Hindus are ostensibly the ruling majority in India, and we often hear how they are making lives unbearable for the Muslims who form the largest religious minority. Yet some Muslims from this supposedly hapless vulnerable community have been stopping Hindus from celebrating their religious festivals in the only country they have left to call their own. Hindu children are being killed in Hindu-majority India for celebrating their festivals. They are not bothering anyone. They are not creating troubles for anyone. Yet simply attending the celebration of one of his religious festivals can get a Hindu child killed in India.
On Saturday, February 5, Hindus celebrated the Saraswati Puja, a festival in honor of Saraswati, the Hindu deity associated with knowledge and wisdom. This puja is mainly observed by students, as they are in the learning phase of their lives; the adults assist them in the rituals. But much like the Durga Puja, which Muslims prevented the villagers of Kanglapahadi from celebrating the same for years; the Ram Navami, which is greeted with stone-pelting every year; and Amarnath Yatra, which has a history of surviving terror attacks; the Saraswati Puja is the latest Hindu ceremony that some irate Muslims cannot abide.
This intolerance has claimed the life of 17-year-old Rupesh Kumar, who died on February 6 after being brutally assaulted on the evening of Saraswati Puja. The incident was reported from the Kariyadpur village of Hazaribagh in Jharkhand. The Hazaribag Superintendent of Police, Manoj Ratan Chothe, states that the violence took place during the procession of the immersion of goddess Saraswati after the closing of the ceremony.
“A named FIR has been lodged against 27 persons besides many unknown people. So far four arrests have been made while a hunt is on for others. Prohibitory orders under section 144 have been imposed in Barhi. Adequate deployment of forces has been done to maintain law and order,” added the SP while talking to media.
The names of the four individuals arrested so far have been concealed by most media platforms; however, some Hindi newspapers report that one of the detainees is Papu Aslam. Names in the FIR include Mohammad Aslam, Mohammad Anis, Mohammad Kaif, Mohammad Gufran, Mohammad Chand, Mohammad Osama, Mohammad Ehtam, and Mohammad Nahid.
As per local newspapers, the Hindu minor was lynched by “people from the other community” (because you cannot name which community, given India’s secular set-up). He was rushed to the local hospital, but the doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. The incident has led to a state of chaos and a law-and-order crisis in the area. Many demanded imposition of section 144, which involves restricting “ a certain number of people or people in general from certain acts in the interest of law and order or general well-being of people,” almost like a curfew.
In another instance of violence, a scuffle broke out during the Sarawati immersion procession in the Markacho region of the Koderma district of Jharkhand. Eight individuals, including a child, were injured in this mayhem. Apparently, some members of the Muslim community had objections to the music being played at the procession. The community that broadcasts their religious sermons over the loudspeakers of millions of mosques in the country five times a day cannot tolerate the music coming from a Hindu procession in an event that takes place once a year. Police have confirmed that the situation is under control now.
But wait: There’s more. Some local Muslims in Firkoria village in Jamtara, again in Jharkhand, stopped Hindus from carrying out the immersion procession. SHO Raushan Kumar accompanied by a huge police contingent reached the spot. They tried to persuade the mob, but they wouldn’t comply. Even a Muslim Circle Officer, Md Gulzar Anjum was brought in to convince the adamant mob to allow the Hindus to carry out their procession. He explained that the roads are government properties and no one has exclusive rights over them, but the mob refused to budge.
In the end, the CO declared that he would carry the idol and complete the ritual; this forced the mob decided to clear the path. And that’s how the Hindus, in India, the only piece of land they have left to call home, completed their religious observance.
Infidel says
Yeah, secularism is a cancer in India that needs to be eradicated. The BJP, like the GOP here, has become the stupid party, and India desperately needs a genuine right wing Hindutva party, since the BJP has chosen to go centrist
Ashlyn, please also cover the current hijab firestorm in Karnataka which is spreading to other places in India, over the ‘rights’ of school and college aged girls to wear hijabs in non-madrassa schools that already have uniforms
mortimer says
Secularism is the best defense against Sharia supremacism. Secularism reduces the tension of the jihadists.
In the above story, we see that the jihadists are using the Hindu outdoor festival as an excuse to enforce the Dhimmi Contract which is the default code that Muslims impose on kafirs. Secular laws actually protect the Hindus to stop the Dhimmi Contract from being imposed.
This street festival obviously needed an additional police officer to stand guard over it.
Infidel says
Secularism is only a good thing if a country is majority muslim, like the -stans. When a non-muslim country is secular, secularism turns out to be a tool used by jihadists
What needed to happen in the above story is far more Hindus participating in it to be numerically intimidating to the muslims. Muslims only behave when they are an overwhelmed minority
gravenimage says
My understanding is that secularism means something rather different in India than it does in the West.
Infidel says
Its real meaning is pandering to, and appeasement of, muslims, even though on paper, they claim that that country doesn’t have a state religion. That’s very different from the US concept of separation of church and state
somehistory says
Infidel,
It’s really rotten evil that the “other community” can’t be named. This withholding the names of those responsible for murdering a poor child, not letting the world know that mozlums are ruining lives everywhere, is evil.
Everyone deserves to live their lives as they choose and not be forced by mozlums to follow their evil ways.
True Justice will come soon and this poor boy will be given another chance at life. I know you believe in something different, but I have hopes for all innocent ones who are murdered to have a part in the Resurrection Jesus Christ promised.
Infidel says
As far as the victims of this go, Hindu scriptures have it that they will be reborn in another life and be appropriately rewarded/punished according to their deeds in both this life as well as previous ones. I have no reason to doubt that. I do hope that in their re-incarnations, they’d be a part of a more successful effort to take down islam wherever they get to live
I was thinking more about the current authorities there. Since the bulk of them are pandering for muslim votes, Hindus need to regain their street power, and do exactly what muslims do – block streets, demonstrate outside police stations, etc until the government is forced to crack down on muslims w/ a heavier hand than what they are willing to use
Namer says
Maybe its time all muslims in India move to a more muslim tolerant country like Pakistan.
Keith O says
I never thought I’d say it, but well done to the muslim CO who put a stop to the violence by carrying the Hindu’s idol. That took a lot of balls.
Unfortunately, this may well have put him and his family under threat of death.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Keith.
As ex-Muslim Bosch Fawstin has said, some Muslims are simply better than their religion.
peter says
.Unfortunately, this may well have put him and his family under threat of death.
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.Look at he case of Wasim Rizvi who was the chief of Shia Muslim Board in UP .He renounced Islam and became a Hindu . There are thousands of death threats against him . No mention of it in the press in India. What a shame!
Infidel says
Is he still in jail, or has he been released?
gravenimage says
India: Muslims protest Hindu festival Saraswati Puja, one Hindu teen killed
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If they are *murdering people* this is not a protest.
Infidel says
Also, if one is opposing other people practicing their own faith, is ‘protest’ the right word for it?
John Allan says
Well, the Mussies are CERTAINLY hapless!
Try an Oxford and Cambridge dictionary, JW, if your writers/editors are unsure what the word, hapless, actually MEANS!
A clue: it DOESN’T interpret as helpless!