Another love jihad has surfaced in the Kanshi Ram Nagar (Kasganj) district of Uttar Pradesh, where one Prince Qureshi, disguised as Monu Gupta, befriended a Hindu girl from Delhi by approaching her on Facebook and raped her after calling her to Kasganj to meet her. There, he took her in a car and raped her after mixing intoxicants in her cold drink.
When the girl came to know the truth, she rebelled, and she was tortured and raped as a consequence. Initially, the police did not register the girl’s complaint; however, after Hindu groups intervened, and on the orders of SP BBGTS Murthy, the police filed a case against two persons, including Prince Qureshi.
This case comes from the Ganj Dundwara town of Kasganj District. Prince Qureshi, a native of Ganj Dundwara, fabricated the identity of Monu Gupta and contacted the girl from Delhi over Facebook, gradually grooming her. The girl alleges that on July 15, he called her to Ganj Dundwara in Kasganj to meet. She has stated that the Prince’s true identity was revealed when his mother contacted him, and he addressed his mother as ‘Ammi.’
When the victim resisted after finding out the truth, Prince allegedly forced her into the car and sexually abused her by forcing her to consume intoxicated soft drinks. After that when she went to the Ganjdundwara police station with her complaint, the officers just didn’t listen.
When Hindu organisations learned about this, they too went to the police station. Following that, on the directions of SP BBGTS Murthy, a complaint was filed against Prince Qureshi, the man who disguised himself as a Hindu to win the girl’s trust, and one of his accomplices. On the SP’s directions, the police registered the First Information Report in this case after 24 hours.
Thakur Manjit Singh, a Hindu leader, has remarked that the girl is like a sister to him, who was called by a teenager of a specific community by changing his name in order to target her. He stated that the organisation will provide full support and safety to the girl.
India Today and Rajdeep Sardesai on Monday gave platform to Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar to demean tribal leader and NDA’s Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu.
During a discussion on Sardesai’s show, Sundar claimed that any of the candidate the NDA would have put up would have been a ‘rubberstamp’ candidate as she accused the ruling party of subverting all institutions, including judiciary. However, in reality, we have recently seen how the judiciary of secular India has been citing Islamic Sharia. Further, as a woman, looking down on other woman leader, especially one from tribal community, a community Sundar claims to be working for its upliftment, being elected to the highest post in Indian politics, just shows the crab mentality.
Sundar then claims Murmu might ‘not be worse’ than anyone else and added how there needs to be a difference between ‘representation’ and ‘ability to represent’. She then claims that while she is ‘happy’ the tribal community is getting representation, she was not sure if Murmu might represent tribals in the way ‘they need to be represented’. Because, clearly, if the representation is not done as per Sundar, is it even representation?
Sundar then claims BJP policies are ‘anti-adivasi’ and while Murmu as Governor of Jharkhand she had done her bit for the upliftment of tribals, Sundar was upset that Murmu gave assent to the bill that criminalises forced religious conversion. One of the prime concerns the tribals in India face is religious conversion by coercion or when missionaries, especially Christian missionaries lure the tribals into Christianity fold by offering them money, rice, food – all in the name of Jesus. When someone is lured into converting religion, the element of free will is missing and since tribals are vulnerable and susceptible to such forced conversions, criminalising it is a step that actually benefits the tribals. But since Sundar has decided it is not fair, the world should oblige.
Sundar then claims that while Murmu has done her bit for the tribals, she does not think Murmu would do ‘very much’ as the President. And towards the end, Sundar just decided that the post of the President, the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces and the head of the State is ‘not important anymore’.
Nandini Sundar accused of having blood of tribal man on her hands
Born in 1967, Nandini Sundar is a professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics. She is also the wife of former The Hindu editor Siddharth Varadarajan, who is currently the founding editor of ‘The Wire‘. Nandini Sundar, who still writes for various platforms including her husband’s The Wire, is accused of a tribal man’s murder in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma.
In May 2016, under a fake name ‘Richa Keshav’, Nandini Sundar went to Maoist-hit Bastar along with JNU professor Archana Prasad and Joshi Research Institute’s Vineet Tiwari. She was accused of provoking the villagers against the government. It was alleged that the professors threatened to burn houses if villagers did not support Maoists.
