Sunday, September 26, 2021

Why Are Indians Unhappy With Modi's Reception in Washington?

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Washington on September 23rd for a bilateral meeting with President Joseph R. Biden followed by a 4-nation summit involving Australia, India, Japan and the United States.  An unhappy meme of his visit went viral on social media as Mr. Modi wrapped up his visit to the United States. 

Modi Washington Visit Meme


It highlights four key complaints about how the Indian prime minister was treated by the White House:

1. President Biden did not receive Prime Minister Modi at the White House porch. This is in sharp contrast to the reception President Donald J. Trump gave Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan during the latter's visit in 2019. President Trump greeted Prime Minister Khan in the driveway as the latter emerged from his car. 


2. US media did not cover Modi's visit. (Pakistan's Imran Khan was on the Newsweek cover while Modi was in Washington). The media coverage Modi did receive in the US media was about lectures from the US leaders. 

3. Kamala Harris reminded Modi of the pressing need for real democracy in India. Here's an excerpts of the US Vice President's remarks released by the White House:  "Finally, as democracies around the world are under threat, it is imperative that we defend democratic principles and institutions within our respective countries and around the world and that we maintain what we must do to strengthen democracies at home. And it is incumbent on our nations to, of course, protect democracies in the best interest of the people of our countries". 

4. Joseph Biden lectured Modi on tolerance.  The President said to the Prime Minister: "As the world celebrates Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday next week, we’re all reminded that his message of non-violence, respect, tolerance matters today maybe more than it ever has". 

President Biden offered a back-handed compliment to the Indian media when he said at the White House: "The Indian press is much better behaved than the American press...And I think, with your permission, we should not answer questions because they won't ask any questions on point" . 

Biden may have said this to help Modi evade tough questions from the press that the Indian Prime Minister can not answer. He has never held an open press conference nor has he ever agreed to be interviewed by independent journalists. 

Here's a video clip of Biden's statement to the White House press corps before the beginning of the closed-door meeting with Mr. Modi:

https://youtu.be/scY3O3WM8Mg



Here's a video clip showing what Modi doesn't like about facing tough questions like why he didn't even express regret about massacre of Muslims in Gujarat:

 https://youtu.be/S5dkpUn5tNo





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16 comments:

samir sardana said...

The Chaiwala's Ponzi Scheme is over !

Biden has seen through this murderer and criminal,and Biden is the FIRST US PRESIDENT TO HAVE REALISED THAT THE INDIA HAS NO STRATEGIC DEPTH OR WORTH - Long after Nixon and Kissinger. Kissinger was not President and Nixon was in a different era - but then also,READING INDIA WAS EASY - and he read it right.

Thereafter,the mist took over, and Biden is the man who saw through the mist ! As Clear cow dung on white ceramic !

Making Obama drink cow urine is easy,and using Gujarati Banias,to cuddle up to Trump,was easier - but all these antics do not work on Biden !

From hereon,Biden's graph will move up - like the ascent of the Tesla shuttle !

The Magic is the Blackout from the US media,for Chaiwala - which is a lesson for the Indian Bania Media - who are supine slaves of Chaiwala ! dindooohindoo

The Epic Convergence of the US media,in relegating Chaiwala,into the rectum of oblivion,is an epochal turning point,for the Indian nation - as the sewer is long,deep and dark !

The End has Conmenced !

Raj said...

Modi went with his good friend Dolaan and endorsed him by saying this line: “Ab ki baar, Trump sarkar.” which means “This time it’s the turn of the Trump administration.”; in the election year.

Our PM should have no business in interfering with another country's democratic process. If Joe wasn't such a senile old man, Modi would probably get a much more severe scolding. Remember, Modi was banned in the US before he became PM, so he isn't exactly a favourite amongst the political elite.

Singh said...

Indian media has been doing a 'Veni vidi vici' circus since his visit to the US. If we are going to blow things out of proportion in one direction, we should be prepared to hear criticism as well. Apart from news channels no one is really bothered about UN meets any more. They achieve nothing except induce yawns.

Riaz Haq said...

