There is now a fresh rot of pro-Hindutva groups on @Reddit, including a sub-Reddit titled “Muslimahs for Hindu Men,” "where Muslim women and children are sexualized in the most grotesque, dehumanizing and violent ways imaginable"
15k+ H men are enjoying this content
As we speak, there are open calls for the abduction and rape of Muslim women being seen and heard on @Reddit with vast gleeful participation of H men.
If this is not evidence of a thriving ecosystem, then what exactly is?
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This has a long history in our majority culture.
Savarkar justified rape as a legitimate political tool by Hindutva leaders
He urged Hindu men to treat Muslim women as “enemies” in his book Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History,
Vandana Shiva "noted in her 2003 book India Divided: Diversity and Democracy Under Attack, “Young boys have been taught to burn, rape and kill in the name of Hindutva.”
The 2002 Gujarat pogrom didnt just leave 2,000 Muslims dead. Thousands more were raped.
Update. Looks like the community has been quarantined. This still doesn't mean it's internally inactive though. Just can't add new members without invitations (I think)
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Widespread collective dissent by muslims in both political and cultural spheres is the only pathway towards guaranteeing their survival and dignity.
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We, the majority, must enable for them the cultural institutions, legal guarantees and protections of the public sphere to speak and organise without fear and hesitation by providing material and ideological support.
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We must remember that all this anti-minority violence is being done in our name, to make us feel safe & powerful.
So we must repeatedly and consistently undermine these narratives.
We can do this by deradicalising our own. By stopping the hate where it begins: at our homes.
Genocide Watch has declared a Genocide Emergency Alert for India today at Justice For All, which is an anti-genocide human rights organization.
This online briefing was attended by four hundred community and interfaith leaders from around the United States, Canada and other countries.
Prof Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, and developer of the 10 Stages of Genocide, reminded the audience that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “political base is the base that is held by the RSS… ”,
Women in patriarchal relationships have been brutalised for so long, there's a special term for it: Intimate Partner Violence (IVF).
1 in 3 women in India is likely to have been subjected to intimate partner violence
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Intimate partner violence involves abuse of a physical, emotional, or sexual nature.
And yet "only one in 10 of these women formally reports the offence to the police or healthcare professionals".
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Out of the 17 globally acknowledged Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), number five focuses on gender equality and the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls by 2030.
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In 2017, the Centre had opposed criminalizing marital rape, stating that the same will have the effect of destabilizing the institution of marriage.
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The reason why men legally get away from being legally prosecuted for rape within a marriage is an exception to Section 375 of IPC, "which exempts forceful sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife from the offence of rape, provided the wife is above 15 years of age."
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It is now the Petitioners' case that this same marital rape exception 'violates a woman's right to dignity, personal and sexual autonomy and her right to self-expression enshrined under the Constitution of India."
For me, M Kesavan's article wasnt just about UP elections. It was about how we as a people imagine ideas around freedom and security.
It was about how we choose to live and die under successive governments without anything fundamental changing.
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Why do our expectations from those who protect us have nothing to do (anymore) with demands for safety, public health and collective well being?
The idea that covid deaths are a natural phenomenon has a firm hold in public conciousness. It's isn't seen as a preventable collapse of a system. Because our media doesn't ask questions about what went wrong.