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  1. “B😮😮head them—those who come for conversion. “Now you’ll say that I am spreading hate although I’m a saint. But it’s important to ignite the fire sometimes. I am telling you; anyone who comes into your house, street, neighborhood, village, don’t forgive them.” This was the call to a growing crowd at a recent anti-Christian rally labeled “Stop Religious Conversion” in India’s Chattisgarh State. On October 1, Swami Parmatmanand told his audience (which included some senior members of one of the country’s two major political parties) that converts from Hinduism should be kildd ........................ Hundreds of Christians in the Indian state of Orissa have been forced to renounce their religion and become Hindus after lynch mobs issued them with a stark ultimatum: convert or die. The wave of forced conversions marks a dramatic escalation in a two-month orgy of sectarian violence which has left at least 59 people dead, 50,000 homeless and thousands of houses and churches burnt to the ground. As neighbour has turned on neighbour, thousands more Christians have sought sanctuary in refugee camps, unable to return to the wreckage of their homes unless they, too, agree to abandon their faith. ................... From August 25 to 28, 2008, Hindu mobs attacked the Christian community in Kandhamal in Odisha in retaliation to the killings of Hindu monk Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati and four others. According to reports, while it was suspected that Maoist insurgents were behind the killings, many Christian settlements bore the brunt of the arson, which left more than 50,000 people homeless. According to government reports, the violence resulted in the burning down of 395 churches and over 5,600 houses and the ransacking of over 600 villages. Sme reports place the number of those killed at more than 500. Many Christian families were burnt alive and thousands of them were forced to convert to Hinduism or worse, they would have to face violence. During the attacks, a Catholic nun was gang-raped by a mob who then paraded her half-naked on the roads. The incident grabbed headlines and many took note of how the onlooking police did not intervene as the mob tried to strip her naked. The mob could be heard shouting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai". The same year saw another wave of attacks directed against Christian churches and prayer halls in Karnataka by the Hindu organisation Bajrang Dal. The violence first erupted on 14 September 2008 when about 20 churches were vandalised in various districts of Karnataka including Mangalore, Udupi, and Chikkamagaluru among others. During the same attacks, several symbols of Christianity were under threat in Tamil Nadu. Three churches in Erode and Karur districts were stoned, a statue of Mother Mary in Krishnagiri was stolen and an idol of Jesus in Madurai was vandalised - all in over five days. Post-2014, attacks against Christians saw an uptick. According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India, anti-Christian hate crimes have doubled since 2014. 2015 was pitted as the worst year for Indian Christians in the history of post-Independence India, according to a similar report released by the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF). The forum compiles statistics with regard to cases of religious persecution of Christians for decades. Their data shows there have been at least 365 major attacks on community members as well as institutions for practising and spreading their faith in 2015. Delhi in that year saw a whole of six attacks on Churches and a Christian school - which included alleged arson attacks on churches in Rohini and Dilshad Garden along with acts of vandalism in churches in Jasola and Vikaspuri. Fast-forward a couple of years, at least 305 incidents of violence against Christians were recorded in the first nine months of 2021, according to a fact-finding report released by the Association for the Protection of Civil Rights, United Against Hate, and United Christian Forum. Some of these have been reported from states such as Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. On 3 October 2021, a prayer house in Roorkee was allegedly vandalised by a mob of nearly 250 people after accusing Pentecostal evangelist Prio Sadhna Potter and those present of illegal conversions. The following month, members of the Bajrang Dal and the RSS allegedly vandalised a newly set up church in Delhi’s Dwarka area. The people who were participating in the Sunday prayer meeting at the Church were accused of violating the Delhi Disaster Management Act (DDMA) guidelines as the premises had not been officially registered as a religious site. On 12 December 2021, members of Hindu right-wing groups allegedly set fire to Christian religious books in Karnataka’s Kolar district. According to a report by NDTV, this was the “38th attack on religious minorities in Karnataka in the last 12 months”. The report also said that the number of attacks on the community has increased ever since the government started considering a bill to ban forcible religious conversion. A year later, amidst the festivities of Christmas, a spate of attacks against Christians angered the community. They eventually staged a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar a few weeks ago, saying that, “Our people are being beaten up.” The first attack among these was on December 20, 2022, when a man dressed up as Santa Claus was beaten up by a Hindutva mob in a residential colony in the Makarpura area, Vadodara in Gujarat. According to media reports, the victim, Shashikant Dabhi, dressed up as Santa Claus entered the Avdhoot society in Makarpura where Christian families were celebrating the Christmas fervor. Dabhi entered the society and started distributing chocolates to people and wishing everyone a ‘merry Christmas’. Soon, he was attacked by a group of people who warned of such a celebration as it was a ‘Hindu-dominated’ area. Two days after Christmas, a church in Karnataka's Mysuru was vandalised by unknown people, who also damaged the statue of a baby Jesus. The incident took place in St Mary's Church at Periyapatna..,.
