British police have acknowledged the “disorder” created after India faced a defeat at the hands of Pakistani cricket team during the Asia Cup cricket tournament on August 28
After India lost a cricket match to Pakistan recently, Leicester witnessed street agitations and irreligious accusations. The loss in the cricket match led to anger and according to reports, goons launched never-seen-before attacks on minority Muslim and other communities over the last weekend.
Apparently, hundreds of activists wearing face masks and scooter helmets, passed through streets yelling abuses in an open case of hatred, mostly against Muslims. Most of them were immigrants or born to Indian-origin Hindu families.
British police have acknowledged the “disorder” created after India faced a defeat at the hands of Pakistani cricket team during the Asia Cup cricket tournament on August 28. Several people say the incident was a clear case of Islamophobia and could not be called as “communal”.
Frustrated over inaction of the UK authorities, globally-recognised journalist and activist CJ Werleman said: “British Muslims are under attack from radicalised Hindus but UK police are making excuses for the attackers.”
A latest study carried out by Islamic Council of Victoria (Australia) has showed that around 86% of anti-Muslim content on twitter comes from the US, the UK and India. On Indian users sharing anti-Muslim content, the research blames the BJP for the dissemination and amplification of anti-Muslim hate, saying, “(the) BJP has actively normalised hatred towards Muslims such that 55.12 per cent of anti-Muslim hatred tweets now originate in India.”
According to reports, goons launched never-seen-before attacks
Commenting on a video interview of a Hindutva fascist during the anti-Muslim rally, Sweden-based Professor of Indian-origin Ashok Swain commented: “If these Hindu supremacists in Leicester are worried about increasing Muslim population in India, why have they escaped to the UK, not coming back to India?”
Athens-based Cas Mudde said on Twitter that Hindutva was a global movement and “it is deeply naive to think its radicalism and violence will stay contained to India. Particularly worrying for UK, but could also come to US.”
Linking the Saturday-night anti-Muslim march to RSS and BJP, Swain suggested the UK authorities that any diaspora group “celebrating the home country’s regime must lose the right to the host country’s protection on the ground of political persecution.” According to him, the Leicester violence showed that “British Indians are the primary suspects.” He also added: “Hindu supremacists have changed India and Hindus living abroad.”
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