#hindu nation

[rightnewshindi]

भारत एक हिंदू राष्ट्र, हिंदू समाज खत्म करे भाषा, जाति और प्रांत के मतभेद और विवाद; मोहन भागवत

Mohan Bhagwat On Hindu Rashtra: राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ प्रमुख मोहन भागवत ने शनिवार (5 अक्टूबर) को हिंदू समाज से एकजुट होकर आपस में मतभेद और विवाद खत्म करने का आह्वान किया। उन्होंने कहा कि हिंदू समाज को भाषा, जाति और प्रांत के मतभेद और विवाद खत्म कर के अपनी सुरक्षा के लिए एकजुट होना होगा। वहीं समाज ऐसा होना चाहिए जिसमें एकता, सद्भावना और जुड़ाव की भावना हो। उन्होंने आगे कहा कि समाज में आचरण का…

[vague-humanoid]

Mahamandaleshwar Hemangi Sakhi Ma has been fielded by the Uttar Pradesh chapter of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) from the Varanasi constituency against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.  

The Hindu right-wing outfit will contest 20 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, including Varanasi, in the upcoming polls. Polling in Varanasi will take place on June 1 in the last phase of Lok Sabha elections. 

[reasonsforhope]

"It was widely described as the week that India’s beleaguered democracy was pulled back from the brink. As the election results rolled in on Tuesday [June 4, 2024], all predictions and polls were defied as Narendra Modi lost his outright majority for the first time in a decade while the opposition re-emerged as a legitimate political force. On Sunday evening, Modi will be sworn in as prime minister yet many believe his power and mandate stands diminished.

For one opposition politician in particular, the humbling of the strongman prime minister was a moment to savour. Late last year, Mahua Moitra, one of the most outspoken critics of Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), found herself unceremoniously expelled from parliament and kicked out of her bungalow, after what she described as a “political witch-hunt” for daring to stand up to Modi.

The murky and allegedly undemocratic circumstances of Moitra’s expulsion from parliament was seen by many to symbolise Modi’s approach to dissenting voices and the steady erosion of India’s democracy. She was among several vocal opposition politicians who were subjected to investigations by government crime agencies.

But having won a landslide re-election in her home state of West Bengal, Moitra will return once again to parliament, part of the newly empowered opposition coalition. “I can’t wait,” said Moitra. “They went to egregious lengths to discredit and destroy me and abused every process to do it. If I had gone down, it would have meant that brute force had triumphed over democracy.”

While he may be returning for a historic third term, many have portrayed the results as something of a defeat for Modi, who has had to rely on coalition partners to form a government. The BJP’s campaign had been solely centred around him – even the manifesto was titled “Modi’s guarantee” – and in many constituencies, local BJP candidates often played second fiddle to the prime minister, who loomed large over almost every seat. He told one interviewer he believed his mandate to rule was given directly by God.

“Modi’s aura was invincibility, that the BJP could not win elections without him,” said Moitra. “But the people of India didn’t give him a simple majority. They were voting against authoritarianism and they were voting against fascism. This was an overwhelming, resounding anti-Modi vote.”

During his past decade in power, Modi and the BJP enjoyed a powerful outright majority and oversaw an unprecedented concentration of power under the prime minister’s office, where key decisions were widely known to be made by a select few.

The Modi government was accused of imposing various authoritarian measures, including the harassment and arrest of critics under terrorism laws, while the country tumbled in global democracy and press freedom rankings. Modi never faced a press conference or any committee of accountability for the often divisive actions of his government. Politicians regularly complained that parliament was simply reduced to a rubber-stamping role for the BJP’s Hindu-first agenda.

Yet on Tuesday [June 40, it became clear that the more than 25 opposition parties, united as a coalition under the acronym INDIA, had inflicted substantial losses on the BJP to take away its simple majority. Analysts said the opposition’s performance was all the more remarkable given that the BJP stands accused of subverting and manipulating the election commission, as well as putting key opposition leaders behind bars and far outspending all other parties on its campaign. The BJP has denied any attempts to skew the election in its favour.

“This election proved that the voter is still the ultimate king,” said Moitra. “Modi was so shameless, yet despite them using every tool they had to engineer this election to their advantage, our democracy fought back.”

Moitra said she was confident it was “the end of Mr Modi’s autocratic way of ruling”. Several of the parties in the BJP’s alliance who he is relying on for a parliamentary majority and who will sit in Modi’s cabinet do not share his Hindu nationalist ideology...

