“Deputy Inspector General (Hazaribagh) Upendra Prasad said the trigger for Sunday’s violence was an ‘objectionable’ audio recording played on loudspeakers by a Ram Navami procession passing through Kheergaon area of the town around 11 am. He said members of the minority community admitted that they had objected to the recording, which talked about this being a country of Hindus. ‘The recording was apparently in the form of a song and not a recorded speech of anybody. We are examining the issue,’ Prasad said. Angered by the recording, minority community members allegedly pelted stones at the procession. A huge mob soon gathered, and started attacking and burning shops and vehicles. More than a dozen small shops along the roadside and a few near a mosque were targeted. ‘Also, the mob set afire two-wheelers and some four-wheelers. Besides, they also burnt vehicles lying for repair outside a couple of garages,’ said Prasad.”
Notice that while the Hindus are identified, the “minority community members,” who are undoubtedly Muslims, are not. And the focus is on the “objectionable” audio recording, not on the Muslim mob that becomes violent when angered: the implication is always that it is the non-Muslims’ fault when Muslim become violent, and the non-Muslims’ responsibility to curtail their activities accordingly. We experienced this after the jihad attack on our free speech event in Garland, Texas last May: numerous people who should have known better declared that it was our fault that the jihadis attacked us, and that we should have known better than to exhibit drawings of Muhammad. The idea that Muslims shouldn’t grow violent in the fact of behavior they find offensive didn’t seem to enter anyone’s mind.
“Ram Navami violence spreads in Jharkhand, curfew in Hazaribagh,” by Prashant Pandey, Indian Express, April 18, 2016:
Hazaribagh became the second district after Bokaro in Jharkhand to see curfew on Sunday as violence in the state over Ram Navami processions spread further.
Curfew was imposed in the municipal area and surrounding police station areas of Hazaribagh district after over a dozen shops and more than half-a-dozen vehicles were set afire. While three deaths in all were reported on Sunday, district administration claimed two of the persons had died before the violence began and could have been killed due to personal enmity.
Officials are still trying to determine the cause of the third death.
A company of the Rapid Action Force has been deployed in the district to maintain calm. The administration has appealed to people to help restore normalcy.
The curfew in four police station areas of Bokaro, which saw violence between two communities on April 15, was lifted on Sunday evening at 8 pm.
On Saturday night, members of the two communities also clashed in Jugasalai police station area of Jamshedpur district. Members of a community objected to the route taken by a Ram Navami procession, leading to scuffles. The situation in the town remains tense, but under control.
Earlier, violence was reported between the two communities in Chatra, Dhanbad and Giridih, though police were able to quickly bring the situation under control there.
Hazaribagh had seen violence on Friday too, leading to one death in Pandu village under Keredari police station area, about 50 km from the town. Nearly a dozen houses were set on fire in arson that day.
As per tradition, processions are taken out across Jharkhand to mark Ram Navami, which fell this year on April 15. In Hazaribagh district, the processions start a day later. Over 100 such processions were planned in the district between Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.
Deputy Inspector General (Hazaribagh) Upendra Prasad said the trigger for Sunday’s violence was an “objectionable” audio recording played on loudspeakers by a Ram Navami procession passing through Kheergaon area of the town around 11 am. He said members of the minority community admitted that they had objected to the recording, which talked about this being a country of Hindus. “The recording was apparently in the form of a song and not a recorded speech of anybody. We are examining the issue,” Prasad said.
Angered by the recording, minority community members allegedly pelted stones at the procession. A huge mob soon gathered, and started attacking and burning shops and vehicles.
More than a dozen small shops along the roadside and a few near a mosque were targeted. “Also, the mob set afire two-wheelers and some four-wheelers. Besides, they also burnt vehicles lying for repair outside a couple of garages,” said Prasad.
The DIG said the processions are not banned from playing any recording or music but have to play the same at low volume.
The police officer added that while his men had “contained the situation in a short span of time”, “the reactionary crowd by then had set afire whatever came in their way”. He said the situation was tense but under control….

KrazyKafir says
Maybe India could try another, Pakistan/India split do-over. Getting it right this time.
