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Every August, the township of Edison, New Jersey—where one in five residents is of Indian origin—holds a parade to celebrate India’s Independence Day. In 2022, a long line of floats rolled through the streets, decked out in images of Hindu deities and colorful advertisements for local businesses. People cheered from the sidelines or joined the cavalcade, dancing to pulsing Bollywood music. In the middle of the procession came another kind of vehicle: A wheel loader, which looks like a small bulldozer, rumbled along the route bearing an image of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi aloft in its bucket. For South Asian Muslims, the meaning of the addition was hard to miss. A few months earlier, during the month of Ramadan, Indian government officials had sent bulldozers into Delhi’s Muslim neighborhoods, where they damaged a mosque and leveled homes and storefronts. The Washington Post called the bulldozer “a polarizing symbol of state power under Narendra Modi,” whose ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is increasingly enacting a program of Hindu supremacy and Muslim subjugation. In the weeks after the parade, one Muslim resident of Edison, who is of Indian origin, told The New York Times that he understood the bulldozer much as Jews would a swastika or Black Americans would a Klansman’s hood. Its inclusion underscored the parade’s other nods to the ideology known as Hindutva, which seeks to transform India into an ethnonationalist Hindu state. The event’s grand marshal was the BJP’s national spokesperson, Sambit Patra, who flew in from India. Other invitees were affiliated with the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), the international arm of the Hindu nationalist paramilitary force Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), of which Modi is a longtime member.

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On December 6th, 1992, a mob of 150,000 Hindus, many of whom were affiliated with the paramilitary group the RSS, gathered at the Babri Masjid, a centuries-old mosque that is one of the most contested sacred sites in the world. Over the preceding century, far-right Hindus had claimed that the mosque, located in the North Indian city of Ayodhya, was built not only upon the site where the Hindu deity Ram was born but atop the foundations of a demolished Hindu temple. The RSS and its affiliates had been campaigning to, in the words of a BJP minister, correct the “historical mistake” of the mosque’s existence, a task the mob completed that December afternoon. “They climbed on top of the domes and tombs,” one witness told NPR. “They were carrying hammers and these three-pronged spears from Hindu scripture. They started hacking at the mosque. By night, it was destroyed.” The demolition sparked riots that lasted months and killed an estimated 2,000 people across the country.

The destruction of the Babri Masjid was arguably Hindu nationalism’s greatest triumph to date. Since its establishment in 1925, the RSS—whose founders sought what one of them called a “military regeneration of the Hindus,” inspired by Mussolini’s Black Shirts and Nazi “race pride”—had been a marginal presence in India: Its members held no elected office, and it was temporarily designated a terrorist organization after one of its affiliates shot and killed Mohandas Gandhi in 1948. But the leveling of the Babri Masjid activated a virulently ethnonationalist base and paved the way for three decades of Hindutva ascendance. In 1998, the BJP formed a government for the first time; in 2014, it returned to power, winning a staggering 282 out of 543 seats in parliament and propelling Modi into India’s highest office. Since then, journalist Samanth Subramanian notes, all of the country’s governmental and civil society institutions “have been pressured to fall in line” with a Hindutva agenda—a phenomenon on full display in 2019, when the Supreme Court of India awarded the land where the Babri Masjid once stood to a government run by the very Hindu nationalists who illegally destroyed it. (Modi has since laid a foundation stone for a new Ram temple in Ayodhya, an event that a prominent RSS activist celebrated with a billboard in Times Square.) The Ayodhya verdict came in the same year that Modi stripped constitutional protections from residents of the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir and passed a law that creates a fast track to citizenship for non-Muslim immigrants, laying the groundwork for a religious test for Indian nationality. Under Modi, “the Hinduization of India is almost complete,” as journalist Yasmeen Serhan has written in The Atlantic.

To achieve its goals, the RSS has worked via a dense network of organizations that call themselves the “Sangh Parivar” (“joint family”) of Hindu nationalism. The BJP, which holds more seats in the Indian parliament than every other party combined, is the Sangh’s electoral face. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is the movement’s cultural wing, responsible for “Hinduizing” Indian society at the grassroots level. The Bajrang Dal is the project’s militant arm, which enforces Hindu supremacy through violence. Dozens of other organizations contribute money and platforms to the Sangh. The sheer number of groups affords the Sangh what human rights activist Pranay Somayajula has referred to as a “tactical politics of plausible deniability,” in which the many degrees of separation between the governing elements and their vigilante partners shields the former from backlash. This explains how, until 2018, the CIA could describe the VHP and Bajrang Dal as “militant religious organizations”—a designation that applies to non-electoral groups exerting political pressure—even as successive US governments have maintained a warm relationship with their parliamentary counterpart, the BJP.

