No grandstanding here but I believe that most commentators don't really know about the core of the #SulliDeals problem. There are thousands of quite educated (mostly UC H) accounts who think that Modi is not anti-Muslim enough.
They're called TRADS. HAVE A PEAK INTO THEIR FILTH.
The other side is Raita (not so brazenly vicious but more cunning and opportunistic). At this point in our history, there are thousands of well read and articulate young TRADS who glorify Godse, Dara Singh and Babu Bajrangi as heroes. They're extremely radicalized. Introspect?
So, a TRAD may agree with say a Togadia or Narsinghanand on violence but they would never agree on Dalits being treated same as Brahmins. This is how many young and educated Upper caste kids in the TRAD ecosystem think. There are even many RW accounts (Raitas) who oppose them.
It is good learning exercise for journalists. If you have alt-accounts then you must follow TRADS, thousands of them. You'll get a peak into a parallel dark India.
Raitas are celebrating a trad being arrested. Sharing screenshots for those who won't go into the nuances of RW radicalization.
Trads get support, RT, likes from jeπks like Ajeet Bharti who would pick up arguments of young cπiminals like Krunal Patel or Ritesh Jha to retrospectively justify their fiIth. Certain former IAS/ IPS officers engage with trads too. Trads use words like “Dhim'mi” to abμse Raitas.
Trads generally use this DPs like angry pics of Lord Ram and Parshuram or the viral Chad man meme. They present UC Hindus as a race whose blood is purest. That there are thousands and thousands of extremely privileged young Indian UC Hindus who believe this, is chilling.
Trads literally celebrate this:
Trads openly promote casteism and discrimination
Casteist and proud misogynists
Trads are more dangerous than the rest of RW for 2 reasons:
1) They're often well educated and violent anarchist lonewolves.
2) We have seen what radicalized keyboard warriors in Syria and Iraq went on to do. Even some people from the West joined their online movement.
This may seem to be a vile and criminal meme world right now but the kind of country India has become for its minorities, it will have serious consequences in the future. This is loose ecosystem of criminal madness.
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I've been following the news from Uttarakhand. What allegedly started as a local campaign against a “Love Jihad" case in Purola is now a protest to evict minorities.
Hindutva leaders (Haridwar Dharam Sansad ones) have given the slogan, “Jih@di bhagao, Devbhoomi bachao.”
TOI report on the seriousness of the situation.
Should the police not act equally swiftly against those who want to evict minorities?
Fifty-four-year old Zakir Hussain’s life suddenly turned upside down when he learnt that his son Salim had been abducted by masked assailants from his residence in Abu Dhabi four years ago, on July 21, 2019. @DrSJaishankar
The next six months marked the beginning of the most testing pursuit of Hussain’s life.
Fast forward four years, all he knows is that Salim is in a UAE prison. What are the accusations? He doesn’t know.
For over three decades, Hussain has worked as a driver at the office of the British High Commissioner in New Delhi. He told TheWire that when he moved to Delhi from Hyderabad, the sole aim of his life was to toil hard enough to provide the best education to his children.
हल्द्वानी पर कई लीगल एक्सपर्ट्स ने काफ़ी अच्छे अंग्रेज़ी लेख लिखे हैं। उनकी ही कुछ बातों को
हिंदी में लिख रहा हूं क्योंकि हिंदी के पाठक तक वो सब बातें शायद नहीं पहुंचेंगी।
हल्द्वानी की गफूर बस्ती को उजाड़ने पर कई दलीले दी जा रही हैं। जो इसके पक्ष में हैं वो मुख्यधारा के मीडिया पर दी जा रही लैंड जिहाद जैसी ओछी राजनीतिक दलील को ही सही मानेंगे।
बाक़ी लोग पढ़ना जारी रखें।
एक सरसरी रीडिंग पर भी कोर्ट का यह ऑर्डर काफ़ी संकुचित दिखता है। इसमें हज़ारों गरीबों से किसी प्रकार की हमदर्दी नहीं झलकती हैं। मसलन लोगों को केवल “इंक्रोचर” और कुछ जगहों पर “वोट बैंक” की तरह संबोधित किया जाना भोंडा और क्रूर है। यह शब्दावली किस विचारधारा की उपज है, आप जानते हैं।
Compare Shahrukh's statement on religious intolerance from 2015 to his recent statement. There is consistency in what he's saying. However, he's more careful with his words right now.
There is a reason for that. 1/n Thread
Some progressive commentators who have pointed out that Shahrukh's silence has enabled hate must acknowledge that when SRK said what he prophetically said in 2015, they were still in awe of Mr Modi. In fact they even criticised people for not giving him enough time.
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You won't find any old tweets of SRK (or any influential progressive Muslim celeb) from 2012 or 13 cheering the BJP. There is enough stuff for introspection here. It's easy to delete old views but you can't undo how this optimism has influenced the course of politics in India.
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SIT investigated the case and found out that when it's a fake case. AS PER THE POLICE, the real cause of dispute is a property worth more than ₹ 50 lakhs.
A detailed statement by the police has punctured the whole bogey of #LoveJihad in this case
Haridwar Dharam Sansad seer Anand Swaroop, who threatened 1857 like war against Indian state, has released a preamble for the Hindu Rashtra. In the next one year, he says, the new constitution shall be released and implemented.
Sharing below the excerpts of the document. 1/n
Key highlights:
No voting rights for Muslims and Christians
One man to lead the state.
543 member Dharam Sansad in place of the existing parliament