In a letter to the VCs of JNU and DU, Bastar SP said that the Sundar and Prasad tried to instigate the villagers against the police by telling the villagers that their daughters and sisters would not be safe is police camps are set up in the villages.
In the letter, the villagers alleged that they talked to Sundar and Prasad and spoke about how the Naxals in the village beat them up and loot their money and ration and harass them. The villagers said that they are standing united against the Naxals and want the police camps in the village. However, Sundar, Prasad and CPM leader Sanjay Parate who was accompanying them told the villagers that the police and administration will do nothing for the villagers and if they do not help the Naxals, it will in turn only harm them. They urged the villagers to do as the Naxals as them to for their own betterment.
To this, Communist Party of India – Marxist’s Sitaram Yechury even came to the rescue and called the letter ‘fake’ and dismissed it as ‘intimidating tactic’ and ‘curbing and suppressing opposition political parties’.
Later, Nandini reportedly travelled to Nama in Sukma, one of the worst Naxal-affected districts, again as Richa Keshav, and held a meeting. Two days later, Shamnath Baghel, a tribal man, lodged a complaint with the police stating that Sundar (as Richa Keshav) and others asked villagers to not support the police and associate themselves with the Naxalites. The complaint even mentioned that Baghel was warned of dire consequences for opposing the Naxalites. He mentioned that if he was killed, Sundar and others would be responsible. On 4th November 2016, Shamnath Baghel was murdered.
Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) SRP Kalluri said that Sundar and others were booked for murder, criminal conspiracy and rioting.
In May 2017, Podiyam Pandu alias Panda, a Maoist had surrendered to the Chhattisgarh Police, Panda had named Nandini Sundar, activist Bela Bhatia and other social activists meet Naxal commanders. According to police, Panda was also familiar with the urban network of Maoists and played a crucial role in arranging meetings between Maoist sympathisers from town with the ultras in the jungle. Panda had claimed he would drive around Sundar and others on a motorbike for meetings with top Maoists like Hidma, who is believed to have masterminded the killings of 25 CRPF jawans in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh’s Sukma in 2017.
For someone who is accused of threatening tribals to not align themselves with the state and instead support Naxalites, it is indeed peachy for Sundar to pontificate what a tribal leader can or cannot do for upliftment of tribals.
Brize Norton, the largest air force base in the United Kingdom had to halt flights from the base as the prevailing heat wave in the country melted the runway. Luton Airport in London was also forced to suspend flights as the unusually high temperatures for the country caused damage to the runway.
As reported by Sky News, the Royal Air Force halted flights from Brize Norton, and had to divert flights to other bases to keep its operation running amidst safety concerns. Airport traffic isn’t the only one suffering the burnt of the high temperatures, as trains are also running slow, with some rail services even being cancelled.
In a statement shared by UK’s Ministry of Defense on Twitter, the Royal Air Force stated that there has been no impact on RAF’s operations as they are using alternative airfields as part of a long-established plan.
.@RoyalAirForce statement on flights at RAF Brize Norton:
"During this period of extreme temperature flight safety remains the RAF’s top priority, so aircraft are using alternative airfields in line with a long-established plan. This means there is no impact on RAF operations."
— Ministry of Defence Press Office (@DefenceHQPress) July 18, 2022
UK Health Security Agency has declared a state of emergency as the temperatures reached 38 degrees celsius. For the first time ever, the temperature in the UK is predicted to touch 40 degrees celsius during the ongoing heat wave. The previous record temperature recorded in the country was 38.7 degrees celsius in Cambridge in 2019.
The unprecedented heat wave is likely to continue on Tuesday as the Metrological Office has issued a red extreme heat warning for most of the country.
Days after the Supreme Court pinned the blame on Nupur Sharma for the gruesome murder of Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal ,the former BJP spokesperson moved the apex court on Monday (July 18) evening to seek protection from arrest.
As per reports, a total of 9 First Information Reports (FIRs) have been filed against Sharma across the country for speaking about Prophet Muhammad and his relationship with his child bride Ayesha.
While seeking protection from arrests in these cases, the ex-BJP spokesperson pointed out how she had been receiving increased death and rape threats since the contentious observation made by the vacation bench of the Supreme Court on July 1.
In her petition, she had also sought expunction of the observations made by Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala. Sharma had also asked the same Bench to club all her FIRs in Delhi.
