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India: Muslims riot after Friday prayers, attack police and Hindu temple, many policemen injured

Aug 15, 2017 10:38 am By Robert Spencer

A glimpse into the future of Europe and North America.

This mob was almost certainly incited to violence by the Friday sermon.

“Muslim Mob Riots After Friday Namaz in Aligarh, UP – Many Policemen Injured,” Hindu Post, August 13, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A rampaging Muslim mob pelted stones and fired upon police after Friday namaz in Jama Masjid at Uparkot area of Aligarh, UP. 8 people including 6 policemen were injured, two of whom are critical. The mob also pelted stones on a temple and tried to loot a bank.

CO Pratham Vishal Pandey, Inspector Rajiv Sirohi, SI Mohammed Akram, SO (Jawan) Amit Kumar, SO (Delhi Gate) Anuj Kumar, Madar Gate Police Chowki in-charge SI Rajkumar Singh were the injured policemen. Police initially retreated in the face of the violent mob which even had firearms – it took them around 2 hours and the use of tear gas and air firing to finally bring the situation under control. Police, RAF and PAC have now been deployed in ‘sensitive’ spots across Aligarh.

On the surface, the mob was ‘demanding’ increased compensation for the family of two brothers (Waseem and Ashu) who were shot dead on 7th August. Incidentally, police had managed to crack the case within 6 hours of the murders and had arrested Kachori-seller Suresh as the prime suspect. As per the demands of the victim’s family, the district administration had requested the State Government to provide compensation of Rs 25 lakh each for the two brothers’ families.

Conspiracy to attack police?

After Friday namaz, some self-declared leaders raised the issue of Rs 25 lakh compensation in front of the Jama Masjid congregation. City Mufti (religious leader) Khalid Hamid informed everyone that the district administration had already acted on this issue and even showed the copy of letter forwarded to State Government. Then the demand changed to Rs 50 lakh each as compensation, along with Government jobs and flats for the deceased’s families. The Mufti managd to convince most people to disperse, but a section of people seem to have made up their minds to indulge in violence.

Someone raised the demand for public hanging of Suresh (the accused arrested for the murder), while others started chanting anti-BJP and anti-Yogi slogans. By then SP City Atul Srivastava, SSP Rajesh Pandey, DM City Shyam Bahadur Singh and SDM Pankaj Verma had reached the spot and tried to reason with the protesters. As police was trying to  divert the mob towards Chandan Shahid road, a scuffle broke out within the group and one youth got injured. When police intervened to calm matters, the mob turned on the police itself and started firing and pelting stones on them. Around 15-20 rounds were fired by the mob, which forced the police to retreat.

The mob damaged police & RAF vehicles. They also attacked the Barah Saini Dharamshala Mandir, and tried to loot Grameen Bank of Aryavrat located within the Dharamshala premises – the alert bank manager Sudhir Saxena closed the Channel gate on time to foil this plan. The temple pujari Harish Chandra Bhardwaj locked himself in a room along with his wife to save his life.…

“This was an organized attack. We are looking at video footage to identity those involved. Tough action will be taken. Those misusing social media will also not be spared,” said IG Aligarh, Dr. Sanjiv Gupta.

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Filed Under: Featured, Hindus, India, mosques Tagged With: Aligarh, Jama Masjid, Uparkot, Uttar Pradesh


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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 15, 2017 at 11:09 am

    This has been going on over there for a thousand years of Fridays. After the Hindus respond in kind on a mosque, look for a reporter from AP or Reuters to fly in and talk about the “religious misunderstanding” as if it’s an equal two-way phenomenon… while film rolls of a mosque burning. That always happens second, after the Anglo-Saxon reporters have shown up.

    • Joe says

      Aug 16, 2017 at 12:58 pm

      You’re right. Friday night riots were how the Syrian war began. It happened every Friday for months. It makes you wonder what prayers they are saying inside the Mosque.

