With a death toll of fewer than 60, the Delhi unrest has been exalted as a Muslim “pogrom” by politicians and comedians alike. “Widespread anti-Muslim mob violence,” says Bernie Sanders. India’s Prime Minister was “ethnically cleansing” India’s “religious minorities”, declares an equally India-illiterate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Both are trying to attract votes of Muslim Americans by castigating India, largely the Hindus.
So it’s about time the world knows what went down in Delhi from February 23 to March 1, 2020. In November 2019, the Indian government formulated the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a law to grant citizenship to persecuted Hindus who have taken refuge in India from neighboring Islamic countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan (which were once part of undivided India).
This act of kindness was not perceived well by the Muslims who constitute about one-third of the country’s population. Violent demonstrations flooded the roads, railway stations were attacked, trains wrecked, buses set afire. Muslim youth such as Sharjeel Imam encouraged his followers to cut off Northeast India from the mainland. Muslim politicians such as Waris Pathan, in communally charged speeches, said “15 crore Muslims were more than a match to 100 crore Hindus.” Still, the Hindus didn’t reach for weapons.
In Delhi, an ocean of Muslim women and rabid anti-CAA demonstrators blocked a Muslim-dominated neighborhood, connecting the city’s major areas. They demanded the rollback of CAA, a law that didn’t alter the status of Indian Muslims in any way, shape or form.
This prolonged gathering made the lives of daily commuters insufferable. 44-year-old Mayawati’s critical condition deteriorated further as protestors didn’t let the ambulance pass through Shaheen Bagh. Imagine the busiest thoroughfares of your city being blocked for months, cutting you out of your workplace, schools, hospitals, and more. That is what Delhiites were being put through.
On February 23, BJP leader Kapil Mishra gave a verbal ultimatum to women who had been squatting at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi for over two months. The next morning, a pro-CAA crowd arrived at the site and refused to move until the anti-CAA mob disbursed. The scuffle gradually led to, what should be known as, the genocidal anti-Hindu riot in Delhi.
But there is something about the way they have mastered the art of attacking, and then playing that famed victim card. Every genocidal attack on the Hindus in this part of the world, by their Muslim fellow citizens, has attracted massive sympathies for the latter. It happened in Gujarat, in Kashmir, and now it was happening in the national capital.
Reckoned as a “Muslim Pogrom” by liberal media worldwide, the Delhi unrest was actually an anti-Hindu riot orchestrated by Muslims for days, if not months of calculative planning. Muslim mobs baying for Hindu blood were out on the streets; they came prepared with weapons.
A gun-wielding rioter, Mohammad Shahrukh, opened 8 rounds of fire and stood firm, pointing his pistol in the face of under-equipped police personnel. After his pictures went viral, a senior journalist from the liberal camp, Ravish Kumar, tried to sell him as a Hindu, Anurag Mishra. But alas! He was arrested, and his identity was revealed also.
One of the first victims of these mobs was 20-year-old Dibar Singh Negi, who worked in a sweet shop. After his hands and legs were chopped off with swords, he, still alive, was tossed inside the shop already set aflame, to be charred to death. American politicians don’t care about this unspeakable brutality, because it was done to a Hindu by the Muslims.
On February 25, the dead body of 26-year-old Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma was recovered from a sewer. As per postmortem reports, Sharma was stabbed 400 times over a period of 4 to 6 hours, by multiple people. His intestines were torn apart. Forensic doctors shivered, saying they had never seen such mutilation in their lives. Eyewitnesses state that a ferocious Muslim mob had dragged Ankit to the house of a local Muslim leader, Tahir Hussain. Video proofs of Hussain’s rooftop littered with stones, petrol bombs, acid emerged soon after.
An unruly Islamist mob sheltered at Hussain’s house attacked neighboring Hindus with stones and country-made bombs, vandalized a Shiva temple, and ruined the wedding ceremony of a Hindu girl who would address Tahir as “Bhaijaan” (elder brother). They tried blowing up the house by setting fire to a gas cylinder, didn’t succeed, and resumed hurling petrol bombs at people.
