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What Modi won’t show the G20: Muslims killed, harassed by the police and abused in school

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What Modi won’t show the G20: Muslims killed, harassed by the police and abused in school | Rana Ayyub

The PM is keen to show India as the ‘mother of democracy’, but this is one of the most undemocratic periods in its history, says the journalist Rana Ayyub

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2y ago

What Modi won’t show the G20: Muslims killed, harassed by the police and abused in school

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2023/sep/09/what-modi-wont-show-g20-muslims-india

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They're going full-on theocracy, no?
- No, they're going full on fascist dictatorship and are using religion to get gullible voters to vote them to power.
  
  Yes, unfortunately fascism is populist in India and has been for many years.
  RSS and their propaganda of Hindu nationalism is pervasive. Lots of undereducated folks. Most people actually believe that Hindus are Superior to Muslims.
  
  I don’t like Modi, but are Indian voters gullible or do they just hate muslims?
  Modi wouldn’t be in power if most Indians didn’t support him.
Relegion ... the enemy of mankind ... no matter wich one /sad
- Organized religion is a device used by the power-hungry and corrupt to grab power & control people.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
As foreign delegates across the world travelled to India to meet their counterparts in the run-up to the G20 summit, calls for a social and economic boycott of Muslims were made in Gurgaon, the satellite city of Delhi, by far-right Hindu nationalist organisations.
Earlier this year, dozens of rallies took place across the state of Maharashtra, attended by leaders from Modi’s BJP, demanding laws against inter-religious marriages.
Modi has praised and defended two films that have been criticised as deeply Islamophobic, The Kashmir Files and The Kerala Story, in his election rallies.
Controversially, local police also charged a Muslim journalist, Mohammed Zubair, for allegedly disclosing the child’s identity by sharing the video online.
The Wall Street Journal reporter who had posed the question to the prime minister was brutally trolled on the internet by the Indian right wing and shamed for her Muslim-ness, forcing the White House to issue a statement in solidarity with the journalist.
In the week of the G20 summit, when India needs to project itself as an inclusive plural democracy, the discussions are now focused on renaming it “Bharat”, to allegedly break free of colonial chains.
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