And these people complain about others playing the victim card. Lol Indians have been spreading fake news like Liton Das home being burnt
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Yes all the incidents were fake . Yes saar everything is normal .
What exactly you want him to do? What is in your mind?
Another Subra's gems LOL ! Didnt know you were a Subra fan !'Modi shivering after Muslims kicked out Sheikh Hasina': Subramanian Swamy
PM Imran calls out BJP's Dr Subramanian Swamy over his bigoted comments regarding Muslims ::
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Subramanian Swamy is facing backlash over his bigoted comments that Muslims in India do not deserve the same rights as everyone else living in the country.
In a video snippet shared on Twitter on Thursday by VICE, the BJP MP, when asked about India's controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, alleged: "We know where the Muslim population is large there is always trouble — because the Islamic ideology says so."
"If Muslim [population] becomes more than 30 per cent [in any country], that country is in danger," Swamy claimed, upon which journalist Isobel Yeung pointed out that his comments sounded like language of hatred. "It is easy to call this hatred, I am being kind to them by not letting them enter India."
When reminded that Article 14 of the Indian constitution ensures equal rights for everyone in India, he went on to say that this was a misinterpretation of the Article, saying: "The law ensures equal rights for equals."
"Are all people not equal? Are Muslims not equal In India?" asked Yeung.
"No, not all people are equal, Muslims do not fall into the equal category," Swamy said.
The full interview is set to go on air on Sunday.
Prime Minister Imran Khan, sharing the VICE video clip, said that BJP's leadership is now openly speaking about Muslims like Nazis spoke about Jews.
PTI leader Ali Haider Zaidi also tweeted the video clip, condemning the remarks made by Swamy and said that his words are "perfectly fascist and racist".
Among those who called out the BJP lawmaker was author and commentator on economy Salman Anees Soz, who said that Swamy "is a bitter man, wallowing in his own filth."
Vinod K. Jose, editor of The Caravan said that the CAA, the Delhi violence and the mass fleeing of the poor due to coronavirus "is the practical demonstration of this dictum getting played out in India?"
Defending the CAA
Swamy has repeatedly defended the CAA and had earlier termed Sonia Gandhi as a "true Nazi" for saying that the law discriminates against Muslims in India.
"The true Nazis are the Nazi soldier's daughter led uprising on a lie that CAA is anti Muslim! If you are pro Hindu, then you must be anti Muslim. If you are pro Muslim, you are secular," Swamy said on Twitter in response to Gandhi's criticism of the use of "brute force to suppress dissent", News18 had reported on March 6.
Furthermore, Swamy has repeatedly said that the CAA would not affect Indian Muslims.
"Many are protesting against the CAA, but they have not read the bill. I think most Congress people cannot read and write," The New Indian Express reported Swami as saying during a public address at Bengaluru.
"What is the bill about? That those who were persecuted because of their religion and left Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh came to India, they are still illegal migrants. They cannot get jobs as they do not have any documents.
"For 70 years, Congress was speaking about giving them citizenship, but they did not implement this. Our (Indian) Muslim minorities and their citizenship is not affected at all because of CAA. As Muslims are not persecuted in Pakistan and Bangladesh due to their religion, Muslims were not included in the list,” Swamy was quoted as saying.
Swamy's comments came at a time when India was experiencing violent riots over the controversial CAA.
A report published by The New York Times about the New Delhi clashes that left at least 50 dead said that evidence suggests that the city police "concertedly moved against Muslims" and "actively helped Hindu mobs" that targeted Muslims and their homes during the deadly riots that gripped the Indian capital in February.
Source : Dawn News
PM Imran calls out BJP's Dr Subramanian Swamy over his bigoted comments regarding Muslims
"Wherever the Muslim population rises above 30pc, there is trouble," says the BJP leader in an interview.
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You don't believe facebook post. But you are ready to believe in Twitter? The twit doesn't have any statement from military, or the girl or her family. Yet you believed it? Anyway I have seen multiple clarifications on this incident. If you don't want to believe them and wait for military statement that's OK. But apply the same standard and don't believe in a twit too.
It says this page doesn't exist? Was it the video of 4 people including children, hanged?
NY Times now reporting this ::
Hindus in Bangladesh Face Attacks After Prime Minister’s Exit
There has long been a perception that the Hindu minority supports Sheikh Hasina, who resigned her post and fled the country after a popular uprising.Anti-government protesters have targeted the offices of the Awami League, the party of the ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
By Saif Hasnat and Qasim Nauman
Saif Hasnat reported from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Published Aug. 7, 2024Updated Aug. 8, 2024, 12:53 a.m. ET
Hindus in Bangladesh, perceived by many to be supporters of the prime minister who was ousted in a popular uprising, braced for violent reprisals on Wednesday as the rudderless country awaited the formation of a new government after a month of unrest.
The former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, fled Bangladesh on Monday after a violent crackdown failed to quell a nationwide movement against her government. As thousands of protesters celebrated her ouster that afternoon, reports began to emerge of retaliation against members of Ms. Hasina’s party, the Awami League, and against those seen as her allies, including the Hindu minority.
In addition to the party’s offices and the homes of its members, the rioters targeted Hindus, torching their homes and vandalizing temples, according to witnesses and local media. Fears of more attacks were amplified in the absence of a government and with law enforcement retreating from sight in many parts of the country.
