Communalism
Communal violence and targeting Muslims During Ram Navami Festivals in Aurangabad and Jalgaon, Maharashtra A Report By Bebaak Collective APRIL-2023
The report documents the increasing state repression and the fundamentalist majoritarian onslaught during the religious festivals and its impact on the lives of the minority communities.
The entrenched patriarchal belief that women’s bodies are the markers of the community’s honour has always cast it as a site of violence. Women from marginalized backgrounds have always been subjected to sexual violence and rape in riots, pogroms, and extremist communal acts of violence.
The anti-muslim violence during the Ram Navami festivals in Kiradpura, Ohar, and Paldhi severely impacted the lives of Muslim women living in these areas. The impact of these religious extremists' violence on Muslim women and their mental health often goes unacknowledged. People have spoken about the emotional trauma they have gone through during this time.
The nature of the investigation carried out by the Police administration the next day of violence humiliated Muslim women. They were intimidated and threatened to submit their family members to police for questioning. In Paldhi, the police personnel verbally abused them and gave communal
and sexual slurs. Due to the Police crackdown at midnight, damaging every property of the Muslim residents, the children, and other family members are traumatized. After the police crackdown, many families started sleeping under the same roof.
The loss of social and financial security because of these riots has put enormous burdens on women from the Muslim community.
The Report says we are witnessing similar tensions in Trimbakeshwar in Nashik and Akola in Maharashtra. 8 These instances of communal violence are
not just limited to the festivals of Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti. The steadily increasing aggression against Muslim community and attacks on their festivals, properties and everyday life implies the state’s complicity in perpetuating and normalizing communal hatred.
A Single Factor Is Common to All Communal Riots During Religious Processions in India https://thewire.in/communalism/riots-religious-processions-ram-navami
No cause of interfaith riots has been as recurrent and widespread as the religious procession. The key factor in causing and preventing such riots has always been the route.
Routes of Wrath - Report on violence during religious festivals Ram Navmi and Hanuman Jayanti (april 2022) https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/routes-of-wrath-report-2023-2-465217.pdf 8 April A REPORT BY
CITIZENS & LAWYERS INITIATIVE FOREWORD BY Justice Rohinton F. Nariman , EDITED BY CHANDER UDAY SINGH
Edited excerpts in https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/religious-processions-rioting-in-the-name-of-god
See also South Asian Citizens Web Communalism Repository of Articles : http://www.sacw.net/rubrique14.html &
http://www.sacw.net/DC/CommunalismCollection/ArticlesArchive/index.html
Chapters under the sub-head 'Themes of Indian History: Part 2,' of the Class 12 history textbook, which are related to 'Kings and Chronicles; the Mughal Courts (C. 16th and 17th centuries)' have been removed. https://thewire.in/education/ncert-mughal-empire-gujarat-riots-class-12
05/04/2023
क्या भारत हिन्दू राष्ट्र बनेगा क्या होगा दलितों मुस्लिमों क्रिश्चन का ? https://youtu.be/6n12cirqLLY?t=49
PRESS EXPRESS
20 March 2023 Dolphy DSouza , President of Bobay Cathlic Sabha says Sow seeds of love among communities, so that Hate meets the ground in ashes.. The atmosphere in the country is only a part of a political agenda to win a proximate election.. But the kind of effects that this campaign of hate will have on Muslim, Christian, Dalits etc will not be in the interest of the country in the long rum
“Tabooing word Muslim; Inherent Islamophobia in Indian left-liberalism”: A letter to liberals https://maktoobmedia.com/opinion/tabooing-word-muslim-inherent-islamophobia-in-indian-left-liberalism-a-letter-to-liberals/
to stand with the [non-refugee/non-migrant] Muslim became tricky for ideological reasons: for secularists and communists—Muslim was a religious identity and had to be kept out of the public and the political discourse; the leftists feared the rise of identity politics; and for the left-liberals, I do know what to say (or, clear as crystal). So, to take up the cause against CAA-NRC that clearly excluded Muslim refugees and Muslims only, the social activist had to cast the Muslims into the mold of social activism...While, for contemporary Hindutva, the perpetual other is the Muslim, for the social activist, the “you” is “us” minus the “Muslim.”
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