, wherever it happens. But law and order is a state subject and it is their responsibility to deal with it".
He then went on to accuse the media of "biased and selective journalism" by focusing on attacks on Muslims.
"If you look at official data, there were 160 Hindus among the 200 people who were lynched. People of all faiths were targeted," he said, but did not give details of where the data could be found. India does not gather such data.
In 2019, a fact-checker website that counted "hate crimes" in India reported that more than 90% of victims in the past 10 years were Muslims.
A screen grab of the viral video showing a bangle-seller being assaulted in Indore
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image captionA screen grab of the viral video showing a bangle-seller being assaulted in Indore
And the perpetrators of the attacks remain unpunished amid accusations that they enjoy political patronage from Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party after a government minister garlanded eight Hindus convicted for lynching a Muslim.
"Such attacks have become so common in our country today only and only because of the impunity these thugs enjoy," says Hasiba Amin, a social media co-ordinator for the opposition Congress party.
"Today hate has gone mainstream. It is cool to go attack Muslims. The hate mongers are also rewarded for their actions."

Critics say since Mr Modi's return to power for a second term in 2019, the anti-Muslim violence has expanded in its scope.
Sometimes, the violence is not even physical and takes a more subtle, insidious form that appears aimed at vilifying and demonising the minority community. For example:
  • Last year, as Covid-19 began to take hold of India, Hindu leaders, including Mr Modi's ministers and party colleagues, accused Muslim men, who had attended a religious gathering in Delhi, of "corona jihad" by indulging in behaviour that would spread the virus
  • Then followed "roti jihad" which included wild allegations that Muslim cooks were spitting on roti - handmade bread - to spread the virus to Hindus
In recent months, several states have introduced laws to curb "love jihad" - an Islamophobic term fringe Hindu groups use to imply that Muslim men prey on Hindu women to convert them to Islam through marriage.
The laws are being used to harass and jail Muslim men in interfaith relations with Hindu women. Last December, the plight of a pregnant Hindu woman, who was forcibly separated from her Muslim husband, made headlines when she suffered a miscarriage.
A Muslim protest in Mumbai on 28 June against the recent mob lynching of Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand state
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image captionMuslims protest against the mob lynching of Tabrez Ansari in June 2019
Muslim women haven't been spared either - in July, dozens of them found they had been put up "for sale" online. In May, many of them, including Ms Amin of the Congress party, were offered in a mock online "auction".
And last month, participants at a rally, organised by a former BJP leader in Delhi, shouted slogans calling for Muslims to be killed.
"It's a very sustained, organised campaign by nationalist politicians to radicalise Hindus into believing that Muslims need to be marginalised if Hindus are to progress," says Mr Jafri.
Prof Aeijaz says the attack on working class Muslims, such as tailors, fruit vendors, electricians, plumbers and bangle sellers, is also an attempt to take control of the political economy and jobs through religious nationalism.
"The religious divide has deepened. The distrust has deepened. But the hate is also for profit. The idea it to make Muslims the other, the enemy.
"The process of creating the other is by propagating the idea that if we don't destroy the other, we will be destroyed. So you stoke hate, create fear, and violence is part of this larger narrative."
But religious nationalism, Prof Aeijaz says, is a dangerous idea that can lead to sectarian violence.
"The buck stops with the political executive in a parliamentary democracy. How long can they look the other way?"

 

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State sanctioned totalitarian scale of the same:



The state sanctioned genocide can be seen from space:

 

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State sanctioned totalitarian scale of the same:



The state sanctioned genocide can be seen from space:

Not even one Muslim country sides with the west over Xinjiang, because Muslim countries themselves know who are the worst enemies and Muslim persecuters.
 