#Hindu Mobs, anti-#Muslim Boycotts: In #Modi’s #India, the Echoes of 1930s #Nazi Germany Are Growing Louder. Real threat to India is from a radicalizing Hindu majority fueled by the increasingly brazen, violent anti-Muslim bigotry of Modi’s own #BJP party. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-for-muslims-in-modi-s-india-echoes-of-1930s-germany-are-growing-louder-1.10241729

by Debashish Roy Chowdhury

Atrocious hate crimes and speeches by these (Hindu) fundamentalist groups offer a daily reminder to the Muslims of the new social hierarchy in a changing India, where Muslims can at best hope to be second-class citizens.

It’s the new normal in the "New India," a term that Modi’s supporters use as shorthand for a golden era under an efficient and muscular Hindu leaderwho is ending corruption, bringing prosperity and showing Muslims their place in the Hindu-majority country.

When Modi bid for national power in 2014, he ran on a campaign of inclusive growth, with the slogan of "development for all." But overseeing an economy that has progressively worsened under him, Modi has returned to his core competence of divisive politics to maintain support in the face of the death and destruction as a result of his poor handling of COVID.

The core messaging that emanates these days from Hindu supremacists is that development is not possible for all because Muslims, who constitute 14 percent of the population, are eating up the fruits of progress that should accrue to the Hindus, who account for 80 percent. Quite literally. Recently, the chief minister of India’s biggest state, Uttar Pradesh, which has a population the size of Brazil, triggered a controversy when he blamed Muslims for cornering the government-subsidized food meant for all.


For Modi’s party, openly Islamophobic campaigns such as these help to avoid scrutiny and debate over governance and turn elections into a referendum for protecting the supposedly endangered majority. With the politically important Uttar Pradesh heading for elections in less than six months, the same strategy is at play again, only this time with an added twist and urgency.

Uttar Pradesh is a must-win state for Modi. It contributes the most seats to the Parliament and is the epicentre of the Hindu nationalist movement over a mosque that Hindu fanatics demolished in 1992, turning the BJP into a national political force from a fringe party. The BJP won the last election in the state in 2017 on the promise of building a Hindu temple at the site of the razed mosque. Modi inaugurated the temple in 2020, calling it a "symbol of [India’s] nationalism."

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs the groundbreaking ceremony of a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Ram, watched by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, right, in Ayodhya, last year

Riaz Haq said...

#Hindu Mobs, anti-#Muslim Boycotts: In #Modi’s #India, the Echoes of 1930s #Nazi Germany Are Growing Louder. Real threat to India is from a radicalizing Hindu majority fueled by the increasingly brazen, violent anti-Muslim bigotry of Modi’s own #BJP party. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-for-muslims-in-modi-s-india-echoes-of-1930s-germany-are-growing-louder-1.10241729

by Debashish Roy Chowdhury

Anything short of a convincing victory in Uttar Pradesh will jeopardize Modi’s dream march. Be it the COVID catastrophe, the farmers’ protests or the crashing economy, Modi has so far weathered it all.

But the slightest sign of cracks in Uttar Pradesh will undo the carefully crafted image of invincibility, built in large measure by a combination of docile media coverage, ruthless use of force, surveillance and intimidation against dissenters and a steady drip of ever more audacious levels of bigotry that act to both distract and divide voters.

With not much to show for its last five years in the state, the memories of COVID losses and hardships still raw, and an intensifying farmers’ protest that threatens splits in its captive Hindu voter base, the BJP is left with no choice but to escalate its campaign of hate. Accordingly, radical supremacists calling for genocide are becoming increasingly common. Videos of small groups of self-appointed saviors of Hinduism tormenting lone Muslims are showing up on social media more often than before.

Many of these attacks are now aimed at driving Muslims out of their livelihoods and businesses. While Modi waxes eloquent on global forums on the need for "rational thinking" to counter radicalization, Hindu fanatics linked to his party have been warning salons and shops against hiring Muslim men.

A group of Hindu men set upon a Muslim bangle seller in the northern city of Indore last month. They did not take kindly to him interacting with Hindu women.

The bangle seller was guilty of just the kind of "dangerous" encounter a prominent supremacist leader connected to the BJP (whose self-declared mission is to "remove Muslims from the face of Earth") has been warning of – Muslim vendors, plumbers and electricians visiting Hindu homes and gaining proximity to the women of the household while the men are away at work.

Ahmed said...


