INDIA'S KILLER FANATICISM NEWS

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A newly born baby had to die in ambulance in Indian state of Rajasthan for his parent’s Muslim identity. The pregnant mother was taken to a government hospital but was denied the admission as she is Muslim. The baby was born inside the ambulance and later on died. –(Source: Daily Anandabazar, 5.4.2020).  

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From: Firazath Hussain <firaz...@gmail.com> Date: 4 April 2020 at 13:55:56 BST To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Fwd:  Muslims Are Not Equal to Hindus: Subramanian Swamy  Muslims Are Not Equal to Hindus, Declares BJP Leader Subramanian Swamy April 3, 2020 https://clarionindia.net/muslims-are-not-equal-to-hindus-declares-bjp-leader-subramanian-swamy/?fbclid=IwAR3GcRarMmHzN7COdnrt2sp19efVSgARfXYYKBKTIGdRAFPdCDr2ynLjNcY   The world is gearing up to deal with novel Coronavirus outbreak. However, India’s ruling party is deliberating on making discriminatory laws to marginalize Muslims across the country. NEW DELHI — Dr Subramanian Swamy, a senior leader of the ruling party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and a member of India’s parliament, has said that Muslims are not equal citizens since they pose a threat to the world. He was speaking to journalist Isobel Yeung when he slammed over 200 million people of his own country; Muslims. He was supposed to justify an ongoing human rights crisis in India, where Muslims are treated like second-class citizens. “On this issue, the country is with us,” he told Yeung. “Most people like our hard-line approach to solving pending problems.” He went on to say that “where the Muslim population is large, there is always trouble,” which Yeung countered by pointing out that with 200 million Muslim residents, India has the second-largest Islamic population in the world. When Swamy stuck to his position, she told him his comments sounded “like hatred,” but he said he was being “kind.” Once Yeung cited Article 14 of India’s constitution — “The State shall not deny any person’s equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India” — he told her she was misinterpreting it and, in fact, Muslims are “not in an equal category” to non-Muslims. Prime Minister Imran Khan once again reminded the world that “The RSS inspired BJP leadership in the 21st century openly speaks about the 200 million Muslims just as the Nazis spoke about the Jews.” Pakistani actress Mehwish Hayat also condemned India’s ruling party leader Swamy for spewing hatred against Muslims. She questioned the international community’s silence over the remarks made by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) lawmaker. “Why is the world closing its eyes to what is happening in India? This is exactly what Nazi Germany did. So what’s next for Muslims…extermination camps?” she wrote on Twitter. BJP is homogenizing India’s diversity? Analysts believe that the current Indian government is pursuing a policy of appeasement since it has failed to perform on economic fronts. Saleha Anwar, a Lahore-based political analyst, believes that “India under Modi has become a battlefield between Muslims and Hindus sending economy on second in the list of priorities”. Indian politics is being shaped by the extremist politicians and strategists who intend to wipe out the Muslim minority from India. Dr Moeed Pirzada, a prominent political commentator and columnist, recently noted that “Ram Rath Yatra, Mandal Commission, Ram Janma Bhoni movement, Attack on Babri Mosque, demolition of Babri Mosque, Bombay riots, nuclear explosions of 1997, Kargil Conflict, attack on Indian Parliament, mobilization against Pakistan, Gujrat Pogroms and Mumbai terrorism everything in one or the other was skillfully utilized in redefining Indian narrative and politics moving it ever closer to the realization of a Hindu Rashtra which now exists in reality though it still needs a legal and constitutional cover”. The emerging trends in India offer us a sufficient amount of evidence that the rise of identity politics in India is to overshadow Modi’s dismaying economic performance. This is wrong with identitarian politics in the age of populism.” Similarly, while commenting on the state of the economy, Indian writer and human rights activist, Arundhati Roy notes that “while Modi has delivered on Hindu nationalism, he has stumbled badly on the free-market front. Through a series of blunders, he has brought India’s economy to its knees. Apoorvanand, who teaches Hindi at the University of Delhi, believes that the BJP is attempting to homogenize the diverse India which is likely to backfire. He opines that “the BJP and the RSS are trying to homogenize diverse, regional and cultural spaces and paint them with a broad Hindu brush. Slowly and gradually, they are trying to gain control over institutions – religious and cultural – by putting their people there”. He further notes that “they are trying to create a Hindu umbrella, which will shelter all these diverse traditions and give people a feeling of being part of a unified whole called Hinduism. They are also eyeing the tribal traditions. This entry into their holy and cultural spaces is now conspicuous”.