Hussain, who is now in police custody, has the full support of his brethren. While the radical Islamist outfit Jamat-e-Islami backs him unequivocally, the eminent writer-lyricist of Bollywood Javed Akhter pulls out the victim card, asserting that the accused murderer was being targeted for being a Muslim. The naked truth, however is that the barbaric killing of IB Officer Sharma wins no liberal sympathy, because he is a Hindu.
The fear among the Hindus was so intense that they cut off their kalawas (holy string tied around the wrist by the Hindus) and removed the “Jai Shree Ram” stickers from their vehicles to conceal their religious identity, after Vinod Kumar of Maujpur was mercilessly beaten to death for bearing a “Jai Shree Ram” sticker on his bike, by a homicidal mob chanting “Allahu Akbar, Nara e Taqbeer”. His lifeless body was dragged away from the spot, while his bike went up in flames.
Hindu establishments and properties were blown to smithereens by Muslim mobs that came in thousands. Muslim women armed with acid and stones attacked the city police, which had its hands tied with law and formalities. Feroz Khan, who runs the acid factory, Deepak Bund, is suspected of have supplied acid during the riots.
The Hindu-owned DRP school in Shiv Vihar was turned into a bonfire by Islamist rioters, who used the Rajdhani Public School, merely 10 meters away, as its war base. Owned by Mohd. Farooq, the rooftop of Rajdhani school was supplied with improvised slingshots for launching petrol bombs, and huge containers of rocks and acid. Radicals entered DRP school through ropes connected from Mohd. Farooq’s school and ran a mad rampage in the property, leaving classrooms, toilets and furniture of DRP completely gutted, and an unarmed Hindu man, Dinesh Kumar, killed.
What swept India’s national capital in February 2020 was an outburst of Islamic supremacists’ rabid odium for forces that obstructed the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in India. There is no other explanation of this violence wrongly attributed to the CAA, a law which has not stripped a single Indian Muslim of his citizenship. The Delhi riots were a genocidal attack on the Hindus, and must not be propagated differently.
European pagan says
I told more people what I read on Jihadwatch, what do Indian muslims to Hindus, because we never hear anything about it on the TV, and they didn’t want to believe me.
b.a. freeman says
of *course* they didn’t believer U, European! they were indoctrinated in leftist “schools” and don’t understand critical thinking, so they turn to the smartest people they know – mostly university professors – who just happen to be hard-core leftist. both the media (legacy and social) and government bureaucracies are filled with such people, who repeat leftist beliefs without *ever* checking them out, so the guy in the street gets no other information. when one encounters evidence that one is being told *MAJOR* lies that are at odds with what one believes, one can either inspect the new data, or reject it out of hand. and since the Smart People deny the evidence, it must be nazi propaganda, as they are told.
this is happening in the u.s., canada, australia, and yes, india, as well as in europe. leftist liars and useful idiots are everywhere, and they all repeat the same old tired lies. this has been going on since the early 20th century in the u.s., and since 1848 in EUrabia and UKistan. anybody who actually investigates islamic beliefs and history will reach the same conclusion: it is a vile death cult grafted onto a violent gang. i am *certain* that the hard-core left has learned about islam by now, and is gleefully pushing for admission of as many muslims as possible to every nation in the world. a pious muslim believes that if he does not attack infidels to cause fear and panic among them, he will have to undergo the final judgement to determine whether or not he can enter jannah; if he dies while killing infidels, however, he gains *immediate* entrance to jannah and need not undergo judgement. thus, pious muslims (~10% of all muslims worldwide, if the pew poll of 2013-04-30 is to be believed) are self-motivated to perform terror actions which the left would *like* to do, but does not do because of likely adverse reactions to the hard-core the left. the beauty of the exercise, from the perspective of the left, is that since almost no non-muslims understand islam, virtually nobody will associate the terrorist attacks of the ummah with the left; all they must do is guilt their fellow citizens into admitting more and more muslims, until the incessant and increasing attacks cause society to collapse, at which point martial law can be proclaimed, and the usually leftist government can instantiate a fascist government before anybody realizes what is happening. a few hundred assassinations or so may be necessary to go fascist, but no body count has never been a barrier to the hard-core left. count on the Party contacting U after the power seizure (whether Democratic, Labour, Sweden Democrat, or whatever flavor of fascist party your nation has) if U have ever posted under your real name on fascistBook, twister, instacrap, et al.