Dear Sir

Thanks for sharing this information, Sir I even asked Indians the same question on youtube . I asked them that why didn't PM Modi this time recieve grand welcome and reception when his plane landed at the airport of Washington DC? The Indians replied by saying that:
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"BECAUSE HE WAS NOT GOING TO AMERICA PERTICULARLY AS A PM OF INDIA TO HAVE ONE ON ONE MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN BUT HE WAS GOING THEIR TO ATTEND QUAD SUMMIT AND IN THIS QUAD SUMMIT NOT JUST PM MODI WAS THEIR TO REPRESENT INDIA BUT THEIR WERE PMs AND PRESIDENTS OF OTHER COUNTRIES LIKE JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA WHO ALSO VISITED WASHINGTON DC TO ATTEND THIS QUAD SUMMIT".
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Sir is it true that even PM of Australia and Japan didn't recieve this level of reception and welcome when their plane landed in America?

Can you pls throw some light on this?

Thanks

Ahmed said...


Dear Sir

I also have another important question, PM Modi after arriving in Washington D.C 1st met Vice President Kamala Harris and after this meeting Indian media outlets and Indian media centers have been saying that "VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS HAS CRITICISED PAKISTAN FOR SPONSORING TERRORISM IN INDIA".

Sir can you pls also throw some light on this? Has Kamala Harris really blamed or criticised Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism?

Thanks

Riaz Haq said...

#Modi #Bhakts making up #fakenews to spin failed visit. New York Times didn’t feature Modi on front page or call him ‘last hope’. Image is fake. In fact, the 26 September front page of the newspaper did not feature any story on PM Modi. https://theprint.in/hoaxposed/new-york-times-didnt-feature-modi-on-front-page-or-call-him-last-hope-image-is-fake/741036/ via @ThePrintIndia

A screenshot of what looks like the front page of the US daily The New York Times, featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been doing the rounds on social media and WhatsApp groups.

The screenshot features a large photograph of PM Modi along with the headline “Last, Best Hope of Earth” and the strap “World’s most loved and most powerful leader is here to bless us”, referring to Modi’s US visit on 24-25 September. The edition is dated 26 September 2021.

The image of the purported NYT front page was circulated en masse on Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp group chats, with messages like “Proud of my PM” accompanying it.

National general secretary of the BJP Youth Wing, Rohit Chahal, who has over 76,000 followers, also retweeted the screenshot posted by another user.

One WhatsApp forward of the photograph states: “Modi ji on the frontpage of the United States’ biggest newspaper. What could be a greater matter of pride than this?”

Fact check
The screenshot in circulation, however, is not the front page of The New York Times. In fact, the 26 September front page of the newspaper did not feature any story on PM Modi.

Furthermore, none of the social media posts provided an accompanying URL that linked to the newspaper page.

A closer look at the screenshot itself, as well as the pattern of social media posts, also reveals that the image is morphed.

The font style of the headline in the screenshot does not match the NYT stylesheet, which proves that the image has been altered. The date of the story also features a typo — 26 “Setpember” instead of 26 September.

The image of PM Modi used in the fake front page appears to have been taken from a Zee News story published last month, titled, “PM Modi to chair UNSC high-level open debate on enhancing maritime security.”

Riaz Haq said...

Ahmad: "Sir can you pls also throw some light on this? Has Kamala Harris really blamed or criticised Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism?"

You should do your own research. Please don't believe Indian sources. They have lost all credibility, especially on anything related to Pakistan.

Please read the following White House release on Harris-Modi meeting. It makes no mention of Pakistan or terrorism:


https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/09/23/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-and-prime-minister-modi-of-the-republic-of-india-before-bilateral-meeting/

It does quote Kamala Harris lecturing Modi on democracy:

Finally, as democracies around the world are under threat, it is imperative that we defend democratic principles and institutions within our respective countries and around the world and that we maintain what we must do to strengthen democracies at home. And it is incumbent on our nations to, of course, protect democracies in the best interest of the people of our countries.

And, Mr. Prime Minister, I look forward to discussing how our nations can continue to best work together to strengthen our relationship around our mutual concerns, around the challenges we face, but the opportunities that those challenges also present.

I know from personal experience and from my family of the commitment of the Indian people to democracy and to freedom and to the work that may be done and can be done to imagine and then actually achieve our vision for democratic principles and institutions.