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A newly born baby had to die in ambulance in Indian state of Rajasthan for his parent’s Muslim identity. The pregnant mother was taken to a government hospital but was denied the admission as she is Muslim. The baby was born inside the ambulance and later on died. –(Source: Daily Anandabazar, 5.4.2020).  

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It Was Already Dangerous to Be Muslim in India. Then Came the Coronavirus

Billy Perrigo

April 3, 2020, 5:27 PM EDT

The Islamophobic hashtags began circulating shortly after the news broke in late March.

Indian authorities had linked dozens of cases of COVID-19 to a Muslim missionary group that held its annual conference in Delhi in early March, and health officials were racing to track down anyone who had contact with the participants. Coronavirus fears and religious tension were already at a fever pitch in India, and it didn’t take long for the two forces to intermingle. Videos falsely claiming to show members of the missionary group spitting on police and others quickly went viral on social media, exacerbating an already dangerous atmosphere for Muslims. “Islamophobia has been transposed onto the coronavirus issue,” says Amir Ali, an assistant professor of political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.

Since March 28, tweets with the hashtag #CoronaJihad have appeared nearly 300,000 times and potentially seen by 165 million people on Twitter, according to data shared with TIME by Equality Labs, a digital human rights group. Equality Labs activists say that many of the posts are in clear violation of Twitter’s rules on hate speech and coronavirus, but have yet to be taken down. “We are committed to protect and serve the public conversation as we navigate this unprecedented global public healthcare crisis,” reads a statement Twitter provided to TIME. “We continue to remain vigilant.”

Coming just weeks after religious pogroms conducted by Hindu nationalists left 36 Muslims dead in Delhi, the surge in hateful tweets demonstrates how anxieties over the coronavirus have merged with longstanding Islamophobia in India, at a time when the Muslim minority — 200 million people in a nation of 1.3 billion — feels increasingly targeted by the ruling Hindu nationalists. “One of the key features of anti-Muslim sentiment in India for quite a long time has been the idea that Muslims themselves are a kind of infection in the body politic,” says Arjun Appadurai, a professor of media, culture and communication at New York University who studies Indian politics. “So there’s a kind of affinity between this long-standing image and the new anxieties surrounding coronavirus.”

One of the most popular false #CoronaJihad tweets claims to show a Muslim man from the Delhi congregation intentionally coughing on somebody. The tweet referred to Muslims as “such vile minded people” and listed hashtags including #CoronaJihad and #TablighiJamatVirus, a reference to the religious group that met in Delhi. But the video featured in the viral tweet was actually filmed in Thailand, not India, and there is no proof that the man was a member of the Delhi congregation. Nevertheless, the tweet was still online as of April 3, with more than 4,200 retweets and 503 replies. Another video shared on both Facebook and Twitter purporting to show Muslims intentionally sneezing on each other was debunked by the fact-checking organization AltNews.

Another tweet, which had around 2,000 retweets before it was removed for violating Twitter’s rules, featured a cartoon of a caricatured Muslim man labeled “Corona Jihad” trying to push a Hindu off a cliff. “Corona jihad is this new idea that Muslims are weaponizing the coronavirus to target Hindus,” says Thenmozhi Soundarajan, executive director of Equality Labs. The tweet has since been removed for violating Twitter’s rules, but several other cartoons linking Muslims to the coronavirus, shared by the same account with more than 15,000 followers, were still online as of April 3.

In India, where the politically dominant Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has increasingly launched dogwhistle attacks on Muslims since being reelected with a massive majority in April last year, the coronavirus is just “one more opportunity to cast the Muslim as the other, as dangerous,” says Ali, the professor.

“People are talking about ‘bio jihad’ and ‘corona jihad,’” Ali says. “These are just the latest in a series of different forms of ‘jihad’ that the media has talked about, that have been spread on social media, and that people are gleefully accepting.” Population jihad, for example, is a common trope in Hindu nationalist messaging, claiming that Muslims are trying to turn India into a Muslim nation by reproducing at a faster rate than Hindus. Love jihad is the idea that Muslim men are tricking Hindu women into romantic relationships in order to convert them to Islam. “Corona jihad is the most outrageous one so far, because people are really being infected and dying,” Ali says.