Sharon Theodore says
When the truth is so obvious over and over again whether it is jihad against westerners or Muslims against Hindus, or Muslim atrocities against minorities in their own countries how can the left defend Muslims and distort the facts. Why do leftists support fascism against civilised societies. Muslims have ruined Europe and today
European civilisation is shredded. Please preserve Hindu civilisation against barbarism.
George Jarrold says
The British in India kept the Muslim Jihad under control and in some fields actually got Muslim and Hindu to work together. As soon as Britain left India mainly as a result of the left wing Ghandi’s civil unrest programme, the Jihad resumed with a vengeance. It will never stop until Islam recaptures the wholes of India.
Raj Ambardar says
All mainstream media is corrupt, I think they are influenced by the money ? that comes from Gulf countries this the truth stays untold even Indian mainstream media is worse.
I have been following Jihad Watch for good 20 years or more. They bring absolute true news on this.
gravenimage says
Sadly unsurprising, European pagan.
Dawne Swift says
Absolutely appalling violence by Muslims in India. But why are western media outlets so quick to make Muslims out to be the victims in complete contradiction of the facts? We have to get on top of this.
Dawne Swift says
Radhika – are you able to get this article to the Telegraph, Daily Mail or Daily Express in the UK? I’d say they were the only papers who might put this online and help to spread the truth to the population who rely on MSM for their “news”.
DonT says
Maybe try sending this article to the following: express.expressletters@reachplc.com Whether or not it will be accepted remains to be seen, but it’s worth a try.
Just Venting says
To find out why the western MSM is complicit in this cover up, we need to see who is on the board of directors, owns large numbers of stock shares, funds university journalism departments, and fund large “charitable” funds and endowments. If certain people from certain countries sitting on large oil deposits show up, that may be a contributing factor.
gravenimage says
Part of it is that in the West people always tend to think of minorities as the victims–even when this is clearly not the case.
Amar says
Agreed. Other point that most people miss – while Muslims are overall a minority in India (also applicable to many European countries), they do mob attacks in areas where they are locally a majority or in very substantial numbers. So in these particular locales, the majority/minority tends to be opposite of the national numbers. The msm completely ignores this aspect and treats Muslims as minority regardless.
Areas where Muslims are truly a small minority (sub 5%) remain peaceful.
Savvy Kafir says
Right. For the politically correct, minorities are always the victims, no matter what — unless those minorities are non-Muslims being slaughtered in Muslim-majority countries … or white people anywhere, even if they are the minority — as in South Africa, where whites are now being tortured to death by blacks determined to eradicate them, while the mainstream media looks away, searching for some “proper” victims elsewhere; the brown, preferably Muslim kind.
For the PC, “Muslim” = “victim”, no matter what — even if the particular Muslims being discussed are dedicated jihadis butchering infidels … because, surely, at some point, those Muslims (or their ancestors) must have been oppressed or offended in some way by American or European imperialists — and that’s ALL that matters; because for self-hating “liberals” indoctrinated in political correctness, “Western” = “guilty”, always.
James Lincoln says
Savvy Kafir,
Very sad – but very true…
Political correctness is actually getting real people killed. The late Philip Haney has gone on record and stated that political correctness was a contributing factor in both the San Bernardino and Orlando terrorist attacks.
Definition of politically correct from Merriam-Webster:
“Conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated…”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/politically%20correct
gravenimage says
True, Amar, Savvy Kafir, and James.
Otter says
With all this barbarity which is inflicted by Islam and Muslims upon which ever country they happen to reside in, or have a foot hold, India is at the forefront of this global scourge
Mark my words, this is only a prelude of what lies in the future. India is going to be torn apart by the same barbarians whenever they have descended around the world.
