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India's treatment of Muslims amid coronavirus is almost 'genocidal,' activist Arundhati Roy claims
Deutsche Welle ^ | 04/17/2020 | John Silk

Posted on 04/18/2020 8:00:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Political activist Arundhati Roy accused the Indian government on Friday of exploiting the coronavirus outbreak to inflame tensions between Hindus and Muslims.

She told DW that this alleged strategy on the part of the Hindu nationalist government would “dovetail with this illness to create something which the world should really keep its eyes on,” adding that “the situation is approaching genocidal.” […]

Roy claimed the government was exploiting the virus in a tactic reminiscent of one used by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

“The whole of the organization, the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist group — Editor’s note] to which Modi belongs, which is the mother ship of the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party], has long said that India should be a Hindu nation. Its ideologues have likened the Muslims of India to the Jews of Germany. And if you look at the way in which they are using COVID, it was very much like typhus was used against the Jews to ghettoize them, to stigmatize them.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Religion
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; fakenews; genocide; humanrights; independence; india; rop
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Wow; way to undermine your credibility, Roy.


1 posted on 04/18/2020 8:00:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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...it was very much like typhus was used against the Jews to ghettoize them, to stigmatize them...

Nonsense. The Germans did not want typhus among the Jews or anyone else. Things like that tend to get out of control very quickly. And they wanted control. It was not used to ghettoize anyone. The ghettoization was for ideological reasons, The speaker let her desire for emotional impact invalidate her argument.

2 posted on 04/18/2020 8:09:39 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Muslims, making political war no matter what... accusing others of genocide is really scary projection. These fools get our medical treatment and would be dying without it

What a hateful bunch


3 posted on 04/18/2020 8:21:08 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Actually, the ghetto was also used by jews as confinement for their own health... their hygiene and separation avoided them death by the plagues.

That article is an absolute revision. It was the majority outside dying which persecuted jews accusing them of throwing a curse at them. The muslim who are “majoritist” conforming lemmings like socialists want to do the same


4 posted on 04/18/2020 8:25:07 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll

In India, both are extremely violent and hateful. Let’s not forget Hindus do the same things to Christians as they do to Muslims in India.


5 posted on 04/18/2020 8:26:11 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the parish country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Olog-hai

bkmk


6 posted on 04/18/2020 8:26:23 PM PDT by sauropod (Pelosi Galore: We know she's lying when we see her dentures flying. Have some cake, Peasant!)
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To: Olog-hai

India’s treatment of Christians, Sikhs, Dalits, Assamese, Bodos, Manipuris, Nagas, Tamils, and others is also genocidal.


7 posted on 04/18/2020 8:35:11 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Olog-hai

Good muzzie = dead muzzie


8 posted on 04/18/2020 8:49:06 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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Example #57,099 of why we should keep ALL of them out. We’re full!


9 posted on 04/18/2020 8:50:06 PM PDT by montag813
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To: 17th Miss Regt
None the less when the British liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April of 1945 there was a typhus epidemic raging through the camp. It necessitated the Brits to using earth moving equipment to dig mass graves and bury the hundreds of rotting corpses lying everywhere and burn down the infected barracks.

The Germans wouldn't have deliberately wanted disorder and disease in the camps but they certainly encouraged it, whether by accident or design through deliberate neglect and deliberate starvation of the inmates.

10 posted on 04/18/2020 8:55:36 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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Ghettoization was deliberate plan by the Germans to concentrate as many Jews as possible in as small an area as possible prior to their being deported to the death camps. If any of them became ill or starved to death , so much the better.They SS didn’t give damn about the health and hygiene of any Jew in the ghetto.


11 posted on 04/18/2020 8:59:16 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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I don’t recall when the Jews invaded Germany and killed 80 million native Germans.

Analogy fail!


12 posted on 04/18/2020 9:17:58 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: Olog-hai

Payback is a bitch.

L


13 posted on 04/18/2020 9:20:23 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Olog-hai

Its always fun to watch these people write articles without providing any proper context.

What passes for insightful these days is really unreadable.


14 posted on 04/18/2020 9:32:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

I have never seen a good looking feminist/leftist.


15 posted on 04/18/2020 10:01:45 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: TBP
India’s treatment of Christians, Sikhs, Dalits, Assamese, Bodos, Manipuris, Nagas, Tamils, and others is also genocidal.

A quick look at Wikipedia tells us that Christians are a majority in a couple of Indian states and form a sizable minority in several other Indian states. Wikipedia also says Sikhs also form a majority in an Indian state and have sizable populations in other states. The genocide India seems to be practicing on its minorities seems to be the same kind of genocide Leftists keep saying the US is practicing on its minorities - imaginary.
17 posted on 04/18/2020 10:46:56 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Send all the muslims over to Pakistan. That is what the muslims wanted in 1948 was their own country and it was given to them. Now they want India to.


18 posted on 04/19/2020 12:31:27 AM PDT by chopperk
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I am talking before WWIi, in the 18th and 19th century ghettos. This stuff had long been going on.


19 posted on 04/19/2020 6:02:49 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

India has murdered about a million Siksh since 1982, about 100,000 Kashmiri Muslims, thousands more Muslims in Gujarat, at least 100,000 Christians in Nagaland plus tens of thousands of other Christians around the country, and tens of thousands of Assamese, Bodos, Dalits, Manipuris, Tamils, and others.


20 posted on 04/20/2020 12:17:07 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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