New Delhi, August 28, 2023 (PPI-OT): Hinting at possible holocaust of the Muslim community in India, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and member of Indian lower house of parliament, Lok Sabha, from Hyderabad, Asaduddin Owaisi, has described the present situation of Indian Muslims as similar to that of Jews in Germany in the 1930s.
Sharing a Nazi Germany photo posted by a user on X platform (formerly Twitter), Owaisi said, “Indian Muslims are facing the same persecution and discrimination as Jews faced in the 1930s, will it lead to Kristallnacht? Hope not,” he wrote on a picture of two Jewish boys being humiliated in a German classroom in the 1930s, media reports said.
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom was a mass homicide against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party throughout Nazi Germany on 9-10 November 1938. Owaisi said Muslims in India are facing similar “discrimination” and “persecution.”
The photo shows two Jewish boys being humiliated in a German classroom where the blackboard reads: “The Jew is our biggest enemy. Beware of the Jew.”
Owaisi’s remarks follow the incident of a teacher asking students to slap a Muslim classmate in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarpur. The video of the incident was widely circulated on social media and sparked massive outrage.
The name Kristallnacht (literally ‘Crystal Night’) comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.
Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked as attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. Rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudentland. Over 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.
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