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Hindu Supremacism in India and the United States / Safa Ahmed

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Indian American Muslim Council's Safa Ahmed on her Jacobin Magazine article, "The US Hindu Right Is Still Whitewashing the Gujarat Pogrom." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Safa's article here: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/hindutva-us-right-gujarat-pogrom-modi Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

Just like my daughter,

0:02.0

my daughter,

0:04.0

see her again. The Pick it back! Jack! This is hell and here in the United States one of the

0:47.8

This is not the media

0:50.6

This is hell and here in the United States one of the many hells the media refuses to

0:57.0

report on is the hell that India's Prime Minister Norendra Modi has been imposing

1:02.4

on India's citizens and releasing violent and deadly

1:06.3

Hindu nationalist militias that operate with impunity and hunting down at times raping and

1:12.1

even murdering Muslims who if held accountable

1:15.9

which rarely happens are often pardoned by Modi and set free to cause even more

1:21.8

religion-based violence.

1:24.4

That's right.

1:25.6

Once Hindus are caught for having committed crimes against Muslims,

1:30.2

they are usually released if not completely pardoned.

1:34.0

Now you would figure there would be a worldwide call for India's government to stop normalizing the killing of Muslims by Hindus.

1:41.0

But for whatever reason, it appears to be just another example of the

1:44.3

West not really giving a damn if Muslims are being massacred and what many say

1:48.7

amounts to genocide not only in Gaza but in India too.

1:54.4

We will try to figure out why the organized and government approved massacres of Muslims

2:00.8

by Hindu nationalists has been going on for nearly a half century and why it continues

2:05.8

unabated and how that far right Hindu nationalist and supremacist Islam Islamophobic,

2:12.8

violent racist movement, and its war on Indian Muslims here in the

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