Supreme Court’s observations in Udaipur beheading case
On 1st July 2022, the Supreme Court of India Judge, Justice Surya Kant and Justice JB Pardiwala blamed former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s comments for the brutal Udaipur murder. He stated that Sharma’s ‘loose tongue’ has set the entire country on fire and she should apologize to the whole country.
The two judges had effectively ignored the fact that murder and violence have been caused by Islamists seeking Nupur Sharma’s head, and had held Sharma ‘single-handedly responsible’ for the violence.
Nupur Sharma had moved the SC seeking the transfer of all the FIRs registered against her, across several states, to Delhi for further investigation. Sharma, in her application, stated that she is facing constant life threats.
After attracting severe criticism over the unwarranted oral remarks by a Supreme Court bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala, justice JB Pardiwala advocated for censorship of social media and digital media.
The same two judges are to hear Sharma’s petition today.
On July 19, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirodi Lal Meena revealed on social media that he had received a death threat from Islamists for supporting Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s family, who was murdered last month in Udaipur. The threat came after he pledged his one-month salary to the family of Kanhaiya Lal. Notably, Kanhaiya Lal was killed for an alleged post in support of former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma.
मैं इस प्रकार की धमकियों से डरने वाला नहीं हूं। मैं लगातार जेहादियों और इन्हें संरक्षण देने वाली राजनीतिक शक्तियों की पोल खोलता रहूंगा। चाहे मेरी जान ही क्यों न चली जाए।2/2
— Dr.Kirodi Lal Meena (@DrKirodilalBJP) July 18, 2022
In a tweet, Meena wrote, “A Jihadi named Kadir Ali did not like that I pledged one month salary to the family of Kanhaiya Lal who was killed by Jihadis in Udaipur. He has threatened to kill me. I have written to CM and Union Home Ministry on the matter.”
He further added, “I am not going to get intimidated by such threats. I will continue exposing these Jihadis and the political powers that are supporting them. I am ready to die for the cause.” The letter was sent to his residence in Delhi.
— INDIA NEWS RAJASTHAN (@raj_indianews) July 18, 2022
In his letters to Nityanand Rai, Minister of State for Home Ministry of India and Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot, he mentioned that the letter was sent to his Delhi residence. He further added that he had gone to Udaipur to meet the family of Kanhaiya Lal and pledged to support them with one month’s salary. The person who has sent the threatening letter has sent a copy of the news that was published after his meeting with the family.
‘Anyone insulting our Prophet will face a fate like Kanhaiya Lal’
In the letter dated July 9, Kadir Ali of Rajasthan wrote, “Anyone who insults our Prophet will face a fate like Kanhaiya Lal. Anyone who helps those who have insulted our Prophet, no matter how big a leader he is, we will teach him a lesson. Thus, it is your turn Kirori Meena because you think you are a big Hinduvadi leader and keep spewing venom against Muslims. You have committed blasphemy by supporting the one who had committed blasphemy by giving his family your salary. You have called us extremist Talibani. Now we have to teach you a lesson.”
Further, Ali sent a clipping of a news report about Meena pledging his salary to the family of Kanhaiya Lal. He wrote, “I have written the letter after seeing this. The world will read something else as well.”
Murder of Kanhaiya Lal
A Hindu tailor named Kanhaiya Lal was brutally beheaded by Islamists in Udaipur, Rajasthan, on June 28 for allegedly publishing a post in favour of former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. Reportedly, his neighbour Nazim had leaked his information to his community’s groups. He received multiple threats, following which he shut his shop for six days. After assurance from the Police that nothing would happen as there was a compromise between Kanhaiya Lal and those who were threatening him, he opened his shop, and on the same day, he was murdered.
On Thursday (July 14), the popular Indian photoblog ‘Humans of Bombay’ posted the story of a 22-year-old Muskaan, who apparently required ₹23 lakhs to pursue a master’s in Psychology at Harvard University. Soon after, netizens pointed out obvious discrepancies in the fundraising campaign with users pointing out that Muskaan has been running a similar fundraising campaign on Milaap.
Pointing out the discrepancies, a popular Twitter user @befittingfacts said, “Muskaan Bawa is collecting ₹25 Lakh in Milaap and ₹23.62 Lakh in Ketto for her ‘Education’. In Milaap she is from Dharmshala and in Ketto she is from Chandigarh.”
