NHT Exclusive
ISLAMABAD, December 22: A highly charged and inciting video is circulating on twitter showing an oath taking ceremony of a considerably large gathering of men and women seemingly educated and well to do has been center of attention of social media community.
The video contains a extremely indicted Hindu nationalist content in which an RSS leader is taking oath of Hindu followers to make India a pure Hindu land for Hindus. The crowd is seen repeating the oath wording pledging to kill non-Hindus to achieve their religious duty to purify India from non-Hindu dharam citizens.
Modi/ RSS has tapped into a violent form of Hindu nationalism that promotes intolerance of other faiths, particularly Islam, and traces its roots to the decades that followed the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which sought but failed to throw off the rule of the British Empire. In 1922, the Hindu nationalist movement gave birth to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), considered either the world’s largest paramilitary organization or world’s largest terrorist organization.
It’s RSS that provides Modi and India’s ruling party their ideological DNA, and it’s why Muslims are being hunted, chased and killed in the streets by Hindu extremist mobs who enjoy the implicit and sometimes explicit support of the state.
Hindu nationalists have long dreamt of a Greater India. They aspire to rebuild a nation matching the size and glory of ancient India – Akhand Bharat (Undivided India) and Hindu Rashtra (Hindu Nation). RSS and BJP leaders have often pushed for these aims much to the chagrin of India’s secularists.
Akhand Bharat, in its most expansive version, is envisioned to include territories that constituted the third century BC empire of Chandragupta Maurya. This would incorporate the modern-day nations of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
In February 2021, speaking at a book launch ceremony, Mohan Bhagwat RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat stressed that “There is a need to make glorious “Akhand Bharat” for the welfare of the universe. That’s why there is a need to awaken patriotism….as truncated India has a need to be united (once again), all the divided parts of India which no longer call themselves as India, they need more,”.
To achieve their ambitious desire to make India – Akhand Bharat RSS uses extremely dangerous means on internal and external Fronts: –
– Promote Hindutva
– Promote Extremism and Violence
– Persecution of monitories; Human rights groups have criticized the Government, which has been led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014, for not doing enough to protect minorities. Human Rights Watch, in its 2019 report on India claimed that “the government failed to properly enforce Supreme Court directives to prevent and investigate mob attacks, often led by BJP supporters, on religious minorities and other vulnerable communities”.
o Christians; according to a 2018 briefing by the Library of Congress, eight out of India’s twenty-nine states have Freedom of Religion Acts often called “anti-conversion” laws, that regulate religious conversions. These laws are seen to target Christian groups.
o In its 2020 report the Commission reported that violence against Christians also increased: With at least 328 violent incidents, often under accusations of forced conversions. These attacks frequently targeted prayer services and led to the widespread shuttering or destruction of churches.
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