Moitra was not alone in describing this week’s election as a reprieve for the troubling trajectory of India’s democracy. Columns heralding that the “mirror has cracked” and the “idea of India is reborn” were plastered across the country’s biggest newspapers, and editorials spoke of the end of “supremo syndrome”. “The bulldozer now has brakes,” wrote the Deccan Chronicle newspaper. “And once a bulldozer has brakes, it becomes just a lawnmower.” ...

“This was not a normal election, it was clearly an unfair and unlevel playing field,” said Yadav. “But still, there is now a hope and a possibility that the authoritarian element could be reversed.”

Harsh Mander, one of India’s most prominent human rights and peace activists who is facing numerous criminal investigations for his work, called the election the “most important in India’s post independence history”, adding: “The resilience of Indian democracy has proved to be spectacular.”

He said it was encouraging that an “intoxication of majoritarian hate politics” had not ultimately shaped the outcome, referring to Modi’s apparent attempts to stir up religious animosity on the campaign trail as he referred to Muslims as “infiltrators” and “those who have more children”.

“The past decade has seen the freedom of religion and the freedom of conscience and dissent taken away,” said Mander. “If this election had gone fully the BJP way, then India would not remain a constitutional secular democracy.”"

-via The Guardian, June 9, 2024

[wildfeather5002]

Indigenous folks, ex-christians & anyone who's knowledgeable on social issues, I have two questions that have bothered me for a long while and I believe y'all might know how to answer them.

The question: I read a webcomic about community A living on an island along with another community B with different culture & beliefs from them. Community A believes that their culture & religion are the correct ones and that members of community B are dooming themselves to eternal damnation (in a religious sense) if they don't adopt the beliefs & practices of community A.

I saw someone talking about the comic in its comment section, saying that one of the characters who's a member of community B is selfish for not adopting the burial practices from community A's religion, because according to that someone, not burying their loved one like community A believes is correct is " potentially dooming their loved one to eternal damnation".

If you're indigenous, has rhetoric / talking points like this been used against your own religious / cultural practices? Could you give any concrete examples?

If you have religious trauma / are ex christian of any kind, have people used talking points like this to guilt trip, to frighten, or to shame you into obeying religious rules? (People belonging to other religions than christianity are welcome to give their perspectives as well!)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A report newly tabled at the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference shows Canadian authorities have been monitoring bots and fake accounts linked to India’s governing party that have been observed interfering in Canada’s “digital information ecosystem,” including through coordinated harassment campaigns targeting Canadian activists, journalists and politicians.

According to a report by Rapid Response Mechanism Canada, a subsection of Global Affairs Canada set-up to monitor foreign disinformation, “pro-BJP” influencers and media outlets “worked in concert” and were linked to a network of “covert or automated accounts” on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube targeting an activist from Canada’s Sikh community.

The report notes the data was collected by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab, which had been contracted by Global Affairs Canada. [...]

Coordinated targeting and online harassment of Sikhs in Canada has been well documented over the years, including misinformation campaigns by Indian nationalists. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

Notes from the poster @el-shab-hussein: Hm. I think this is a hate crime by proxy aimed at Jagmeet Singh. Like I think we shouldn't ignore the fact that Justin Trudeau was bolstered by a regime that is currently creating hate campaigns targetting people like Jagmeet Singh specifically for their faith. Specifically during election campaigns where he had to go up against Singh. I don't think this should be overlooked at all and I don't think it's a coincidence.

[embodiedfutures]

definitely a longer piece so these excerpts are far from showcasing everything this piece has to offer! read the whole thing on your own time, and in general, just check out jewish currents, an educational, leftist, anti-zionist jewish magazine!

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.”

[loumandivorce]

stop making zionism a fandom issue you clowns. this is a worldwide problem causing countless grief and deaths. your selfishness is shocking

[rosetta-stoned-bitch]

The argument that Kashmir belongs to India to do to it whatever the fuck the Centre wants just because it was acceded by the then-monarch is hilarious to me because this is their literal thought process

Majority population of Religion A ruled by a monarch of Religion B: the monarch is tyrannical and oppressed the public and never once acted as a beneficiary of the people. The people now deserve to "decolonise".

Majority population of Religion B ruled by a monarch of Religion A: the monarch had the best interests of people and knew what to do, the people are delusional and can't be trusted to know what they actually want. Oh and they are all terrorists so obv we can't listen to what they say now.

Gotta love the hypocrisy and mental gymnastics 🤌

[janaknandini-singh999]

Leftists vs Hindutva with Ram Mandir vs Babri masjid treating it like which came first "chicken or egg"?

