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'Jai Shri Ram' attacks spreading through India

MilesQ

MilesQ

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Oct 25, 2017
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In today's India, after the return to power of Narendra Modi and his BJP with their huge mandate, violence has been let loose, with "Jai Shri Ram" – a slogan that roughly translates to "Hail Lord Ram", a Hindu god – being used as a death threat instead of a salutation. In the last five years of Modi rule, we have had lynchings of Muslims and the lower castes across India by Hindu mobs, ostensibly for the "protection" of the holy cow. In his second term, we've shifted gears to forcing people, of whatever religion, to declare the glory of the god Rama and Hinduism. And when I say "force", I mean kill.
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Tabrez Ansari, 22, was caught by a crowd in the BJP-ruled state of Jharkhand on suspicion of stealing a motorcycle, on 18 June. He was tied to a tree and beaten within an inch of his life. And while he was being thrashed, the crowd established his religion – Muslim – and then began the demands for "Jai Shri Ram". Ansari was then arrested, yes, arrested, and taken into judicial custody. On Saturday, June 23, he died in a local hospital after he complained that he felt unwell.
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Since the BJP returned to power at the centre, Ansari's plight, though the most brutal, became one of several stories. Here's another: A Muslim teacher is attacked in a train in Kolkata, for being Muslim. He's heckled to say, "Jai Shri Ram", even if Ram is not really Bengal's most popular deity from the enormous Hindu pantheon. He refuses, is beaten by the mob and forced to get off the train at the next station. And that's not all. In the run-up to May's general elections and after the results were declared, Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of Bengal, was constantly heckled by BJP mobs to shout, "Jai Shri Ram".
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Sarangi in his first speech in parliamentasked why people who refused to chant Hindu slogans should be allowed to live in India.
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The speed with which nationalism has spread in the last few years is troubling to say the least.

I really don't see how this ends without major bloodshed.
 

anamika

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May 18, 2018
2,622
The Hindi speaking belt continues to remain the worst. And nothing will be done about this man's lynching other than suspend a few police officers who will be back to work in a few months time.
 
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