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Rising Islamophobia and Hate Crimes against Muslims in India

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As of late, many hate crimes against Muslims are taking place. One of the countries where islamophobia is rising at an alarming rate is India. With every single day that passes by, religious violence is becoming more frequent.

Alone in the year 2020, a total number of 11 hate crime cases have happened. All of which were against Muslims. The Times of India reported on the 3rd of September all of the crimes that Muslims were victims of. The headline further confirmed the above number and was written in bold:

Around 10 persons booked for hurting religious sentiments, Chandigarh News, Times of India.

What are the hate crimes and where exactly did they happen?

All of the brutality that took place was mob lynching. Muslims were surrounded by islamophobic racists who took it upon themselves to slaughter innocent Muslims who didn’t do anything wrong.

The details of the several religious barbarities are given below:

1. June

These are the ones that happened in the month of June:

Karnataka:

On 15th of June in 2020, Mohd Hanif, a driver in Mangalore, specifically Karnataka, was savagely beaten up. It was a cow vigilante lynch mob that participated in doing that. The driver’s vehicle was badly damaged as well. The men who beat up the driver and destroyed his car were from Bajrang Dal.

The victim told Mangalorean.com that his attackers were released on bail. The police filed a non-bailable case on the victim himself instead of capturing the attackers.

Mohd Hanif further said that this is ‘unfair.’

2. August

The following crimes all took place in August:

Rajasthan:

A 52-year old man, Gaffar Ahmed, was beaten up brutally. This happened on August 8, 2020. 

His beard was pulled and his teeth were punched out. Furthermore, he was also forced against his will to chant ‘Modi Zindabad.’ That slogan is the slogan chanted by the supporters of the government that is currently in power.

The people also made him say ‘Jai Shree Ram’ which is a religious slogan for Hindus. It translates to ‘Victory to Lord Rama.’

Gaffar Ahmed was also told to ‘go back to Pakistan’ which is a phrase racists often use to tell people who are not originally from the country they are residing in.

Jammu and Kashmir:

Muhammad Asghar, 40 years old, and his nephew Javid Ahmad, 26 years old, were victims of islamophobia on 16th August 2020. Both of them were viciously beaten with the help of sticks in the Reasi district. They were punched and kicked. 

The islamophobes kept cursing them as they punched them. They reportedly said, ‘Shoot the traitors’ in their language. They also said, ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai,’ which means ‘Victory for Mother India.’

Haryana:

On the 23rd of August in Haryana, Akhlaq Salmani, was subjected to islamophobia. He was a hairdresser and was hit by bricks and clubs. 

The reason was that his right arm said ‘786.’ It is numerology that some Muslims see as Holy. 

Following that, his arm that had the numerology was mercilessly cut off with the help of a chainsaw. 

The family of Akhlaq Salmani told media that the police wants to compromise with the strikers. Which most likely means released on bail or not facing enough jail time even after contributing in a severe hate crime.

3. September

In the month of September, all of the following offences took place:

Karnal:

Another incident also happened in Haryana. This time it was in the city of Karnal.

Mohammad Ahsan, who was an Imam of a Masjid was attacked with swords. He was also beaten with rods. A number of grave injuries were inflicted on his head by batons.

Uttar Pradesh:

One of the regions of the NCR (National Capital Regions), Uttar Pradesh, became the place where an act of islamophobia took place. A Muslim whose name was Aftab Islam was a sufferer of mob lynching. 

The day of 6th September 2020, he was lynched and forced to say ‘Jai Sri Ram.’

According to the wire. in, the police claim that it wasn’t a hate crime.

Maharashtra:

In the village of Beed’s Hol which is located in Maharashtra, four Muslims were hit with sticks and bricks. 

The Muslims were namely Suhail Tamboli, Aslam Ather, Nizamuddin Qazi and Sayyed Layak. This happened on 16 September 2020.

They endured hateful remarks according to twocircles.net. They were told,

‘You don’t deserve to live in India.’

Hate crimes in the previous years:

Islamophobia has always been a part of India; ever since Muslims and Hindus used to live together as a community in the Subcontinent. 

However, the only thing that wasn’t a part of the community was the sense of community.

And that blame isn’t for the Muslims to take. The sole owners of that are the Hindus that lived in the Subcontinent and abused Muslims in many different ways.

Ever since then, the islamophobia hasn’t died down. It has only gained speed.

