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On March 31, a procession of a Hindu group celebrating Ram Navami vandalised a mosque and set it on fire in Biharsharif, Bihar. The violent mob targetted Muslims and Muslims properties and a Madarsa in the town. + The authorities in the district are repairing the mosque that was partially destroyed by the Hindutva mob. +

#Thread on anti-Muslim violence in the last 24 hours and how the anti-Muslim violence broke out across India in the name of the Shobha Yatra. The minor incidents that earlier used to happen have now turned into a considerable amount of arson and violence against Muslims.+ In the Muslim-dominated Kiradpura area of the old city in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, a group of youths on bikes shouted provocative slogans against Muslims, which led to an altercation with locals. The situation escalated into violence, with stone pelting and vehicle torching.+

On March 24, a controversy erupted at Supertech Ecociti in Noida Sector 137 over the offering of namaz. Residents allege that Taraweeh namaz was disrupted by 8–10 residents who belong to Bajrang dal. +++

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@MaktoobMedia According to a Muslim resident and lawyer of the society, they had permission from the Estate Manager to hold a religious gathering for 20 days, with prayers for 35-50 people daily from 8 pm-10 pm. However, on that day, around 30 people were present when 8-10 residents asked+

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On March 7, a Hindu mob of about two dozen people lynched a Muslim man in front of a mosque in Rasulpur, Chhapra. I travelled 1000 kilometres to cover this incident in Bihar. I've been in Chhapra and Siwan for the past three days. +

#Lynching #Bihar I attempted to speak with the SHO of the Rasulpur, Chhapra police station as well as the Chhapra SP, but neither responded. Today, the SP hung my call up twice, the third day after I called, stating that he was busy.

In this case, three people have been arrested, but no further+

On March 7, a group of Hindu nationalists brutally lynched 47-year-old Naseeb Qureshi in Chhapra, Bihar. The assailants claimed that the Muslim man was carrying beef. The deceased was from the Hasanpura, Siwan, and the incident happened in Rasulpur, Chhapra.
Photos @meerfaisal01+ Naseeb Qureshi was brutally beaten with sticks and sharp weapons, and Firoz Qureshi who was with Naseeb at that time managed to escape and went to the police station to ask about his uncle’s whereabouts. However, he was misbehaved with and asked to leave the police station. +

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A truck driver is attacked by members of the All India Gauraksha Mahasangh in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, on suspicion of smuggling cows. Another video of the incident shared on Instagram by Yash Pandit. +

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Just a week for Indian Muslims.

Burnt alive
Lynched to death
Houses razed
Killed in Police custody
Killed in police firing.
NIA raids
Attacked on residence of MP 1. Two Muslim men burnt to death in Haryana, "Bajrang Dal killed them" sasy family.

Nobody is doing a favour by covering a story, whether it's hate crime or other crime. As a journalist, it's our job to cover stories and highlight the wrong. However, there's a difference when a freelance journalist with a limited or no resources, and journalists who are + supported by bigger org cover it. A freelance journalist has no safety net around them, they cover their travel expenses, they have zero resources at hand, they are not paid by anyone. When a journalist with no backing brings out a story in public, they do it to highlight the+

Mohammed Khadeer Khan, 35, died on Thursday while receiving treatment at the Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad after being detained by the Medak Police on suspicion of theft. The 35-year-old had been subjected to third-degree custodial torture. #MuslimLivesMatter ? On January 29th, Mohd Khadeer Khan was apprehended by Medak Police in Hyderabad from Yakutpura as a suspect in a theft case. He was illegally detained for 5 days while being subjected to third-degree torture before being placed under house arrest without access to medical care.

Two Muslim men, Junaid and Nasir, were allegedly kidnapped from Ghatmika, Rajasthan two days ago by members of the Bajrang Dal on the pretext of cow slaughter. The locals attempted to file a FIR at the police stations in Pahadi and Gopalgarh, but the FIR was not filed. + Now, both of the youths' burned bodies have been found. According to the family, Monu Manesar (member of Bajrang Dal Haryana) killed them and set their bodies ablaze in the vehicle.

