First, I do not “use” anyone for anything. I hosted a protest & issued a broad call to multiple diaspora communities to request they consider attending. Only Sikhs who showed up. Who attends is outside my control because I control no one.
Second, it is correctly & accurately stated, as I said in my interview which you linked, that it is primarily Muslims & Christians who are targeted for violence. They are called out as “foreign races” & “traitors” in RSS literature. Sikhs are not.
They are also the primary targets of every single large-scale pogrom by the RSS. Sikhs we’re targeted in 1984, & the RSS did participate (as I’ve written about several times), but it is not accurate to say that the RSS was the driving force behind that genocide - it was INC.
Sikhs ARE targeted by the RSS - specifically for assimilation (something I’ve written about). As I often mention, RSS seeks to eliminate Muslims & Christians but to assimilate Buddhists, Dalits, Sikhs, etc. So when discussing violence (ie, elimination), I stick to the facts.
Third, please quote me accurately. I did not say that “just” Christians and Muslims are targeted. I said they are the primary (a word that does not imply no one else suffers) targets for violence.
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