Riaz Haq said...

What the likes of Republic TV & Zee News won’t tell you. Modi’s visit was presented as a major world event by #Indian media & huge success but there was barely any mention of #Modi's visit in #US #media except as footnote under #QuadSummit. #GodiMedia https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/09/27/pm-modis-us-visit-what-the-likes-of-republic-tv-zee-news-wont-tell-you

A major world event and a huge success — but only by the Indian media for their audience back home.

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The media reactions to the visit and its aftermath followed the usual playbook. Republic TV made it sound like Modi was the only foreign dignitary to speak at the UNGA. Zee News ran with silly stories of “Josh high in Washington,” and breathless accounts of a grand welcome home. Aaj Tak was keen to emphasise how this trip had many firsts. Times Now presented it as a pivotal geopolitical moment.

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Some things do not change. Even in 2019, PM Modi’s visit was presented as a major world event and a huge success but only by the Indian media for their audience back home, but it barely registered as a footnote in the US media. Then too, as Shoaib Danyal put it, “jingoism took precedence over factual reporting about the UN session”. There was barely a mention of the Modi visit in the US media save a brief mention in the context of the QUAD meeting, much to the surprise of Aaj Tak anchor Anjana Om Kashyap who tried flicking through a selection of US papers on air to spot coverage of the Modi visit.

Indeed very few Indian media outlets, if any at all, took the trouble to research what the 76th UNGA was about, and what the stand was of the other world leaders who also addressed the General Assembly. A cursory search on Google would have led even a rookie journalist to a wealth of information about the agenda, background papers, and issues before the UN.

Instead they focused exclusively and breathlessly on the 20-minute long address by PM Modi on September 25. The speech itself was as might have been expected. It sounded like a robust and combative defense of the Indian Government’s record in office in the last seven years; set against a backdrop of statements about India as an ancient democratic civilisation that inherently valued diversity, individual freedom, development, trade, openness and peace.

There was the obligatory reference to terrorism, of course, and how a certain neighbour sought to rely on terrorism rather than development to further its political aims.

Speaking in Hindi with instantaneous translation by the UN team into several languages, Modi’s speech at the UN was not the eagerly anticipated address that Indian media channels would have you believe. It was left to social media and Twitter handles to point out the preponderance of vacant seats in the assembly Hall

In the final analysis, it depends very much on the newspaper you read or the TV news you watch to get a feel for how important or influential the Indian PM’s visit to the US was. Perhaps, the truth is somewhere between the breathless fawning coverage of the TV channels that are beholden to the Government for its largesse and the somewhat cynical view expressed in this tweet thread.

Such visits by the head of the country’s government to gatherings of major world leaders are important and necessary, even if not essential — because not to make the effort to travel and be seen would be an own goal. But part of the magic is to manage expectations, say the right things at the right time, but to do so in an understated manner that does not make the audience cynical. But perhaps the most important thing is to be accessible to the world’s press.

This visit to the United States was the 6th by Mr Modi. And while there were many ‘firsts’ that his supporters claimed for it, regrettably it was not the first foreign trip in which the Indian Prime Minister gave a press conference.

samir sardana said...

This is the premonition of Doom for Chaiwala,son of Ayah !

Post Afghanistan - Biden has turned his back on India,and Chaiwala !

It is a green signal to Chairman Xi and Taliban,to enter India via Ladakh,AP,Bhutan and Kashmir !

But that is not all !

The ICING IS,OIL prices ! OPEC has refused TO INCREASE OUTPUT - US CANNOT INCREASE output, success of Taliban is a threat to all OPEC nations,US has pulled out and will also scale DOWN troops in OPEC and US IS NOT HARD ON THE PERSIANS (THE ENEMIES OF THE HOUSE OF SAUD!)

OPEC is USING OIL AS a weapon with a new US President and RISING INFLATION ! The world has forgotten EVERGRANDE ! US Fed will see this as the clarion call - which is bad news for US Industry !

In this OIL market - IF PRC ENTERS INDIA AND TALIBAN,IN KASHMIR - then we will HAVE FUN !

Indians CANNOT TAKE ANY MORE OIL HIKES !