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That app was created none other than by a Muslim with an agenda to defame Hindus
Most of these stories of "hindus" killing muslims are fake like this one.
State sanctioned totalitarian scale of the same:



The state sanctioned genocide can be seen from space:

Beaten and humiliated by Hindu mobs for being a Muslim in India

By Geeta Pandey
BBC News, Delhi

Published2 September
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A Muslim man was paraded through the streets as his crying daughter begged the mob to stop hitting him
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image captionA Muslim man was paraded through the streets as his crying daughter begged the mob to stop hitting him
Unprovoked attacks on Muslims by Hindu mobs have become routine in India, but they seem to evoke little condemnation from the government.
Last month, a video that went viral on social media showed a terrified little girl clinging to her Muslim father as a Hindu mob assaulted him.
The distressing footage showed the 45-year-old rickshaw driver being paraded through the streets of Kanpur, a city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, as his crying daughter begged the mob to stop hitting him.
His attackers asked him to chant "Hindustan Zindabad" or "Long Live India" and "Jai Shri Ram" or "Victory to Lord Ram" - a popular greeting that's been turned into a murder cry by Hindu lynch mobs in recent years.
He complied, but the mob still kept hitting him. The man and his daughter were eventually rescued by the police. Three men arrested for the attack were freed on bail a day later.
A few days later, another viral video surfaced showing a Muslim bangle-seller being slapped, kicked and punched by a Hindu mob in Indore, a city in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. The attackers could be heard abusing Tasleem Ali and telling him to stay away from Hindu areas in future.

In a police complaint, he later alleged that he had been "beaten by five-six men who hurled communal slurs at him for selling bangles in a Hindu-dominated area and robbed him of money, his phone and some documents".
But in a strange turn of events, Ali himself was arrested the next day after the 13-year-old daughter of one of his alleged attackers accused him of molesting her. His family and neighbours have strongly denied the accusation. They said it was inconceivable that the father of five would do something like that.
And eyewitnesses, quoted in the Indian press, said he was attacked because of his religious identity and the molestation accusation against him seemed to be an afterthought.
The two attacks were among several instances of anti-Muslim violence in August, but the last month by no means was cruellest for India's biggest religious minority group, with a population of more than 200 million.
A 'Not in my Name' protest against anti-Muslim killings in India in Delhi, on June 28, 2017'Not in my Name' protest against anti-Muslim killings in India in Delhi, on June 28, 2017
IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
image captionCritics say anti-Muslim violence has risen sharply since 2014 under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Similar attacks were reported in the preceding months too - and many made headlines.
"The violence is overwhelming. It's rampant and common and also very acceptable," says Alishan Jafri, a freelance journalist who's been documenting attacks on Indian Muslims for the past three years.

He says he comes across "three-four such videos every day" but is able to verify only one or two which he then shares on social media.
Religious faultlines have existed in India for a long time but, critics say, anti-Muslim violence has risen since 2014 under the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Communal violence is not a recent phenomenon, but it grows in sync with the strategies of those in power and political mobilisation," Prof Tanvir Aeijaz, who teaches politics science at Delhi University, told the BBC.
"The distrust was always there but cleavages have been sharpened now by religious nationalism and ethno-nationalism."
During Mr Modi's first term in power, there were numerous incidents of Muslims being attacked by so-called "cow vigilantes" over rumours that they had eaten beef, or that they were trying to smuggle cows - an animal many Hindus consider holy - for slaughter.
The prime minister did not condone such attacks, but was criticised for not condemning them quickly or strongly enough either.

Prakash Javadekar, a senior BJP leader, told the BBC that "the government believes that lynching is bad, wherever it happens. But law and order is a state subject and it is their responsibility to deal with it".
He then went on to accuse the media of "biased and selective journalism" by focusing on attacks on Muslims.
"If you look at official data, there were 160 Hindus among the 200 people who were lynched. People of all faiths were targeted," he said, but did not give details of where the data could be found. India does not gather such data.
In 2019, a fact-checker website that counted "hate crimes" in India reported that more than 90% of victims in the past 10 years were Muslims.
A screen grab of the viral video showing a bangle-seller being assaulted in Indore
IMAGE SOURCE,SHURAIH NIYAZI/BBC
image captionA screen grab of the viral video showing a bangle-seller being assaulted in Indore
And the perpetrators of the attacks remain unpunished amid accusations that they enjoy political patronage from Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party after a government minister garlanded eight Hindus convicted for lynching a Muslim.
"Such attacks have become so common in our country today only and only because of the impunity these thugs enjoy," says Hasiba Amin, a social media co-ordinator for the opposition Congress party.
"Today hate has gone mainstream. It is cool to go attack Muslims. The hate mongers are also rewarded for their actions."

