Islamabad, Intolerance toward Muslims and other minority groups is on the rise in Hindutva-led Narendra Modi Bharat and Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, said that when International Day of Tolerance is being observed across the world, today, Hindutva groups, with the help of Hindutva establishment, are using violence, intimidation, terror and harassment against the minorities on daily basis in India and Indian troops and its other forces have waged a war against oppressed civilian population in the occupied territory.
It said Modi’s India is becoming more openly and violently intolerant towards religious minorities. It added that the Kashmiri people were subjected to the worst kind of state terrorism for demanding their inalienable right to self-determination. Hate crimes against Muslims and other minorities have alarmingly increased since Modi became India’s prime minister in 2014, it lamented.
Pertinently, the Day aims to highlight the importance of inclusion, peaceful co-existence and respect for different religious beliefs, values and cultures.
The report said that contrary to what the day aims for, Hindu terrorists, under the patronage of the Modi government, threaten and kill Muslims and other minorities and vandalize their places of worship with sheer impunity, adding they are being persecuted physically, psychologically and economically.
The report said extremist Hindus, mostly belonging to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), Bajrang Dal etc, have been emboldened by BJP-led Hindutva government’s support to unleash terror on members of minorities. It maintained that Muslims, Christians and low-caste Hindus are treated as second class citizens in the so-called largest democracy.
The report pointed out that Muslims and other minorities were living in a state of fear in India as Modi is shaping India’s policy Hindutva dictates.
The right-wing Hindus, the report stressed, have become a threat to Muslims which is manifested in the killing of hundreds of Muslims on charges of eating/slaughtering beef, selling eggs, opposing the veil Muslim girl students, banning the sale of halal meat, removing the Islamic names of cities, villages & streets and placing Hindutva ideological person names instead.
It further said that anti-Christian and anti-Dalit vigilantes were sweeping through villages, storming churches, burning Christian literature, attacking schools and assaulting worshipers. The very act of worship has become dangerous despite constitutional protections for freedom of religion, the report added.