On Sunday, October 9, the Hindus in the Indian state of West Bengal were made to suffer the violence their ancestors were put through some 76 years ago. It was the day of Kojagori Lakshmi Puja, dedicated to the Hindi goddess of wealth and prosperity. This day, incidentally, coincided with the Eid-Milad-Un-Nabi. The Muslims observe the birthday of their prophet on this day. So some Muslims of the Mominpur area in Kolkata, West Bengal, decided to mark this day by targeting the “Kaffirs.”
Mominpur, as the name suggests (Momin translates to “faithful Muslim”), is a Muslim-dominated area. However, within it there are small pockets of tiny Hindu neighborhoods surrounded by the Muslim population. These Hindus in Mominpur came under the radar of the Muslims on the day they set up a pavilion for the Durga pujas during the last week of September. (Durga Puja – Navratri-Lakshmi Puja-Diwali are religious occasions occurring in September and October or October and November every year, as per the lunar calendar.) A local Hindu association called Harijan Durgosave Committee was spearheading this event. But some Muslims regarded this Puja setup as an eyesore from the beginning. They threatened the committee members, demanding they take the pavilion down. The Hindus, however, stood their ground, remarking that the Durga puja pavilion could only be dismantled after the Lakshmi puja. The refusal by the Hindus irked the Muslims even more.
So on the occasion of Laskhmi Puja, Muslim mobs vandalized the pavilion. And they didn’t stop at destroying the puja setup. Gory videos making the rounds on the Internet show Muslims unleashing mayhem on the streets of Kolkata. They ransacked Hindu homes, destroyed their vehicles, and tore down their shops. “Bombs and bricks are being hurled at us. Even the police are forced to flee. The situation is so grim that the face of democracy is blackened on the occasion of Lakshmi Puja,” tweeted a local leader of the Hindu community. Another eminent politician, Sukanta Majumdar, claimed that the unruly Muslim mob was also forcing the Hindus to leave that area. Supporting Majumdar’s claims, a local Hindu activist said, “Their target was to force a demography change and remove Hindus from these pockets,”
Where were the police when the Muslim mobs got together and wreaked havoc on the Hindus? This Indian state is ruled by a political party that went so far in appeasing the preferred “minorities” at one time that they ended up surrendering their power to them. The law and order situation of the state has hit its lowest point; the state is now at the mercy of these Muslim fanatics.
A Kolkata-based journalist explains: “They [the Muslim mobs] coerced the Ekbalpur police station to register a case against Hindus, who are associated with the Puja committee. They also targeted attacks on Hindu homes and looted shops belonging to the Hindu community.” A Hindu activist says, “The police seemed completely helpless. Such an attack is not possible without some degree of political backing.”
Despite their desperate pandering, the police aren’t safe from their wrath. Alleging that an Islamic flag had been desecrated somewhere, another battalion of Muslims ambushed the Ekbalpur police station. Waving their Islamic flags, they raided the police station and forced the police officers to flee. The administration was eventually forced to impose Section 144 (which means calling a curfew in the region).
Now although the establishment media would report all this as a Hindu-Muslim riot, we need to recognize that going by the textbook definition of a riot, what we have reported here was not one. There was no clash between the two parties. It was an attack on one party by another one. To make it more specific, it was a Muslim attack on Hindus. This happened in 1946, 1971, 2022, and all the years in between. Take any Hindu-Muslim riot in the Bangladesh-West Bengal region, and it is always the Muslim forces pouncing on the hapless Bengali Hindus.
The incident we are discussing is dreadful, reminiscent of the 1946 Noakhali “riots.” It was on the evening of Kojagari Lakshmi Puja when some Muslims decided that they wouldn’t allow the Hindus to stay or pray in their Muslim-dominated land. And then the mass massacre of Hindu men and gang rapes of thousands of Hindu women commenced. Even children were not spared.
Last year, during the Durga Puja, a Muslim man placed a copy of the Qur’an in a Puja pavilion, which encouraged many Bangladeshi Muslims to engage in a countrywide anti-Hindu pogrom. The Islamic fire that started in Bangladesh has reached West Bengal. The future doesn’t augur well for the secular-by-nature, music- and literature-loving, silent Bengali Hindus.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It’s one thing that Mumtaz Banerjee, the thief minister of Bengal, doesn’t consider her state a part of India. It’s more serious when the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, doesn’t seem to either
What’s going on there is the great replacement theory: it’s been in practice there for the last 45 years (since 1977), when the Leftist government there encouraged infiltration of Bangladeshi muslims into the state, and today, they form a solid 35% of the population and are a solid voting block for any secular party/alliance. Making it a tall task for the BJP or any Hindu party to win the state
If you want an idea of what countries like Germany, Britain, etc will look like in 10 years, let alone now, just look at Bengal – both Bangladesh and W Bengal – and you’ll get an idea
Raja says
Infidel,
These treacherous politicians will sell anything for votes, including their wives, daughters and grandmothers. I guess, nationalism or patriotism was never a virtue for lefties. The seat of power is more attractive than leading a dhimmi life or being dead at the earliest. Indians cannot be excused for ignorance of islam. May be they take Keynesian words too seriously: In the long run we are all dead.
Just sick stuff emanating from West Bengal of India.
gravenimage says
India: Muslims attack Bengali Hindus on day of Hindu festival while the local government naps
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This seems to be more and more common.
DDMisra says
It was state sponsored genocide of the Hindus.