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  2. To the true sincere people, India led my hindu nationalist Modi and the BJP are comitting terrible crimes against humanity, with govt and police support. The minorities like xtians muslims and the lower castes are being ethnically cleansed. media narrative is currently to demon ise islam so the west has kep this quiet, but sincere hindus, i believe there are still some of you out there, please stop pretending its not happening and talk to your people. 24 Aug 2022 A former legislator from India’s ruling party has been caught on boasting on camera about getting at least five Muslims killed in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. “We have killed five of them so far, be it in Lalwandi, be it Behror … I have given a free hand to the workers, kill those ** behind cow slaughter,” Gyan Dev Ahuja, a politician belonging to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is seen saying in a video now viral in India. Indian media reports earlier this week said Ahuja has been charged with promoting religious hatred and enmity, and was interrogated by police in Rajasthan on Monday. Between 2013 and 2018, Ahuja was a legislator from Ramgarh in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, which saw a series of mob lynchings and killings of Muslims by Hindu mobs. On Monday, Indian news website The Quint reported such deaths happened in Alwar in 2017 and 2018 over allegations of slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider holy. “Pehlu Khan was lynched in public view in April 2017. Umar Khan was shot dead in November 2017, a murder that two (cow vigilantes) owned up to. And Rakbar Khan was killed in July 2018,” said the report. “They all took place in Rajasthan’s Alwar,” it said. India’s Muslims have been facing hate speech and attacks since Modi came to power in 2014. ....................... Indian authorities on Tuesday imposed a curfew and deployed hundreds of paramilitary forces to different parts of the northern Haryana state in response to violent clashes between Hindu and Muslims that have left at least four people dead. A mosque was set on fire early Tuesday and a Muslim cleric was killed in Gurugram city outside the capital, Delhi. Several people involved in the violence have been arrested, police said. "The attackers [who torched the mosque] have been identified and several of them have been rounded up," Gurugram Police said in a statement on Tuesday. The violence first flared up Monday afternoon when a religious procession organized by Hindu nationalist groups passed through the Muslim-majority Nuh district in the northern Haryana state. ............................. By Anagha Subhash Nair and Ananta Agarwal India’s Supreme Court says it will investigate after complaints that Hindu nationalist leaders called on followers to take up arms against the country’s Muslim minority. The notice of investigation was issued last week to the northern state of Uttarakhand, where a Hindu nationalist conference in the city of Haridwar was attended by hundreds of right-wing activists. “We must prepare to either kill or be killed,” one of the speakers, Swami Prabodhananda Giri, said at the three-day conference, which was held Dec. 17-19. Anti-Muslim sentiment has been rising in Hindu-majority India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist. But recent calls to violence are shocking in their extremity, experts say, going beyond hate speech to advocate ethnic cleansing. 2020: Muslim shrine burned as deadly clashes continue in India FEB. 25, 202001:02 A petition filed to the court said the speeches in Haridwar and at a similar event in the Delhi territory, which includes the nation’s capital, “amount to an open call for murder of an entire community.” The speeches “pose a grave threat not just to the unity and integrity of our country but also endanger the lives of millions of Muslim citizens,” it said, adding that organizers had announced further events. Download the NBC News app for breaking news and politics No arrests have been made in either Haridwar or Delhi, and the Modi government has not commented. The official silence, critics say, could be interpreted by Hindu nationalists as a tacit endorsement. “To give speeches against us and to say you want to drive out an entire population based on their religion, I don’t understand how they can ignore this,” said Maulana Mahmood Madani, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, which describes itself as India’s largest Muslim organization. Since Modi consolidated power with his re-election in 2014, Muslims in India — who make up about 14 percent of the population, have faced increased violence, discrimination and government persecution. Attacks from Hindu nationalists have ranged from property destruction and the disruption of religious services to deadly lynch mobs. ...................................... (New York) – The authorities in India are increasingly using summary and abusive punishments against Muslims deemed to have broken the law, Human Rights Watch said today. In several states ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the authorities have demolished Muslim homes and properties without legal authorization, and most recently, publicly flogged Muslim men accused of disrupting a Hindu festival. “The authorities in several Indian states are carrying out violence against Muslims as a kind of summary punishment,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Officials blatantly disregarding the rule of law are sending a message to the public that Muslims can be discriminated against and attacked.” On October 4, 2022, in Kheda district, Gujarat state, police arrested 13 people for allegedly throwing stones at a “garba” ceremonial dance during a Hindu festival. A police officer in civilian clothes wearing a gun holster was filmed publicly flogging several Muslim men with sticks while other officials held the men against an electricity pole. In videos shown and even praised on some pro-government television news networks, several uniformed police officers watch the flogging and strike the accused with sticks, while a crowd of men and women cheer and applaud. The police ordered an inquiry only following social media criticism of the video recordings. On October 2 in Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh state, police filed a case of attempted murder and rioting against 19 Muslim men accused of throwing stones at a garba event and detained seven of them. Two days later, without any legal authorization, the authorities demolished the homes of three of the men, claiming they were constructed illegally. In April, the authorities in Khargone district in Madhya Pradesh state, Anand and Sabarkantha districts in Gujarat state, and Jahangirpuri neighborhood in Delhi responded to communal clashes by summarily demolishing property, most of it owned by Muslims. The clashes occurred after religious processions of armed Hindu men passed through Muslim localities during Hindu festivals. The men shouted anti-Muslim slogans in front of mosques while the police failed to take any action. The authorities tried to justify the demolitions by claiming the structures were illegal, but their actions and statements indicated that the destruction was intended as collective punishment for Muslims, holding them responsible for the violence during the communal clashes. “Houses that were involved in stone pelting will be turned into rubble,” the BJP home minister in Madhya Pradesh stated. ................................ “All hindus must pick up weapons and conduct a cleanliness drive,” bellowed a Hindu priest at a three-day “religious parliament” in north India last month. Another speaker fired up the large crowd even more crudely: “If a hundred of us become soldiers and kill two million of them, we will be victorious.” By “them”, she meant India’s 200m Muslims. Those priests baying for blood are not isolated bigots. Under the Hindu-nationalist government of Narendra Modi, the world’s most populous democracy has seen a growing wave of intolerance. In Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi, Muslims have been denied the use of open space to pray because it “offends sentiments”. They have also been denied permission to build mosques. Elsewhere Muslims accused of transporting cattle for slaughter, or of being in possession of beef, are sometimes lynched. Muslim businesses are boycotted. In recent months young Hindu radicals have persecuted high-profile Muslim women by creating apps to “auction” them off..
