Communalism
“There hasn’t been an election when BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] leaders do not recall the 2002 riots,” Jamaalbhai, a carpenter in the Muslim-dominated Juhapura in Ahmedabad said. “We have learnt to live with it,” he added.
“They tried to create a problem for Narendra Bhai but he taught them such a lesson that they have not dared to do anything till 2022. But after they were taught a lesson in 2002, these elements left that path (of violence). They refrained from indulging in violence from 2002 till 2022. BJP has established permanent peace in Gujarat by taking strict action against those who used to indulge in communal violence,” Shah declared at an election rally.
Gazala, a social worker who works in the education sector, told The Wire that barring a small section of the middle classes and rich, most Muslims in Gujarat are living in miserable conditions. “They are forced to leave their education, start work at a very early age, and live under the cloud of fear. The community is constantly stressed about coming to terms with being second-class citizens in their home state,” she said.
by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
8/12/2022
Indore: Prof Farhat Khan's book 'Collective Violence and Criminal Justice System' takes political turn https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/indore-prof-farhat-khans-book-collective-violence-and-criminal-justice-system-takes-political-turn
Rajya Sabha MP Vivek Tankha tweeted about the matter and said that he opposes this book under legal principles, but it is also not right that the state government started fulfilling its agendas with the help of the police. He has clearly targeted the government through the tweet. Bhanwarkuan Police Station in charge Shashikant Chaurasia said, “ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) student union have lodged a complaint that the book contains much such content which hurt the religious sentiments of a community. It is likely to disturb the communal harmony between the two communities, it may lead to violence.”
https://www.amazon.in/Publications-Collective-Violence-Criminal-Students/dp/8187867213
Hindutva Campaign Against Akbar, Whose Rich, Libertarian Legacy Is ‘Detested’ in Pakistan https://janataweekly.org/hindutva-campaign-against-akbar-whose-rich-libertarian-legacy-is-detested-in-pakistan/ Binoj Nair November 20, 2022 https://www.counterview.net/2022/11/hindutva-campaign-against-akbar-whose.html 2/11/2022
Back in 2017, the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, while trying to portray the Battle of Haldighati as a Hindu-Muslim war, was ignorant of the fact that Akbar wasn’t even involved in the battle, and that it was the Hindu, Raja Man Singh, his trusted general who thwarted Pratap on the battle field to keep the pride of the Mughal Empire. On the other side, one of the commanders of Pratap’s army was the Pathan general Hakim Khan Suri, who laid down his life fighting for the Hindu king.
Akbar quite persuasively broke away from the conservative clutches of the Islamic clergy to widen his mental horizons beyond the limits of his religion. One of his ambitious and encompassing moves was the promulgation of a new faith framework, the ‘Din-i-Ilahi’ (The Divine Faith), where he pulled in ideas from all the major religions including the polytheistic Hinduism, in a bid to foster a ‘catch-all’ secular empire and reduce communal tensions.
The progressive and all-encompassing policies of Akbar are detested heavily in the neighbouring Pakistan for understandable reasons. While they have invoked the more orthodox legacies of Babar, the Ghazni and the Ghori in their missile programmes, they have purposefully downplayed Akbar’s significance over the years and have hit the delete key on his rich and libertarian legacy.
The Hindu-Muslim discord has hit such an alarming peak that, all evidences factored in, it can be safely concluded that Akbar’s Mughal India was way more secular and tolerant than Narendra Modi’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’.
Emperor Akbar : The Forgotten Mughal https://countercurrents.org/2022/10/emperor-akbar-the-forgotten-mughal/ by Binoj Nair — 28/10/2022
Lawyer-activist Shakil Ahmed has spent three decades helping Bombay riot victims go to court – and believes the courts are sending victims back 'empty-handed'.
https://thewire.in/communalism/bombay-riots-supreme-court-shakil-ahmed
Over the past three decades, Ahmed, first as a young rights activist and later as a lawyer, has helped several riot victims approach the court and receive compensation from the state. He recalls how several female victims were denied compensation because they chose to remarry after losing their respective husbands. Some victims, who were not able to produce adequate documents like ration cards or residential proof, were also turned down. Over the years, people just gave up.
Both lives and properties were lost in the violence. After the riots, many Muslim families were forced to abandon their property and belongings in Mumbai and look for safer refuge in the city’s outskirts. This was the beginning of a systematic ghettoisation in Mumbai, permanently pushing them to the fringes.
08/11/2022
The Citizens' Report on 2020 Delhi Riots is an Indictment of the Country: Harsh Mander Oct 14, 2022 https://youtu.be/SxatuIdJ7Ng?t=114 Harsh Mander added: “The report underlines how dark a moment this is in India’s journey as a republic, how every institution is crumbling and with what consequences.”
The interview first discusses in some detail the Citizens Committee report’s findings about the response, behaviour and alleged complicity of the Delhi Police. How they failed to act for three days even though they had received at least six internal alerts from the Special Branch. How the Committee has found a mass of information indicating police failures and police complicity. How the behavior of the police at Jamia Millia Islamia was nothing short of brutality.
Most importantly, the interview discusses the report’s findings that show that the charge of conspiracy to create terror is fabricated and prosecution under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act is “a perversion of the law”. The interview also discusses the report’s findings that the charge of conspiracy “is based on unexplained belated statements which are inherently unreliable in law.”
police were reluctant to act? https://youtu.be/SxatuIdJ7Ng?t=226
FIR: on conspiracy? Charge to use anti-teorror laws UAPA perversion of the law https://youtu.be/SxatuIdJ7Ng?t=754
A report on the north-east Delhi riots https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-report-on-the-north-east-delhi-riots/article66007158.ece
Soibam Rocky SinghOCTOBER 13, 2022 an independent fact-finding Committee has blamed the breakout of violence to a deliberate build-up of polarised hate between communities, particularly anti-Muslim hate.
the report states that there was a targeted application of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) by the state. A few weeks into investigating, the police applied the (UAPA), an anti-terror legislation, into one of the FIRs connected with the riots, severely restricting the avenues of the accused to get bail during the course of the trial.
The report states that the committee’s examination of the violence led it to “discern broader implications impacting constitutional values and the health of democracy in India. The microcosm of an engineered anti-Muslim narrative leading to the violence signals the growing fusion of hate messaging in public discourse with the actual incidence of violence. There seems to be a deafening lack of institutional will to act against hateful content.”
It refers to the effective and balanced regulation of broadcasting and social media as an urgent challenge. It further reflects that “[c]apacity for empathetic thought and action to enable harmonious interactions, and most importantly, imagination to resolve conflict are essential attributes for a plural society to last in the long run. … The only way forward is for the state to act towards justice harbored in the conjoined practice of fraternity, equality and freedom.”
https://theleaflet.in/citizens-committee-report-lifts-the-veil-on-institutional-failure-in-2020-north-east-delhi-violence/
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