  2. Voytek Gagalka says

    Aug 15, 2017 at 11:42 am

    “Brother, you asked for it.” India wanted to become “modern” multiculturalist country after separation of peninsula into two separate countries: Pakistan and India. On the date of that separation it was claimed that it was done in order to “prevent civil war” between Muslims and non-Muslims. And while Pakistan become predominantly Muslim (almost 100%, and keeping “Islamic” in its very name), India, although mostly Hindu (80%), is much more diversified and keeping significant Muslim population inside (14%). They believed (falsely) that they can remain harmonious and live in peace. Now they rip the harvest of that major historic blunder.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 15, 2017 at 4:12 pm

      Gagalka, your history is not correct. Muslim reformer and educationist, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, is seen as the inspiration of the “Pakistan Movement” with the establishment of his All India Muhammadan Educational Conference” and also the “All-India Muslim League” in 1906. Khan encouraged Muslims to stay out of the Indian National Congress movement. The partition of Bengal into Hindu and Muslim majorities was not well-received by all Muslims.

      On 28 January 1933, Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, founder of Pakistan National Movement voiced his ideas in the pamphlet melodramatically entitled “Now or Never: Are We to Live or Perish Forever?” In a subsequent book Rehmat Ali discussed the etymology in further detail. “Pakistan’ is both a Persian and an Urdu word. It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our South Asia homelands; that is, Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan. It means the land of the Pure”.

      The partition of India that created Pakistan was against the wishes of the Hindu majority and strongly opposed by Ghandi.

      There are almost as many Indian Muslims (169,762,402) as there are Pakistani Muslims (194,723,701).

      It seems that Muslims in India are better educated and have a higher standard of living than those in Pakistan, proving that a united India would have been a better choice.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 15, 2017 at 10:05 pm

        The fact is that Pakistan–which had significant Infidel minorities at its creation–is now almost entirely Muslim; while the Muslim population of India has grown since partition.

        Compare and contrast…

  3. Michael says

    Aug 15, 2017 at 11:42 am

    The only adequate way to suppress Muslims in rampage is live fire from machine guns. Not tear gas.

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 15, 2017 at 3:45 pm

    Police should record all sermons in all mosques to be able to arrest mullahs who PREACH JIHAD.

    This is a perfect example for Muslims of how ISLAM IS CURRENTLY ILLEGAL IN ALMOST ALL COUNTRIES.

    JIHAD is the most important PILLAR of Islam, and yet, it is illegal for Muslims to conduct jihad in EVERY COUNTRY, including in Soddy Barbaria.

  5. gravenimage says

    Aug 15, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    India: Muslims riot after Friday prayers, attack police and Hindu temple, many policemen injured
    ………………………….

    Incited by the violent Kutbah at Friday prayers. There is often violence after Friday at the Mosque.

    After Church on Sunday, most Christians just go out and have brunch…

  6. SuchindranathAiyerS says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 4:42 am

    Every Ramzan, the Mullas ask the Moslems to practice Islam. As they do every Friday. And the faithful do.

  7. Anne Smith says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 5:00 am

    The BBC has been giving much time and programming to covering the treatment of Muslims during the events leading to partition of India, and subsequently.

    The BBC has studiously avoided giving any coverage to the Mujslim rioting in Paris, the sporadic attacks by Muslims in Frfance and Germany, and other French cities, the problems with the illegal immigrants in Italy, the mass migration still continuing across the Mediterranean, and events in Europe, generally – despite being such a firm supporter of the EU. Instead we are given news of floods in remote parts of the world, and almost anything in Muslim areas.

    It is not hard to work out who is running the BBC.

  8. moeped says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 6:13 am

    Whenever I think of a mob, especially this type of mob, the movie Gangs of New York comes to mind. They knew how to handle a mob.

  9. John A. Marre says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 9:26 am

    Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and members of most other religions in the world pray, and leave the house of prayer peacefully, at ease with themselves and everyone else.
    Muslims pray and rush out of the mosque angry at the world and themselves, ready to perpetrate violence.
    There is one religion in the world that makes the world worse. For that reason it should be outlawed.

    • Musalmaanmasala says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 2:01 am

      As an ex-muslim Indian I could not agree more with you.
      There is something about a sermon from a imam at the mosque that has the seed of violence planted in the listener.

  10. willard says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 5:40 pm

    I can see why people want to become muslim. So they have a free ticket to murder and be violent.

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