JMB says
Yes, almost 70 years ago when India was granted independence the British could clearly see that there would be a Hindu/Muslim bloodbath unless these two totally divergent groups were separated, hence the creation of the nation of Pakistan for India’s Muslims. I am certain that in those times there were no cries of “racism” or “Islamophobia” or calls for multiculturalism, tolerance and understanding. No this was just plain commonsense and a practical necessity. 70 Years on very little has changed, Islam is asserting itself more than ever, continues to show total intolerance at any other culture, religion or society and commits acts of terror against us on a daily basis, yet Western nations and our treacherous leaders are continuing to invite them into our society and telling us we have nothing to fear. The situation is insane.
Ahem says
What on Earth do you mean “get it right this time”?
At the time of partition in 1948 the new state of Pakistan was 75% Muslim with 25% minority religions;
India became 90% non Muslim and 10% Muslim.
After a long series of Pakistani pogroms, massacres and murders, Pakistan has become 99% Muslim today, with the usual acts of terrorism continuing against all holdout non Muslim minorities.
Meanwhile, India’s Muslim population has expanded from 10% to 20% Muslim.
You appear to be suggesting that the non Muslim population of India try “solve” its Muslim problem by whittling itself down again. Can’t you understand that the end game of such a policy would eventually see India disappear as a sanctuary for non Muslims.
خَليفة says
India should be given Pakistan back, the UN should recind the recognition of Pakistan and turn sovereigntry back to India.
Why is it that when some heinous event occurs it’s always Muslims doing it? Seems Muslims are nothing more than wild animals?
What animal are Muslims most like?
A) rabid dogs?
B) masturbating, sex-starved monkeys
C) retarded rats
D) All of the above
Don Foss says
You forgot cockroaches and snakes.
desidude2 says
The cause of the problem that india has today with the muslim goes back to Gandhi. !st of all he did not want a partition. But he got it anyway, the muslims of the time were not going to rest until they had their muslim state carved from India.But as soon as the hindus started abandoning their homes in the new Pakistan and the muslims started fleeing India, Gandhi called out that muslim were invited to stay in India as full citizen of the new republic. many Muslim took up his offer. Those that stayed in India quickly started to multiply thanks to the many freedoms they had while the Hindus and christians in Pakistan were now treated like 2nd class citizens where they could be denied good jobs and their females were not safe from being raped and converted to islam.
Khushi says
You are right Desidude.
A lot of India’s problems can be traced back to Gandhi.
1. Appointing nehru as the first PM of India instead of Patel even though Patel was the choice of Indian leaders and public of that time.
2. Always siding with the muslims in any dispute with Hindus.
3. Going on a fast-unto-death to force the newly formed Indian government to pay pakistan a huge sum of money.
4. Assuring muslims of full protection in India regardless of what happened to Hindus in pakistan.
5. Indirectly creating the kashmir problem (because nehru was his appointee)
Don’t know if this is true but I read that Gandhi did all this to get the Nobel Peace prize which ultimately he never got (serves him right).
Angemon says
Apparently, violence between communities just happens for no apparent reason.
Wait, let me guess: Sikhs felt excluded. Or was it Buddhists? Christians, perhaps? Atheists?
Near a mosque, eh? I wonderthe order in which they were targeted…
The “minority community” did not riot over the volume, they rioted over the content of the recording.
Charli Main says
Looks like those trouble making Hindus still haven’t learned to respect and cow tow to their Muslim masters.
80 million Hindus murdered, millions of Hindu women raped and used as sex slaves, thousands of Hindu temples and holy places defiled and desecrated or turned into mosques. Just what is it going to take to get those Hindus to recognise their place in their country.
katherine says
No mention about the religion of piss? Not a squeak even? Mordi the elephant who champions Hindu culture and bullies India’s Anglophiles is telling the media not to mention the Mouse – he must be quaking in fear ! Anyway the whole world knows that India takes forever to respond to a Jihad attack because the local defences are inept and the emergency task force is half a continent away.
ISIS knows that, and so does Pakistan – they will keep probing the response.
Stephen says
19,000 plus jihad attacks worldwide since 2011. Can you image what it would be if Islam weren’t a religion of “peace”? While the world burns Nero (Obama, Merkel, Cameron, etc.) fiddles.
Hope says
These morons would have rioted no matter what the content of the song being played. They rioted because a Hindu feast day was being celebrated!
We all know how Islam works: If it isn’t Islamic, they destroy it.
DFD says
There you have it, don’t do anything that offends Muslims, or what they object against. Otherwise they turn extra peaceful.