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The most extreme figures in the Hindu nationalist and Zionist movements were especially frank about the nature of their partnership: “Whether you call them Palestinians, Afghans, or Pakistanis, the root of the problem for Hindus and Jews is Islam,” Bajrang Dal affiliate Rohit Vyasmaan told The New York Times of his friendly relationship with Mike Guzofsky, a member of a violent militant group connected to the infamous Jewish supremacist Meir Kahane’s Kach Party.

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In 2003, Gary Ackerman—a Jewish former congressman who was awarded India’s third-highest civilian honor for helping to found the Congressional Caucus on India—told a gathering of AJC and AIPAC representatives and their Indian counterparts that “Israel [is] surrounded by 120 million Muslims,” while “India has 120 million [within].” Tom Lantos, another Jewish member of the caucus, likewise enjoined the two communities to collaborate: “We are drawn together by mindless, vicious, fanatic, Islamic terrorism.”

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Know All About the Ayodhya Ram Mandir Yatra and Location

The Ayodhya Ram Mandir is a Hindu temple being built in the city of Ayodhya in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. This temple is dedicated to the god Rama, who is one of the most widely revered Hindu deities. The construction of this grand temple has been a dream for millions of Hindus across India and the world for many decades.

The temple is located on a piece of land that was previously home to the Babri Masjid, a mosque that was demolished in 1992 by Hindu activists who believed the site was the birthplace of Lord Rama. This led to widespread riots and violence across India. In 2019, the Supreme Court of India ruled that the disputed land should be given to a trust to build the Ram Mandir.

Many Hindu devotees believe visiting and worshiping at the Ayodhya Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is a sacred pilgrimage known as the Ram Mandir Yatra. Yatra means journey or pilgrimage in Hindi. It is expected that once the temple is complete, millions of pilgrims will flock to Ayodhya every year to take part in this holy yatra.

The temple itself is being constructed to be a massive three-story stone structure covering an area of 2.7 acres with multiple domes and towers. It is being built in the classic Nagara style of Hindu temple architecture according to the designs and specifications outlined in ancient Hindu texts.

Some of the key features of the Ram Mandir include:

A high central shikhar or spire over the sanctum sanctorum which will soar to a height of 161 feet (49 meters).

Five smaller shikharas surrounding the central spire, each 91 feet (28 meters) high.

A massive sculpted ram statue in front of the main entrance.

An elaborate carved facade and walls depicting scenes from the Ramayana.

Multiple smaller temples and shrines dedicated to other Hindu deities within the complex.

The Ram Mandir complex is designed to accommodate up to 100,000 visitors per day during peak festival seasons. It will have designated areas for rituals, a museum depicting the history of Ayodhya, a digital theater, a 'Valmiki Bhavan' library, and accommodation for pilgrims.

The construction work on the Ram Mandir is being overseen by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust appointed by the Indian government. The overall cost is estimated around 1,100 crore Indian rupees (over $130 million). The target is for the first phase to be completed by January 2024 so that devotees can start having darshan (sacred viewing) of the deity idols installed inside.

With the Ayodhya Ram Mandir inching closer to reality, it represents the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream for the Hindu faithful across India and around the world.

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PHOTO : अशी असेल अयोध्येतील भव्य 'धन्नीपूर मशीद'

PHOTO : अशी असेल अयोध्येतील भव्य ‘धन्नीपूर मशीद’

अयोध्येजवळच धन्नीपूर गावात सरकारकडून मशिदीसाठी देण्यात आलेल्या पाच एकड जागेवर हे बांधकाम होणार आहे. इथे उभारल्या जाणाऱ्या मशिदीची रचना सर्वांसमोर सादर करण्यात आलीय. जुन्या बाबरी मशिदीपेक्षा भव्य आकाराच्या या मशिदीत एकाच वेळी जवळपास दोन हजार लोक नमाजासाठी उपस्थित राहू शकतील, असं सांगण्यात येतंय. सोबतच संपूर्ण मशिदीला पर्यावरणपुरक मार्गाने म्हणजेच फक्त सौरऊर्जेच्या सहाय्याने वीजपुरवठ्याची सोय…

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Design Of New Ayodhya Mosque

Design Of New Ayodhya Mosque

☝️ The Ayodhya mosque, to be built on five acres of land as mandated by the Supreme Court, will have a “cosmic” design resembling the spherical earth cushioned in space. Most importantly, it will not have the stereotypical domes, minarets or arches, which marked Islamic structures in India, said architect Professor S.M. Akhtar, who along with other members of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation…

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Launch of mosque design in Ayodhya: A dome mosque will be built in Dhannipur; 100 crore hospital and community kitchen will also be there

Launch of mosque design in Ayodhya: A dome mosque will be built in Dhannipur; 100 crore hospital and community kitchen will also be there