[cavalierzee]

Hindu Extremists Commit Worst Massacres In Gaza

[tumkaafiho]

Constitution for a Hindu Nation to be unveiled on February 3, 2025, at the Maha Kumbh festival

For context, the Maha Kumbh is an important Hindu pilgrimage that is currently taking place in Prayagraj (formerly known as Allahabad) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The "Constitution" for the "Akhand Hindu Rashtra" ("Unified Hindu Nation") will be unveiled at this festival on February 3rd.

Some important features of this constitution:

It aims to establish a "Hindu Rashtra" (Hindu Nation) by 2035.

It provides for the implementation of the Hindu judicial system

Education in the country will follow the ancient Vedic systems. All English-language schools will be converted to gurukuls (Vedic schools). Islamic madrasas will be abolished.

It will support monogamy and the joint family system.

It will (supposedly) abolish the caste system.

Only Hindus will be allowed to contest elections and only those who belong to faiths founded in India (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism) will be allowed to vote.

The Parliament candidates will have to be gurukul students.

To qualify for the position of President of the Hindu Rashtra, candidates will need to have expertise in Dharmashastra and Rajashastra (ancient Hindu texts).

The idea of a "Hindu Rashtra" is not new. While the idea can be traced back to Chanakya, a 3rd-century philosopher, the idea was popularised in recent times by VD Savarkar through his 1923 pamphlet "Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?". In this work, he envisioned a "Hindu Rashtra" that would encompass the entire Indian subcontinent, which he referred to as "Akhand Bharat". Savarkar's ideology emphasized an ethno-religious view of nationalism that prioritized Hindu identity. He believed that Hindus were the rightful inhabitants of India and advocated for their dominance over other communities. Today this idea is being propagated by the BJP (the ruling party at the centre) and affiliated organisations such as the RSS and they have managed to win a significant portion of the Hindu population to it.

The idea of a "Hindu Rashtra" spells disaster for many groups in the country. It overlooks the struggle of oppressed castes who converted to Islam and Christianity to escape the Hindu caste system. India is already discriminatory towards Christians and Muslims, who regularly face discrimination, false accusations of forced conversions, systemic violence, and lynchings. The vision of a Hindu nation also tends to reinforce patriarchal norms and traditional gender roles. Hindutva, the ideology behind the idea of a Hindu nation, glorifies women primarily as mothers and wives, reinforcing the notion that their primary role is to nurture and support the family. It also promotes the restriction of women's participation in public life and their pursuit of a career outside the household. The rise of this conservative ideology has also adversely impacted LGBT rights in India.

This unveiling at the Maha Kumbh raises urgent questions about the future of India. This constitution will also be sent to the Centre once it has been approved by a group of Hindu scholars.

Further reading:

Maha Kumbh: Only Sanatan Dharma followers will have right to contest elections under 'Hindu Rashtra Constitution'

First Constitution of Akhand Hindu Rashtra to be unveiled at Maha Kumbh

Overlooked Danger: The Security and Rights Implications of Hindu

Nationalism in India

Emerging Hindu Rashtra and Its Impact on Indian Muslims

Fascism, Fundamentalism, and Patriarchy

Women Under Hindutva: Misogynist Memes, Mock-Auction and Doxing, Deepfake-Pornification and Rape Threats in Digital Space

[mohabbaat]

https://www.tumblr.com/mohabbaat/751909189454102528/hindu-nationalism-is-a-genuine-disease-in-our?source=share

Tell me honestly bro, did you ask your parents the same question about Kashmir massacre and mass rapes during your childhood? (Yk which one I'm talking about) Did you read about it any of the history books in your school? Or you just say this shit to look cool on school media?

no, i didn't ask my parents or grandparents whether they "shared resources on social media" during the kashmir massacre. since you know social media wasn't a thing back then. hope that answers your question!

[lunod]

Sometimes it kind of astounds me how ignorant white people are allowed to be. And like they always defend it by blaming the education system but the thing is that I got my introduction to many, many topics that I have no lived experience with by simply listening to people talk and taking an active interest in their lives and struggles. The fact that you're hearing about it now means you can learn about it now. If you simply had the soul to do it.

[rustchild]

are gentiles aware that you can speak out against genocide without trying to legislate the complex nuances of jewish identity from a place of total ignorance. like

[embodiedfutures]

[whenmemorydies]

I haven’t watched Monkey Man yet but have read a couple reviews and am keen to see it on the big screen.

Having grown up with Indian cinema which was often Hindu nationalist AF (this is particularly the case with Hindi-language films), seeing a film embodying familiar tropes (revenge is a common motivator in Bollywood action plot lines) while also taking a firm political stance against Hindu nationalism and homophobic violence sounds 👌🏾

Also the use of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” in this trailer is perfection.