Critics say since Mr Modi's return to power for a second term in 2019, the anti-Muslim violence has expanded in its scope.
Sometimes, the violence is not even physical and takes a more subtle, insidious form that appears aimed at vilifying and demonising the minority community. For example:
  • Last year, as Covid-19 began to take hold of India, Hindu leaders, including Mr Modi's ministers and party colleagues, accused Muslim men, who had attended a religious gathering in Delhi, of "corona jihad" by indulging in behaviour that would spread the virus
  • Then followed "roti jihad" which included wild allegations that Muslim cooks were spitting on roti - handmade bread - to spread the virus to Hindus
In recent months, several states have introduced laws to curb "love jihad" - an Islamophobic term fringe Hindu groups use to imply that Muslim men prey on Hindu women to convert them to Islam through marriage.
The laws are being used to harass and jail Muslim men in interfaith relations with Hindu women. Last December, the plight of a pregnant Hindu woman, who was forcibly separated from her Muslim husband, made headlines when she suffered a miscarriage.
A Muslim protest in Mumbai on 28 June against the recent mob lynching of Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand state
IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
image captionMuslims protest against the mob lynching of Tabrez Ansari in June 2019
Muslim women haven't been spared either - in July, dozens of them found they had been put up "for sale" online. In May, many of them, including Ms Amin of the Congress party, were offered in a mock online "auction".
And last month, participants at a rally, organised by a former BJP leader in Delhi, shouted slogans calling for Muslims to be killed.
"It's a very sustained, organised campaign by nationalist politicians to radicalise Hindus into believing that Muslims need to be marginalised if Hindus are to progress," says Mr Jafri.
Prof Aeijaz says the attack on working class Muslims, such as tailors, fruit vendors, electricians, plumbers and bangle sellers, is also an attempt to take control of the political economy and jobs through religious nationalism.
"The religious divide has deepened. The distrust has deepened. But the hate is also for profit. The idea it to make Muslims the other, the enemy.
"The process of creating the other is by propagating the idea that if we don't destroy the other, we will be destroyed. So you stoke hate, create fear, and violence is part of this larger narrative."
But religious nationalism, Prof Aeijaz says, is a dangerous idea that can lead to sectarian violence.
"The buck stops with the political executive in a parliamentary democracy. How long can they look the other way?"

You indians and Chinese continue to amaze me tbh
Both of you are trying to portray yourselves as the "Miraculous" saints while criticising the other party; even though you are comitting the same heinous acts.... it is truly pitiful tbh from both indians and chinese. Like Pot calling the kettle black
Moreover, can we stop the idea about whose side the 'West' supports. Rn, the West isnt a haven for TRUE human rights anymore. They are keeping a tight lip on india's violations on human rights since they wanna india be a tool for toppling china and the same with highlighting each and every chinese move in their "Famed" media.
Both of you guys are to blame tbh
 

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You indians and Chinese continue to amaze me tbh
Both of you are trying to portray yourselves as the "Miraculous" saints while criticising the other party; even though you are comitting the same heinous acts.... it is truly pitiful tbh from both indians and chinese. Like Pot calling the kettle black
Moreover, can we stop the idea about whose side the 'West' supports. Rn, the West isnt a haven for TRUE human rights anymore. They are keeping a tight lip on india's violations on human rights since they wanna india be a tool for toppling china and the same with highlighting each and every chinese move in their "Famed" media.
Both of you guys are to blame tbh

Not exactly sure why you are applying this to me. I never said India is "miraculous" or a gold standard on any of this.

Neither is Turkey for that matter btw.

What I am pointing out is the clear scale of it employed at the state level (fully sanctioned by all its leaders and bureaucracy).

