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For overall context, the current Indian government has taken an increasingly fascist approach towards Indian Muslims. It has been jailing Muslim activists witho

For overall context, the current Indian government has taken an increasingly fascist approach towards Indian Muslims. It has been jailing Muslim activists without due course and trials, demolishing homes of Muslims participating in peaceful protests and turning a blind eye to fireband Hindu leaders openly calling for genocide against Muslims. https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/beyond-blasphemy-inside-yati-narsinghanands-militant-hindutva-machinery/amp https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/beyond-blasphemy-in... https://www.boomlive.in/news/hindu-rashtra-convention-bengaluru-muslims-are-cancer-land-jihad-17829 https://www.boomlive.in/news/hindu-rashtra-convention-bengal... https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/indias-democracy-crisis https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/india... https://article-14.com/post/jailed-or-punished-with-or-without-trial-how-the-state-misuses-the-law-against-india-s-inconvenient-citizens-62d615129ab71 https://article-14.com/post/jailed-or-punished-with-or-witho...

amitprayal 4y ago
- harpic 4y ago
throwaway_1928 4y ago
- anon261114 4y ago
  Cringeworthy strawman. But also demonstrates the kind of rationalization and whitewashing that's prevalent in the minds of millions of regular Indians, not just those working in FB.
  - hgazx 4y ago
    Honest question and I’m not Indian. If millions of regular Indians don’t want Muslims, what gives?
    - detaro 4y ago
      what are "regular Indians" that don't include ~200 million ("irregular"?) muslim Indians?
      - anon261114 4y ago
        Ha, good question. "Indians", as it's used in such contexts, is really a euphemism to refer only to India's Hindus. A word trick when describing an undesirable behaviour prevalent mainly in one community but without fixing responsibility for that behaviour on that community. It's so common that even a disapproving critic like me ends up using such code words unthinkingly.
    - tresqotheq 4y ago
    - anon261114 4y ago
      - throwaway_1928 4y ago
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        dang 4y ago
        We've banned this account for nationalistic and religious flamewar. You can't do this on HN, and you've been doing it repeatedly. Not cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        anon261114 4y ago
        Thanks for being the demo to my comment.
  - throwaway_1928 4y ago
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anon261114 4y ago
Cringeworthy strawman. But also demonstrates the kind of rationalization and whitewashing that's prevalent in the minds of millions of regular Indians, not just those working in FB.
- hgazx 4y ago
  Honest question and I’m not Indian. If millions of regular Indians don’t want Muslims, what gives?
  - detaro 4y ago
    what are "regular Indians" that don't include ~200 million ("irregular"?) muslim Indians?
    - anon261114 4y ago
      Ha, good question. "Indians", as it's used in such contexts, is really a euphemism to refer only to India's Hindus. A word trick when describing an undesirable behaviour prevalent mainly in one community but without fixing responsibility for that behaviour on that community. It's so common that even a disapproving critic like me ends up using such code words unthinkingly.
  - tresqotheq 4y ago
  - anon261114 4y ago
    - throwaway_1928 4y ago
      [flagged]
      - dang 4y ago
        We've banned this account for nationalistic and religious flamewar. You can't do this on HN, and you've been doing it repeatedly. Not cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - anon261114 4y ago
        Thanks for being the demo to my comment.
- throwaway_1928 4y ago

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