The design of the mosque to be built in Dhannipur The design of the mosque to be built in Dhannipur, Ayodhya was launched on Saturday. The Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation launched the design at a virtual meeting. The special thing is that the mosque will not have a dome. At the same time, it will not be named after a king. The campus will also have a museum, library and a community kitchen. A…

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Ayodhya Mosque Photos; Update On Dhannipur Masjid Design | A dome mosque will be built at Dhannipur; 100 crore hospital and community kitchen will also be there

Ayodhya Mosque Photos; Update On Dhannipur Masjid Design | A dome mosque will be built at Dhannipur; 100 crore hospital and community kitchen will also be there

Fed up with Ads? Install Dainik Bhaskar app for news without ads Lucknow4 hours ago The mosque building in Dhannipur in Ayodhya will be eco-friendly and solar energy will be used in it. This information was given while releasing the design of the mosque. In a virtual meeting of the Indo-Islamic Foundation it was decided that the mosque would not be named after a king. The design of the mosque…

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Ayodhya mosque will be modern structure with no past baggage

LUCKNOW: The proposed mosque at Ayodhya’s Dhannipur will be a modern structure and it will be energy efficient. The Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) Trust released the artist’s impression of the project spread over five acre land given to the trust as per the order of the Supreme Court. “We will not take any symbolism or design element from the past or from the medieval times. The mosque’s design is contemporary and it will be an energy efficient one. Subject to formal clearance of the plan, the project when put in full swing, will take only two years to completion,” announced IICF Trust in Lucknow at a press conference on Saturday. As IICF tries to come out of the shadows of the demolished Babri Masjid, it now hopes to call not just people for prayer but also calls out towards a “syncretic and modern” future, the trust members said. While the project’s chief architect Prof SM Akhtar and its cultural curator Prof Pushpesh Pant joined in over the web. They clarified that there would be no grand foundation laying ceremony for the project since there is no such tradition in Islam. “There is no particular design standard which is to be followed for a mosque in Islam. The arches and domes were an element of medieval architecture which stuck on. But architecture is ever evolving. Mosques now such as those in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Germany, Turkey, Pakistan and others have contemporary architecture. We are not creating a precedent,” said Prof SM Akhar, founder dean of the faculty of architecture and ekistics at Jamia Millia Islamia, who joined the press conference online. As per the design, the mosque will come up at an area of over 1700 square meters, will be double storeyed with two contemporary designed minarets at its front and a skylit glass dome. It would accommodate around 550 people. “Syncretic culture will be represented in all of the elements and amenities. We have to move over the past towards a collective future,” added former faculty of international relations at JNU, Prof Pushpesh Pant. “Zero energy is the main element of the mosque. It will be solar powered and have a vibrant green patch with a variety of trees from across the globe. There are examples of such mosques the closest being the Badriya Juma Masjid in Karnataka which is the world’s first eco-friendly green mosque,” added president of the IICF and chief of the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board, Zufar Faruqi. While the trust has not come with a name of the mosque yet, it is amply clear of the fact that “it would not be named after any king or emperor” clarifying that the name Babri Masjid is out of the cards. “There is a lot of work which remains before we can start work on the site. Soil testing is to be done, a blueprint accepted by the relevant authorities and only then can we begin. We want work to start from January 26 when the Indian Constitution came into effect. However, if not possible, we are sure that by August 15–Independence day–we will be all set to start,” said trust spokesperson Athar Husain. Apart from the mosque, a much larger 200-bed super speciality hospital, a museum and archival centre, a library and community kitchen are also to come up on the allotted land. “A hospital is the most important requirement of the area. Through our survey it was found that the women and children of the nearby areas are severely malnutritioned and in the absence of a hospital in the vicinity, patients are forced to rush to Lucknow, Gorakhpur or other cities,” said Husain. “We are gathering funds for the project currently and there are some donors for the hospital. Rough estimates tell that in a 200-bed super specialty hospital, Rs 50 lakhs per bed are required. The first phase will include the mosque and hospital and second phase will include hospital expansion,” added Husain.

source https://bbcbreakingnews.com/2020/12/19/ayodhya-mosque-will-be-modern-structure-with-no-past-baggage/

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The trust in charge of building a mosque in Ayodhya after last year's Supreme Court's verdict, which also paved the way for a Ram temple at the town in Uttar Pradesh, has released the first architectural plan for the project. The first phase of the project, for which the foundation stone is likely to be placed early next year, will have a hospital along with the mosque. The trust plans to expand the hospital in the second phase . . The name of the mosque is yet to be decided, and it will not be named after any emperor or king, said the Indo Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) Trust in a presentation of the project based in Ayodhya's Dhannipur. In the presentation, the trust showcased the designs of several contemporary mosques from across the world. A computer-generated image of the planned mosque shows a massive glass dome across a picturesque garden. The hospital building with a futuristic design is seen behind the mosque #UttarPradesh #RamTemple #AyodhyaMosque #India #The24Times — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Wv1pSR