Muskaan Bawa is collecting ₹25 Lakh in Milaap and ₹23.62 Lakh in Ketto for her ‘Education’.
Several other users raised questions about her entire story claiming that the last date for admissions to Harvard has already passed, and some even said that Muskaan is a model by profession and the entire thing is suspect.
Following the internet outrage over this fundraiser, Humans of Bombay issued a clarification on the matter.
In an Instagram post, the Indian photoblog stated, “At Humans Of Bombay, no fundraiser is taken up without an elaborate vetting of documents and due diligence. Muskaan’s story is no different.”
Humans of Bombay claimed that it confirmed every fact of the case and reviewed her documents before promoting the fundraiser. It had uploaded soft copies of Muskaan’s Harvard admission letter, the breakup of the fee structure, Harvard loan receipt, visa document, flight tickets, and lease agreement.
However, now the Indian photoblog has offered to return the money to all the donors to this fundraiser for Muskaan if they so desire. In an Instagram post, Humans of Bombay said, “We hear you and are cognizant of all the opinions that have been shared over the past few days on Muskan’s fundraiser. As an organization committed to showcasing the best of humanity- we assure you that our only intent was to support a girl’s education.”
The photoblog also requested people to not direct any hate toward Muskaan, saying that she and her mother have been receiving hateful comments, emails, and even threats.
Further, Humans of Bombay offered to return the money of donors by saying, “If any of the 1000+ donors would like a refund, please send an email on [email protected] with the subject line- “Refund: Muskaan’s Fundraiser” and we will get in touch with you to help facilitate the same via Ketto.”
The average income of farmers has increased by 1.3-1.7 times, and in some cases, even two times, between the Financial years 2017-2018 and 2021-2022. This was concluded in a recently conducted research by the State Bank of India (SBI).
As per reports, the study is based on the granular data of crops such as wheat, cotton, groundnut, soybean, sugarcane, cotton and paddy from agriculture-intensive SBI branches. The research work analysed the average growth in income of farmers between FY18 and FY22.
For the same period, farmers witnessed an average increase in non-farm incomes by 1.4-1.8 times. Those who grew cash crops generated more income than non-cash crop farmers.
“This substantiates the trend according to the 77th National Sample Survey that source of farmer income has become increasingly diverse apart from crops,” the study emphasised.
“In principle, we have used a well-spread, well-represented, and probabilistic sample to estimate the change in income from FY18 to FY22 for all segments of farmers, large to small to marginal ones,” it further added.
In Karnataka, the average annual income of cotton farmers doubled from ₹2.67 lakhs in FY 18 to ₹5.63 lakhs in FY22. A similar phenomenon was witnessed in Maharashtra where soybean farmers were able to increase their income by 2x in the last 5 years.
The SBI report pointed out, “Minimum support price (MSP), increasingly aligned with market-linked pricing and increasing by 1.5-2.3 times since 2014, has been pivotal in ensuring passage of better prices to farmers and has led to optimal price discovery, setting ‘floor price benchmark’ for multiple crop varieties (23 as on date), also encouraging farmers to gradually move over to crop varieties that have better yield/value.”
While speaking about the matter, SBI’s group chief economic adviser Soumya Kanti Ghosh said, “The farm sector is currently in the throes of a significant structural shift on the back of a plethora of government policies and has emerged as the known unknown of the India growth story.”
“From a manifold and a statistically significant jump in income (both farm and non-farm, that has even doubled in some cases) to imbibing an entrepreneurial spirit, to a jump in agri exports, the farm sector has been witness to tectonic shifts of late,” he added.
In an egregious display of utter disregard for human life, the dewan of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin dargah, Ali Musa Nizami, was seen laughing when asked about the horrendous beheading of the Udaipur’s Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal by Islamists in broad daylight.
Kanhaiya Lal, a Hindu tailor was beheaded in Udaipur on 28th June 2022 by two Islamists Mohammad Riyaz and Ghouse Mohammad for supporting Nupur Sharma on social media. The sheer brutality inflicted on the Hindu tailor left most people in the country shell-shocked. Ali Musa Nizami termed the heinous murder ‘wrong’ but could not control his laughter while speaking about it.