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I want to tell you guys something. I’m writing this so that no one gets to question me in the foreseeable future. I’ve been doing journalism for almost 3 years now. And have always tried to get you the stories that might not be reaching to you through the usual media channels. My work was been primarily focused on the atrocities of the Muslim community because that was the sole reason that

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On September 2, 2022, Dawood Ali Tyagi of Vinaipur village in Baghpat district of UP was lying outside his house at ten o'clock in the night. Suddenly, 6-7 bikes stopped. Armed Hindu youth got down and started attacking without saying anything. + In the next one and a half minutes, he was subjected to countless blows with shovels, sticks, and cycle chains. The cot turned red with blood.

According to eyewitnesses, "the attackers fled while firing and chanting Jai Shri Ram." Dawood's daughter Lubna, watching this scene +

A huge humanitarian crisis in Mewat, Haryana, where the stagnant water has created havoc for an already troubled Rohingya refugees.

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Last night, while offering Isha prayer at Bhura Kala village in Gurgaon, Hindutva goons from the same village attacked the worshipers inside the mosque while offering namaz, later they also attacked women outside the mosque. In which 4-5 people were injured. + "We have a small mosque, about which Hindu society has objected since 2013—that is why we have built a mosque. Every day we are threatened and asked to leave the village. When Muslims from other villages come to offer Namaz in this mosque, the Hindu community does not allow +

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On 10th of october in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, A crowd from Hindu community took out a religious procession on the occasion of Durga Puja. While passing by a mosque, the men from Muslim community asked the procession to lower the volume of the music played on loud + speakers. But the crowd refused. This sparked stone pelting and clashes.

According to eyewitnesses from the Muslim community. The Hindu crowd brandishing swords and sticks baged inside, vandalised the mosque and set it to the fire . twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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#SiwanViolence On Thursday during the Mahavir Akhara rally. Hundreds of armed Hindu men were caught on camera shouting Islamophobic slogans and playing obscene songs. The provocation led to a confrontation between the two groups. However, Muslims in the region suffered disproportionately. +

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After the gruesome murder of Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur today even those people have come out of their den who were not only silent but have even went on support the killing and glorify the killers of Akhlaq, Pehlu Khan, Junaid, and countless lynching of Muslim men in the+ name of cow, love j!had or sometime even just for being a Muslim. These are people who barrage into the premises of Court to support Shambhulal Regar, who took out a rally in the support of rapist, who've garland the killers of Akhlaq. And today these people even have an+

Visual from Ranchi. A boy was stuck after clash, watch how @HemantSorenJMM's police are throwing stones and firing bullets on him. Today Muslims were protesting against impudent comments on Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H by ex BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. In Ranchi, police opened fire on people protesting against Nupur Sharma, in which one person is reported to have died and 12 people are injured. Their treatment is going on in RIMS. #Ranchi

Violence broke out in #Kanpur during shutdown called by Muslim community protesting against @NupurSharmaBJP blasphemous comments against Prophet Muhammad SAW. When Muslim shopkeepers were closing their shops after Friday prayers, the Hindutva mob started pelting stones at them. "Chal B#osdi ke" You can hear the police saying to muslim boy in the video. At The same place hindutva mob are pelting stones on Muslim and the police is watching the spectacle in silence.

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In Madhya Pradesh’s #Khargone, anti-Muslim violence that emanated from Ram Navami processions on 10 April left a trail of destruction for the Muslim community.

Burnt by Hindutva mob and bulldozed by BJP govt; Muslim lives in Khargone. Photo story by @meerfaisal01 Rashida Bi’s house along with the houses of 21 Muslim families were razed to the ground in broad daylight by BJP controlled govt authorities in April 2020. This was followed an anti-Muslim violence unleashed by Hindutva groups against these Muslims during a Ram Navami possession

Mohammad Nadeem Shaikh, a 36-year-old resident of Gulshan Nagar, was sleeping in his residential house with his family when he heard his house being demolished. In the presence of many police officials and other functionaries, his house was being razed to the ground by a JCB.+ “Although we were extremely terrified, we dared to open the door to interrogate but the officers dragged me and my three brothers out of our home and started beating us ruthlessly. It was around 50 officers assaulting and streeling us around” said Nadeem, tearing up.+