And the most astonishing thing is that the people believe exactly the opposite what the truth is. Thank you Ms Singh for your accurate piece.
The world is slumbering into a disaster of unmanageable proportions. The combination of the left and Islam is unbeatable.
I wonder if there is any element of luck in how this ideology keeps on successfully propagating itself.
Savvy Kafir says
The combination of Islam and the political left is NOT unbeatable. Not if we begin fighting back effectively. That push-back has not even begun. At some point, enough freedom-loving people on the political right, along with a few on the left (I consider myself a progressive, for the most part) will understand that we are in a fight for the survival of Western Civilization, and we will do whatever it takes to defeat the Muslim invaders and their PC allies. Whatever it takes. I, for one, would rather die fighting than watch the West become Islamized. No war in history was fought for better reasons than this.
It’s time for people to begin viewing this conflict as the global war that it is, and begin preparing for the inevitable. Because of the collusion of terminally-PC “progressives” and “liberals” with the Muslim invaders who intend to spread Sharia and become our overlords, I don’t see how this conflict can be resolved without open warfare – insurrections and civil war, throughout the West.
Too many people on the Regressive Left will simply NEVER give up their articles of faith regarding Islam, cultural relativism, the “evils” of the West, etc. Too many of them will simply NEVER look at the evidence objectively and apply logic and reason to this issue, because they have been too thoroughly indoctrinated. And, since they control the mainstream media, and the mainstream media sets the agenda for most politicians, they are making it impossible to save the West via the democratic process. And their control of public schools & universities, which have become PC indoctrination centers, will only make the problem worse in the coming years. But we MUST save the West — ALL of the West — no matter what it takes. It’s far too early to call “Game over!, when the real push-back has not even begun.
James Lincoln says
Savvy Kafir,
An excellent and informative post.
My compliments.
gravenimage says
Good post, Savvy Kafir.
We need to keep telling the truth.
Hindu American says
So that JW readers clearly understand, the Citizens Amendment Act or CAA Bill amends an already existing Citizenship Act of 1955 to give expedited eligibility for Indian citizenship to illegal migrants (limited to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, Jews and Christians) based on religious persecution from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and who had already entered India on or before 31 December 2014. Indian muslims (and especially the leadership in pakistan) find this “discriminatory” because the bill does not explicitly mention “muslims”.
Duh! Why would a muslim from pakistan, bangladesh or afghanistan “flee” his or her 100% muslim nation to seek shelter in enemy Hindu-India using religious persecution as an excuse? Secondly, there are no muslims from the three islamic nations who are already in India that would qualify. Thirdly, many qualified pakistani and bangladeshi muslims have been given Indian citizenship over the years but they had to go through a lengthy approval process, similar to the one in the US.
Go figure!
Most Indians (of all faiths) that I have spoken to consider this a ruse by the pakistani intelligence to start an inter-religious war in India which would eventually lead to India’s breakup. Funding was provided by the pakis to various muslim leaders and mosques in Delhi.
Rajnish says
It is ironic that “Islamic Republic of Pakistan” and “Islamic Republic of Iran” are deeply troubled that India is not “secular” enough
The CAA law is to give Indian citizenship to the oppressed Hindus and other non-Islamic minorities. See this one where another Hindu girl is abducted and forcibly married and converted to Islam: https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2020/01/27/hindu-woman-abducted-in-pakistan-forcibly-converted-to-islam-and-married-off-to-muslim-man.html
b.a. freeman says
sadly, Rajnish, this is a regular occurrence in the muslim s**thole nations of pakistan and afghanistan … along with every other muslim s**thole nation. thank U for the link.
gravenimage says
Yes–Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and other non-Muslims are horribly persecuted in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Hindu American. I was not aware of the Citizenship Act by 1955. And thanks for confirmation about Pakistan’s likely involvement in this Jihad violence–I had suspected that but had not heard anyone mention it.
OTTER says
The reason why the Western press always paint Muslims as victims is not a head-scratcher. Here’s why it happens:
First is the power of the word ‘Islamophobia’. So effectively has it been used as an aggressive weapon that any criticism of Islam and Muslim actions is immediately branded Islamophobic. The Western press fear the power of this word and so self-censor themselves.