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  3. To the true sincere people, India led my hindu nationalist Modi and the BJP are comitting terrible crimes against humanity, with govt and police support. The minorities like xtians muslims and the lower castes are being ethnically cleansed. media narrative is currently to demon ise islam so the west has kep this quiet, but sincere hindus, i believe there are still some of you out there, please stop pretending its not happening and talk to your people. 24 Aug 2022 A former legislator from India’s ruling party has been caught on boasting on camera about getting at least five Muslims killed in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. “We have killed five of them so far, be it in Lalwandi, be it Behror … I have given a free hand to the workers, kill those ** behind cow slaughter,” Gyan Dev Ahuja, a politician belonging to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is seen saying in a video now viral in India. Indian media reports earlier this week said Ahuja has been charged with promoting religious hatred and enmity, and was interrogated by police in Rajasthan on Monday. Between 2013 and 2018, Ahuja was a legislator from Ramgarh in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, which saw a series of mob lynchings and killings of Muslims by Hindu mobs. On Monday, Indian news website The Quint reported such deaths happened in Alwar in 2017 and 2018 over allegations of slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider holy. “Pehlu Khan was lynched in public view in April 2017. Umar Khan was shot dead in November 2017, a murder that two (cow vigilantes) owned up to. And Rakbar Khan was killed in July 2018,” said the report. “They all took place in Rajasthan’s Alwar,” it said. India’s Muslims have been facing hate speech and attacks since Modi came to power in 2014. ....................... Indian authorities on Tuesday imposed a curfew and deployed hundreds of paramilitary forces to different parts of the northern Haryana state in response to violent clashes between Hindu and Muslims that have left at least four people dead. A mosque was set on fire early Tuesday and a Muslim cleric was killed in Gurugram city outside the capital, Delhi. Several people involved in the violence have been arrested, police said. "The attackers [who torched the mosque] have been identified and several of them have been rounded up," Gurugram Police said in a statement on Tuesday. The violence first flared up Monday afternoon when a religious procession organized by Hindu nationalist groups passed through the Muslim-majority Nuh district in the northern Haryana state. ............................. By Anagha Subhash Nair and Ananta Agarwal India’s Supreme Court says it will investigate after complaints that Hindu nationalist leaders called on followers to take up arms against the country’s Muslim minority. The notice of investigation was issued last week to the northern state of Uttarakhand, where a Hindu nationalist conference in the city of Haridwar was attended by hundreds of right-wing activists. “We must prepare to either kill or be killed,” one of the speakers, Swami Prabodhananda Giri, said at the three-day conference, which was held Dec. 17-19. Anti-Muslim sentiment has been rising in Hindu-majority India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist. But recent calls to violence are shocking in their extremity, experts say, going beyond hate speech to advocate ethnic cleansing. 2020: Muslim shrine burned as deadly clashes continue in India FEB. 25, 202001:02 A petition filed to the court said the speeches in Haridwar and at a similar event in the Delhi territory, which includes the nation’s capital, “amount to an open call for murder of an entire community.” The speeches “pose a grave threat not just to the unity and integrity of our country but also endanger the lives of millions of Muslim citizens,” it said, adding that organizers had announced further events. Download the NBC News app for breaking news and politics No arrests have been made in either Haridwar or Delhi, and the Modi government has not commented. The official silence, critics say, could be interpreted by Hindu nationalists as a tacit endorsement. “To give speeches against us and to say you want to drive out an entire population based on their religion, I don’t understand how they can ignore this,” said Maulana Mahmood Madani, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, which describes itself as India’s largest Muslim organization. Since Modi consolidated power with his re-election in 2014, Muslims in India — who make up about 14 percent of the population, have faced increased violence, discrimination and government persecution. Attacks from Hindu nationalists have ranged from property destruction and the disruption of religious services to deadly lynch mobs. ...................................... (New York) – The authorities in India are increasingly using summary and abusive punishments against Muslims deemed to have broken the law, Human Rights Watch said today. In several states ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the authorities have demolished Muslim homes and properties without legal authorization, and most recently, publicly flogged Muslim men accused of disrupting a Hindu festival. “The authorities in several Indian states are carrying out violence against Muslims as a kind of summary punishment,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Officials blatantly disregarding the rule of law are sending a message to the public that Muslims can be discriminated against and attacked.” On October 4, 2022, in Kheda district, Gujarat state, police arrested 13 people for allegedly throwing stones at a “garba” ceremonial dance during a Hindu festival. A police officer in civilian clothes wearing a gun holster was filmed publicly flogging several Muslim men with sticks while other officials held the men against an electricity pole. In videos shown and even praised on some pro-government television news networks, several uniformed police officers watch the flogging and strike the accused with sticks, while a crowd of men and women cheer and applaud. The police ordered an inquiry only following social media criticism of the video recordings. On October 2 in Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh state, police filed a case of attempted murder and rioting against 19 Muslim men accused of throwing stones at a garba event and detained seven of them. Two days later, without any legal authorization, the authorities demolished the homes of three of the men, claiming they were constructed illegally. In April, the authorities in Khargone district in Madhya Pradesh state, Anand and Sabarkantha districts in Gujarat state, and Jahangirpuri neighborhood in Delhi responded to communal clashes by summarily demolishing property, most of it owned by Muslims. The clashes occurred after religious processions of armed Hindu men passed through Muslim localities during Hindu festivals. The men shouted anti-Muslim slogans in front of mosques while the police failed to take any action. The authorities tried to justify the demolitions by claiming the structures were illegal, but their actions and statements indicated that the destruction was intended as collective punishment for Muslims, holding them responsible for the violence during the communal clashes. “Houses that were involved in stone pelting will be turned into rubble,” the BJP home minister in Madhya Pradesh stated. ................................ “All hindus must pick up weapons and conduct a cleanliness drive,” bellowed a Hindu priest at a three-day “religious parliament” in north India last month. Another speaker fired up the large crowd even more crudely: “If a hundred of us become soldiers and kill two million of them, we will be victorious.” By “them”, she meant India’s 200m Muslims. Those priests baying for blood are not isolated bigots. Under the Hindu-nationalist government of Narendra Modi, the world’s most populous democracy has seen a growing wave of intolerance. In Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi, Muslims have been denied the use of open space to pray because it “offends sentiments”. They have also been denied permission to build mosques. Elsewhere Muslims accused of transporting cattle for slaughter, or of being in possession of beef, are sometimes lynched. Muslim businesses are boycotted. In recent months young Hindu radicals have persecuted high-profile Muslim women by creating apps to “auction” them off..
