{Indian PM } Modi’s Campaign of Fear and Prejudice {against Muslims}

The New York Times ^ | 17 April 2019 | Hartosh Singh Bal

[Cronos]

India’s prime minister is seeking re-election by stoking fear among the Hindu majority of the potential dangers posed by the country’s Muslims and Pakistan.

Members of the United Hindu Front at a protest last August in New Delhi demanded the deportation of Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims

...Mr. Modi is seeking votes by doing what he does best: raising and stoking fear among the Hindu majority of the potential dangers posed by the presence of a large Muslim minority in India.

..Since he first consolidated power and built his political capital on the back of religious violence against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 under his watch as chief minister, Mr. Modi has mastered the art of linking the threat of terrorism, Muslims and Pakistan. His strategy has worked in every election he has deployed it in.

...The Hindu nationalists frame the “threat” posed by the Muslim minority by associating them with Pakistan and by raising the specter of an increased Muslim population with illegal immigration of Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, who are described as “infiltrators.”

This fear of immigrants is the staple of right-wing populists from President Trump to Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary. But nowhere is the fear more imaginary than in India, where the Hindu majority of 965 million dwarfs the Muslim minority of about 170 million, and where the two communities have lived together for over 1,000 years. But for a man with Mr. Modi’s rhetorical skill, facts are easy to set aside.

[AnalogReigns]

Given the historic genocides done by Muslims of Hindus, not misplaced or exaggerated fears at all.

[9422WMR]

I’m guessing this is call center indians and not casino indians.😉

[Salvey]

He’s right.

[Black Agnes]

IIRC the muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent cost 100M lives.

Sounds like a peaceful religious conversion, doesn’t it?

[Black Agnes]

“where the two communities have lived together for over 1,000 years”

But not peacefully. Hence ‘partition’.

[Lurkinanloomin]

As if muslims pose no danger........

[machira]

This is the history of Islamic conquest in India that NYT will never publish

Will Durant (1885-1981) the well-known American historian would like the West to learn from India, tolerance and gentleness and love for all living things.

He says in the book The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage page 459:

“...the Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within.” Almost all the Muslims of South Asia are descendants of weaker elements of the population who had succumbed to forcible Islamic conversion.” )
. The Islamic historians and scholars have recorded with great glee and pride of the slaughters of Hindus, forced conversions, abduction of Hindu women and children to slave markets and the destruction of temples carried out by the warriors of Islam during 800 AD to 1700 AD. Millions of Hindus were converted to Islam by sword during this period.

Karl Marx (1818-1883), the grandfather ideologue of Communists worldwide. In his article titled “Declaration of War— On the History of the Eastern Question” published in the New York Tribune of April 15, 1854, he observed that:

“The Koran and the Mussulman legislation emanating from it reduce the geography and ethnography of the various people to the simple and convenient distinction of two nations and of two countries; those of the Faithful and of the Infidels. The Infidel is ‘harby’, i.e. the enemy. Islamism proscribes the nation of the Infidels, constituting a state of permanent hostility between the Mussulman and the unbeliever. In that sense the corsair-ships of the Berber States were the holy fleet of Islam…

[Maris Crane]

Oh yeah, muslims are not to be feared.

Only thing is...they already took a piece of India and made it Pakistan. Now, how did they do that...peacefully?

Predictable new York times BS.

They never saw a situation where one side was right and one side was wrong...that they didn’t choose the WRONG SIDE.

[Black Agnes]

All true.

[hanamizu]

Over 200 million muslims live in India (appx 15% of total pop.) and 2-4 million Hindus live in Pakistan (2%). So we can see which nation is more tolerant. Number of Muslims who live in Israel: 18%. Number of Jews in Gaza: 0%, Number of Jews in Saudi Arabia: 0, number of Jews in Jordan: 0. Hmm. Looks like a pattern is developing here. The alarming prejudice doesn’t seem to be agains muslims, but another group.