Nizami is the same person, who a short while ago, during the conversation with OpIndia was hailing the dargah for preaching peace and love. He had referred to himself as a custodian of Sufism and claimed that because of his persona, Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindus alike frequent the dargah. He also tried to normalise the recent controversy regarding the former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, the brutal murder of the Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur, and the impact of the provocative statements by people associated with Ajmer dargah, saying that all this keeps happening.
In the video, one can see how Nizami starts laughing as soon as he is questioned about the gruesome murder of the Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal. He then gives a placid response to the heinous crime by simply calling it ‘wrong’. OpIndia further questioned him why individuals like him don’t come forward and condemn when “Sir Tan Se Juda” slogans are raised if he believed Kanhaiya Lal’s murder to be wrong. To this, Nizami again parroted the same response, saying that raising such slogans was also wrong.
“All of this shouldn’t be done”, he said, “Why unnecessarily spoil the harmonious environment.” Then he began to discuss the ‘Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb’- the Syncretic Hindu Muslim culture of North India, a myth that the so-called secular liberals have often used to exemplify how ‘tolerant’ and ‘peace-loving’ the Islamists in India are.
Significantly, after the murder of Kanhaiya Lal, videos of people associated with Ajmer’s Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah had also surfaced. The connections of Gauhar Chishti, a Khadim of this dargah, with the Udaipur killers also came to the fore. Gauhar Chishti had not only raised slogans of beheading against former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma but had also met one of the murderers of Kanhaiya Lal. In fact, the murderers of Kanhaiya Lal were en route to Ajmer after executing the heinous crime but were apprehended on their way.
Notably, the Sufis who are no less than ‘Saints’ in the eyes of the same group of self-described secular liberals who keep harping about the ‘Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb’ have two significant dargahs, one is the Ajmer’s Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah and the other is Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah.
Ajmer’s Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah’s role in the heinous killing of Kanhaiya Lal is now out in the open. Moreover, the threats to destabilise India, links with Kanhaiya Lal’s killers, incendiary remarks regarding Nupur Sharma, and joy shown when asked about Kanhaiya Lal’s killing, also indicate that the Tablighi Jamaat Markaz and the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin not only share the same street but also the same thinking and mentality. Perhaps this explains why enormous chunks of meat are hung on either side of the path leading to the dargah, which is believed to be a place of worship, and how flowers and rose petals, that are used for worshipping are sold adjacent to these meat outlets.
Dewan of Delhi’s Nizamuddin dargah says Hindu visitors have decreased by 60% in the past year
Notably, during the course of the same conversation, the dewan of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin’s Dargah, Ali Musa Nizami, also mentioned how the number of Hindu visitors to the Dargah has dramatically decreased over the last year. He said that the number has gone down by almost 60 per cent during that period. The 84-year-old dewan, who has been associated with the dargah for several years, asserted that fewer Hindus are now visiting the dargah as a result of the ‘propagation of hatred’, which he believed will only increase with time.
He regretted that while Hindus used to swarm the dargah, hold bhandara and provide food and money to the destitute, this was no longer the case.
Earlier last week, a controversy erupted in Lulu Mall, Lucknow, after a video of Muslims offering namaz inside the mall premises went viral on the internet. Following the incident, a conscious effort is undertaken by sympathisers of Islamists to peddle an alternative theory that Hindus were the ones who had offered the namaz inside the mall.
Social media platforms are awash with conspiracy theories saying that people who offered namaz in Lulu Mall were Hindus and not Muslims. They cited the arrest of Hindus in a different case to allege that those who were offering namaz inside the mall were not Muslims, but Hindus.
Ahmed Khabeer, Editor of the Islamist propaganda portal The Jamia Times, shared a screenshot of a tweet posted by Lucknow Police to allege that Hindus posing as Muslims had offered namaz in the mall.
Source: Twitter
The screenshot of the tweet posted by DCP Lucknow carried the press note of the police about the arrests made in connection with the offering of unauthorised religious activities inside the Lulu Mall. The press note was about the arrest made on July 15 of youths who had gathered outside the mall for the recitation of Sundar Kand.
However, in his bid to malign Hindus, Khabeer conveniently ignores to share the complete details of the case. The four men arrested in the case were taken under custody on July 15 after they had gathered outside the Lulu Mall to recite Sundar Kand to oppose the offering of namaz inside the mall, videos of which had gone viral on the internet on July 13, two days before their arrest. One Arshad Ali was also arrested by the police on July 15 after he had gone to the mall to offer namaz.