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  4. “B😮😮head them—those who come for conversion. “Now you’ll say that I am spreading hate although I’m a saint. But it’s important to ignite the fire sometimes. I am telling you; anyone who comes into your house, street, neighborhood, village, don’t forgive them.” This was the call to a growing crowd at a recent anti-Christian rally labeled “Stop Religious Conversion” in India’s Chattisgarh State. On October 1, Swami Parmatmanand told his audience (which included some senior members of one of the country’s two major political parties) that converts from Hinduism should be kildd ........................ Hundreds of Christians in the Indian state of Orissa have been forced to renounce their religion and become Hindus after lynch mobs issued them with a stark ultimatum: convert or die. The wave of forced conversions marks a dramatic escalation in a two-month orgy of sectarian violence which has left at least 59 people dead, 50,000 homeless and thousands of houses and churches burnt to the ground. As neighbour has turned on neighbour, thousands more Christians have sought sanctuary in refugee camps, unable to return to the wreckage of their homes unless they, too, agree to abandon their faith. ................... From August 25 to 28, 2008, Hindu mobs attacked the Christian community in Kandhamal in Odisha in retaliation to the killings of Hindu monk Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati and four others. According to reports, while it was suspected that Maoist insurgents were behind the killings, many Christian settlements bore the brunt of the arson, which left more than 50,000 people homeless. According to government reports, the violence resulted in the burning down of 395 churches and over 5,600 houses and the ransacking of over 600 villages. Sme reports place the number of those killed at more than 500. Many Christian families were burnt alive and thousands of them were forced to convert to Hinduism or worse, they would have to face violence. During the attacks, a Catholic nun was gang-raped by a mob who then paraded her half-naked on the roads. The incident grabbed headlines and many took note of how the onlooking police did not intervene as the mob tried to strip her naked. The mob could be heard shouting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai". The same year saw another wave of attacks directed against Christian churches and prayer halls in Karnataka by the Hindu organisation Bajrang Dal. The violence first erupted on 14 September 2008 when about 20 churches were vandalised in various districts of Karnataka including Mangalore, Udupi, and Chikkamagaluru among others. During the same attacks, several symbols of Christianity were under threat in Tamil Nadu. Three churches in Erode and Karur districts were stoned, a statue of Mother Mary in Krishnagiri was stolen and an idol of Jesus in Madurai was vandalised - all in over five days. Post-2014, attacks against Christians saw an uptick. According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India, anti-Christian hate crimes have doubled since 2014. 2015 was pitted as the worst year for Indian Christians in the history of post-Independence India, according to a similar report released by the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF). The forum compiles statistics with regard to cases of religious persecution of Christians for decades. Their data shows there have been at least 365 major attacks on community members as well as institutions for practising and spreading their faith in 2015. Delhi in that year saw a whole of six attacks on Churches and a Christian school - which included alleged arson attacks on churches in Rohini and Dilshad Garden along with acts of vandalism in churches in Jasola and Vikaspuri. Fast-forward a couple of years, at least 305 incidents of violence against Christians were recorded in the first nine months of 2021, according to a fact-finding report released by the Association for the Protection of Civil Rights, United Against Hate, and United Christian Forum. Some of these have been reported from states such as Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. On 3 October 2021, a prayer house in Roorkee was allegedly vandalised by a mob of nearly 250 people after accusing Pentecostal evangelist Prio Sadhna Potter and those present of illegal conversions. The following month, members of the Bajrang Dal and the RSS allegedly vandalised a newly set up church in Delhi’s Dwarka area. The people who were participating in the Sunday prayer meeting at the Church were accused of violating the Delhi Disaster Management Act (DDMA) guidelines as the premises had not been officially registered as a religious site. On 12 December 2021, members of Hindu right-wing groups allegedly set fire to Christian religious books in Karnataka’s Kolar district. According to a report by NDTV, this was the “38th attack on religious minorities in Karnataka in the last 12 months”. The report also said that the number of attacks on the community has increased ever since the government started considering a bill to ban forcible religious conversion. A year later, amidst the festivities of Christmas, a spate of attacks against Christians angered the community. They eventually staged a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar a few weeks ago, saying that, “Our people are being beaten up.” The first attack among these was on December 20, 2022, when a man dressed up as Santa Claus was beaten up by a Hindutva mob in a residential colony in the Makarpura area, Vadodara in Gujarat. According to media reports, the victim, Shashikant Dabhi, dressed up as Santa Claus entered the Avdhoot society in Makarpura where Christian families were celebrating the Christmas fervor. Dabhi entered the society and started distributing chocolates to people and wishing everyone a ‘merry Christmas’. Soon, he was attacked by a group of people who warned of such a celebration as it was a ‘Hindu-dominated’ area. Two days after Christmas, a church in Karnataka's Mysuru was vandalised by unknown people, who also damaged the statue of a baby Jesus. The incident took place in St Mary's Church at Periyapatna..,.
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  5. R8p333 crisis, misogyny, honour kills, Hindu number 1 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 6.4.7: If she is not willing, he should buy her over; and if she is still unyielding, he should strike her with a stick or with the hand and proceed, uttering the following Mantra, ‘I take away your reputation,’ etc. She is then actually discredited. Garuda Purana 1.109.31: Rogues, artisans, servants, badmen, drums, and women, are softened and set right by beating. search on bbc news for this survey But what sets it apart here is the silence that surrounds to, even approval for violence at home. More than 40% women and 38% men told a recent government survey that it was okay for a man to beat his wife if she disrespected her in-laws, neglected her home or children, went out without telling him, refused sex or didn't cook properly. The rape capital India rapes Last year, police recorded 31,878 rapes - the numbers show a steep rise from the previous year (28,153), but compared to the 39,068 women who were raped in 2016, they show a decline of 18%. With tens of thousands of rape cases reported annually, India has earned the moniker "the rape capital of the world". It's not because India is an exception - many countries report equal or higher numbers of rapes. But critics say the world's largest democracy gets a bad name because of the way the victims and survivors are treated - they are stigmatised by the society, and often shamed by the police and judiciary too. Most recently, a Muslim woman who was gang-raped and saw 14 members of her family killed by Hindu neighbours during the 2002 Gujarat riots spoke of her "searing pain" after her rapists were freed from jail. The story of the unfair treatment Bilkis Bano received made global headlines, reinforcing the view that India is often unkind to its women. Taken away The latest data records 76,263 kidnappings and abductions of women - up 14% from 66,544 in 2016. Some of the crime was linked to murder, ransom and many were trafficked for prostitution and domestic work. But only 1 in 10 of these women formally reports the offence One in three women in India is likely to have been subjected to intimate partner violence of a physical, emotional, or sexual nature, reveals research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Yet only one in 10 of these women formally reports the offence to the police or healthcare professionals, the findings show. Despite some improvement, these figures suggest that India is unlikely to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-5) 5, which focuses on gender equality and the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls by 2030, say the researchers. In a bid to gauge what progress has been made in reducing violence against women, and the effectiveness of domestic violence legislation in India, the researchers drew on information gathered for the most recent National Family Health Survey (NFHS), wave 4, carried out in 2015-16. The NFHS has included a module on domestic violence since wave 3 (2005-6), and the researchers included only (ever) married women of reproductive age (15 to 49 year olds), who had answered all the questions in this module, giving a total of 66, 013 respondents. The women were asked if their husbands had ever subjected them to physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, and to whom they reported it, with a view to getting help.Background information on a range of potentially influential factors, including educational attainment, employment, household income, and alcohol use, was also obtained. Most of the respondents (19.5%) were aged between 25 and 29; most (94.5%) were married; and three out of four were Hindus. One in four (25%) was in work and around one in seven (just over 13%) regularly drank alcohol, while nearly a third (just over 30%) said their husbands/partners drank. The responses show that nearly one in three women in India is likely to have been subjected to physical, emotional, or sexual abuse at the hands of their