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Blaming WhatsApp is easy, but it is the ideology that should be getting attacked here. I will bring in viewpoint relevant to Indian minorities here. They are un
by iamshs 8y ago
Blaming WhatsApp is easy, but it is the ideology that should be getting attacked here. I will bring in viewpoint relevant to Indian minorities here. They are under exceptional threat in India right now, and they don't have resources or means to counter the propaganda being rained on them. Current party ruling India, BJP, is beholden to a group with fascist ideologies, RSS [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. RSS views Muslims and Christians as aliens to India, and Islam as something which was brought to India by force, and christianity by forced conversions of missionaries. They want to root out these religions. Even more sinister is their outlook towards indigenous religions i.e. Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. They consider it to be their own branch. In short, anything not Hinduism is open to be eliminated. They have penetrated educational institutes, installed Deans in Universities and snubbed out dissidents and independent voices.
So much so that RSS held a conference in Chicago, World Hindu Congress, where RSS chief openly called Indian minorites as pests and dogs from outside who can destroy the lions (Hindus) [6]. This is the sweets box they gave to each and every participant [7]. They also pointed out how inter-faith marriages is a danger to Hindus [8]. This outright fascism was aired on US soil. This fascist organisation has patronage of ex-President of India too. Worse, they don't like Hindus having interfaith marriages, which is a way of saying don't marry Muslims.
Another is the incestous relationship between Twitter and WhatsApp. Blue tick marks on Twitter frequently air bigoted messages that they receive on WhatsApp. Worse, these messages are screenshotted and then spread back on WhatsApp, now they carry an air of authenticity because it was tweeted by a blue tick mark. It is destroying the very social fabric of India and very much a danger to minorities of India.
1. https://www.straight.com/news/877876/gurpreet-singh-racism-rss-and-narendra-modis-efforts-turn-india-hindu-nation https://www.straight.com/news/877876/gurpreet-singh-racism-r...
2. https://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1702/17020950.htm https://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1702/17020950.htm
3. https://www.ibtimes.com/hindu-nationalists-historical-links-nazism-fascism-214222 https://www.ibtimes.com/hindu-nationalists-historical-links-...
4. https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/02/23/rss-subramanian-swamy_n_9298948.html https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/02/23/rss-subramanian-swa...
5. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/hitlers-hindus-indias-nazi-loving-nationalists-on-the-rise-1.5628532 https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/hitlers-hindus-indias-nazi-l...
6. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/hindus-have-no-aspiration-of-dominance-mohan-bhagwat-5346350/ https://indianexpress.com/article/india/hindus-have-no-aspir...
7. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmqLjkFWwAEvmRZ.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmqLjkFWwAEvmRZ.jpg
8. https://thewire.in/communalism/world-hindu-congress-chicago-rss-vhp-hindu-unity/ https://thewire.in/communalism/world-hindu-congress-chicago-...
- quantummkv 8y agoI am sorry, but how is any political ideology is in any way relevant to the article? There was no political intention nor any minority/majority religion behind these lynchings.
- iamshs 8y agoThanks for your question. That political ideology started the lynching trend using WhatsApp as a misinformation medium. India witnessed widespread lynchings of people, mainly minorities, who were simply transporting cows, an animal considered holy by Hindus. So this modus operandi was used before, until it percolated further.