We ought to be as peaceful to them as they are to us. Wouldn’t be violent to bomb them, merely showing that we are offended, as they do. It’s just that we are expressing ourselves in correspondence with our abilities…
linnte says
I emailed the Express. A scathing letter telling they aren’t fooling anyone by eliminating the word “Muslim”. And that they were kowtowing to Muslims in hopes of putting off violence. I also reminded them that Islam has vowed to destroy Indian Culture, and it was their job to be protective of their Culture.
JMB says
Here in Australia the media also goes very quiet on the identity of the Islamic face of terror and crime. However, the people are not completely stupid, like as in the crime gets reported, eg. a family drug gang related shooting, the location,eg. South West Sydney, the names of those arrested, almost certainly one of them is a Mohammad. The conclusion is quite obvious.
linnte says
I am hoping that the email coming from podund Oregon USA, will surprise them enough to consider my letter seriously. But it probably won’t. It infuriates me that Australia has to go through all this Muslim crap too. Praying for all you Down Unda!
dumbledoresarmy says
Thanks for the prayers, linnte.
And I’m praying for *you* in the USA.
Let’s pray for the *removal* of the ‘spell’ of dhimmitude, delusion and confusion from so many of our leaders whether political, religious or intellectual/ academic.
And I’m praying for India and Israel and Uganda and Ethiopia and Tanzania and Kenya and Belgium and France and Thailand and the Philippines and, well, every last Infidel country worldwide that I know to be struggling with the lethal Mohammedan Fifth Column that is currently inside their gates and wreaking mayhem.
BTW, offtopic – curious about your nom de plume. Is it a nod to Gaelic?
linnte says
Nom de pluwhateveryousaid! Hahahaha! Yes. It is Gaelic for large pool of calm water. Pronounced like Failte- fall cha. Lin cha. I also use it to sign my paintings usually. Sometimes I sign my real name, which is Linda, a Hispanic name meaning beautiful. In Gaelic I would be Eileen. Oh well, I have outted myself! Hahahahahahaha! I have never felt attached to my real name. Even when I was a little kid, someone would call me and I wouldn’t know who they meant! Weird eh? Peace to you! Slan leat!
mortimer says
The Hindus broke no law of India, but having a religious procession is ‘forbidden’ by Sharia law.
Muslims were implementing vigilante justice by vandalizing the religious procession of the Hindus. This is authorized by Sharia law. A mullah is probably behind this attack. The police should arrest him and put him in jail.
mortimer says
Government elites are concerned about reducing their own political disapproval, and that means producing peace, calm and order, rather than protecting human rights.
Human rights are only for the ’cause du jour’ and then, the elites rally round and wrap themselves in the flag. The human rights of harassed groups are not protected.
The police would surely not wish to defend groups that are likely to be attacked. They would rather be at the local children’s fair than at a Hindu procession walking through a Muslim neighborhood.
But that’s what democracy is for…protecting our rights of free expression and freedom of religion.
Elites in India (as here) seem to think rights are fine when they remain on paper or in a speech, but not on the street when Muslims are throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails.
IndianTiger says
All Indian politicians, including Modi, have no balls, period. They cannot bring themselves up to declare that India is essentially a Hindu nation, just like USA, UK, or Australia are essentially Christian nations, even if constitutionally secular. A Hindu nation must provide space for other religions to practice their faith freely (as is the case right now) but it cannot and must not be dictated by others’ faiths. If slimey muslims find that unacceptable, they can move to Pakistan or Bangladesh and live in those sharia havens. By continuing to indulge muslim slimes, Hindus are digging their own graves. Hindus are, unfortunately, slow to react but there is definitely a greater degree of Hindu assertiveness in India. Here too, muslims complain of rising “intolerance” in India. That is rich coming from muslim bast*rds!
Khushi says
Some do declare that India is a Hindu nation, Indian tiger, but they are hounded by our paid, leftist media as right wing maniacs who are out for muslim blood.
Eu says
there are still stupid people who feel seduced by the religion of peace. Clearly this is a war , Islam declared war on the world with Muhammad and it is time to respond . We,re late , Europe is beginning to see the wolf ears .