husbands. Physical violence was the most common form of abuse, with nearly 27.5% of women reporting this. Sexual abuse and emotional abuse were reported by nearly 13% and nearly 7%, respectively. Around 3.5% of respondents said they had been subjected to all three types of abuse, and nearly 7% had been injured as a result of their spouse’s abusive behaviour. The types of spousal violence varied by region of the country. But older women; those who were widowed, separated, or divorced; those with little education; and poor women were all more likely to have been subjected to some or all forms of intimate partner violence. But so too were women who had a job, possibly reflecting a backlash against women’s changing societal roles, suggest the researchers. Women whose partners were unemployed, or poorly educated, or who drank were also more likely to have been subjected to intimate partner violence. And those who grew up in a household where they had witnessed their father hitting their mother were twice as likely to be victims of spousal violence as those who hadn’t. Only around one five (22.4%) had told someone about the abuse, but only 13.5% had sought help, with women who had endured sexual violence the most likely to do so (23%). But less than 1% reported the offence to the police (0.5%) or asked a health professional for help (0.1%). Women living on their own; those who were well educated; those in work; those living in the North of the country; and those who had witnessed their father acting violently towards their mother as a child were all more likely to seek help. This is an observational study, and as such, can’t infer a causal effect from the findings, but it is the largest and most recent study to report on all three types of spousal violence, say the researchers. The previous NFHS in 2005-6 indicated a lifetime prevalence of spousal violence among women in India of 37%, they note
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  6. Modern slavery continues to be a significant problem, even in 2017. There are 46 million people around the world today who live in slavery, and 18 million (39%) of them are in India. Although these numbers are shocking, the fact that there is such high prevalence of slavery in India isn’t. Slavery in India is mainly dominated by bonded slavery and child slavery. Until very recently, India had not ratified the Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, which it finally did in June this year. The existence of bonded slavery can be traced back to the Indian Zamindari system, which heavily relied on the caste system for its perpetuation. The son of a slave had to pay the never-ending debt of his ancestors by serving the zamindar. Although this system was abolished after independence, its interplay with the caste system has had serious repercussions. Caste in modern India is not dead, nor is it dormant. Caste didn’t disappear with the dawn of modernity and development or Indian independence. The caste system in India has adapted itself to the changing Indian economy and politics, and continues to hold a pivotal place in an Indian’s life. According to the 2015 Equity Watch report, there has been a 19.4% increase in crimes against Dalits from 2014. The number of cases registered under the Scheduled Caste (Dalits) and Scheduled Tribes (Adivasis) Prevention of Atrocities Act has also risen every year since 2011, taking a leap in 2014 to 47,064 cases, from 13,975 cases in 2013. Other reports go on to suggest the existence of serious obstacles that lower caste people face in obtaining justice, with alarming conclusions like, “most cases of caste abuse and of rape most frequently end in compromises.” Women and girls belonging to Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes still face significant discrimination and high rates of sexual violence. However, in the aftermath of the Nirbhaya gang rape case, this scenario is predicted to change, with the wider definition of sexual offences against women after the introduction of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013
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  7. “B😮😮head them—those who come for conversion. “Now you’ll say that I am spreading hate although I’m a saint. But it’s important to ignite the fire sometimes. I am telling you; anyone who comes into your house, street, neighborhood, village, don’t forgive them.” This was the call to a growing crowd at a recent anti-Christian rally labeled “Stop Religious Conversion” in India’s Chattisgarh State. On October 1, Swami Parmatmanand told his audience (which included some senior members of one of the country’s two major political parties) that converts from Hinduism should be kildd ........................ Hundreds of Christians in the Indian state of Orissa have been forced to renounce their religion and become Hindus after lynch mobs issued them with a stark ultimatum: convert or die. The wave of forced conversions marks a dramatic escalation in a two-month orgy of sectarian violence which has left at least 59 people dead, 50,000 homeless and thousands of houses and churches burnt to the ground. As neighbour has turned on neighbour, thousands more Christians have sought sanctuary in refugee camps, unable to return to the wreckage of their homes unless they, too, agree to abandon their faith. ................... From August 25 to 28, 2008, Hindu mobs attacked the Christian community in Kandhamal in Odisha in retaliation to the killings of Hindu monk Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati and four others. According to reports, while it was suspected that Maoist insurgents were behind the killings, many Christian settlements bore the brunt of the arson, which left more than 50,000 people homeless. According to government reports, the violence resulted in the burning down of 395 churches and over 5,600 houses and the ransacking of over 600 villages. Sme reports place the number of those killed at more than 500. Many Christian families were burnt alive and thousands of them were forced to convert to Hinduism or worse, they would have to face violence. During the attacks, a Catholic nun was gang-raped by a mob who then paraded her half-naked on the roads. The incident grabbed headlines and many took note of how the onlooking police did not intervene as the mob tried to strip her naked. The mob could be heard shouting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai". The same year saw another wave of attacks directed against Christian churches and prayer halls in Karnataka by the Hindu organisation Bajrang Dal. The violence first erupted on 14 September 2008 when about 20 churches were vandalised in various districts of Karnataka including Mangalore, Udupi, and Chikkamagaluru among others. During the same attacks, several symbols of Christianity were under threat in Tamil Nadu. Three churches in Erode and Karur districts were stoned, a statue of Mother Mary in Krishnagiri was stolen and an idol of Jesus in Madurai was vandalised - all in over five days. Post-2014, attacks against Christians saw an uptick. According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India, anti-Christian hate crimes have doubled since 2014. 2015 was pitted as the worst year for Indian Christians in the history of post-Independence India, according to a similar report released by the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF). The forum compiles statistics with regard to cases of religious persecution of Christians for decades. Their data shows there have been at least 365 major attacks on community members as well as institutions for practising and spreading their faith in 2015. Delhi in that year saw a whole of six attacks on Churches and a Christian school - which included alleged arson attacks on churches in Rohini and Dilshad Garden along with acts of vandalism in churches in Jasola and Vikaspuri. Fast-forward a couple of years, at least 305 incidents of violence against Christians were recorded in the first nine months of 2021, according to a fact-finding report released by the Association for the Protection of Civil Rights, United Against Hate, and United Christian Forum. Some of these have been reported from states such as Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. On 3 October 2021, a prayer house in Roorkee was allegedly vandalised by a mob of nearly 250 people after accusing Pentecostal evangelist Prio Sadhna Potter and those present of illegal conversions. The following month, members of the Bajrang Dal and the RSS allegedly vandalised a newly set up church in Delhi’s Dwarka area. The people who were participating in the Sunday prayer meeting at the Church were accused of violating the Delhi Disaster Management Act (DDMA) guidelines as the premises had not been officially registered as a religious site. On 12 December 2021, members of Hindu right-wing groups allegedly set fire to Christian religious books in Karnataka’s Kolar district. According to a report by NDTV, this was the “38th attack on religious minorities in Karnataka in the last 12 months”. The report also said that the number of attacks on the community has increased ever since the government started considering a bill to ban forcible religious conversion. A year later, amidst the festivities of Christmas, a spate of attacks against Christians angered the community. They eventually staged a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar a few weeks ago, saying that, “Our people are being beaten up.” The first attack among these was on December 20, 2022, when a man dressed up as Santa Claus was beaten up by a Hindutva mob in a residential colony in the Makarpura area, Vadodara in Gujarat. According to media reports, the victim, Shashikant Dabhi, dressed up as Santa Claus entered the Avdhoot society in Makarpura where Christian families were celebrating the Christmas fervor. Dabhi entered the society and started distributing chocolates to people and wishing everyone a ‘merry Christmas’. Soon, he was attacked by a group of people who warned of such a celebration as it was a ‘Hindu-dominated’ area. Two days after Christmas, a church in Karnataka's Mysuru was vandalised by unknown people, who also damaged the statue of a baby Jesus. The incident took place in St Mary's Church at Periyapatna..,.