In addition to the almost 300 people killed during the government crackdown, at least 60 were killed in the violence that erupted on Monday in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. Reliable details about the attackers and victims were not immediately available.
Prionthi Chatterjee, a Hindu student in Dhaka, the capital, said Muslims had attacked her family at their home in the southern Bagerhat region, killing her father and leaving her mother with head injuries.
“My father was an innocent teacher,” she said in a phone interview, adding that her parents tried to call the army and the police for help but that no one responded. Details about the episode could not be independently verified.
There were attacks on the homes of Hindus and their temples in at least four districts of Bangladesh, including villages near Chattogram, the country’s second-most-populous city, according to witnesses and the relatives of people whose properties were targeted.
The student groups that led the protests against Ms. Hasina acknowledged the violence but suggested their supporters were not involved.
“Temples are being attacked, vandalized and looted,” Nahid Islam, one of the student leaders, said in a statement on Tuesday, blaming the attacks on those who want to “destroy” the student movement.
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Rana Das Gupta, who leads an organization of Bangladesh’s religious minorities, said attacks toward Hindus had resulted in at least two deaths and more than 100 injured.
“Some of those whose homes were attacked may be directly involved in Awami League politics, but most are ordinary Hindus,” he said. “Therefore, this is definitely communal and targeted violence.”
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The president of Bangladesh, who holds a mostly ceremonial role, on Tuesday appointed the Nobel Peace Prize-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus to lead an interim government. Its members are expected to be announced within days.
Restoring law and order will be one of the interim government’s immediate challenges.
During her 15 years in power, Ms. Hasina packed the police and the military with loyal officers, and public trust in law enforcement appeared to all but vanish during the violent crackdown against the protesters.
On Wednesday in Dhaka, no police officers were visible on the streets in some of the busiest areas.
Meenakshi Ganguly, the deputy director for Asia at Human Rights Watch, described the reports of violence against Hindus as “extremely concerning.”
“Hindus are apparently being attacked because they traditionally supported her Awami League party. Bangladeshis came out on the streets to demand an end to authoritarianism, and these attacks undermine their just demand for human rights,” she said in a statement.
Tensions between Muslims and Hindus in Bangladesh have boiled over in the past, including violent clashes across the country in 2021.
Source : NY times
Hindus in Bangladesh Face Attacks After Prime Minister’s Exit
There has long been a perception that the Hindu minority supports Sheikh Hasina, who resigned her post and fled the country after a popular uprising.
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Have congress leadership said anything on this?
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Indian muslims rioted and killed in Mumbai, and desecrated fallen soldier memorial for Rohingyas in Burma. Indian sickular hindus will say Bangladeshi Hindus are "just foreigners", not our responsibility.
Indian Sikhs would urge Indian govt to save Sikhs in Afghanistan. Tamilians would even support LTTE for Sri Lankan Tamils.
But Indian sickular hindus.....to justify their dead conscience will say "Bangladeshi hindus are just foreigners".
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Wagah Kandle Kissers.
you are dealing with a nation where a critical mass along with its establishment which can't stand the thought of India/Hindus not being ruled by muslims. Part of which is derived from ideology of divine right of musims to the rest of the worlds resources.
if you doubt, here if father of TNT
"Suppose that the English community and the army were to leave India, taking with them all their cannons and their splendid weapons and all else, who then would be the rulers of India?... Is it possible that under these circumstances two nations — the Mohammedans and the Hindus — could sit on the same throne and remain equal in power? Most certainly not. It is necessary that one of them should conquer the other. To hope that both could remain equal is to desire the impossible and the inconceivable. But until one nation has conquered the other and made it obedient, peace cannot reign in the land."[154]
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Egulo to galagali debar moto byapar botei. Edhoroner ghotona atkate na parle Bangladesh country hisebe byartho.
BD Hindus deserve a homeland of their own. They are natives of Bangladesh soil.
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Please, try not to have a chat in other languages other than English or please mention the translated text as well with your post.
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They and chakmas of Chittagong hill tracts.
They should start demanding a separate nation.
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‘Islamophobic, alarmist’: How some India outlets covered Bangladesh crisis
Within hours of Sheikh Hasina’s removal from power after a student-led mass uprising, reports began to appear in some Indian media outlets that members of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh were being targeted by “Islamist forces”.
A video on The Times Group-owned Mirror Now’s YouTube channel, titled Attack on Hindus in Bangladesh? Mass Murders, Killings by Mob, shows footage of violence and arson attacks on four houses, two of them have been identified to be owned by Muslims. The title of the video is clearly misleading as there was no mass murders reported in the incident. Local reports say one of the houses belonged to Bangladesh’s freedom icon Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The video also makes unsubstantiated claims, like “24 burnt alive by mob” and “Minorities at the centre of attacks”.
Al Jazeera has independently verified that only two Hindus have been killed since Hasina’s ouster on Monday – one police officer and one activist with Hasina’s Awami League party.
Hindus constitute about 8 percent of Bangladesh’s 170 million people and have traditionally been strong supporters of the Awami League, which is generally viewed as secular compared with the opposition coalition, which includes an Islamist party.
