Thursday, October 07, 2021

Why is a Hindu party following tactics of Islamic State?

"Eight people including four farmers and three BJP workers were killed in the violence that erupted in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri ahead of the visit of the state's Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday (October 3, 2021). Shortly after the incident which took place on Sunday afternoon, Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of over 40 farmers' unions, alleged that one of the four farmers was shot dead by Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni's son, while others were allegedly run over by the vehicles of his convoy," Zee News. Raman Kashyap, "a journalist, was among the eight persons killed after vehicles in Union Minister Ajay Mishra's convoy ploughed into a crowd of protesting farmers", The Hindu. "From his injuries, Mr Kashyap, a former teacher, says his son was killed after being run over and was not lynched by farmers." In July 2016, "At least 84 people have been killed, including more than 10 children, after a lorry slammed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of Nice," BBC. "The lorry ploughed on for 2km (1.2 miles) on the Promenade des Anglais at about 23.00 local time on Thursday, before being shot dead by the police." "The driver was Mahamed Lahouaiej, a Tunisian living in France," wikipedia. "It follows an earlier call by so-called Islamic State (IS) spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani for IS followers to do exactly what this truck driver did." "The attack on Nice, though not he first of its kind, was the deadliest modern vehicular terrorist attack in Europe, launching a wave of terrorist and ISIS-claimed vehicular attacks around the world. Since the Nice attacks, CEP has documented major vehicular incidents in Vienna, Ohio, Berlin, London, Antwerp, Stockholm, Paris, Barcelona, Edmonton, and New York," Counter Extremism Project. It is ironic that the alleged perpetrator in Lakhimpur is the son of a minister in the BJP which, "traces its roots to the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS; Indian Peoples' Association), which was established in 1951 as the political wing of the pro-Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS; National Volunteer Corps) by Shyama Prasad Mukherjee," Britannica. The Hindu BJP following tactics of the Islamic State. Also ironic is the fact that the Chief Minister of UP is Yogi Adityanath who is Mahant (head priest) of a Math (manastery) in Gorakhpur, Times of India (TOI). Adityanath has been making anti-Muslim speeches for a long time, some of which were analysed by Karan Thapar. "The government of India has introduced us to a new 'doctrine of state' under which all dissent has to be crushed, if necessary by force," wrote former BJP minister, Yashwant Sinha. "By routinely using the law as a political instrument, and at times even seemingly as an instrument of state repression, the UP government has not so much as subverted the idea of due process as redefined it. Following this redefinition, the state's actions are unilateral. arbitrary and prone to turn victims into perpetrators, and opposition and critics as co-conspirators," wrote Prof Gilles Verniers. A Hindu party following tactics of Islamic State. In a state governed by a Hindu priest. Irony indeed.       

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