AND THEN COMETH WINTER ! dindooohindoo

IF THE VAX FAILED IN ISRAEL - IT WILL FAIL IN INDIA ALSO - AT THE TIME OF THE 2ND SHOT !

DOOM IS NIGH !
CHAIWALA = BAE BAE !

Riaz Haq said...

Ganging up on #China ‘is doomed to fail’, #Beijing’s ambassador tells #India. At #QuadSummit last week, leaders of #US, #Australia , #Japan and India repeated their commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region “undaunted by coercion” #Modi #Biden
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3150762/ganging-china-doomed-fail-beijings-ambassador-tells-india

India should maintain “strategic autonomy” instead of joining any exclusive alliances against its neighbour, Beijing’s top envoy in New Delhi said, days after leaders of the Quad gathered in Washington for their first in-person summit, with Beijing a veiled target.
Without naming the US-led Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or its members, Sun Weidong said any attempts to “gang up for containing and suppressing China” would “be doomed to fail”.

“It is worth noting that a few countries are going against the trend,” Sun told more than 100 representatives from business, culture and academic communities in India during a virtual meeting on Wednesday.

“Out of selfishness, they hold a zero-sum cold war mentality, vigorously seek closed and exclusive ideological ‘small cliques’ and military alliances targeting a third party, stoke arms races, tension, division and bloc confrontation, turn the Asia-Pacific into an arena of major powers’ game and destabilise the world,” he said, according to a transcript published on the embassy’s website.
“These activities will find no support and lead nowhere.”

India should “maintain its strategic autonomy and refrain from joining closed and exclusive ‘alliances’ or ‘quasi-alliances’ against each other”, Sun said.
During the summit in Washington last week, the four leaders of the United States, Australia, Japan and India repeated their commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region “undaunted by coercion”, a thinly veiled criticism of China.
“We stand for the rule of law, freedom of navigation and overflight, peaceful resolution of disputes, democratic values and territorial integrity of states,” the Quad leaders said in a joint statement after the summit.
Beijing is deeply concerned about “cliques” that it sees as part of Washington’s strategy to contain China’s growing influence in the region.

Relations between India and China have worsened since June last year when Chinese and Indian troops engaged in a deadly hand-to-hand skirmish on their disputed border in the western Himalayas. At least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers died in the clashes, the deadliest in decades. Little progress has been made since the two militaries started negotiations – with the latest round in August – and a stand-off continues.
There have been reports that the two sides have been stepping up military build-up along the disputed borders, fuelling fears they could clash again before winter.

On Wednesday, Sun said that although it was normal for the two countries to have differences, they should manage disputes and move towards stability together.
“We should place the border issues in the right place in bilateral relations and seek a fair and reasonable and mutually acceptable solution through equal consultation,” Sun said.
He called for further efforts to boost cooperation on the pandemic fight, energy security and climate change as well as bilateral trade, which reached US$78.5 billion in the first eight months of the year, up 52 per cent compared with the same period last year.

Riaz Haq said...

Is #India Headed for Anti-Muslim Genocide? #Modi’s #BJP has created a deep sense of #Hindu victimhood, stoking the othering of #Muslims via #disinformation, #hatespeech, silencing progressives, and empowering Hindu supremacist vigilante groups. #HIndutva https://time.com/6103284/india-hindu-supremacy-extremism-genocide-bjp-modi/


Indian leaders love to talk up Mahatma Gandhi when they travel abroad. It plays well to the popular notion of India as a land of peace and love, and boosts its moral authority as a responsible democracy on the world stage. So, Gandhi and his ideas came up a lot as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stepped out of India recently for the first time in about one and a half years.

Meeting Modi at the White House on Sept. 24, President Joe Biden said Gandhi’s “message of non-violence, respect, and tolerance matters today maybe more than it ever has.” In his own speech to the United Nations, Modi rued that “the world faces the threat of regressive thinking and extremism,” and underlined his country’s democratic credentials. To reinforce his point, he even coined a new sobriquet for India: “the mother of all democracies.”

No one knows what that means, least of all one Indian mother still trying to make sense of the death of her 12-year-old boy. He was felled by a stray police bullet in the northeastern state of Assam at the same time as Modi was pontificating in America.


