Calling a spade a spade: Hindutva Terrorism – By Suresh Bhat Bakrabail
…It needs to be emphasized again and again that the various acts of racist violence perpetrated by supremacist groups such as the Alt-Right, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, and our own Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are nothing but terrorist acts. But sadly we find a majority of Western and Indian mainstream media taking a blinkered view of the subject and equating terrorism with only Islamist terrorism.…
Reportedly the Indian far right extremist group RSS is also a part of the Alt-Right and they keep in touch mainly through the Net. It is definitely not a coincidence that one of the Sangh Parivar outfits celebrated when Donald Trump became the president of USA. Pieter Friedrich in his article ‘From Christchurch to India: How India’s RSS Inspires White Nationalist Violence in World’, tells us that in 2009 John Morgan and Swedish white nationalist Daniel Friberg founded a media firm known as Arktos Media based in Budapest.…
Interestingly the company’s base of operations, from 2010 to 2014, was India. Pieter claims that the Alt-Right has been influenced by the RSS and its ideology. But actually the founding fathers of RSS drew their inspiration from and were heavily influenced by Fascism and Nazism. Dr B.S. Moonje, one of the co-founders of RSS had visited Italy in 1931 and met Il Duce (BenitoMussolini) at the Palazzo Venezia.… After he returned to India he gave an interview to the Maratha newspaper in which he praised those youth movements of Italy and said they needed to be adopted in India. We all know that in later years the RSS did establish its own youth movements which today have become a serious menace to civilized society.…
https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/calling-spade-spade-hindutva-terrorism
SEE ALSO:
- Gandhi and RSS: Diverse Nationalisms – By Ram Puniyani (Apr 21, 2019, Coastal Digest)
http://www.coastaldigest.com/counterview/gandhi-and-rss-diverse-nationalisms - Leaders who ignited a deadly fire – By Ruchir Joshi (Apr 4, 2019, The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/leaders-who-ignited-a-deadly-fire/article26725236.ece - Fear can be protection – By Saba Naqvi (Apr 21, 2019, The Tribune)
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/sunday-special/columns/fear-can-be-protection/761341.html