Social media companies have struggled with hate speech for years, embroiling the platforms in a difficult tangle in which freedom of speech runs up against the companies’ responsibility to protect minorities. In the world’s first social media pandemic, hate speech related to the virus is spreading online almost as fast as the virus itself. But recent history demonstrates that inaction on the platforms’ part can allow hate speech to turn into violence. Myanmar’s 2017 genocide perpetrated by Buddhist nationalists against Rohingya Muslims was preceded by a campaign of dehumanizing hate speech on Facebook. Equality Labs’ Soundarajan says social media companies cannot feign ignorance on the issue because her group and others are flagging troublesome content. “They’re aware of it,” says Soundarajan. “Whether they allow it to go viral is now their own responsibility.” (Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TIME.)

Although this pandemic is uncharted territory when it comes to predicting the impact of virus-related hate speech, public health officials have warned against stigmatizing minority groups. Because COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, China, some — including the U.S. President — have called it the “China virus” or the “Wuhan virus,” a name that appears to be linked to an uptick in global violence against Asians. In February, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the then-unnamed coronavirus would henceforth be known officially as COVID-19 — a name which purposely did not include a reference to China. “Having a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the time.

Some are working to prevent fears over the virus from becoming entangled with religious divisions. Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, is calling on governments to push back “aggressively” against the rising incidents of “blaming of religious minorities for the COVID virus,” including the rise in usage of #CoronaJihad and other hashtags trending in India. “The governments really should put this down, and say very clearly that this is not the source of the Coronavirus,” he said in a conference call with reporters on Thursday. “We know where this virus originated. We know it’s a pandemic the whole world is being subjected to. It’s not something from religious minorities. But unfortunately we are seeing that sort of blame game getting started up in different places around the world.”

In India, activists fear the stigmatization of Muslims could exacerbate the coronavirus crisis. “Launching a witch hunt against the attendees of the Nizamuddin congregation will be counterproductive from the public health point of view,” said several Indian intellectuals in an open letter published Thursday, referring to the area of Delhi where the conference was held. “The attendees should be identified without criminalizing them and put into quarantine as per norms.” The virus, they said, does not care about religious or national differences. “The solution will not come through the pursuit of divisive agendas but through scientific endeavors and human solidarity.”

A final irony of the Tablighi Jamaat controversy — which escalated on April 3 when the Indian government announced some members of the group would be charged under India’s National Security Act for violating quarantine — is that it was just one of myriad religious groups that continued to meet after India unexpectedly announced its coronavirus lockdown, yet it has drawn the vast majority of attention.

“They are no different from any other people in India and around the world who have pushed the envelope in terms of good sense,” Appadurai says of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation. “But of course, India is a very dangerous place for Muslims even apart from the coronavirus. It was asking for just the kind of thing that has now happened.”

— WITH REPORTING BY KIM DOZIER/WASHINGTON

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What the 200 million Muslims of India has to say about it? The Bollywood Khans and Akhters go to moneky around Modi as they did after the NRC, CAA and 370 ? If they think they are simply Indians, contrary to what Modi gang thinks, they should rather join the charade in destroying the mosques and stopping Azans and slaughter of cow (even though it is allowed in factories for export to make India almost the largest supplier with Brazil).

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Thank you, Abid Bahar Bhai, for sharing. It is shocking news, but mot surprising. BJP-RSS instigated thousands of communal riots, in which hundreds of thousands of non-Hindus, predominantly Muslims, were killed. The fascists will be defeated. 