2018

One of the many killings of Muslims that are happening on a large scale in India, one of them was this:

On the 16th of April in 2018, in Jammu and Kashmir, an 8-year old girl was kidnapped. She was gang-raped and eventually murdered. This happened near Kathua. Her name was Asifa Bano. 

The Bharatiiya Janata Party, the national political party, whose government it is currently, are backing up the rapists shamelessly.

The members of the BJP party are rape apologists and have still not done anything to bring justice to the young victim.

2019

In Jharkand on 18th June, Tabrez Ansari was injured and lynched. He was 22 years old and was begging to the group of racists who were hurting him, to stop. But they didn’t stop and forced him to chant slogans such as ‘Jai Shree Ram’ and ‘Jai Hanuman’. 

All of the casualties that are listed above haven’t been brought any fairness. The culprits haven’t been convicted even up till now.

Muslims are at a threat in India .Their safety cannot be assured until the accused are punished equally.

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Jewish Nazism is reality not fiction

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Jewish Nazism

I realize that the title of this article might offend and provoke many people, especially those adhering to the Judaic faith. I do know that Jews, like everyone else, are not carbon copies of each other. There are many conscientious Jews who believe in fairness and basic human equality regardless of color, race and faith, and strongly reject racism and chauvinism in any form. Also, I will no longer be using euphemistic language in reference to Jewish Nazism especially in light of the latest Dresden-like bombing of Gaza by the Judeo-Nazi state also known as Israel.

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These people I salute for their rectitude, humanity and morality. They are our natural partners for peace and a better tomorrow for our children and their children.

But there are numerous other Jews who don’t believe in human equality and justice for all. Indeed, there are many Jews, e.g. followers of the hateful Chabad sect, who don’t even ascribe full humanity to people who are not members of the Jewish faith.

Needless to say, the venomous ideology adopted by these racist fanatics has much in common with Aryan Nazism.

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What else can be said to describe an ideology that teaches adherents that the life of a non-Jew has no sanctity and that goyem can be murdered without the slightest compunction or feeling of guilt?

The shocking reactions by the Israeli government, rabbis, and community leaders to the latest abduction, murder and subsequent burning of a Palestinian kids in Gaza are very telling.

In a certain sense, these reactions and attitudes can be compared to the reactions and attitudes of many Germans to the pogroms carried out against Jews by the Nazis prior to and during the Second World War.

The gleefully despicable embrace of the brashly hideous crime by the bulk of the Israeli Jewish society underscores the fact that millions of Jews in Israel and abroad do harbor certain Nazi tendencies, especially against the Palestinian people. These tendencies are too real and too tangible to be overstated.

However, we must call the spade a spade, even at the expense of upsetting the huge Zionist propaganda machine which habitually alters the black into white and the blatant big lie into a “truth” glorified by sheepish westerners who have long been brainwashed into believing that Israel is a modern, civilized and democratic state.

In the final analysis, when Jews (or anyone else) think, behave and act like the Nazis thought, behaved and acted, they simply become Nazis. Pure and simple.

Today, there are numerous Jews who openly call for the physical annihilation of Palestinians as retaliation for the abduction and killing of three Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

Saber-rattling rabbis speak menacingly of the need to adopt “the Biblical way” to combat the Palestinians.

For those not versed in Jewish phraseology, “Biblical way” is euphemism for genocide.

Today, the Israeli media reported that some army personnel openly appealed to the government to “give us the green light to annihilate them.”!!!

Just read what thousands of Jewish youths have been writing on their Facebook pages! It is outrageous, disgusting and sheer evil.

To put it in a nutshell, Nazism is being regurgitated and exuded all over Israel. This is happening in broad daylight while professional liars like Binyamin Netanyahu are filling the ether with all sorts of shameless lies about Israel being victimized by the Palestinians.

Seventy-six years have passed since Kristalnacht. Today Jewish settlers in the west Bank, in close cooperation and coordination, with the Israeli army could very well carry out a huge pogrom against an innocent and helpless community which really finds itself very much in the same precarious and vulnerable position that European Jewry experienced prior to WWII.

I am not a prophet of doom and gloom, but the signs are unmistakably bleak.