Many news reports of attacks on Hindus contain outlandish claims such as “more than one crore [10 million] refugees are likely to enter West Bengal soon”, which was made in a Times of India report that quoted Suvendu Adhikari, a senior leader of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The ANI news agency, seen close to Modi’s government, quoted a student leader in India as saying the mass uprising was “orchestrated by the enemies of Bangladesh”.
An even more bizarre Times of India article stated that Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh’s biggest Islamist party, “brought down Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh”.
Political analyst Zahed Ur Rahman said Indian media have reported through an “Islamophobic” lens.
“The student movement that fomented the mass uprising involving people from all walks of life is unanimously understood as a popular movement here in Bangladesh. But Indian media somehow have been interpreting the whole scenario through their Islamophobic eye,” he told Al Jazeera.
ISI and religious claims
As Hasina fled the country on Monday, news articles in Indian media alleged that Bangladesh’s protests were influenced by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), a Pakistani spy agency, because it is seeking to turn Bangladesh into an Islamic state with the support of political parties like the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its former political ally Jamaat-e-Islami.
Some media outlets even urged the Indian government to prepare for a potential refugee crisis, speculating that Hindus would be driven out of Bangladesh.
Speculation suggesting an ISI and Chinese connection to the popular Bangladesh movement was a common thread in social media posts by some commentators and media outlets.
The diplomatic affairs editor of The Economic Times, Dipanjan R Chaudhury, posted on X: “Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh politics doesn’t bode well either for country or India. Jamaat track record of promoting cross border terror … is part of recent history.”
The television channel TV9 Gujarati with one million followers on X characterised the uprising as a “coup”, stating on the social media platform: “Is ISI behind the coup attack in Bangladesh? Is Jamaat-E-Islam behind the violent attacks?”
What is the reality on the ground?
These articles by Indian media and posts in social media contrast sharply with factual reports chronicling the events that led to the Hasina’s resignation. She fled to India, which had backed her.
Local media in Bangladesh reported that since Monday night, several Hindu households across 20 of the country’s 64 districts have been attacked and looted.
Al Jazeera reached out to sources in some of these districts and discovered that the attacks on Hindu households were not driven by religious identity but by political affiliations.
Mustafizur Rahman Hiru, a rent-a-car driver from the central district of Narsingdi, told Al Jazeera that in his village, the two Hindu households targeted were home to local Awami League leaders.
“People were angry because these Hindu leaders were bullying others when the Awami League was in power. Now, with Hasina’s fall, they are facing the backlash,” he said.
In Jashore, a border district with India, a warehouse and home belonging to Babul Saha, a local government chairman who ran for office on the Awami League ticket, were attacked.
Abdur Rab Haider, a resident of Jashore, told Al Jazeera that no Hindu household had been attacked without ties to the Awami League.
Rahman pointed out that Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Hasina’s son, who resides in the United States, has given several interviews to Indian media, spreading rumours and unverified claims about attacks on Hindus and alleged operations by the ISI.
“Indian media merrily jumped onto it and spread Joy’s bogus claims,” Rahman told Al Jazeera.
‘Attacks politically motivated, not communal’
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Gobindra Chandra Pramanik, a leader of the Hindu community in Bangladesh, stated that to his knowledge no Hindu households without connections to the Awami League were attacked.
“As a leader of the Hindu community, I can confirm that these attacks were politically motivated, not communal,” he said. “Across the country, 10 times more Muslim households affiliated with the Awami League were attacked.”
Local media reported that since Monday night, more than 119 people – primarily Awami League leaders, activists and police – were killed in mob violence. Qadaruddin Shishir, the fact-checking editor for the AFP news agency, told Al Jazeera that only two of the victims were Hindus: one policeman and one Awami League activist.
Zafar Sobhan, editor of Bangladesh’s Dhaka Tribune newspaper, told Al Jazeera that most of the Indian media “as a general rule is clueless about Bangladesh”.
“I don’t like to attribute to malice that which just as easily can be explained by incompetence. But the uniformity of the misinformation that is routinely peddled in the Indian media suggests that they are taking dictation from a common source,” he said.
But an Indian academic rejected any allegation that the Indian media’s reporting has been Islamophobic.
Sreeradha Datta, a professor at OP Jindal University in Sonipat in northern India, told Al Jazeera that the Indian media’s concern about the safety of Hindus under a non-Hasina administration in Bangladesh stems from past experiences rather than Islamophobia.
Datta noted that during previous non-Awami League governments, such as the BNP-Jamaat alliance, “there was an increase in attacks on minorities, and this historical context continues to influence current perceptions.”
The media’s reporting has caused concern in India with several prominent Hindu religious leaders and politicians calling for the protection of Hindus.
Muslims protecting Hindus
Meanwhile, images of individuals, including students from Muslim religious schools, standing watch in front of Hindu temples and homes have been widely circulated on social media.
In Brahmanbaria, a district with one of the largest Hindu populations in Bangladesh, residents, including students, stepped up to protect Hindu households.
Munshi Azizul Haque, an apparel businessman from Brahmanbaria, told Al Jazeera that they are working to prevent any communal violence in the area. “We’ve seen how Indian media are depicting attacks on minorities in Bangladesh on social media. The reality is quite different,” he said.