“They killed my son,” a dazed Hasina Bano kept repeating between sobs when journalists visited her at a remote village on the banks of the Brahmaputra river. The boy, Sheikh Farid, was hit when police opened fire at Bengali Muslim villagers protesting the forced eviction from their land that the government now wants to give to Assamese Hindus, whom it calls the “indigenous community.” Ironically, moments before Farid died, he had collected from the post office a national biometric identification card establishing his own indigeneity.

The death of a child in such a manner should be the stuff of national disgrace. But the same eviction drive resulted in even more horror when a neighbor of Farid charged at the police with a stick, in a blind rage after they dismantled his home along with those of 5,000 others. The heavily armed policemen, who far outnumbered Moinul Hoque and could have easily subdued him, instead shot him dead at point blank range.

It was all captured on a widely circulated video [Warning: Graphic and distressing scenes]. The images show police raining baton blows on him even as he collapsed, taking turns with Bijoy Baniya, a Hindu photographer accompanying the police team. As Hoque’s life ebbs away, Baniya fiendishly jumps and stomps on his motionless body in an “act of performative depravity.”

Baniya is merely the latest face of India’s state-driven Hindu radicalization. In a country where 84% of the population is Hindu, and just 14% Muslim, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has achieved the astonishing feat of creating a deep sense of Hindu victimhood, stoking the othering of Muslims via disinformation, hate speech, opening old religious wounds, manipulating a servile media, silencing progressive voices, and empowering Hindu supremacist vigilante groups. “Hindu khatre mein hain” (Hindus are in danger) is a right-wing refrain that resonates deeply today.


As a result, many Hindus have now been persuaded to believe that India’s biggest problem is its Muslims. Before Modi took over in 2014, most citizens thought their chief concerns were poverty, insufficient economic growth and corruption. He rode to power on the promise to fix all that. But as the economy has continued to worsen, and unemployment and poverty have risen under him, the BJP has increasingly fallen back on supremacist politics to deflect attention and evade responsibility. To keep winning elections, it needs to keep polarizing Hindu voters against Muslims, and spinning ever more outrageous campaigns to demonize Muslims.

Riaz Haq said...

Is #India Headed for Anti-Muslim Genocide? #Modi’s #BJP has created a deep sense of #Hindu victimhood, stoking the othering of #Muslims via #disinformation, #hatespeech, silencing progressives, and empowering Hindu supremacist vigilante groups. #HIndutva https://time.com/6103284/india-hindu-supremacy-extremism-genocide-bjp-modi/

Muslims apparently lust after Hindu women, procreating rapidly with the aim of overtaking the Hindu population and establishing an Islamic state, and necessitating new laws against “love jihad.” Similar regulations against religious conversions and the slaughter of cows, which are sacred to Hindus, have encouraged vigilantism. Muslim hawkers and workers have come under increasing attack from Hindu supremacist groups calling for a boycott of Muslim businesses.

Indian social media today is filled with videos of self-appointed protectors of Hinduism calling for the lynching of Muslims—an act so common that it hardly makes news anymore. High-profile Hindu supremacists are seldom booked for hate speech. Muslims routinely face random attacks for such “crimes” as transporting cattle or being in the company of Hindu women. Sometimes, the provocation is simply that somebody is visibly Muslim. As Modi himself has told election rallies, people “creating violence” can be “identified by their clothes.”

The persecution of Muslims in Assam is just the beginning
But Baniya’s malevolence has a history longer than India’s descent into the abyss of hate. Assam, the setting for his ghoulish death dance on the body of a Muslim, is where this construct of the Muslim as the unwanted, dangerous outsider has been honed and mainstreamed. The fear of being overrun by “outsiders” has almost been genetically encoded there over centuries, dating back to the time the British started clearing the state’s lush forests for tea and other plantations. The clearances triggered the inward migration of Bengali peasants from densely populated adjoining regions in search of easily obtainable fertile lands.

Much to the discontent of the ethnic Assamese, the migrations have continued in recent decades as a result of the violent partition of the subcontinent, economic hardship, political instability and wars in what is now known as Bangladesh. Climate-related factors have also driven a steady exodus out of flood-prone, deltaic Bangladesh into Assam.

