On the 4th anniv of the assassination of #GauriLankesh: a thread to remind us of the Hindu-supremacist terrorists who trained, armed & instigated her killers - and the fact that the same terrorists are targeting many of us today. Read where the case stands thenewsminute.com/article/gauri-…
Hindu-supremacist outfit @SanatanSanstha is named by SIT as responsible for the assassination of not only Gauri but activists and writers Dabholkar and Pansare, & academic Prof Kalburgi. All were targeted for writing against “Hindutva” - Hindu-supremacist ideology & politics. 
Sanatan Sanstha, linked with a 2009 blast in Goa, shares its Goa HQ with @HinduJagrutiOrg . Both together organise a yearly All India Hindu Convention explicitly calling to turn secular India into a Hindu Nation in which minorities will be 2nd class citizens.
Speakers at the convention call for violence against Hindu women in the name of ‘rescue from love jihad’ - code for abduction & forced separation from Muslim lover/friend/husband. In 2013 then Gujarat CM & PM candidate @narendramodi sent a written greeting to the conference
In his greeting to the conference organised by terror-accused groups calling to overthrow secular India & create a Hindu Nation, Modi hinted that peace-loving Hindus could justifiably get violent to “resist inhuman tendencies”.
Today, Telegram channels of HJS are running videos saying Gauri authored “anti Hindu books”. Likewise their videos target me, as well as several other Indian academics and activists, claiming we are “anti Hindu”, effectively drawing a target on our backs.
HJS has written to @AmitShah @PIBHomeAffairs demanding action against Indians who speak against Hindu-supremacist ideology & violence. Acc to them, Hindu-supremacists must be exempt from intellectual scrutiny or political criticism & opposition.
When Modi said “by charging a Hindu @SadhviPragya_MP with participation in a bomb blast, NIA under a Congress regime called Hindu civilisation terrorist” he was speaking the language of the HJS and SS, asserting that killings by Hindu-supremacists must enjoy impunity.
If a Sikh or a Muslim or a Christian or Hindu commits a crime against humanity & is punished, decent members of their communities say the crime (not the punishment) is an insult to their faith. But Modi says no Hindu-supremacist must even be charged & tried for a crime!
By equating blasts & killings with “Hindu civilisation” aren’t Modi and HJS etc the ones “insulting Hindu civilisation”? Pragya Thakur openly keeps praising Gandhi’s assassin Godse as a patriot & her role model. Tell us @narendramodi @AmitShah - was Godse a terrorist? Yes or No?
In the same vein @jankibaat1 has been running a show attacking me as anti-Hindu based on a video clip of a few seconds. I have never spoken to this channel. The clip is from a long interview 2 kids from an FB page did - I challenge @pradip103 to air it in full. In the interview +
I spoke on why I oppose the Taliban in Afghanistan just as I oppose the Hindu-supremacist outfits that attack women’s & human rights in India. Likewise in the US, here is @briantylercohen comparing the Christian fanatic attacks on abortion rights in Texas with the Taliban.
My interview against Hindu supremacist terrorism has been twisted by @pradip103 to brand me “anti Hindu” and “anti Indian”. As I argued in my piece on Gauri, anchors like this bear a share of responsibility for her assassination. m.thewire.in/article/politi…
Also I want @pradip103 to disclose where he got the clip from. He claims it is an “exclusive tape”. Did he send two youngsters under a false identity to my home to take an interview? Because the clip is certainly from an interview I did with them not with @jankibaat1
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