But Khabeer used the press report of their arrest to weave a twisted narrative that depicted Hindus as villains for defaming Muslims by assuming their identity and offering namaz in a public place. The group of Muslims offered namaz on July 12, while the arrests of Hindu youths for gathering outside the mall for the recital of Sundar Kand took place on July 15. But Khabeer expediently muddled the facts to assert that the Hindu men arrested by police were held for offering namaz.
As it turned out, Khabeer was just a cog in the wheel of the giant and rampant propaganda effort aimed at shielding Muslims who offered namaz inside the mall and placing its blame at the feet of Hindus. The well-oiled Congress ecosystem also partook in the efforts to malign Hindus as imposters who posed as Muslims and offered namaz inside the mall premises.
Congress supporter Dr Pooja Tripathi quoted the UP police’s tweet on men arrested for reciting Sundar Kand, claiming that they posed as Muslims to offer namaz in the mall. Pawan Khera, chairman of the media and publicity department of the All India Congress Committee, also participated in this disinformation campaign as he quoted Tripathi’s tweet and lent his support to the insidious propaganda that entailed misrepresenting police communication of Hindus arrested as taken under custody for offering namaz.
Congress leader Salman Nizami also shared the fake news that said Hindu men posing as Muslims were arrested by the police. However, after being called out over his fake news, Nizami promptly deleted the tweet.
Source: Twitter
Radio Mirchi’s Sayema, who has often displayed little hesitation in promoting fake news that serves to bolster Islamist propaganda, also shared the misinformation being peddled about the arrest of Hindu men. Sayema quoted Khabeer’s tweet and promoted the misinformation that Hindu men posed as Muslims to offer namaz inside the mall.
Source: Twitter
Islamist website Siasat, too, played its part in perpetuating the warped propaganda that men who offered namaz in the mall are not Muslim. In an article, the portal claimed that the “CCTV evidence confirmed that it was a purposeful prank intended to tarnish the mall and incite communal hatred.” Interestingly, the article offers no evidence to substantiate the claim that CCTV footage from the mall proved that those who offered namaz were not Muslims.
Source: Siasat
Realising how the propagandists were using the news of the arrest of Hindu men to fuel disinformation, the official Twitter account of Lucknow Police issued a clarification, stating that the claims made on social media that men were arrested for offering namaz are misleading and baseless.
सोशल मीडिया पर लू-लू मॉल प्रकरण के सम्बन्ध में कुछ युवकों का नाम लेकर भ्रामक खबरें प्रसारित की जा रही है, जो कि पूर्णतया असत्य है ।
— POLICE COMMISSIONERATE LUCKNOW (@lkopolice) July 18, 2022
How Islamist sympathisers peddle conspiracy theories to malign Hindus
For a long time now, apologists have either shifted the blame on the victims or appropriated their identity to shield their Islamist brethren. A certain section of the Muslim fundamentalists and their supporters loves peddling such conspiracy theories as it shows Hindus in a bad light while whitewashing the crimes of the Islamists.
While the “intellectuals” resort to twisting facts and weaving an alternate reality to absolve the Muslim fundamentalists and frame Hindus as the guilty, their allies in the form of Islamists and Islamic terrorists use Hindu disguises while carrying out attacks to shield their coreligionists from the fallout.
For instance, during the Godhra Train burning incident, the propagandists tried to deflect the blame of the tragedy on the Hindus, promoting preposterous theories to claim that the conflagration took place from within the bogey and the Islamists did not attack the train from the outside.
Even during the 9/11 attacks, the Islamists and their supporters had tried to play down the involvement of Muslim fundamentalists, alleging that the terror attack was a result of sabotage carried out by Americans as a means to justify their subsequent invasion of Afghanistan and other Muslim countries.
In India, too, such conspiracy theories blaming everyone but the Islamists have taken root, especially in the immediate aftermath of the incidents when factual details are scarce. After the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, a section of propagandists pushed conspiracy theories linking the lone terrorist captured alive, Ajmal Kasab, to Hindu organisations, citing the Kalwa he wore as a symbol of his “Hinduness”.
