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An incident in a Virginia mosque on Friday initially seemed to bear out the Left’s increasing warnings about the rise of “extremism” among Hindus. As is so often the case with “anti-Muslim hate crimes,” however, reality turned out to be markedly different from what was initially reported.
Leftists have been warning about the alleged rise of “Hindu nationalism,” or “Hindutva,” for quite some time now. In September 2022, the far-Left’s flagship publication, The Nation, ran an article entitled “Hindu Nationalism’s Alarming Rise in the US Goes Beyond Texas.” The subtitle of this exercise in deflection and alarmism linked this supposedly rising Hindu nationalism to the person Leftists hate almost as much as they hate God: Donald Trump. The subhead darkly informed us that “the 2019 Houston rally—where Trump and [Indian President Narendra] Modi rubbed elbows—wasn’t the end of Hindutva’s ascent in the United States.”
Not to be outdone, the Huffington Post ran a markedly similar piece the following month: “Far-Right Hindu Nationalism Is Gaining Ground In The U.S.: Hindutva, an extremist ideology, takes many cues from white nationalism — and it’s endangering millions of Muslims and other religious minorities.” The Left’s reliable ally, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has also warned about the “threat” of “far-right Hindutva extremists” in the United States.
And so on Friday, which was Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the monthlong Ramadan season of fasting by day and gorging by night, an incident in a mosque in northern Virginia, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (commonly known as the ADAMS Center), seemed particularly disturbing. One Twitter user posted video of the incident early Saturday morning with the caption: “A Hindu woman stormed a mosque in America during the Eid prayer and started screaming and insulting Muslims at the top of her voice. The security men tried to silence her but she did not respond so they forcefully took her out.”
Another said much the same thing: “An #Indian #Hindu extremist woman went inside d mosque in d #US during #EidUlFitr prayer and started shouting and assaulting the worshippers. The worshippers remained calm & peaceful n let d police do their duty. The then dragged this extremist woman out of d Masjid.”
Still another asserted that the woman had denounced Islamic law: “A Hindu woman came to mosque during Eid prayers in USA and start shouting on Islamic Laws/Sharia!!” Others on Twitter went even farther. One wrote: “#Hindu #Terrorist attacks mosque again.. this time in Virgina [sic], USA during their #EID prayers. #hindutva #terrorism is real and is grave matter of concern for western world.” And one Twitter user was even more specific: “Hindu suicide bomber arrested in Virginia masjid, she was about to explode but Security staff arrested her right moment.”
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Correction to the above article: Modi is India’s prime minister, not president. In India, the president is a figurehead, little more
So Hindus are the new Jews, being targeted both for their faith, as well as their opposition to islam. Actually, a majority of them unfortunately still trend (D), but that hasn’t stopped them from being targeted by the Left. If only they’d wake up and leave the Dems in droves!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Also, aside from all the stupid tropes about Hindus/Hindutva, Modi and his party are not a Hindu party, and haven’t been for the last 8 years. Muslims have been getting all sorts of perks in India that minorities smaller than them (like Jains, Jews, Parsis…) haven’t been getting, and that too exceeding what it used to be during the secular Congress rule
Modi is about as Hindu as McConnell is conservative