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  8. To the true sincere people, India led my hindu nationalist Modi and the BJP are comitting terrible crimes against humanity, with govt and police support. The minorities like xtians muslims and the lower castes are being ethnically cleansed. media narrative is currently to demon ise islam so the west has kep this quiet, but sincere hindus, i believe there are still some of you out there, please stop pretending its not happening and talk to your people. 24 Aug 2022 A former legislator from India’s ruling party has been caught on boasting on camera about getting at least five Muslims killed in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. “We have killed five of them so far, be it in Lalwandi, be it Behror … I have given a free hand to the workers, kill those ** behind cow slaughter,” Gyan Dev Ahuja, a politician belonging to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is seen saying in a video now viral in India. Indian media reports earlier this week said Ahuja has been charged with promoting religious hatred and enmity, and was interrogated by police in Rajasthan on Monday. Between 2013 and 2018, Ahuja was a legislator from Ramgarh in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, which saw a series of mob lynchings and killings of Muslims by Hindu mobs. On Monday, Indian news website The Quint reported such deaths happened in Alwar in 2017 and 2018 over allegations of slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider holy. “Pehlu Khan was lynched in public view in April 2017. Umar Khan was shot dead in November 2017, a murder that two (cow vigilantes) owned up to. And Rakbar Khan was killed in July 2018,” said the report. “They all took place in Rajasthan’s Alwar,” it said. India’s Muslims have been facing hate speech and attacks since Modi came to power in 2014. ....................... Indian authorities on Tuesday imposed a curfew and deployed hundreds of paramilitary forces to different parts of the northern Haryana state in response to violent clashes between Hindu and Muslims that have left at least four people dead. A mosque was set on fire early Tuesday and a Muslim cleric was killed in Gurugram city outside the capital, Delhi. Several people involved in the violence have been arrested, police said. "The attackers [who torched the mosque] have been identified and several of them have been rounded up," Gurugram Police said in a statement on Tuesday. The violence first flared up Monday afternoon when a religious procession organized by Hindu nationalist groups passed through the Muslim-majority Nuh district in the northern Haryana state. ............................. By Anagha Subhash Nair and Ananta Agarwal India’s Supreme Court says it will investigate after complaints that Hindu nationalist leaders called on followers to take up arms against the country’s Muslim minority. The notice of investigation was issued last week to the northern state of Uttarakhand, where a Hindu nationalist conference in the city of Haridwar was attended by hundreds of right-wing activists. “We must prepare to either kill or be killed,” one of the speakers, Swami Prabodhananda Giri, said at the three-day conference, which was held Dec. 17-19. Anti-Muslim sentiment has been rising in Hindu-majority India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist. But recent calls to violence are shocking in their extremity, experts say, going beyond hate speech to advocate ethnic cleansing. 2020: Muslim shrine burned as deadly clashes continue in India FEB. 25, 202001:02 A petition filed to the court said the speeches in Haridwar and at a similar event in the Delhi territory, which includes the nation’s capital, “amount to an open call for murder of an entire community.” The speeches “pose a grave threat not just to the unity and integrity of our country but also endanger the lives of millions of Muslim citizens,” it said, adding that organizers had announced further events. Download the NBC News app for breaking news and politics No arrests have been made in either Haridwar or Delhi, and the Modi government has not commented. The official silence, critics say, could be interpreted by Hindu nationalists as a tacit endorsement. “To give speeches against us and to say you want to drive out an entire population based on their religion, I don’t understand how they can ignore this,” said Maulana Mahmood Madani, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, which describes itself as India’s largest Muslim organization. Since Modi consolidated power with his re-election in 2014, Muslims in India — who make up about 14 percent of the population, have faced increased violence, discrimination and government persecution. Attacks from Hindu nationalists have ranged from property destruction and the disruption of religious services to deadly lynch mobs. ...................................... (New York) – The authorities in India are increasingly using summary and abusive punishments against Muslims deemed to have broken the law, Human Rights Watch said today. In several states ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the authorities have demolished Muslim homes and properties without legal authorization, and most recently, publicly flogged Muslim men accused of disrupting a Hindu festival. “The authorities in several Indian states are carrying out violence against Muslims as a kind of summary punishment,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Officials blatantly disregarding the rule of law are sending a message to the public that Muslims can be discriminated against and attacked.” On October 4, 2022, in Kheda district, Gujarat state, police arrested 13 people for allegedly throwing stones at a “garba” ceremonial dance during a Hindu festival. A police officer in civilian clothes wearing a gun holster was filmed publicly flogging several Muslim men with sticks while other officials held the men against an electricity pole. In videos shown and even praised on some pro-government television news networks, several uniformed police officers watch the flogging and strike the accused with sticks, while a crowd of men and women cheer and applaud. The police ordered an inquiry only following social media criticism of the video recordings. On October 2 in Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh state, police filed a case of attempted murder and rioting against 19 Muslim men accused of throwing stones at a garba event and detained seven of them. Two days later, without any legal authorization, the authorities demolished the homes of three of the men, claiming they were constructed illegally. In April, the authorities in Khargone district in Madhya Pradesh state, Anand and Sabarkantha districts in Gujarat state, and Jahangirpuri neighborhood in Delhi responded to communal clashes by summarily demolishing property, most of it owned by Muslims. The clashes occurred after religious processions of armed Hindu men passed through Muslim localities during Hindu festivals. The men shouted anti-Muslim slogans in front of mosques while the police failed to take any action. The authorities tried to justify the demolitions by claiming the structures were illegal, but their actions and statements indicated that the destruction was intended as collective punishment for Muslims, holding them responsible for the violence during the communal clashes. “Houses that were involved in stone pelting will be turned into rubble,” the BJP home minister in Madhya Pradesh stated. ................................ “All hindus must pick up weapons and conduct a cleanliness drive,” bellowed a Hindu priest at a three-day “religious parliament” in north India last month. Another speaker fired up the large crowd even more crudely: “If a hundred of us become soldiers and kill two million of them, we will be victorious.” By “them”, she meant India’s 200m Muslims. Those priests baying for blood are not isolated bigots. Under the Hindu-nationalist government of Narendra Modi, the world’s most populous democracy has seen a growing wave of intolerance. In Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi, Muslims have been denied the use of open space to pray because it “offends sentiments”. They have also been denied permission to build mosques. Elsewhere Muslims accused of transporting cattle for slaughter, or of being in possession of beef, are sometimes lynched. Muslim businesses are boycotted. In recent months young Hindu radicals have persecuted high-profile Muslim women by creating apps to “auction” them off..
