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1/5 Anatomy of a communal #riot. First, Muzlims start a ‘protest’. Violent slogans are normalized as #FoE by media. Next, ‘protest’ turns into ‘agitation’, with illegal occupation of public spaces. Again, media provides fig leaf of respectability by calling agitation ‘democratic’
2/5 The state exercises ‘restraint’, wary of aggressive media painting the state ‘anti-minority’ and an over zealous judiciary. State hopes that the ‘agitation’ runs its course in due time and adopts wait n watch approach. Meanwhile, ‘they’ get bolder and more aggressive.
3/5 While the state is exercising ‘restraint’, ‘they’ are planning to escalate the ‘agitation’ into a full-scale ‘riot’. Their Ghettos are armed, mobs are ready with petrol bombs. Women and children are used as first line of defence. The first provocation is ALWAYS from them.
4/5 ‘They’ start full scale rioting. Shops are torched, vehicles burnt, cops attacked with stones and swords, lives are lost. They do it relentlessly till Yindoos are goaded into retaliation, as they eventually will. State is then compelled to act. Pliant media is back in action.
5/5 Media, which has hitherto normalised all calls of violence from ‘them’, suddenly calls for ‘peace’. State is first slammed for inaction, then for oppression. ‘They’ are always portrayed as helpless victims, cowering in fear. Yindoos are always painted as the evil aggressors.
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