Killing and burning homes and tearing the clothes of women .. Hindus attack Muslims in India and the authority in the indictment

Since the arrival of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India in 2014, many Muslims have laid their hands on their hearts for fear of what will happen and they are sure of it happening.

This certainty was caused by their knowledge of Modi’s past, who in his youth joined the Hindu Nationalist Organization (Rashtriya Soyamsevak Sang), headed the Gujarat state from 2001 to 2014, and was widely criticized for his inaction during the turmoil in which hundreds of Muslims were killed in the state.

Europe and the United States have boycotted him for years, and human rights organizations have accused him of what it called "tacit encouragement" of religious violence that has killed Muslims.

Moody sparked widespread anger in 2013, one year before he assumed the post of prime minister, when he compared the victims of violence that claimed the lives of Muslims to "puppets run over by cars."

Once his BJP won elections in May (303 seats out of 542), the government rushed in December to reveal the amended Nationality Law, which was seen as an attempt to turn India into a "homeland for Hindus" that excludes Muslims.

The law permits the amendment of the Nationality Law of 1955 and its inclusion in the article accepting the naturalization of immigrants from three neighboring countries - Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, provided they are Hindus, Christians or Sikhs.

The decision caused hundreds of thousands of protesters to take to the streets, condemning the government's move and militants as threatening the country's stability and security.

Prior to that, Moody and his government scrambled to repeal Article 370 of the constitution that granted Kashmir autonomy and the right to self-determination, which severely strained relations with neighboring Pakistan, and caused unrest and violence.

During the same period, specifically last November, the Indian Supreme Court gave Hindus the right to build their temple on the ruins of the Babri Mosque, which was destroyed by Hindu extremists in 1992 under the pretext of rebuilding the Temple of Ram, and triggered major incidents of violence between Muslims and Hindus.

Congestion
In this congested atmosphere against Muslims, it has become understandable that the security situation has deteriorated since the end of February, and the outbreak of sectarian violence that has killed scores of people dead and injured, and burned and destroyed many property.

Media reports quoted details of Muslim homes and property being burned by Hindu extremists who were chanting religious slogans during their attacks.

And those reports said that Muslim women confirmed that Hindu extremists set fire to Muslim shops and homes, and threw Molotov cocktails and gas canisters, in light of the complete absence of the police, which did not come until long after, despite repeated contact with them and confirmation that they would attend within five minutes.

Many women were forced to flee the scene with their children, and they left their possessions behind.

And the British "BBC" quoted women victims as saying that the attackers tore their clothes in front of their children.

According to Patrick Coburn in an article for the British newspaper The Independent recently published, Muslims are being killed in India in the absence of an international response condemning what is happening.

The journalist specializing in the wars in the Middle East compared between what is happening now to Muslims in India, and the violence that occurred to the Jews on 9 and 10 November 1938 in Germany, Austria, and areas in Czechoslovakia occupied by German forces.

The British writer gave an example of this in the case of a child less than two years old, who was stripped of his clothes by Hindu aggressors to ascertain whether he was circumcised or not, given that circumcision is an Islamic, not Hindu, custom.

There were several videos showing Indian citizens, blood covered in blood, and forced to lie down and sing national anthems.

Those who fled their homes to save their lives wonder if they will be able to return and live in peace again.

Iranian reaction
Today, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, urged the authorities in India to "confront Hindu extremists and stop the massacre against Muslims."

"The hearts of all Muslims around the world are broken by what Muslims are exposed to in the massacre in India," Khamenei said in an English Tweet on Twitter, a few days after New Delhi’s Iranian foreign minister criticized him for his comment on the issue.

Journalists, too
The attacks did not escape even the journalists covering the developments, one of whom was beaten and the second journalist's teeth were broken, while others were forced to reveal their religious identity under threat.

Indian journalists reported that the attacks against journalists while covering protests against the nationality law in the northeast of the capital, New Delhi, last week, indicate that the situation is heading for the worst in the country.

The newspaper of the Times of India, Anindya Gatbopadhhai, said that a group of Hindus trapped him in an area while covering the protests, to bother him by pressing him to reveal whether he was a Muslim or a Hindu.

As for the reporter of "New Delhi TV" Arvind Gonascar, he was beaten by a Hindu group while they were being photographed by his phone as they tore down the wall of a Muslim cemetery.

Gunaskar did not intercede for his journalistic career to escape from the attack until his colleague arrived at the scene and showed the attacking group a signal he wore on his neck showing that he was a Hindu.

Dark horizon
Prominent writer Prem Shankar Jha who worked for the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank and was media adviser to the former Prime Minister of India in Pe Singh, stressed in an article reported by "Anatolia" agency that the situation in India does not augur well for Muslims with the growing hate speech against them, What appears to be an implicit encouragement to the authorities to give up the duties of preserving lives and property in the country.

The author asked what "made the police give up its duty to maintain the law, and begin to break it instead", highlighting that "the direct answer is the directives it received, perhaps explicitly, but certainly through implicit references from senior leaders in the government, starting with the chief Minister Narendra Modi himself. "

He said that the police "tried on the first day at least and in some - if not all places - to prevent violence, as one of the senior police officers suffered severe head injuries and was taken to the hospital," adding that since then, "the police's mission has receded and has become indifferent to the situation." Amazingly. "

In the absence of an Islamic and international reaction, Muslim fears are growing that the attacks will expand and intensify, as "their families entered an endless tunnel of sadness, and their fragile lives are mainly clouded by other tragedies since the outbreak of sectarian riots, arson and murder," according to the prominent writer. .