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MURDER OF MUSLIMS IN HASINA'S INDIA

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মঘের মুল্লুক আর  কাকে বলে! বোকামী প্রশ্ন, ভারতে আইন কানুন বলতে কিছু নাই ? অপরাধ কি জানিনা। একজন দাড়িওয়ালা, সম্বভবত মুসলমান,  মার খাচছে, বাকিরা তামাশা দেখছে। ভারত ও হিন্দু ভক্তরা কী জবাব দিবেন?  অবশ্য জবাটা জানি, "বাংলাদশ ও অন্যান্য মুসলিম দেশে আরও খারাপ হচছে।"    

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দিল্লীর নেজাম উদ্দিন মারকাজের তাবলীগ জামাত নিয়ে ভারতে আবারো শুরু হয়েছে মুসলিম নির্যাতন।

যেকোন একটা কিছুকে ইস্যূ করে হিন্দুত্ববাদী মিডিয়া ও আইটিসেল এর তৈরী মিথ্যা/ভূয়া খবর সামাজিক যোগাযোগ মাধ্যমে ছড়িয়ে দিয়ে ভারতের মুসলমানদের জীবনধারণ দূর্বিষহ করে তাদের ভারত ছাড়া করাটাই একমাত্র লক্ষ্য। সেই লক্ষ্যে করোনা ভাইরাসকে ভারতে বলা হচ্ছে মুসলমানদের 'করোনা জিহাদ'।

রাজনৈতিক নেতারাও বলেছে,তাবলীগ জমাতের কেউ আক্রান্ত হলে তাকে চিকিৎসা না দিয়ে গুলি করে মেরে ফেলতে। এর পাশাপাশি ভারতের সোস্যাল মিডিয়ায় গত কিছুদিন ধরে ছড়িয়ে পড়া কিছু সাম্প্রদায়িক ফেক নিউজের প্রোপাগাণ্ডা বার্তা,যার মাধ্যমে মুসলিমদের প্রতি ঘৃণার সঞ্চার করা হচ্ছে তার আসল খবরের লিংক দেয়া হলো।

Fake News 1: মুসলিম লোক কোরোনা ছড়ানোর জন্য ফলে থুথু দিচ্ছে।
💁https://www.thequint.com/…/man-spitting-on-fruits-held-in-m…

Fake News 2: মুসলিমরা কোরোনা ছড়ানোর জন্য
থালা চাটছে।
💁https://www.altnews.in/old-unrelated-video-shared-as-musli…/

Fake News 3: মুসলিমরা কোরোনা ছড়ানোর জন্য
হাঁচি দিচ্ছে।
💁https://thelogicalindian.com/…/covid19-muslim-sneeze-delhi-…

Fake News 4: ভারতের নিউজ এজেন্সি ANI-এর ভিত্তিহীন দাবী যে পাকিস্তানে হিন্দুদের রেশন দেওয়া হচ্ছেনা।
💁https://www.thenews.com.pk/…/637723-no-evidence-supports-in…

Fake News 5: পুরোনো ভিডিও ছড়িয়ে বলা হচ্ছে যে তাবলীগি জামাতরা পুলিশের মুখে থুথু ফেলেছে।
💁https://www.bbc.com/hindi/india-52148620

Fake News 6: মিথ্যা ভিডিও দাবী করছে যে মুসলিম পুলিশ রেবা খান হিন্দু পূজারিকে মারছে।
💁https://www.thelallantop.com/…/the-truth-of-viral-news-that…

Fake News 7: রেস্টুরেন্টে মুসলিম কর্মচারী খাবারে থুথু দিয়ে কোরোনা ছড়াচ্ছে।
💁https://www.altnews.in/old-video-falsely-viral-as-muslim-ma…

Fake News 8: ৫০ বিদেশীকে মসজিদে লুকিয়ে রেখেছে কোরোনা টেস্ট না করানোর জন্য।
💁https://www.altnews.in/were-50-foreigners-from-itlay-iran-…/

মিডিয়া দ্বারা তাবলীগ জামাত এবং মার্কাজের বিরুদ্ধে যে বিদ্বেষ ছড়ানো হয়েছে তার ফলাফল নিচের ভিডিও গুলোতে দেখুন...

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A newly born baby had to die in ambulance in Indian state of Rajasthan for his parent’s Muslim identity. The pregnant mother was taken to a government hospital but was denied the admission as she is Muslim. The baby was born inside the ambulance and later on died. –(Source: Daily Anandabazar, 5.4.2020).  

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INDIA TODAY

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A newly born baby had to die in ambulance in Indian state of Rajasthan for his parent’s Muslim identity. The pregnant mother was taken to a government hospital but was denied the admission as she is Muslim. The baby was born inside the ambulance and later on died. –(Source: Daily Anandabazar, 5.4.2020).  

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I have no FB and unable to open most FB messages. Will appreciate if someone can send me a plain text.

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