Pramanik also acknowledged that Hindu temples were being protected.
News of Bangladeshi students, including from religious schools, volunteering to protect Hindu temples have been reported locally since the unrest began, and it has been picked up by outlets like Clarion India and The Wire.
These sites ran headlines stating “Muslims Stand Guard at Temples, Call to Protect Minorities” and “Students Stand Guard Outside Temples and Churches in Wake of Attacks.”
Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of The Wire, told Al Jazeera that while there is legitimate and genuine concern about reports of attacks on Hindu places of worship, businesses and homes across more than two dozen districts in Bangladesh, the Indian media are also exaggerating the scale and extent of these incidents.
Also, he said, there is a section of the Indian media that is using the Bangladesh situation to boost anti-Muslim rhetoric “in service of the BJP and [its ideological parent] RSS’s agenda.
“For them, the ouster of Hasina is an Islamist conspiracy hatched in collaboration with Pakistan and China and that the target is India and Hindus,” he said.
Naresh Fernandez, editor of the Indian news portal Scroll.in, said Hindutva (right-wing Hindu nationalism) supporters in India are using the situation in Bangladesh “as a screen on which to project their own anxieties, fantasies and conspiracy theories to serve their narrow political purposes”.
“They are claiming that Hasina’s fall was actually engineered by international forces and that this is a rehearsal for a similar regime change to be effected in India,” Fernandez told Al Jazeera.
He said, however, that Hindutva supporters are rightfully concerned about the safety of minorities in Bangladesh in this period of crisis, “a concern that they fail to demonstrate about minorities in India”.
‘Delhi’s intent to destabilise Dhaka’
Political analyst Farid Erkizia Bakht, meanwhile, suggested that misinformation spread by Indian media reflects New Delhi’s intent to destabilise Dhaka. He noted that India has lost its most valuable ally in the subcontinent and is deeply concerned about the direction of the incoming administration.
Varadarajan also echoed the sentiment.
“The popular uprising which unseated Hasina caught New Delhi by surprise, and the government is now scrambling to formulate a coherent and rational policy in the face of the new situation.
“It cannot welcome the student-led protest and bottom-up expression of people power or dismiss the change as a ‘coup’ or an ‘anti-India conspiracy’ either as the Hindutva right wing on social media is saying,” he said.
“For now, New Delhi will be in a wait-and-watch mode. The focus will be on ensuring the safety of Indian nationals in Bangladesh and monitoring the situation of minorities there,” he added.
Bangladeshi activist and author Aupam Debashis Roy told Al Jazeera that there had been attacks on Hindu minorities but the numbers have been overblown and Bangladesh is being portrayed as being taken over by “Islamist forces”, which is not true, he said.
The nature of the soon-to-be-formed interim government will not be “radical Islamist” in nature, Roy said. “But the BJP-leaning media wants to spread the world that Bangladesh is going to be in the hands of Islamists because it supports their [the BJP’s] narrative … built around previous laws like CAA and NRC,” Roy said, referring to India’s citizenship law and national register of citizens, which have been criticised as being directed against Muslims.
“They want to show that Bangladesh is a place for radical Islamists and Hindus and minorities are not safe here. I think that’s why the BJP-leaning Indian media is spreading misinformation about attacks on minorities and an Islamist force taking over Bangladesh,” he added.
US-based Bangladeshi political commentator Shafquat Rabbee Anik said the violence occurring in Bangladesh is a result of the “collapse of the police force,” which is “mostly due to popular reprisal against excesses committed by them throughout the last 15 years”.
Once Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus officially becomes the leader of the interim government, that will calm down “Indian nerves”, Anik predicted.
“For one, it will be very hard to portray Yunus as an Islamist trying to take away the rights of the minorities and women.”
ALJAZEERA
Within hours of Sheikh Hasina’s removal from power after a student-led mass uprising, reports began to appear in some Indian media outlets that members of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh were being targeted by “Islamist forces”.
A video on The Times Group-owned Mirror Now’s YouTube channel, titled Attack on Hindus in Bangladesh? Mass Murders, Killings by Mob, shows footage of violence and arson attacks on four houses, two of them have been identified to be owned by Muslims. The title of the video is clearly misleading as there was no mass murders reported in the incident. Local reports say one of the houses belonged to Bangladesh’s freedom icon Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The video also makes unsubstantiated claims, like “24 burnt alive by mob” and “Minorities at the centre of attacks”.
Al Jazeera has independently verified that only two Hindus have been killed since Hasina’s ouster on Monday – one police officer and one activist with Hasina’s Awami League party.
Hindus constitute about 8 percent of Bangladesh’s 170 million people and have traditionally been strong supporters of the Awami League, which is generally viewed as secular compared with the opposition coalition, which includes an Islamist party.
Many news reports of attacks on Hindus contain outlandish claims such as “more than one crore [10 million] refugees are likely to enter West Bengal soon”, which was made in a Times of India report that quoted Suvendu Adhikari, a senior leader of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The ANI news agency, seen close to Modi’s government, quoted a student leader in India as saying the mass uprising was “orchestrated by the enemies of Bangladesh”.
An even more bizarre Times of India article stated that Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh’s biggest Islamist party, “brought down Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh”.