With the rise of Modi, historical Assamese resentment towards non-Assamese speakers has mixed with the politics of Hindu nationalism in a dangerous brew of xenophobia and patriotism. Stomping on a Muslim corpse now has a gloss of patriotic righteousness to it, which is why it is flaunted on camera. Bigotry is now a badge of honor. In his head, Baniya was protecting India and policemen are seen hugging him in the video after Hoque’s death. His behavior says much about the way Modi has weaponized history and valorized and incentivized hate.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally for the West Bengal Assembly Election on April 12, 2021 in the North 24 Parganas district, India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally for the West Bengal Assembly Election on April 12, 2021 in the North 24 Parganas district, India. Samir Jana/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Assam is Modi’s grand laboratory, where he is putting Muslims to the litmus test of a citizen verification drive—separating the trueborn from the chaff—before taking it national. The BJP says it simply wants India to be rid of “Bangladeshi migrants”, but it uses it as a code for Indian Muslims. Nearly two million people have been disenfranchised in the state, with no clarity as to what is to happen to them. The closest regional parallel to such large-scale, government-dictated statelessness in recent times was the 1982 mass disenfranchisement of the Rohingya in Myanmar, before the massacres and exodus years later.

samir sardana said...

Like I said in my post September 28, 2021 at 7:27 AM

"It is a green signal to Chairman Xi and Taliban,to enter India via Ladakh,AP,Bhutan and Kashmir !"

And then the PLA has taken its land in Arunachal on the 8th of October,2021

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/india-foils-chinese-incursion-bid-in-arunachal-sector-engagement-lasted-for-few-hours-report/videoshow/86857568.cms

THE NEWS OF THE LAND TAKEN OVER BY PLA, WILL COME IN LATER ! THE INDIAN WIMPS HAVE SUPPRESSED IT !

THE MESSAGE WAS SENT BY CHAIRMAN XI,IN JUNE - BUT THE INDIAN DODOS MISSED IT !

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/chinese-president-xi-praises-plas-model-border-battalion-in-tibet/article36437179.ece

OIL AT 80 USD - HEADING TO 100
COVID VAX - WANING IMMUNIY AND WINTER COMING
COAL PRICES UP
INDIA HAS 4 DAYS OF COAL

TIME FOR PLA TO CLOSE IN,ON THE KILL !

THE TYPICAL MONGOL TRAITS OF GENGHIS KHAN !

NO MERCY !

IT IS BAE BAE TO ARUNACHAL,NORTH EAST,BHUTAN,LADAKH,KASHMIR,JOSHI MUTT,OTHER HINDOO SHRINES AND PARTS OF UTTARAKHAND !

WHAT CAN THE HINDOO BINDOO WEASELS DO - EXCEPT FALL IN THE LAP OF UNCLE JOE - LIKE LAPDOGS!

WHO WILL FIGHT PLA,IN UTTARAKHAND - THE WEASEL GADWALIS (LIKE AJIT DOVAL),RAJ POO TS, NEPALI TOILET CLEANERS ?

It is the END ! dindooohindoo



samir sardana said...

Like I said in my post dated October 8, 2021 at 3:08 PM,as under :

WHO WILL FIGHT PLA,IN UTTARAKHAND - THE WEASEL GADWALIS (LIKE AJIT DOVAL),RAJ POO TS, NEPALI TOILET CLEANERS ?

AFTER THAT,THE INDIAN MONKEY LAND ARMED FORCES,HAVE LOST 10 SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS,IN KASHMIR - AND THE FUN,HAS JUST BEGUN ! dindooohindoo

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/11/kashmir-suspected-rebels-five-indian-soldiers

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/two-soldiers-killed-in-j-k-s-poonch-101634278797906.html

https://jsnewstimes.com/utk/uttarakhand-news-bad-news-for-the-state-subedar-injured-in-encounter-with-terrorists-in-jammu-and-kashmir-missing

Like I said in my post above,3 ARE GADWALI BABAS ! JUST LIKE AJOT DOVAL ! These midget limpet weasel Indians - surviving, as Churchill said, by their sheer and mere pullulation !

And there are many more WAITING AND WANTING TO DIE,FOR THEIR HINDOOSTHAN ! It is a Mad Suicide Cult !

SURELY THE KASHMIRI AND TALIBAN MUJAHIDS,WILL FULFIL THEIR DESIRES - AT THE SOONEST !

LET US MAKE HASTE !