{"id":93945,"date":"2019-10-16T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93945"},"modified":"2019-10-16T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:02:44","slug":"extremism-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/16\/extremism-unleashed\/","title":{"rendered":"EXTREMISM UNLEASHED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>ALI SUKHANVER<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>An\narticle of Harsh Mander was published in the Hindu with the title \u2018Lynching,\nthe scourge of new India\u2019 in the second week of last October. The writer says,\nIn the years since Narendra Modi was elected in 2014, ugly mob hate has\nspilled onto the streets, trains and people\u2019s homes. Fevered throngs surround,\nbrutally assault and sometimes kill unarmed men, mostly Muslim. The crowds\nallege that the men had slaughtered cows, or were thieves; but sometimes their\nonly crime \u2014 as when a child was stabbed to death on a crowded train near Delhi\n\u2014 is that they are visibly Muslim.\u201d Before that somewhere in the last week of\nJune 2019, a viral video did the rounds on social media in India. A young\nMuslim man tied up; bleeding profusely all over his body, hands folded, was\nbeing lynched by a mob and forced by the mob to chant of \u2018Jai Shri Ram\u2019 and\n\u2018Jai Hanuman.\u2019 The victim was later identified as 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari.\nThe incident took place in the eastern state of Jharkhand. Reports say that he\nwas beaten for hours until he died at the hands of a Hindu mob. Lynching is a\nterm used for a punishment without trial. Instances of lynching and similar mob\nviolence can be found in every society but their number is alarmingly high\nparticularly in the Indian society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An\nalarming increase in incidents of cow related violence and mob Lynching is\nbeing noted after Modi\u2019s becoming Prime Minister, says a recent report. The\nReuters also narrated the same situation. It said, A total of 63 cow vigilante\nattacks had occurred in India between 2010 and mid 2017, mostly since the Modi\ngovernment came to power in 2014. These attacks which occurred during the\nperiod 2010 and June 2017, took lives of 28 Indians \u2013 24 of them Muslims; more\nthan 124 were injured\u201d. The Muslims are not the only target of lynching; many\ntimes the Christians also become a victim to this brutality but usually all\nvictims lynched are accused of cow-slaughtering. In April this year, Prakash\nLakda, a 55-year-old member of a Christian tribe, was lynched by a mob of Hindu\nvillagers who suspected him of slaughtering a cow in the central Indian state\nof Jharkhand. Three other tribals from his village were also attacked, leaving\nthem grievously injured. Astonishingly no one from the Christian world raised\nany voice against this cruelty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nhas been a rise in the number of incidents of cow vigilantism since the\nelection of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the Indian central government\nin 2014.\u201d says a report of the Human Rights Watch.&nbsp; The report further said, The frequency and\nseverity of cow vigilante violence has been described as unprecedented. There has\nbeen a surge in cow vigilante violence since 2015. The surge is attributed to\nthe recent rise in Hindu nationalism in India.\u201d In 2017, Bloomberg reported\nthat according to the meat industry representatives, cow vigilantes have been\nstopping vehicles, extorting money and stealing valuable livestock. Cow\nvigilante activity also increased during the run up to 2015 Bihar Legislative\nAssembly election. Reports say that 2016 had been the worst year with reference\nto the activities of cow protection vigilante groups. Only in Delhi, there were\nmore than 200 such groups. Day by day, the incidents of mob-lynching are increasing\nin India and this situation is no doubt very much alarming. Even different\npolitical leaders are expressing their serious concerns over\nlynching-incidents. Last August, the Union Minister for Social Justice and\nEmpowerment Ramdas Athawale said commenting on increasing number of lynching\nincidents that such incidents are not only defaming the country but also\nbringing a bad name to the Indian society. He further emphasized on an urgent\nneed to control such incidents through an effective law-making. At the same\ntime there are few extremists in the BJP government who shamelessly support and\nfavour those involved in lynching incidents; one of such shameless leaders is Nishikant\nDubey who is a BJP lawmaker from Jharkhand. Addressing a public meeting he had\nannounced that he would pay for the legal expenses of four men in Jharkhand lynching\ncase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One\nof the most brutal and most cruel incidents of lynching is the Jharkhand\nLynching incident. The case was registered with the local police somewhere in\nthe mid of March 2016. Two Muslim cattle traders, 32 years old Mazlum Ansari\nand 12 years old Imtiaz Khan were cruelly lynched by a group of more than\nhundred Hindus. The police had found the hanging dead bodies of these two\nMuslims, next morning. Since then, the matter is in the court. Now Nishikant\nDubey has jumped into the affair and has promised to provide all legal support\nto the convicted culprits. In such a situation where the ruling party\u2019s members\nsupport the wicked ones; what kind of justice could be expected for the\nwretched ones. It is the worst form of human rights violation in India which\nthe Muslims and the Christians and even the low-caste Hindus are facing\ncontinuously but unfortunately the world around has turned a deaf ear to it. It\nseems that the Hindu extremists are simply making things painful for the\nminorities because it is their philosophy that India is only for the Hindus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALI SUKHANVER An article of Harsh Mander was published in the Hindu with the title \u2018Lynching, the scourge of new India\u2019 in the second week of last October. The writer says, In the years since Narendra Modi was elected in 2014, ugly mob hate has spilled onto the streets, trains and people\u2019s homes. 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