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  9. To the true sincere people, India led my hindu nationalist Modi and the BJP are comitting terrible crimes against humanity, with govt and police support. The minorities like xtians muslims and the lower castes are being ethnically cleansed. media narrative is currently to demon ise islam so the west has kep this quiet, but sincere hindus, i believe there are still some of you out there, please stop pretending its not happening and talk to your people. 24 Aug 2022 A former legislator from India’s ruling party has been caught on boasting on camera about getting at least five Muslims killed in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. “We have killed five of them so far, be it in Lalwandi, be it Behror … I have given a free hand to the workers, kill those ** behind cow slaughter,” Gyan Dev Ahuja, a politician belonging to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is seen saying in a video now viral in India. Indian media reports earlier this week said Ahuja has been charged with promoting religious hatred and enmity, and was interrogated by police in Rajasthan on Monday. Between 2013 and 2018, Ahuja was a legislator from Ramgarh in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, which saw a series of mob lynchings and killings of Muslims by Hindu mobs. On Monday, Indian news website The Quint reported such deaths happened in Alwar in 2017 and 2018 over allegations of slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider holy. “Pehlu Khan was lynched in public view in April 2017. Umar Khan was shot dead in November 2017, a murder that two (cow vigilantes) owned up to. And Rakbar Khan was killed in July 2018,” said the report. “They all took place in Rajasthan’s Alwar,” it said. India’s Muslims have been facing hate speech and attacks since Modi came to power in 2014. ....................... Indian authorities on Tuesday imposed a curfew and deployed hundreds of paramilitary forces to different parts of the northern Haryana state in response to violent clashes between Hindu and Muslims that have left at least four people dead. A mosque was set on fire early Tuesday and a Muslim cleric was killed in Gurugram city outside the capital, Delhi. Several people involved in the violence have been arrested, police said. "The attackers [who torched the mosque] have been identified and several of them have been rounded up," Gurugram Police said in a statement on Tuesday. The violence first flared up Monday afternoon when a religious procession organized by Hindu nationalist groups passed through the Muslim-majority Nuh district in the northern Haryana state. ............................. By Anagha Subhash Nair and Ananta Agarwal India’s Supreme Court says it will investigate after complaints that Hindu nationalist leaders called on followers to take up arms against the country’s Muslim minority. The notice of investigation was issued last week to the northern state of Uttarakhand, where a Hindu nationalist conference in the city of Haridwar was attended by hundreds of right-wing activists. “We must prepare to either kill or be killed,” one of the speakers, Swami Prabodhananda Giri, said at the three-day conference, which was held Dec. 17-19. Anti-Muslim sentiment has been rising in Hindu-majority India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist. But recent calls to violence are shocking in their extremity, experts say, going beyond hate speech to advocate ethnic cleansing. 2020: Muslim shrine burned as deadly clashes continue in India FEB. 25, 202001:02 A petition filed to the court said the speeches in Haridwar and at a similar event in the Delhi territory, which includes the nation’s capital, “amount to an open call for murder of an entire community.” The speeches “pose a grave threat not just to the unity and integrity of our country but also endanger the lives of millions of Muslim citizens,” it said, adding that organizers had announced further events. Download the NBC News app for breaking news and politics No arrests have been made in either Haridwar or Delhi, and the Modi government has not commented. The official silence, critics say, could be interpreted by Hindu nationalists as a tacit endorsement. “To give speeches against us and to say you want to drive out an entire population based on their religion, I don’t understand how they can ignore this,” said Maulana Mahmood Madani, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, which describes itself as India’s largest Muslim organization. Since Modi consolidated power with his re-election in 2014, Muslims in India — who make up about 14 percent of the population, have faced increased violence, discrimination and government persecution. Attacks from Hindu nationalists have ranged from property destruction and the disruption of religious services to deadly lynch mobs. ...................................... (New York) – The authorities in India are increasingly using summary and abusive punishments against Muslims deemed to have broken the law, Human Rights Watch said today. In several states ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the authorities have demolished Muslim homes and properties without legal authorization, and most recently, publicly flogged Muslim men accused of disrupting a Hindu festival. “The authorities in several Indian states are carrying out violence against Muslims as a kind of summary punishment,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Officials blatantly disregarding the rule of law are sending a message to the public that Muslims can be discriminated against and attacked.” On October 4, 2022, in Kheda district, Gujarat state, police arrested 13 people for allegedly throwing stones at a “garba” ceremonial dance during a Hindu festival. A police officer in civilian clothes wearing a gun holster was filmed publicly flogging several Muslim men with sticks while other officials held the men against an electricity pole. In videos shown and even praised on some pro-government television news networks, several uniformed police officers watch the flogging and strike the accused with sticks, while a crowd of men and women cheer and applaud. The police ordered an inquiry only following social media criticism of the video recordings. On October 2 in Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh state, police filed a case of attempted murder and rioting against 19 Muslim men accused of throwing stones at a garba event and detained seven of them. Two days later, without any legal authorization, the authorities demolished the homes of three of the men, claiming they were constructed illegally. In April, the authorities in Khargone district in Madhya Pradesh state, Anand and Sabarkantha districts in Gujarat state, and Jahangirpuri neighborhood in Delhi responded to communal clashes by summarily demolishing property, most of it owned by Muslims. The clashes occurred after religious processions of armed Hindu men passed through Muslim localities during Hindu festivals. The men shouted anti-Muslim slogans in front of mosques while the police failed to take any action. The authorities tried to justify the demolitions by claiming the structures were illegal, but their actions and statements indicated that the destruction was intended as collective punishment for Muslims, holding them responsible for the violence during the communal clashes. “Houses that were involved in stone pelting will be turned into rubble,” the BJP home minister in Madhya Pradesh stated. ................................ “All hindus must pick up weapons and conduct a cleanliness drive,” bellowed a Hindu priest at a three-day “religious parliament” in north India last month. Another speaker fired up the large crowd even more crudely: “If a hundred of us become soldiers and kill two million of them, we will be victorious.” By “them”, she meant India’s 200m Muslims. Those priests baying for blood are not isolated bigots. Under the Hindu-nationalist government of Narendra Modi, the world’s most populous democracy has seen a growing wave of intolerance. In Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi, Muslims have been denied the use of open space to pray because it “offends sentiments”. They have also been denied permission to build mosques. Elsewhere Muslims accused of transporting cattle for slaughter, or of being in possession of beef, are sometimes lynched. Muslim businesses are boycotted. In recent months young Hindu radicals have persecuted high-profile Muslim women by creating apps to “auction” them off..