Political analyst Zahed Ur Rahman said Indian media have reported through an “Islamophobic” lens.
“The student movement that fomented the mass uprising involving people from all walks of life is unanimously understood as a popular movement here in Bangladesh. But Indian media somehow have been interpreting the whole scenario through their Islamophobic eye,” he told Al Jazeera.
ISI and religious claims
As Hasina fled the country on Monday, news articles in Indian media alleged that Bangladesh’s protests were influenced by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), a Pakistani spy agency, because it is seeking to turn Bangladesh into an Islamic state with the support of political parties like the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its former political ally Jamaat-e-Islami.
Some media outlets even urged the Indian government to prepare for a potential refugee crisis, speculating that Hindus would be driven out of Bangladesh.
Speculation suggesting an ISI and Chinese connection to the popular Bangladesh movement was a common thread in social media posts by some commentators and media outlets.
The diplomatic affairs editor of The Economic Times, Dipanjan R Chaudhury, posted on X: “Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh politics doesn’t bode well either for country or India. Jamaat track record of promoting cross border terror … is part of recent history.”
The television channel TV9 Gujarati with one million followers on X characterised the uprising as a “coup”, stating on the social media platform: “Is ISI behind the coup attack in Bangladesh? Is Jamaat-E-Islam behind the violent attacks?”
What is the reality on the ground?
These articles by Indian media and posts in social media contrast sharply with factual reports chronicling the events that led to the Hasina’s resignation. She fled to India, which had backed her.
Local media in Bangladesh reported that since Monday night, several Hindu households across 20 of the country’s 64 districts have been attacked and looted.
Al Jazeera reached out to sources in some of these districts and discovered that the attacks on Hindu households were not driven by religious identity but by political affiliations.
Mustafizur Rahman Hiru, a rent-a-car driver from the central district of Narsingdi, told Al Jazeera that in his village, the two Hindu households targeted were home to local Awami League leaders.
“People were angry because these Hindu leaders were bullying others when the Awami League was in power. Now, with Hasina’s fall, they are facing the backlash,” he said.
In Jashore, a border district with India, a warehouse and home belonging to Babul Saha, a local government chairman who ran for office on the Awami League ticket, were attacked.
Abdur Rab Haider, a resident of Jashore, told Al Jazeera that no Hindu household had been attacked without ties to the Awami League.
Rahman pointed out that Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Hasina’s son, who resides in the United States, has given several interviews to Indian media, spreading rumours and unverified claims about attacks on Hindus and alleged operations by the ISI.
“Indian media merrily jumped onto it and spread Joy’s bogus claims,” Rahman told Al Jazeera.
‘Attacks politically motivated, not communal’
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Gobindra Chandra Pramanik, a leader of the Hindu community in Bangladesh, stated that to his knowledge no Hindu households without connections to the Awami League were attacked.
“As a leader of the Hindu community, I can confirm that these attacks were politically motivated, not communal,” he said. “Across the country, 10 times more Muslim households affiliated with the Awami League were attacked.”
Local media reported that since Monday night, more than 119 people – primarily Awami League leaders, activists and police – were killed in mob violence. Qadaruddin Shishir, the fact-checking editor for the AFP news agency, told Al Jazeera that only two of the victims were Hindus: one policeman and one Awami League activist.
Zafar Sobhan, editor of Bangladesh’s Dhaka Tribune newspaper, told Al Jazeera that most of the Indian media “as a general rule is clueless about Bangladesh”.
“I don’t like to attribute to malice that which just as easily can be explained by incompetence. But the uniformity of the misinformation that is routinely peddled in the Indian media suggests that they are taking dictation from a common source,” he said.
But an Indian academic rejected any allegation that the Indian media’s reporting has been Islamophobic.
Sreeradha Datta, a professor at OP Jindal University in Sonipat in northern India, told Al Jazeera that the Indian media’s concern about the safety of Hindus under a non-Hasina administration in Bangladesh stems from past experiences rather than Islamophobia.
Datta noted that during previous non-Awami League governments, such as the BNP-Jamaat alliance, “there was an increase in attacks on minorities, and this historical context continues to influence current perceptions.”
The media’s reporting has caused concern in India with several prominent Hindu religious leaders and politicians calling for the protection of Hindus.
Muslims protecting Hindus
Meanwhile, images of individuals, including students from Muslim religious schools, standing watch in front of Hindu temples and homes have been widely circulated on social media.
In Brahmanbaria, a district with one of the largest Hindu populations in Bangladesh, residents, including students, stepped up to protect Hindu households.
Munshi Azizul Haque, an apparel businessman from Brahmanbaria, told Al Jazeera that they are working to prevent any communal violence in the area. “We’ve seen how Indian media are depicting attacks on minorities in Bangladesh on social media. The reality is quite different,” he said.
Pramanik also acknowledged that Hindu temples were being protected.
News of Bangladeshi students, including from religious schools, volunteering to protect Hindu temples have been reported locally since the unrest began, and it has been picked up by outlets like Clarion India and The Wire.
These sites ran headlines stating “Muslims Stand Guard at Temples, Call to Protect Minorities” and “Students Stand Guard Outside Temples and Churches in Wake of Attacks.”
Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of The Wire, told Al Jazeera that while there is legitimate and genuine concern about reports of attacks on Hindu places of worship, businesses and homes across more than two dozen districts in Bangladesh, the Indian media are also exaggerating the scale and extent of these incidents.
Also, he said, there is a section of the Indian media that is using the Bangladesh situation to boost anti-Muslim rhetoric “in service of the BJP and [its ideological parent] RSS’s agenda.
“For them, the ouster of Hasina is an Islamist conspiracy hatched in collaboration with Pakistan and China and that the target is India and Hindus,” he said.
Naresh Fernandez, editor of the Indian news portal Scroll.in, said Hindutva (right-wing Hindu nationalism) supporters in India are using the situation in Bangladesh “as a screen on which to project their own anxieties, fantasies and conspiracy theories to serve their narrow political purposes”.
“They are claiming that Hasina’s fall was actually engineered by international forces and that this is a rehearsal for a similar regime change to be effected in India,” Fernandez told Al Jazeera.
He said, however, that Hindutva supporters are rightfully concerned about the safety of minorities in Bangladesh in this period of crisis, “a concern that they fail to demonstrate about minorities in India”.
‘Delhi’s intent to destabilise Dhaka’
Political analyst Farid Erkizia Bakht, meanwhile, suggested that misinformation spread by Indian media reflects New Delhi’s intent to destabilise Dhaka. He noted that India has lost its most valuable ally in the subcontinent and is deeply concerned about the direction of the incoming administration.
Varadarajan also echoed the sentiment.
“The popular uprising which unseated Hasina caught New Delhi by surprise, and the government is now scrambling to formulate a coherent and rational policy in the face of the new situation.
“It cannot welcome the student-led protest and bottom-up expression of people power or dismiss the change as a ‘coup’ or an ‘anti-India conspiracy’ either as the Hindutva right wing on social media is saying,” he said.
“For now, New Delhi will be in a wait-and-watch mode. The focus will be on ensuring the safety of Indian nationals in Bangladesh and monitoring the situation of minorities there,” he added.
Bangladeshi activist and author Aupam Debashis Roy told Al Jazeera that there had been attacks on Hindu minorities but the numbers have been overblown and Bangladesh is being portrayed as being taken over by “Islamist forces”, which is not true, he said.
The nature of the soon-to-be-formed interim government will not be “radical Islamist” in nature, Roy said. “But the BJP-leaning media wants to spread the world that Bangladesh is going to be in the hands of Islamists because it supports their [the BJP’s] narrative … built around previous laws like CAA and NRC,” Roy said, referring to India’s citizenship law and national register of citizens, which have been criticised as being directed against Muslims.
“They want to show that Bangladesh is a place for radical Islamists and Hindus and minorities are not safe here. I think that’s why the BJP-leaning Indian media is spreading misinformation about attacks on minorities and an Islamist force taking over Bangladesh,” he added.
US-based Bangladeshi political commentator Shafquat Rabbee Anik said the violence occurring in Bangladesh is a result of the “collapse of the police force,” which is “mostly due to popular reprisal against excesses committed by them throughout the last 15 years”.
Once Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus officially becomes the leader of the interim government, that will calm down “Indian nerves”, Anik predicted.
“For one, it will be very hard to portray Yunus as an Islamist trying to take away the rights of the minorities and women.”
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The media there has injected Islamophobia into the veins of Indians.
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Next time when a bangladeshi hindu expressed fear about muslims, they will be blamed for islamophobia.
Very convenient to blame the victims of islamists. It is their fault to be at the wrong place at the wrong time having the wrong religion.
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Hindus are safe in Bangladesh - Islamists.
Just convert to Islam and they are safe.
Just convert to Islam and they are safe.
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Nice work by the converts, keep the converting going bring that figure down from 7.5 to about 2.0% in another 10 years..
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I would rather they convert than be killed. Bangladeshi hindus should submit themselves if that means being able to live.
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They should be whatever in capacity to save themselves. Did our ancestors made a mistake by resisting Islamic forces and forced conversions?
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The Bangladeshi Hindus have no choice, surrounded by these barbarians. It would be best to convert over watching their women getting raped and children getting killed.
Religion is religion be it a Hindu, Muslim, Christian etc no one knows what the truth is, no one has sent a post card from heaven or hell...
Just convert if no other choice to survive and live their lives, not worth going through all the horrors that await these innocent ppl if they don't convert.
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That was a different time, you can't compare then to now.
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They are same race, speak the same language, have the same ancestors, but if them being another religion is enough to be killed, let them remove this difference also. Be alive than be dead. I will be happy for them.
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@Devadwal thinks his country is perfect. LOL.
Just a few months ago, a Brazilian woman was raped in India by multiple Indian men.
He behaves like India doesn't have riots.
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Those times were even more barbaric.
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Don’t blame us if you guys cannot attract any non Hindus to your side. Maybe invest in peaceful preaching groups rather than movies based on Mahabharata and Ramayana. When you make films people don’t take this stuff seriously.Nice work by the converts, keep the converting going bring that figure down from 7.5 to about 2.0% in another 10 years..
Lol
Isolated incidents saar
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Since the resignation of the Prime Minister, Hindus in Bangladesh find themselves in a precarious position, far from secure. And as for the self-proclaimed 'savior' of Hindutva? It appears his greatest feat is limited to a few tweets—on a platform originating from a country that supposedly orchestrated the Bangladeshi Prime Minister's resignation. Quite the defender, indeed.