Second, the Western press itself stands accused of ‘Islamophobia.’ Thus, when they come across some so-called anti-Muslim behaviour by other religions, such as Hindus or Buddhist (like in Myanmar), they jump on this opportunity to ingratiate themselves with Muslims.
Third, any reporting that would throw light on Muslims’ aggression by the Western press, largely controlled by leftists, would imply that the ‘right’ was right; that JW was right. They can’t have that, so no matter what happens, Muslims are always reported as victims.
Thoughts?
Halaku says
Absolutely so.
James Lincoln says
OTTER,
Excellent post, my compliments.
I particularly liked reason number three…
Georgia says
The WHOLE WORLD suffers at the hands of fanatic, rabid Muslims! Our God will deal will them soon!
Halaku says
Muslims are not one third of Indian population. They are probably around 15%. Also CAA only reduces the waiting period of non-Muslim refugees already on record as at Dec 31, 2014, from 11 years to 5 years. Muslim refugees continue to be evaluated under the normal 11 years.
It is obvious that the Western media has, in a knee jerk reaction lambasted the aggrieved party instead of the real perpetrators of the organised violence, a group of well prepared Muslims.
Mural says
15% is the official figure. It is much higher than that due to the huge influx of Bangladeshi Muslim Immigrants.
Roland says
The thousand years Ghazwa E Hind, Muslim jihad against India, continues. The Hindu “polytheists” enjoy no protection under Islam.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on.
Just Venting says
I am concerned that if Modi and the governing parties do not act to clean out this den of vipers, the rest of the India populace will take action on their own. That will not be pretty and will have a negative effect on India’s economy if there is widespread turmoil and violence. Of course, the perpetrators of this anti-hindu pogrom do not care about that. Furthermore, any other non-muslim groups in India need to realize the danger they are in. Just look at the happy, peaceful neighbors surrounding India, like Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh to see what the future holds for other groups.
Mural says
Perplexingly, The Indian Catholic Church supports the Muslims here,, even though this law benefits Christians.
Rueben_Singh says
The reason they do this is that they want to undermine a non christian country, in order to make it easier pickings for the church.
gravenimage says
The idea that Islamizing a nation makes it “easier picking for the church” makes no sense.
gravenimage says
This is crazy–Christians are treated like sh*t in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Still, we’ve seen this kind of dhimmitude before, sadly.
OTTER says
I regret to say that while Christians in India have done the country a huge service through their educational services (schools and colleges), powerful Christian interests in the West regard Hindus as souls waiting for the good news of Christ. They actively proselytise. This is not liked by Hindus, repeat not liked. So there is pushback.
I would urge Christians not to become an ally of Islam in India. Just look across the border of the bloody record of attacks on Christians in Pakistan; the Asia Bibi story and look at the difference between India and Pakistan. Christians are safe in India. They have served honourably in the country’s armed forces, academia and George Fernandez, a labour leader who became India’s defence minister was a Christian.
The underlying problem is virtually other religion thinks Hindus are fair game, but the fact is, they’re not. It was Hindu culture that gave the world so much of what it turns to achieve mental peace and good health. Need I mention only Yoga and meditation, both of which are plainly referred to in the Gita.
Turning back to the alliance of Christianity and Islam in India, it is ironic that recently Christians in Kerala have started complaining about Love Jihad–the practise of getting non-Muslim girls to get married, by hook or crook, to Muslims and then produce more monsters.
Mural says
+1. Wonderful post.
Mathew Joseph says
Hi Otter,
I am an Indian Christian. You have got your facts wrong. Christians do not think of anybody as fair game. We preach the message of Christ that shaped the world as we know it today. Just think of anything in your life that does not have its roots in the Bible!
Modern constitutions (including that of India), jurisprudence, labour laws, abolition of slavery, administrative principles, human rights, and the concept of the rule of law – all have been derived from Biblical principles.
