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India’s Muslims quiver in the new dawn of an emboldened Narendra Modi
The Guardian ^ | 5.26.2019 | Michael Safi

Posted on 05/26/2019 12:44:28 PM PDT by libh8er

Just after 1.30pm on Friday, the loudspeaker outside Sarai Alawardi mosque crackled to life, and more than a thousand foreheads were touched to the hessian mats that lined the ground. Towering over them were the skyscrapers of Gurgaon, a satellite town south of Delhi that houses technology companies, bowling alleys and other symbols of the “new India”.

A day after the Hindu nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi, claimed a landslide election victory, some in the congregation were anxious about whether this new country had a place for them. “These days, it isn’t safe for us here any more,” said Haji Shezhad Khan, the chairman of a local Muslim activist group, sitting in a shaded courtyard a few metres from the mosque.

For many Indian Muslims – whose population of about 200 million would comprise the seventh-largest country on earth – Modi’s emphatic re-election has been an isolating experience.

The country’s most acrimonious election campaign in recent history was studded with references to unauthorised migrants from Bangladesh as “termites”, the nomination to parliament of a Hindu accused of terrorism and a debate over whether Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin – who killed the founding father for supposedly cowing to Muslim demands – was in fact a patriot.

Despite this, or perhaps because of it, a record 270 million Indians cast their votes for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) or its allies.

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


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1 posted on 05/26/2019 12:44:28 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er
“These days, it isn’t safe for us here any more,”

Yes...you're the victims (extreme sarcasm).

2 posted on 05/26/2019 12:47:05 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: libh8er

Woo Hoo!!!!
Watching the election results reminded me of Bernie Shaw and Judy Woofwoof on election night back home!
About damn time!!!


3 posted on 05/26/2019 12:49:57 PM PDT by madrastex
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To: libh8er

Let them quiver.

In his speech, Modi said that he wants one India for all, and does not want religious hostilities to continue. But that depends...if the Muslims are still going to keep attacking the Hindus and Christians, that’s a different matter.

Most of the Hindu attacks on Christian preachers have actually had to do with the fact that the preachers (US Protestant soft-leftists) were attacking land ownership. In other words, they’d gotten involved in polítics.

Modi called on the Hindu “militants’ to rein it in, and I think he will enforce this on all extremists.


4 posted on 05/26/2019 12:53:00 PM PDT by livius
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To: libh8er

Move to Pakistan


5 posted on 05/26/2019 12:53:37 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

The Hindu Nationalists also target Christians. So this isn’t totally a good thing.


6 posted on 05/26/2019 1:00:18 PM PDT by Oldexpat (Jobs Not Mobs)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

They should all go to Pakistan or Bangla Desh. India would be a less vilent place.


7 posted on 05/26/2019 1:01:45 PM PDT by arthurus (ghj----MM)
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To: libh8er

They killed thousands of Americans, they still hate us and what do we do? We rolled out the red carpet and catered to them.

They should feel unsafe and uncomfortable here.


8 posted on 05/26/2019 1:09:05 PM PDT by umgud
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Awwwww. Poor liddle muzzlimes.

How do YOU like it, you subhuman fecal matter?

9 posted on 05/26/2019 1:11:29 PM PDT by EinNYC
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India was partitioned so that the Muslims would have their own country. Muslims have no place in India. The muzzies have got both Pakistan and Bangladesh. It's time to round 'em up, and move 'em out to their Muslim homelands.
 
10 posted on 05/26/2019 1:11:31 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (September 11, 2001 : Never forget, never forgive.)
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To: libh8er
From childhood, Modi was a member of the militant Hindu RSS - those guys are ready to Riot!


11 posted on 05/26/2019 1:13:01 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

bttt


12 posted on 05/26/2019 1:19:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Pakistan.


13 posted on 05/26/2019 1:23:27 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: libh8er

Get out, go to neighboring Pakistan, which was formed because you savages can’t live near humans without raping them and cutting their heads off.


14 posted on 05/26/2019 1:28:03 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
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To: madrastex

Hopefully the Europeans will follow suit with similar results in their elections today.


15 posted on 05/26/2019 1:30:26 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: libh8er

“Friction between Hindus and Muslims, as well as tension among sects within both faiths, has been a persistent feature of Indian life. But in the past five years violence against Muslims has increased, including at least 36 killings by “cow vigilantes” of cattle farmers and traders accused – usually spuriously – of harming the revered animals.”

Putting dogs and cats in the same cage doesn’t work out too well. Why people insist on doing that is beyond me.


16 posted on 05/26/2019 1:35:35 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: libh8er

Christians are being murdered by Hindu extremists, there. Are they part of his party, I wonder?


17 posted on 05/26/2019 1:41:26 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: I want the USA back

I sense that Kali is very angree at the muzzies and that she is about to release the thugee hordes.


18 posted on 05/26/2019 1:43:07 PM PDT by .44 Special (Tiamid Buarsh)
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To: libh8er

It is comforting to know that in some part of the World, there are Muslims that are uncomfortable being there. Lots of work to do here in the U.S.A.


19 posted on 05/26/2019 1:55:31 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: libh8er

I don’t suppose they’ve heard of this place called Pakistan.


20 posted on 05/26/2019 1:56:31 PM PDT by thecodont
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