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Indian government has Modi as a PM and everyone has googled about him.
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First nothing happened.
Then something happened.
Now Hua to Hua.
This is the truth.
And they have the likes of Al Jazeera to try and whitewash them.
Then something happened.
Now Hua to Hua.
This is the truth.
And they have the likes of Al Jazeera to try and whitewash them.
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Initially, the protestors were killed, but soon after, they turned their violence toward innocents. As images from Bangladesh began to circulate, condemnation grew - just as any morally inclined person would expect.
But the real question is, what has Modi, the self-proclaimed savior of Hindus worldwide, actually done besides airlifting Bangladesh's Muslim Prime Minister and tweeting about it?
Has his tweet even reached the ears of Western governments, or was it simply brushed aside?
I'm asking these questions on behalf of a Bangladeshi friend.
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But ... but .... but ..... it's Hindutva 'extremism' that's the problem.
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Indian government has Modi as a PM and everyone has googled about him.
Yes it is quite strange that Indian posters are so critical of Bangladesh alleged maulana influence while at the same time going gaga over a leader who thinks Ganesh was an example of Bharat leading the world in plastic surgery.
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Hindutva extremists are not the problem in India?
Apparently, inviting Bangladesh's Muslim Prime Minister to India has magically solved the Hindutva extremist problem in the country?
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I find it comical that muslims speak of Hindutva 'extremism'.
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Those who doubted the incidents in Kashmir files can now watch Bangladesh files.
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Not at all. But those living in glass houses should not throw stones at others.So you are saying that all Muslims are extremists.
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When in minority = Democracy, secularism, equal rights, etc
When in majority = Islamic country, blasphemy laws, etc.
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Lol, totally agree. It's time to stop defending Hindutva extremists simply because they happen to be your extremists—targeting Muslims at every turn, unless, of course, those Muslims are conveniently lining Hindutva pockets.
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You're dropping hints here and there, but why not just come out and say it all in one go?
It is not like we aren't already aware of your anti-Muslim Hindutva driven views.
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By the way, not many on this forum support the blasphemy laws in Pakistan—if you’d like, we can delve into that.
But I see where you’re coming from. As a Hindutva supporter, you always seem to need some justification to push your bigoted agenda, which, in today’s India, is deeply rooted in an anti-Muslim narrative.
It is the truth- it is what it is. There is no bias here. Seen this world wide repeated ad nauseam.. every religious conflict in the world has one common religion. Raliv galiv jaliv - nothing newYou're dropping hints here and there, but why not just come out and say it all in one go?
It is not like we aren't already aware of your anti-Muslim Hindutva driven views.
Ind is a secular constitution country. Modi had absolute power for 10 years. And ind is still secular. Ind is hindu majority- so if majority wanted hindu rashtra it would have happened long ago. But ind will never be a religious country- will always be secular - and that's how it should be. But yeah- if ind becomes Muslim majority- then no guarantee it will be secular anymore. Time for sharia law and to heck with secularismBy the way, not many on this forum support the blasphemy laws in Pakistan—if you’d like, we can delve into that.
But I see where you’re coming from. As a Hindutva supporter, you always seem to need some justification to push your bigoted agenda, which, in today’s India, is deeply rooted in an anti-Muslim narrative.
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A handful of posters here, most of them living abroad, speaks for the whole of Pakistan? If the whole of Pakistan didn't care for blasphemy laws, people would not have been lynched and burnt alive on the streets of Pakistan on account of blasphemy.By the way, not many on this forum support the blasphemy laws in Pakistan—if you’d like, we can delve into that.
But I see where you’re coming from. As a Hindutva supporter, you always seem to need some justification to push your bigoted agenda, which, in today’s India, is deeply rooted in an anti-Muslim narrative.
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Why not speak about the points I made, instead of speaking of me?You're dropping hints here and there, but why not just come out and say it all in one go?
It is not like we aren't already aware of your anti-Muslim Hindutva driven views.
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In UK, the far right extremists are being put behind the jail for being bigots and their leader is kind of hiding.
Also in UK, many non-Muslims came out against the far right white superracist bigots.
It seems the the bigots of every religious group has a problem with only one religion.
UK is the most recent example.
Is Hindutva a bigoted ideology?
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Hindus Hit Dhaka Streets After Surge In Targeted Attacks Following Sheikh Hasina's Ouster
Hundreds of Bangladeshi Hindus took to the streets in Dhaka on Friday to protest a series of targeted attacks on minority communities following the ouster of the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government this week.
Hindus, who make up about 8 percent of the country’s population of 170 million, carried posters demanding to be “saved,” chanted slogans such as “Who are we? Bengali, Bengali,” and appealed for peace as they blocked an intersection in the capital.
Ever since long-time Awami League leader Hasina resigned and fled to India on Monday, Hindu temples, households, and businesses have been vandalized, and several Hindu leaders affiliated with the party have been killed in the violence.
