In Telangana’s Medak, BJP’s growing clout emboldens ‘Gau Rakshaks’
While the Muslim residents maintain that the latest communal conflagration was unexpected, the tall Chatrapathi Shivaji statue in Medak town stands as evidence of growing clout of Hindutva forces.
#telangana #medak #HinduMobs #CowVigilantes #BJP #BajrangDal #VHP #RSS #GaurakshakSamithi #BJYM #TelanganaPolice #eid #hindutva #IndianMuslims #india
Muslim Man Lynched By Hindu Men in Aligarh; Police Say They Suspected Theft
A video of the accused persons surrounding the man, Farid, at a small crossing in Aligarh and thrashing him with lathis and assaulting him with kicks and punches was widely shared on social media.
#UttarPradesh #aligarh #lynching #HinduMobs #IndianMuslims #hindutva #communalism #BJPStates #india
https://thewire.in/communalism/muslim-man-lynched-hindu-group-aligarh
New NCERT textbook removes mention of Babri Masjid, calls it ‘3-domed structure’, says 2019 SC ruling ‘classic example’ of consensus
It has pruned the section on the demolition of the historic mosque by Hindu nationalist mobs from four to two pages and deleted telling details from the earlier version.
#NCERTtextbooks #NCERT #BabriMasjidDemolition #BabriMasjid #HinduMobs #BJP #NDA #education #communalism #hindutva #history #histodon #india
Four years after facing an attack, Caravan staffers made the accused in FIR at Bhajanpura police station
On 11 August 2020, a mob assaulted three journalists working with The Caravan—Shahid Tantray, Prabhjit Singh and a woman journalist—in northeast Delhi’s Subhash Mohalla neighbourhood. The journalists were subjected to communal slurs and threatened with murder; the woman reporter was sexually harassed.
#delhi #bhajanpura #TheCaravan #DelhiPolice #BJP #SexualAssault #HinduMobs #hindutva #DelhiRiots #IndianMuslims #PressFreedom #media #india
Mob Lynching: Two Men Transporting Buffaloes Killed, One Severely Injured in Chattisgarh
Fourteen-fifteen people had attacked them, two of them were beaten to death and their bodies were thrown from the bridge onto the river bed, as per the third person who is critically injured.
#chhattisgarh #raipur #CowLynchings #CowVigilantism #IndianMuslims #HinduMobs #hindutva #india
Delhi Riots: How A Delhi Police Investigating Officer Framed 9 Muslim Men For An Attack By A Hindu Mob
A Delhi police investigating officer used planted witnesses and concocted statements to fabricate a case against nine Muslim men charged with setting fire to an eatery run by a Muslim man, which, a judge found, was attacked by the Hindu mob during the Delhi riots in February 2020. Dismissing the case in March this year, one of at least 60 cases to be so dismissed in four years, the judge said the statements were “artificially prepared”.
#delhi #DelhiRiots #DelhiPolice #AntiMuslimRiots #HinduMobs #IndianMuslims #CAA #AntiCAAProtests #torture #india
Scars of disharmony keep pot boiling: Hindu-Muslim wedge festers in North East Delhi
Kanhaiya Kumar is contesting from North East Delhi. His opponent is the BJP’s sitting MP Manoj Tiwari, who traces his roots to Kaimur district in Bihar.
#delhi #NorthEastDelhi #KanhaiyaKumar #ManijTiwari #congress #BJP #DelhiRiots #DelhiPogrom #hindutva #HinduMobs #IndianMuslims #india
This 27-Year-Old From Tripura Is Fighting Hate On The Internet With AI
Aindriya Barua built a bot that tech giants should have - it can detect hate comments, hate codes, hate with context and remove it from platforms, not just for the users.
#tripura #AI #HateSpeech #casteism #communalism #hindutva #queerphobia #LGBTQIA #LGBT #HindutvaTrolls #ShhorAI #AindriyaBarua #meta #instagram #reddit #SocialMedia #HinduMobs #BigTech #india
Malgaon stands up to polarisation
Hindu mobs are attacking shrines at which people of many faiths have worshipped for centuries. A determined village shows how syncretic ways of living can still be revived.
#maharashtra #malgaon #ReligiousHarmony #syncretism #BJP #hindutva #HinduMobs #IndianMuslims #india
https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/malgaon-stands-up-to-polarisation/
Telangana: Saffron-Clad Men Vandalise Catholic School in Mancherial, 2 FIRs Lodged
According to the police, the mob launched its attack after accusing the school management of refusing to allow some students to sit for exams after they had turned up in saffron clothes instead of school uniform.