Harminder says
This is disgusting, but nothing new from that cult of ‘peace’. The cult is nothing but an evil, barbaric, brainless inbred vermin that follow that pedo, mad mohamed and his false allah and false book of lies. India should take back pakistan and kick the vermin out. The rest of the world can see, if they didn’t know already, what a dirty filthy cult islam is. There is no room for it anywhere. Nothing but evil towards every living being out of fear of the truth about the cult coming out – which it will, as the truth always does, in full force too. Inferiority complex!
David says
Yes. Unfortunately it is a war. The Muslims have declared war on the whole rest of the world! If we didn’t have our constitutional rights to self-defense we would all be dead!
I know the very word “gun” tends to invoke mass hysteria, but it just another tool. And like any potential dangerous tool it requires respect and CAREFUL HANDLING.
But for those who have the training and experience, it’s our best weapon against a total takeover by the savage forces of evil.
I stand behind out police and military. But our political leaders are totaly ass backward on the muslim issue. If we were unarmed pacifists, would there even be a United States today?
JMB says
This is a war, sadly the only fighting back is by the brave people who support this web site, hopefully the awareness will increase and our treacherous political leaders including the present Australian prime minister will soon see Islam for what it really is.
linnte says
How right you are! Load up and stay that way! The rest of the Western countries have been neutered from the ability to defend themselves.
Omar Kahlid says
Muslims are identical to dogs. They will eat their own vomit while tasting others and they have a fascination with the anus, enjoying the kissing and penetration of said area. Then when someone smells their breath they blame the vomit or man they just performed on.
Jerry says
Please don’t insult my dogs by comparing Muslims to them
Jerry says
There are millions of piss activists called Mohammad, Abdullah, Shaid or Mujahid, and I keep on wondering what exactly motivates them besides their Qur’an, Hadith, Sirat Rassoul Alla and the sermons of their Imams and Sheikhs.
JC Bond says
Before you go on with your anti-Muslim tirades on this issue, remember one valid reason Muslims didn’t want to be part of India. INDIA and HINDUISM advocate a caste system where the bottom class of human beings (the “Untouchables”) are only deemed worthy to literally shovel the shit of the upper classes. No wonder they don’t have toilets in India, it might lead to class confusion. The conflict in India goes back well before the Islamic Revival of the 1970’s that led to the Ayatollah, Taliban and other extreme Muslim groups. Anti-Pakistan commentators are like the pro-Israeli crowd: nationalist conflict (Pakistan vs. India, or Jew vs. Arab Palestine) is redefined as conflict with Islam, in order to pander to and seek the favor of American ignoramuses. You wonder what American Christians must think about the concept of reincarnation: born human, die and come back as a snail? Yeah religion is pretty crazy, esp. when everyone is arguing about which goofy ancient myth is the “truth”.
SuchindranathAiyerS says
This is the trend that Khilafat Gandhi who wanted Hindus to sacrifice themselves for Islam set through the Indian National Khangress that he co fathered with the British and which came to be the PANGOLIN* policy and Constitution of the Indian Republic.
“Notice that while the Hindus are identified, the “minority community members,” who are undoubtedly Muslims, are not. And the focus is on the “objectionable” audio recording, not on the Muslim mob that becomes violent when angered: the implication is always that it is the non-Muslims’ fault when Muslim become violent, and the non-Muslims’ responsibility to curtail their activities accordingly. We experienced this after the jihad attack on our free speech event in Garland, Texas last May: numerous people who should have known better declared that it was our fault that the jihadis attacked us, and that we should have known better than to exhibit drawings of Muhammad. The idea that Muslims shouldn’t grow violent in the fact of behavior they find offensive didn’t seem to enter anyone’s mind.” (Robert Spencer)
*Note: PANGOLIN: An enemy of India who believes in inequality under law, exceptions to the rule of law and persecution of some for the benefit of others. At present, the sole purpose of the Indian Republic, Constitutional or otherwise, is to pamper and provide for certain constitutionally preferred sections of society who the British found useful to hold and exploit India at the cost of those who the British hated and persecuted. The Pangolin is a creature that is unique to India and feeds on ants that are known in nature to be industrious and hard working if not quite as fruitful as bees who flee to better climes. (PANGOLIN is an acronym for the Periyar-Ambedkar-Nehru-Gandhi-Other (alien) Religions-Communist Consensus that usurped the British Mantle and has worn it with elan to loot, plunder, and rape India since 1921 and re write History and laws to their exclusive benefit since 1947)