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  10. “B😮😮head them—those who come for conversion. “Now you’ll say that I am spreading hate although I’m a saint. But it’s important to ignite the fire sometimes. I am telling you; anyone who comes into your house, street, neighborhood, village, don’t forgive them.” This was the call to a growing crowd at a recent anti-Christian rally labeled “Stop Religious Conversion” in India’s Chattisgarh State. On October 1, Swami Parmatmanand told his audience (which included some senior members of one of the country’s two major political parties) that converts from Hinduism should be kildd ........................ Hundreds of Christians in the Indian state of Orissa have been forced to renounce their religion and become Hindus after lynch mobs issued them with a stark ultimatum: convert or die. The wave of forced conversions marks a dramatic escalation in a two-month orgy of sectarian violence which has left at least 59 people dead, 50,000 homeless and thousands of houses and churches burnt to the ground. As neighbour has turned on neighbour, thousands more Christians have sought sanctuary in refugee camps, unable to return to the wreckage of their homes unless they, too, agree to abandon their faith. ................... From August 25 to 28, 2008, Hindu mobs attacked the Christian community in Kandhamal in Odisha in retaliation to the killings of Hindu monk Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati and four others. According to reports, while it was suspected that Maoist insurgents were behind the killings, many Christian settlements bore the brunt of the arson, which left more than 50,000 people homeless. According to government reports, the violence resulted in the burning down of 395 churches and over 5,600 houses and the ransacking of over 600 villages. Sme reports place the number of those killed at more than 500. Many Christian families were burnt alive and thousands of them were forced to convert to Hinduism or worse, they would have to face violence. During the attacks, a Catholic nun was gang-raped by a mob who then paraded her half-naked on the roads. The incident grabbed headlines and many took note of how the onlooking police did not intervene as the mob tried to strip her naked. The mob could be heard shouting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai". The same year saw another wave of attacks directed against Christian churches and prayer halls in Karnataka by the Hindu organisation Bajrang Dal. The violence first erupted on 14 September 2008 when about 20 churches were vandalised in various districts of Karnataka including Mangalore, Udupi, and Chikkamagaluru among others. During the same attacks, several symbols of Christianity were under threat in Tamil Nadu. Three churches in Erode and Karur districts were stoned, a statue of Mother Mary in Krishnagiri was stolen and an idol of Jesus in Madurai was vandalised - all in over five days. Post-2014, attacks against Christians saw an uptick. According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India, anti-Christian hate crimes have doubled since 2014. 2015 was pitted as the worst year for Indian Christians in the history of post-Independence India, according to a similar report released by the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF). The forum compiles statistics with regard to cases of religious persecution of Christians for decades. Their data shows there have been at least 365 major attacks on community members as well as institutions for practising and spreading their faith in 2015. Delhi in that year saw a whole of six attacks on Churches and a Christian school - which included alleged arson attacks on churches in Rohini and Dilshad Garden along with acts of vandalism in churches in Jasola and Vikaspuri. Fast-forward a couple of years, at least 305 incidents of violence against Christians were recorded in the first nine months of 2021, according to a fact-finding report released by the Association for the Protection of Civil Rights, United Against Hate, and United Christian Forum. Some of these have been reported from states such as Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. On 3 October 2021, a prayer house in Roorkee was allegedly vandalised by a mob of nearly 250 people after accusing Pentecostal evangelist Prio Sadhna Potter and those present of illegal conversions. The following month, members of the Bajrang Dal and the RSS allegedly vandalised a newly set up church in Delhi’s Dwarka area. The people who were participating in the Sunday prayer meeting at the Church were accused of violating the Delhi Disaster Management Act (DDMA) guidelines as the premises had not been officially registered as a religious site. On 12 December 2021, members of Hindu right-wing groups allegedly set fire to Christian religious books in Karnataka’s Kolar district. According to a report by NDTV, this was the “38th attack on religious minorities in Karnataka in the last 12 months”. The report also said that the number of attacks on the community has increased ever since the government started considering a bill to ban forcible religious conversion. A year later, amidst the festivities of Christmas, a spate of attacks against Christians angered the community. They eventually staged a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar a few weeks ago, saying that, “Our people are being beaten up.” The first attack among these was on December 20, 2022, when a man dressed up as Santa Claus was beaten up by a Hindutva mob in a residential colony in the Makarpura area, Vadodara in Gujarat. According to media reports, the victim, Shashikant Dabhi, dressed up as Santa Claus entered the Avdhoot society in Makarpura where Christian families were celebrating the Christmas fervor. Dabhi entered the society and started distributing chocolates to people and wishing everyone a ‘merry Christmas’. Soon, he was attacked by a group of people who warned of such a celebration as it was a ‘Hindu-dominated’ area. Two days after Christmas, a church in Karnataka's Mysuru was vandalised by unknown people, who also damaged the statue of a baby Jesus. The incident took place in St Mary's Church at Periyapatna..,.
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