It is from the Biblical concept of all humans being created in the image of God that we derive human rights. In Hinduism, humans and animals have the same status. The same ‘atman’ residing in all creatures. Thus, we see killing humans being considered a lesser evil than killing animals, especially cows.
In Islam, Allah loves only Muslims and hates kaafirs and they have far fewer rights, if any.
See, how worldviews and religions are a world apart in their essence!
The Bible changed all these. For proof, just look how these were practised around the world, including India, before the light of Christ reached them.
Not least, this message has been changing lives of individuals across the world.
If you can point out any other worldview in the world coming even remotely close to it, I shall agree with your contention.
We preach Christ and leave it to the hearers to either accept it or ignore it.
The Hindu population in the U.S. is already 2 per cent in only about 60 years. Same with Britain.
But even after 2,000 years of Christian presence on Indian soil, and their incomparable service to the country, their population remains a mere 1.8 per cent. Does it not prove that Christians do not convert people aggressively nor through fraud or force?
We do proclaim Christ. And this right is guaranteed by the Constitution of India. Hindus do proselytisation in many Christian countries while facing no protest or objection. So, what are you complaining about?
Personally, I support the CAA. But the church in India has the compulsion of not being seen as partisan. So, it issues politically correct statements.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mathew Joseph.
gravenimage says
The world must know the truth: Delhi unrest was a genocidal anti-Hindu riot, not the other way around
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True–but most people in the West have no idea. They either haven’t heard about this at all–surprisingly common–or else uncritically accept the false “narrative” of Muslim victimhood. In reality, this is just another ugly Jihad.
mortimer says
Excellent article by Radhika Singh.
What will make people realize that GENOCIDE is an operating principle of Islam, rather than an aberration?
India’s law to welcome persecuted refugees fleeing from Islamic persecution is in reaction to Islam’s persecutory, GENOCIDAL PROGRAM being acted out in most Islamic countries.
The riots by Muslims in India show why the law is needed.
Geof Barrington says
Just like in most parts of the world Bollywood and the MSM are controlled by the globalists who are pushing islam . That is why muslums are always the victims..because it is written up and presented this way
Cyrus Katrak says
Thank you and the author for a most insightful and informative post. It is a very welcome rebuttal of the totally biased and distorted reporting of the riots in India that appeared in the Anglo-Saxon media in the U.K. and in North America. Your readers will also obtain a superbly-written assessment of these recent events in India from this scintillating essay in INDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW, written a few days ago:
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/india-a-soft-state-perennially-manipulated-by-its-civilisational-enemies/
Plainspeaker says
Just to add that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the basic issue, does not accord citizenship only to Hindus religiously persecuted in the three neighbouring Islamic countries Pakistan, Afghanisthan, Bangaladesh. The door is open to other religionists as well – Sikhs, Christians, Parsis. For instance, Asisi the Christian on the death row in Pakistan until she was rescued, could have come into a safe India under CAA. It is par for the course in these three countries to abduct young girls from Hindu families and marry them off to much older men after conversion. The population of Hindus in these countries is down to one twentieth of what it was two decades back.
Another important point conveniently forgotten is that Muslims from these three countries are still eligible to Indian citizenship through normal course, but not as a refugee. How can it get more reasonable than this?
The trouble started because buoyed by their unchallenged blockade of a key arterial road Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, they wanted to emulate the blockade in another area called Jafrabad. People acted in time to prevent an unruly gathering of Muslim women in Jafrabad to create another blockade, confident that being Muslim and that too women, no Police, no Court would ever touch them even while the left-liberal media in India and worldwide would celebrate their resistance to ‘fascism’.
Successful, diabolical manipulation of news by blinkered hostile prejudiced media has twisted truth on its head. Thank God, we can find the truth reported here.
Arundeep Singh Pathania says
One factual error in the article – CAA is for giving citizenship to all the persecuted minorities of the Islamic Republics of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. These persecuted minorities are Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, Parsis, Jains.
gravenimage says
This is true–this act gives Indian citizenship to *all* threatened non-Muslims. I am glad to see it, and wish the West would do the same.