Hindu Fascism: An All-American Threat – By Sameena Mustafa and Arti Walker-Peddakotla
The leader of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been groomed by the right-wing, xenophobic and Islamophobic Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) along with its political arm, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While known as the world’s largest democracy and founded as a secular one per its constitution, India with a large Hindu majority has re-elected him, a well-documented fascist aligned with a group that destroyed a 16th century mosque and sanctioned mass killings of Muslims in the state of Gujarat.
The former Chief Minister of Gujarat and now Prime Minister Modi joined the RSS in his youth (like Brett Kavanaugh joining the Federalist Society) and oversaw the Gujarat massacre.… We, as Muslim and Hindu women of color, have watched in horror as both the country of our ancestors, India, and the country of our birth, the United States, have devolved into nationalism and fascism.
As activists and political candidates, we expected resistance to our political work from outside and within our own communities because we have challenged the status quo that many Indians willingly capitulate to in their eagerness to live up to the white-supremacist model minority stereotype.… We have been disappointed that a vocal upper caste Indian American minority has operated with a “business as usual” attitude, attempted to silence us, or, even worse, aided the expansion of the RSS/BJP ideology within America.…
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/18/hindu-fascism-all-american-threat
SEE ALSO:
- When Hindu Nationalism and White Nationalism Meet – By Thomas Crowley (Sep 25, 2019, Jacobin)
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/modi-houston-rally-hindu-nationalism - ‘Colloquially Speaking, BJP is Fascist’: Karan Thapar Interviews Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Jan 29, 2020, The Wire)
https://thewire.in/video/karan-thapar-pratap-bhanu-mehta-interview - America is Making a Bad Bet on India – By Arif Rafiq (Feb 2, 2020, National Interest)
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-making-bad-bet-india-119316 - ‘Not Hindu Nationalism, But Society That Has Changed’: Christophe Jaffrelot – By Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta (Jan 25, 2020, The Wire)
https://thewire.in/religion/christophe-jaffrelot-rss-narendra-modi
