Communalism

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• USA: Laws Restricting Lessons on Racism Are Making It Hard for Teachers To Discuss the Massacre in Buffalo
  9 June, by siawi3

  Teacher Elizabeth Close told her students that under the law she was obligated to inform them that there’s more than one way to view the mass shooting in Buffalo.

• Love, race and history in Ghana
  24 June, by siawi3

  I draw on the insights gleaned from my work on colonial interracial heterosexual relations in Ghana to think through the recent intensification of church and state-sponsored homophobia in a number of different African countries.

• India: Media should not be giving legitimacy to divisive and toxic voices
  24 June, by siawi3

  The Editors Guild of India-EGI demands that these channels pause and take a critical look at what they have done by giving legitimacy to divisive and toxic voices that has made the national discourse coarse and the gap between communities unbridgeable.

• India: Discarding a question on linkages of Hindutva with Nazism/Fascism is blatant Academic Dishonesty!
  30 June, by siawi3

  All three Fathers of Hindutva unwaveringly fell in love with Fascism/Mussolini and Nazism/Hitler and strongly advocated to emulate these totalitarian European ideologies in India; a prerequisite for turning India into an exclusive powerful Hindu nation and solving the minority “problem”.

• India: ‘Not Cooperating’: Gujarat Police Seeks 14-Day Custody of Teesta Setalvad
  26 June, by siawi3

  The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human RIghts Defenders, Mary Lawlor, on Sunday took to Twitter to express concerns over Setalvad’s detention. She also said: “Teesta is a strong voice against hatred and discrimination. Defending human rights is not a crime. I call for her release and an end to persecution by Indian state.”

• India: Communalism - Should the Islamic World’s Outrage Over BJP’s Remarks on the Prophet Worry Indian Muslims?
  30 June, by siawi3

  India has multiple blasphemy laws being actively enforced. The so-called anti-‘love jihad’ laws, anti-cow slaughter laws and anti-conversion laws are all essentially anti-blasphemy laws. Count the number of Hindus charged or arrested under these laws. The mob lynching of Muslims is mass enactment of other, unwritten blasphemy laws.

• Norvège : un extrémiste anti-islam percuté en voiture après avoir brûlé un Coran
  2 juillet, par siawi3

  L’incident intervient une semaine après une fusillade mortelle en plein centre d’Oslo, considérée par les enquêteurs comme un « acte de terrorisme islamiste », qui a provoqué une vive émotion en Norvège. Plusieurs militants d’extrême-droite scandinaves anti-islam, dont le Suédo-Danois Rasmus Paludan, se sont fait une spécialité ces dernières années de brûler des Corans dans des quartiers à forte population musulmane.

• India: Hate Watch: Indians reject communally polarising call to #BoycottMuslims
  6 July, by siawi3

  Addressing the Muslim community, the Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy - IMSD reminded that Blasphemy laws are unacceptable in a secular liberal constitutional democracy. Right-wing groups and trolls had made communal hashtags viral, but citizens have rejected the absurd call to socially boycott an entire community.

• India: Communalism Hindu Right Groups Issue ’Warning’ to Muslims at Delhi Rally
  13 July, by siawi3

  With saffron flags in hand and chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ reverberating in the air, members of different Hindu right-wing groups marched on the streets of central Delhi on Saturday July 9. Most of the people present seemed to be in the 18-25 age group. The march was clear about its purpose – to “issue a warning”. “Today, we have assembled just to give a final warning to the Muslims. If attacks on Hindus happen henceforth, we shall come in huge numbers on the streets and there shall be no more urges for peace.”

• India: After ‘Boycott Muslims’ Call Comes VHP Threat of Killings, ‘Will Repeat Gujarat if Situation Demands’
  15 July, by siawi3

  “Nobody can stop us. Let me tell you this. This is a divine call and this will have to happen.” Organisers of the Manesar ‘boycott Muslims’ event say Hindus need to arm themselves and prepare for war, and claim the Modi government is giving them moral support.

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