A final point, the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are surviving thanks to the good-will of the international public opinion. Should the international community go into a brief slumber, God forbid, Israel and its own Wehrmacht, SS, Gestapo and Hitler Youth might embark on the unthinkable. Don’t you ever say Jews can’t carry out a holocaust against their victims, the Palestinians?

Words can kill; words do kill.

Unfortunately, the chilling words we are hearing from many Israeli Jews these days leave no room for optimism.

Khalid Amayreh is a Palestinian journalist and political commentator , we lost him on account of natural reasons on 12th of July last year in the Occupied Palestine

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I’m most definitely Palestinian!

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Palestinian

In-your-face brutality, unending genocide, unending atrocities, mass slaughter directed against one’s people, one’s brethren, causes the most strong and unimaginable reaction, in response to the oppressor’s horrendous and barbaric deeds. The autocratic, despotic, tyrannical Israeli-hand systematically and with pre-planned engineered precision, massacres, annihilates, eliminates the young and the old Palestinian alike – in the most inhumane and most despicable of ways. Slaughters men, women and children in broad daylight. Bares its blood-thirsty intentions, its monstrous objectives in the most unashamed of ways. Mercy to none – not to the living, not to the severely wounded and dying; no mercy even on the dead or their lifeless remains.

The constant fear of being bombed anytime, rained down with missiles and all manner of munitions from within the vast arsenal of the Israeli side; definitely stockpiled high, with enough buffer inventory of munitions, deadly and lethal stockpile, to blow the receiving side multiple times over; so as not to leave a “shred” of evidence of your original physical-self on the surface of the land, which your people, generations and generations of your ancestors, since time immemorial have dwelt on.

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The inexplicable terror of seeing Israeli drones constantly “floating about” unopposed, in the skies above your unsheltered head. Drones with eyes like that of a greedy dog. Electronic pixels wanting to cast an evil eye, an evil-spell upon your very being. Eyeing upon your existence, wanting to blow-up, tear-up your physical being, seemingly wanting to devour your flesh and body; all by way of a few computer clicks / even the manual computer-clicks now, seemingly, are being replaced by more automated ways of executing these most evil deeds. Software, coded software, written programs to execute on the most Evil-intentions. Evil-intentions of the most evil amongst the human race.

Everybody knows, the Israelis have exterminated with their weaponry, uncountable numbers of Palestinians across a 40, 50km stretch of land, in front of the whole world, over the past so many weeks and months. And retain the capacity, the ability, the power, the means to slaughter, devour many, many more innocent ones, day in, day out.

The Israelis possess American technology, American weapons – the bedrock of their faith, the foundation stone of their belief in their never-ending invincibility. The Palestinians have their faith in Allah; that Allah will redeem his faithful people, from the clutches of these war-mongers, who rain down terror, day and night on the most innocent, the most vulnerable.

Most definitely, the Moslem spirit in me, the Palestinian spirit in me is not defeated; quite to the contrary, it’s rekindled, stronger than ever.

I’m definitely Palestinian, in every sense of the word, and Allah will save us, Allah will have mercy on us, Allah will guide us.

(Note: Azhaar Amayreh is a marketer stuck in war-ravaged Rafah with her child.)The following article is part of a campaign to raise money to help MZEMO contributor Azhaar Amayreh and her family leave Gaza. Please give what you can.

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The futility of counting on the U.S. to pressure Israel

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It is really ludicrous to see how dishonest the U.S “mediators” constantly demand that the Palestinians display more “good will” toward Israel at a time when Israel continues to perpetrate a real Holocaust against the hapless and helpless Palestinaians and steal Palestinian land in broad daylight.

It seems amply clear that the current Palestinian leadership, i.e. the Palestinian Authority (PA)  led by Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, neither learns from its own blunders nor from other people’s blunders. This is really a gigantic disaster befalling the Palestinian people and their enduring just cause.

How else can one relate to the unrelenting illogical insistence of the the whole world on accepting the U.S., Israel’s guardian-ally, as “mediator and honest broker” between us and our murderous tormentors and grave-diggers, Israel?

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Indeed, one doesn’t have to be an expert on American foreign policy in the Middle East to know that the U.S represents the problem, not the solution, given its long-standing embrace of Israeli fascism and expansion.  After all, it is the US that not only enabled Israel to actively pursue its lebensraum policy at the expense of its neighbors but consistently shield it from any accountability or international condemnation.