However, the plan to implicate Hindus as terrorists went awry after Mohammed Ajmal Kasab shed light on their nefarious plan to portray the attack as a case of a “Hindu terror” attack. He revealed that fake Hindu identities and Hindu symbols were deliberately attached to the terrorists, to project the attack as a handiwork of “Hindu terrorists”.
Nevertheless, it did not stop the Congress party from linking the terror attack to Hindus. Congress leader Digvijaya Singh released a book that blamed RSS for the terror attack, whitewashing the Pakistani antecedents of the terrorists and pinning the blame of the tragedy on Hindus.
It is worth noting that Congress was the first one to invent the “Hindu Terror” bogey in the wake of the 2006 Malegaon blasts as a parallel to Islamic terrorism. With this imaginary construct, the Congress party wanted to assert that terror has no religion. However, their real intention was to shield Islamic extremism that was responsible for a string of terror attacks in the tumultuous decade between 2000 to 2010. The Congress party then wrongly implicated Sadhvi Pragya to firm up their “Hindu Terror” fabrication.
More recently, the same methodology was once again employed to assassinate Hindu samaj leader Kamlesh Tiwari. Two assassins, Farid-ud-Din Shaikh and Ashfaq Shaikh came dressed in saffron kurtas at Tiwari’s office-cum-residence at Lucknow and assassinated him. They carried sweet boxes in which they had concealed weapons with which they killed the Hindu leader. They were able to get close to Kamlesh Tiwari by the virtue of being dressed in saffron robes, which attracted little suspicions about their possible intentions to make the visit.
Similarly, earlier last year, a foiled assassination plot to kill Yati Narsighanand Saraswati, the chief abbot of the Dasna Devi Temple, revealed how the Islamists planned to use Hindu disguises to execute their nefarious designs. The terrorist who was planning to kill Yati Narsighanand Saraswati was caught and the police recovered a Bhagwa kurta, a Kalava, a Mala and a Chandan-tika from the terrorist, highlighting how he was working straight out of the Islamist playbook that ordains radicals to commit the acts of terror under Hindu disguises.
As the controversy over namaz offered inside the Lulu Mall erupted, the left-liberal intelligentsia and the Congress party have once again resorted to distorting facts and using the arrest of three Hindu youth for the recital of Sundar Kand to propagate fake news that they had been arrested for offering namaz in the mall.
Chelsea midfielder Tiémoué Bakayoko, who played for AC Milan on loan last season, was stopped at a checkpoint by Milan police and subjected to an aggressive physical search. The officer searching Bakayoko was told by his colleague that the man he is searching is actually an AC Milan footballer, after which he let him go. Bakayoko spent the 2021-22 season on loan at AC Milan from Chelsea, he also spent the 2018-19 season on loan in the fashion capital of Italy.
According to the website, calciomercato.com, the incident took place in the Porta Garibaldi area of Milan on July 3, however, the incident went viral on Monday, July 18, after a video of the incident was shared on Reddit.
Bakayoko was stopped at a checkpoint set up in the wake of a shooting in the area, and the video shows a policeman searching him aggressively. Bakayoko on his part remained calm during the search and appeared to be cooperating fully.
Shocking footage of Milan’s Bakayoko in Milan’s downtown held at gunpoint by police cause taken for someone else.
Check when one of cop goes telling to the colleague searching him that it’s not the suspect but a Milan player, and the cop saying “WHO?!?” pic.twitter.com/B0PTYiXnc5
After a while, one of the colleagues of the policeman searching Bakayoko walks up to him and tells him that the person he is searching is not the suspect from the shooting, but footballer Tiémoué Bakayoko who plays for Milan, the officer mouths “who”, before letting Bakayoko go in absolute embarrassment.
Meanwhile, Milan Police issued a statement after the video of the search went viral on social media stating that the search was vital under the circumstances.
“It should be noted that the search occurred in an operational context that justified the adoption of the highest security measures,” the statement read. “Also as a function of self-protection, and was carried out in a manner absolutely consistent with the type of alarm in progress”, the statement went on to add.
However, the police statement didn’t clarify why Bakayoko was let go the moment the police officer realised he is frisking a Milan footballer.
Tiémoué Bakayoko, who is still a Chelsea player, is set to move to his native France this summer as Marseille is set to complete his signing. If this is his last experience in Milan, he is unlikely to remember Milan very fondly.