#telangana #mancherial #HinduMobs #CatholicSchools #hindutva #CommunalViolence #IndianChristians #india
‘Leave college or be killed’: Muslim student beaten on Pune campus for walking with Hindu classmates
Accused of ‘love jihad’, Junaid Jamadar said four men told him to pack his bags immediately.
#maharashtra #pune #SavitribaiPhulePuneUniversity #HinduMobs #VHP #IndianMuslims #hindutva #india
Under Attack from Hindutva Forces, 'Convent' Schools Fight for Survival
Under the cumulative strain of last 10 years of the BJP rule, Catholic Bishops Conference of India recently issued guidelines to church-run schools that could well change the nature of their operations, and could affect their standing.
#education #ChristianSchools #ConventSchools #CatholicSchools #CBCI #hindutva #BJP #RSS #NEP #HinduMobs #IndianChristians #christianity #india
https://thewire.in/rights/under-attack-from-hindutva-forces-convent-schools-fight-for-survival
In Pusesavali: doctored images, destroyed lives
In Maharashtra, majoritarian Hindutva mobs are whipping up the communal cauldron. Photoshopped images, doctored videos and rumours are enough to set them off, resulting in the loss of Muslim lives and property.
#maharashtra #satara #pusesavali #HinduMobs #IndianMuslims #CommunalViolence #hindutva #MaharashtraPolice #BJPStates #india
https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/in-pusesavali-doctored-images-destroyed-lives/
6 Years After 17 Muslim Men Were Accused Of Celebrating Pakistani Cricket Victory, MP Courts Find Police Case To Be False
One accused, a 40-year-old father of two, broken by the ordeal, killed himself in 2019.
#MadhyaPradesh #burhanpur #IndianMuslims #HinduMobs #cricket #hindutva #BJPStates #communalism #MPPolice #torture #PoliceViolence #CustodialViolence #india
Gujarat University asks international students to not use public spaces for religious activities
The instruction comes days after Muslim students from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka were attacked, allegedly for offering namaz on campus.
#gujarat #GujaratUniversity #islamophobia #BajrangDal #HinduMobs #ReligiousFreedom #namaz #BJPStates #hindutva #communalism #india
Hapur Mob Lynching Conviction: Court Finds UP Police Guilty of Negligence in Investigation
Victim Qasim’s brother Saleem said he hopes that the conviction in the case would serve as “an example” in preventing “acts of mob lynching” in the country, especially in the name of the cow.
#UttarPradesh #hapur #HapurLynching #UPPolice #CowVigilantism #CowLynchings #HinduMobs #hindutva #communalism #india
22 Years After Gujarat Riots, a Rape Victim Still Fears to Greet Men, a Woman Waits for Her Husband
'We were used to celebrating Holi, Diwali, and Eid together. After the riots, we were scared to even visit the area,' said one of witnesses of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
#gujarat #godhra #GujaratPogrom #GujaratRiots #NarodaPatiya #ahmedabad #AntiMuslimRiots #IndianMuslims #rape #HinduMobs #hindutva #BJPStates #india
‘After Muslims, It’s The Turn Of Christians:’ With Little Evidence, UP Govt Prosecutes 4 Christian Institutions, Arrests Employees
Four Christian-run institutions in the Uttar Pradesh town of Fatehpur face criminal cases for alleged forcible conversion of Hindus, with over 200 accused, many arrested and imprisoned, under UP’s three-year-old anti-conversion law. Article 14 investigation reveals similar statements in four FIRs over nine months, police cases or raids on Christian institutions, based on illegal third-party or anonymous complaints. Simultaneously, the union government acted against the finances of one of these four institutions.
#UttarPradesh #prayagraj #AntiConversionLaw #conversions #VHP #IndianChristians #HinduMobs #UnionGovt #EvangelicalChurch #ReligiousFreedom #ConspiracyTheories #india
Haldwani: Muslims fear death toll may be higher than 20, says fact-finding report
“There was a continuous police firing in different city areas with approximately 1000-2000 rounds fired in two hours. However, the media only reported 350 rounds fired.”
#uttarakhand #haldwani #AntiMuslimViolence #IndianMuslims #HinduMobs #hindutva #BJP #BJPStates #india
Hyderabad: HMDA official seeks action against Bajrang Dal members for attack on church
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority official filed a complaint on February 14, a day after the Dalit Christian church was attacked by a mob of 200 Bajrang Dal members from various dominant castes.
#telangana #hyderabad #CommunalViolence #BajrangDal #HMDA #CasteViolence #casteism #IndianChristians #VHP #HinduMobs #caste #dalits #DalitChristians #india