Today, the U.S. administration is criticizing Palestinian “unilateralism” in reference to desperate PA efforts to get the UN Security Council to recognize Palestinian statehood and agree on a deadline for ending Israel’s Nazi-like occupation.

Well, we all know that the U.S. is being pornographically hypocritical when it accuses the virtually vanquished Palestinians of acting unilaterally as if its spoilt nefarious daughter, Israel, were ever acting in full conformity with international law.

Well, Mr. Abbas and Mr. Ereikat: Don’t be too gullible, too sheepish. Ask your American interlocutors, e.g. Mr. John Kerry, the following questions:

Since when did Israel ever behave bilaterally rather than unilaterally?

Was the usurpation of Palestine and expulsion of its indigenous people at the hands of Jewish terrorist gangs hailing from Eastern Europe, a bilateral or unilateral act?

Was the annexation by Israel of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights a bilateral or a unilateral act?

Was the building of hundreds of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as the transfer of 600,000 Jewish settlers to live on a land that belongs not to them a bilateral or unilateral act?

Was the wanton demolition of some 30,000 Palestinian homes by Israel a bilateral or a unilateral act?

Was the annexation of the bulk of the West Bank and East Jerusalem a bilateral or a unilateral act?

And what about this ugly structure, called Separation wall, which resulted in the theft of thousands of acres of private Palestinian land? Was it a bilateral or a unilateral act?

I could go on and on and on listing America’s hypocritical and duplicitous stands on Palestinian grievances and Israeli crimes. Indeed, the U.S dishonest stand on the Palestinian plight has only been consistent in its moral depravity. Indeed, hypocrisy in its most brazen form has always been and continues to be the modus operandi of American policy toward the Palestinian issue. I know it is politically incorrect to speak in this tone. However, truth must not be another victim of the dark evil embrace between the U.S. and Israel.

But morality is not and has never been part of American politics or policies, especially foreign policy. This is why the world looks so ugly, so gloomy and so unjust.

The U.S. is insisting that only a “negotiated” settlement to the Palestinian issue would be acceptable to the U.S.

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In other words, Israel must always have the final say as to any possible peace deal with the Palestinians.

But since Israel would never ever end its occupation or dismantle the settlements, let alone allow for the repatriation of the refugees, it means there can be no negotiated settlement unless the Palestinians agree to surrender to Jewish Nazism. But that will never happen as Muslims, including the Palestinian people, would never allow the Ramallah leadership or any other leadership to commit adultery with the honorable Palestinian cause.

Let’s be honest. The purportedly honest American broker or mediator is neither honest nor a broker or mediator. The proverbial American judge is simply telling the insolent rapist (Israel) and the vanquished rape victim (the Palestinians) to sort it out amongst yourselves. Do we have to be the smartest humans on earth to understand the implications of this brutal ugliness?

It is tantamount to a total American embrace of Israeli fascism. It means that the American stance is actually Israel’s stance. It also means that that the U.S. would never accept or condone any settlement that Israel doesn’t accept.

That is why the Palestinians need to have a moment of truth with themselves.
And the message they need to internalize is that they would have to wait ages if they continued to put their trust in the U.S. to pressure Israel to walk in the path of peace.

Let us face it. Israel will never walk in the path of peace unless it is pressured and bullied to do so. However, Israel would never ever walk in the path of peace as long as it continues to receive nuclear submarines from Germany and the most advanced fighter jets from the U.S.

In a nut shell, America can’t and won’t exert any meaningful pressure on Israel to end its N-a-z-i-like occupation. We all know that Israel controls the American government or at least controls those who control the American government. Israel is intoxicated by its arrogance of power and Talmudic insolence. And the U.S., Israel’s guardian-ally, is not in a position to be an honest mediator and to impose a deal on Israel or even convince her to allow for one that would give the Palestinian a semblance of justice.

What should be done?

We must go ahead with our efforts at the U.N. Security Council, irrespective of American threats to veto any resolution favorable to the Palestinian cause. At least casting the veto would embarrass America itself and its treacherous Arab allies (they are not actually allies but cheap slaves and puppets as we all know).

We Palestinians must be confident of our inevitable triumph over Zionism and its evils. Yes, it may take time, but eventually Zionism won’t live forever in a sea where hundreds of millions live.

Khalid Amayreh is a Palestinian journalist and political commentator , we lost him on account of natural reasons on 12th of July last year in the Occupied Palestine

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