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How India's Toxic Hindu Nationalism affects Muslim Minorities: A Thread based on VICE on @HBO documentary with . @kandavolu [Krishna Andavolu]. Under Fair Use policy of the Canadian Copyright Act -will be sharing some vids along with some context.
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. @kandavolu starts the morning in a cow shed in Haridwar where workers are frantically trying to collect cow urine from each cow individually. Religious Hindus treat the cow as a mother - fanatic Hindutva takes it a step further.
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This macabre fascination with cow urine an feces had even India's ministry of Health "AYUSH" issue guidelines to scientists to research on the medicinal properties of cow excretions. Here it ended up in the creation of a cowdung (gobar) spa.
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Even the terrorist MP Pragya Thakur claimed in an interview that she had cured her own cancer using a much-touted mix of cowdung and cow urine. A claim that was refuted by her doctors.
4/n https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/after-pragya-thakur-union-minister-sees-cure-for-cancer-in-cow-urine-2097378
4/n https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/after-pragya-thakur-union-minister-sees-cure-for-cancer-in-cow-urine-2097378
This uber devotion to the cow and its feces takes a militant form in which all cow eaters are regarded as murderers who should be punished. It should be noted here that even the Hindutva idealogue Savarkar ridiculed this infatuation with the cow.
5/n https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/savarkar-equated-cows-with-donkeys-and-pigs
5/n https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/savarkar-equated-cows-with-donkeys-and-pigs
But Hindutva militants (which now form a quasi armed militia supported by the Hindutva regime) take this as an opportunity to persecute Muslims on the pretext of saving cows from slaughter.. @kandavolu travels with one such posse.
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. @kandavolu links the rise of cow vigilantism to the rise of the fascist Hindutva regime of . @narendramodi. On questioning, . @ShashiTharoor acknowledges that this is the first time in Indian history that state has supported such communal violence.
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This clip shows the formation of the . @RSSOrg and how it has influenced Hindutva politics of hatred and bigotry towards Muslims. Inspired by Hitler, #BanRSS has the avowed goal of cleansing India of "foreign" Christian and Muslim influences.
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Here is an earlier thread on how #RSS affiliated bigots use mass murder of Indian Muslims to suppress their identities and voices. #RSS outsources some of its more violent rhetoric and actions to other virulent affiliates like Bajrang Dal and VHP.
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9/n https://twitter.com/DuneKhaal/status/1258469354259152896?s=20
Critics of the Hindutva regime are mercilessly hounded and even killed by their affiliated mobs. The persecution is particularly barbaric when the critics are Muslims. Many Muslims are jailed for years under forged sedition charges.
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While critics are hounded, enablers of fascist ideology and purveyors of anti-Muslim hatred are rewarded with plush advertisement revenues by the fascist Hindutva regime. Here is a national media house propagating Hindutva bigotry and hatred
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11/n https://twitter.com/DuneKhaal/status/1237791558885412864?s=20
Outsourcing the violence to affiliated fringe groups allows the ruling fascist Hindutva regime to be two-faced when questioned on its record of persecution of Indian Muslims. Ram Madhav demonstrates the typical gas-lighting that follows questioning by foreign reporters.
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Though . @shashitharoor is currently in opposition, he is a proponent of 'soft' Hindutva. Here he links the current Indian situation to other far right movements across the world. But dances around the fact that Hindus elected a fascist government to persecute Muslims.
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A huge thank you to VICE on . @HBO for making this documentary and special thanks to . @kandavolu for asking questions of the fascist Hindutva regime that most Indian journalists are afraid to ask. Please also consider subscribing to VICE News.
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If you liked reading this and found it informative. I keep a thread of all threads that I have done so far here: https://twitter.com/DuneKhaal/status/1255626317933932545?s=20
If you liked reading this and found it informative. I keep a thread of all threads that I have done so far here: https://twitter.com/DuneKhaal/status/1255626317933932545?s=20
This question usually comes up where people ask me for the link to the full documentary. This one is on youtube and is age restricted. It's so underrated that it has just 350k views. Promote the channel if you can.
I think this video is geoblocked in India. This is another thing that the fascist Hindutva regime does. Geoblocks internet content that is even mildly critical of its actions. In some cases, like Kashmir, they block access to the internet itself.