'Who Are We? Bengali, Bengali': Bangladeshi Hindus Hit Dhaka Streets After Surge In Targeted Attacks | WATCH - News18
Hindus in Dhaka protest amid escalating violence. PM Modi extends best wishes to new interim leader Yunus, while US lawmakers demand action against attacks on minorities
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This is so funny, it's unbelievable. In Jan 2023, when Pakistan's blasphemy laws were tightened, it was passed in parliament not by narrow majority, not by a strong majority but unanimously . Do you still expect people to believe that there isn't near universal support for blasphemy laws and death for blasphemy in Pakistan. Can you find us a similar law in India which you state is more religion biased?By the way, not many on this forum support the blasphemy laws in Pakistan—if you’d like, we can delve into that.
But I see where you’re coming from. As a Hindutva supporter, you always seem to need some justification to push your bigoted agenda, which, in today’s India, is deeply rooted in an anti-Muslim narrative.
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Actually the majority of Pakistan spoke against it, you just did not paid attention to it because it does not fit your bigoted narrative.
And if majority of Pakistan did not, do you see me defending the bigots unlike yourself defending the Hindutva bigots.
You coming at it as if I am defending the Muslim extremists and you are not defending the Hindutva extremists.
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Pakistani did not get to elect their PM and you believe Pakistanis have choice to amend laws?
When Pakistani are able to truly elect their politician then we can criticize them. But in India, the people have total freedom to elect anyone they wish to.
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India punishes those who eat beef steak.
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India punishes those who slaughter cows. It has been the case since 5000 yearsm
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Yes I'm aware both Imran Khan and Shahbaz Sharif came to power with military support and couldn't really be called democratically elected but they still did have strong popular support and could have spoken out against the laws of they opposed them.
In fact both of them and their parties supported the law and it's further strengthening.
It's telling that Modi, who you believe is a demon and his government have passed no such law with a massive parliamentary majority for 10 years. They have not even sought to pass a national beef ban.
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Then it’s not secular, is it ?
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No it's not. Neither is the fact that India was the first country in the world to officially ban 'Satanic Verses.' Neither action is right and India is an imperfectly secular country unfortunately.
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Of course, and they are rightly criticized by those who oppose it.
And the criticism against those who committed crimes based on blasphemy laws was stronger and louder across all social media platforms, and any platform, without any attempts to justify the law.
That’s a significant point.
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I agree.
I see what you’re trying to do—you assume I’d be selective in my secular views. But you’ve got the wrong person here.
That inherited instinct to defend one’s own country can often cloud judgment.
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The bangladeshi hindus deserve it for not getting attracted by peaceful preaching groups.Don’t blame us if you guys cannot attract any non Hindus to your side. Maybe invest in peaceful preaching groups rather than movies based on Mahabharata and Ramayana. When you make films people don’t take this stuff seriously.
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The criticism for Mumtaz Qadri was stronger and louder?
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You want me find criticism of the folks who lynched and beat up/killed the poor alleged beef transporters? This is just silly one-upmanship going nowhere.
The truth is India's a flawed secular country getting slowly worse for minorities with some hopes especially based on results of the last election of slowing down or even arresting this slide.
Pakistan's an already terrible country for minorities getting steadily worse with zero or hopes of arresting the freefall.
Bangladesh is somewhere between the two and has shown recent signs of suddenly getting worse.
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The sad truth is we are pathetic with properly implementing other Islamic laws that are more critical for the overall progress of the nation but when it comes to blasphemy laws, we all turn into guardians of Islam.
Most people in Pakistan don't even know what the law is all about and how it does not empower ordinary citizens to take matters into their own hands and play judge, jury and executioner. They don't even know that the law REQUIRES that the accused be given a chance to defend himself or herself and apologize for any slights.
Pakistani people take an accusation, and just want to behead the accused. Its absolutely barbaric and unIslamic and is a massive sin no matter what book of Islamic jurisprudence you refer to.
Most people in Pakistan don't even know what the law is all about and how it does not empower ordinary citizens to take matters into their own hands and play judge, jury and executioner. They don't even know that the law REQUIRES that the accused be given a chance to defend himself or herself and apologize for any slights.
Pakistani people take an accusation, and just want to behead the accused. Its absolutely barbaric and unIslamic and is a massive sin no matter what book of Islamic jurisprudence you refer to.
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lol,
No! I don’t want you to find anything.
I mostly criticize those who are inclined to support any form of bigotry.
It’s just that when they are criticized, they instinctively start comparing things to my country of origin, assuming I’d defend its bigoted laws.
I get it—it's their natural inclination to protect their country’s reputation. It’s a weak defense, but I understand how nationalism can cloud judgment.
Pakistan's struggles are largely due to a lack of education and economic prosperity, while India, despite its advancements in education and prosperity, has become less tolerant. It's a troubling contrast.
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Those who opposed Mumtaz Qadri would never dare to take to the streets out of fear for their lives, given the readiness of his supporters to kill without hesitation. So while the opposition may seem vocal, I can assure you that no one in my circle has ever openly supported Mumtaz Qadri—quite the opposite of what you’re trying to suggest.
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So the opposition against crimes based on blasphemy are getting stronger and louder.
To
No one in "my circle" has openly supported Qadri.
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We also don't let people make cartoons on the prophet (pbuh) or burn the holy Quran.
So yes we are secular we punish insult to any religion.
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