Thread by @FriedrichPieter

When @IrvingPD welcomed & honored @hssusa, did they know that HSS is the international wing of the fascist #RSS paramilitary – or that “the police are with us” has been the bone-chilling chant raised in every major anti-minority pogrom staged by RSS in India in the past 20 years?

This speech was made in response to this 21 September action take by @IrvingPD. @thecityofirving

https://twitter.com/irvingpd/status/1440391501284999174

“The police are with us.”

That was the bone-chilling chant raised by the stormtroopers of the #RSS as they streamed out into the streets of Gujarat, India in 2002 to systematically slaughter thousands of Indian Muslims — raping, dismembering, and burning them alive while….

…. police either stood by passively watching or else actively joined in the carnage.

The police were in the pocket of the #RSS, a Hindu nationalist paramilitary whose founders slandered Indian Muslims and Christians as “traitors,” declared their desire to model themselves after the European fascist movements, and….

…. praised the Nazi treatment of the Jews as an excellent example to emulate.

The #RSS, however, is not confined to the boundaries of India. It has an international wing called the HSS. Three weeks ago, the HSS was here, in the @thecityofirving, where the local police department welcomed and honored them.

When @IrvingPD officers allowed the HSS to tie Rakhi bracelets on their wrists in a sincere effort at multicultural outreach, how could they have known that this celebration of the traditional Hindu ritual called Raksha Bandhan symbolized acceptance of a “bond of protection” —

– or that the bond they were making was with the international wing of a fascist paramilitary which seeks to eradicate diversity in India by, ultimately, exterminating all non-Hindus?

How could they have known that police complicity has been central to every major anti-minority pogrom staged by the RSS in India in the past 20 years? From Gujarat in 2002 to Odisha in 2008 (when Christian nuns were gang-raped and paraded naked past laughing police) to Delhi….

…. in 2020 (when police broke down doors and handed Muslims over to bloodthirsty mobs), “the police are with us” has been the cry of the #RSS.

Now, as the @IrvingPD stands, submits to, and honors the HSS, it sends a chilling message to countless local Indian-American Christians, Dalits, Muslims, Sikhs, and others who know all too well the terror perpetrated by the #RSS.

Exactly which of “us” are the @IrvingPD with — the fascists or their victims?

We are — literally — dying to know.