Worth recalling. The road to the new Ram temple was paved not only w the corpses of Muslims, but w that of Hindu priests. Even being head priest of one of the most supposedly sacred Hindu sites means nothing to the fascists if you oppose them. Their own faith isn& #39;t sacred to them https://twitter.com/dyficec/status/1290944624274489344">https://twitter.com/dyficec/s...

Connected, I think this gets something right. In one sense Hindutva is more radically political than some of the big political readings of religion like Liberation Theology or Islamism. The others don& #39;t propose literally rewriting their own sacred texts. https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-conservative-challenge-to-hindutva/article32262217.ece?fbclid=IwAR2NgwLgapcb2w5a3_vDvOBABEATbqxT3Mc67hb3SCnCuenaWcymB5QnvmA">https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/o...

Hindutva outfits have proposed actually removing all positive references to the caste system & patriarchy from Hindu texts in the name of Hindu unity/equality, which even radical Liberation Theologists don& #39;t do with the Bible or Quran& #39;s references to gender or slavery, for ex.

I don& #39;t think some of the anti-Hindutva left who take a primarily Ambedkarite or rationalist approach properly contend w this. They take a basically New Atheist stance: there& #39;s an authentic Hinduism & it& #39;s essentially casteist & sexist so lower castes & women should reject it.

But given the difficulty of getting people to abandon religion & the BJP& #39;s increasing support among marginalized groups, if they can create even the pretense of a more inclusive Hinduism that& #39;s still anti-Muslim, etc, any New Atheist-style left strategy will likely fail.