That is different to plebian mob crimes (which go on in countries across the world, the issues vary).

Maybe TR should develop/harness its remote sensing capability and simply illustrate the number of camps in India built (recently) to house some million of a minority (simply by gauging their size and number to estimate).

That is if you do not trust the large amount of opposition voices in our media, and the number of muslims elected in our body of govt and other representative organisations to begin with.

Similar to how you do it w.r.t the Kurds in your country right? You got Kurds in govt and other govt organs? They are represented in your media?

How does this stack w.r.t CCP and PRC? Lot of uyghurs in their media and representing their concerns in their govt (opposition + mainstream + in power folks)?

Take the "western media" trope you use out of it fully and answer it honestly.

Simple question in the end are Turkey and India totalitarian countries or not?

I mean credible OP himself would voice things on this matter in the only way he can (if let to here):


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Yet this forum operates in the more democratic framework does it not?....allowing him to "purge" these parts and "present" other parts.

Plenty more where this came from.

Quite an interesting topic to get into dont you think?
 

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You indians and Chinese continue to amaze me tbh
Both of you are trying to portray yourselves as the "Miraculous" saints while criticising the other party; even though you are comitting the same heinous acts.... it is truly pitiful tbh from both indians and chinese. Like Pot calling the kettle black
Moreover, can we stop the idea about whose side the 'West' supports. Rn, the West isnt a haven for TRUE human rights anymore. They are keeping a tight lip on india's violations on human rights since they wanna india be a tool for toppling china and the same with highlighting each and every chinese move in their "Famed" media.
Both of you guys are to blame tbh
None is saint,even in muslim countries such as Pakistan,Bangladesh and Afghanistan Hindus are reduced to not even 4%,so human rights lectures shouldn't come from them as well.
Currently muslims are biggest enemies of themselves.
Afghanistan Taliban killing own Muslims,same for others.
Question is how many countries have condemned killing of Hindus in these countries?
Muslim countries make HR as a political tool
 

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You indians and Chinese continue to amaze me tbh
Go to Xinjiang and Kashmir to find the difference, Xinjiang is a first world place in terms of development, Kashmir is a poverty stricken, violence infested sh hole.
 

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The predictable bot thinks this is being made an issue regarding "banning".

It is matter of hypocrisy and principle.

There is no rule here against being a hypocrite and unprincipled.

But it can definitely be illustrated with regards to the larger argument.
 

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Go to Xinjiang and Kashmir to find the difference, Xinjiang is a first world place in terms of development, Kashmir is a poverty stricken, violence infested sh hole.
That condition is because of your pawn Pakistan which uses proxies to destabilize the area and you keep arming it.
 

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If the bot wants to make this its final existence here on this forum, by all means it can continue for the next few hours. I will deal with more of this later.
 

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If the bot wants to make this its final existence here on this forum, by all means it can continue for the next few hours. I will deal with more of this later.
What do you mean? Are you the owner of this forum?
 

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That condition is because of your pawn Pakistan which uses proxies to destabilize the area and you keep arming it.
Other parts of India are the same, filthy, poverty, homeless, children beggars everywhere
 

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it is truly pitiful tbh from both indians and chinese.

Rn, the West isnt a haven for TRUE human rights anymore. They are keeping a tight lip on india's violations on human rights since they wanna india be a tool for toppling china and the same with highlighting each and every chinese move in their "Famed" media.
+1 Very true!

This defamation race is so meaningless. What if you could solve border problems with each other and cooperate? It would be better if you don't use Muslims in the defamation race.

We know our own problems very well, and who is friend and who is foe. We don't need to be persuaded.
 

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+1 Very true!

This defamation race is so meaningless. What if you could solve border problems with each other and cooperate? It would be better if you don't use Muslims in the defamation race.

We know our own problems very well, and who is friend and who is foe. We don't need to be persuaded.
China is mostly an atheist country, we don't love nor hate any particular religions, cause religion is never a big part of our life and culture, not like Indians, they just hate Muslims for being Muslims. China only targets separarists and terrorists, regardless of their backgrounds.
 
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