(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/4/2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) and American Muslims condemn the recent open call of Hindu chauvinist leaders in a Hindu gathering meant to promote genocide of Muslims and other religious minorities in India.
The reluctance of nations to censure India only enables empowered Hindu nationalists in their crimes against humanity.
“If you want to finish them off, then kill them. … Even if just a hundred of us become soldiers and kill two million of them, we will be victorious … If you stand with this attitude only then will you be able to protect ‘sanatana dharma’ [absolutist Hinduism],” said Annapurna Maa, a leading Hindu. She urged attendees to “pray to Nathuram Godse,” the Hindu who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 for tolerance toward Muslims.
On January 1, 2022, for the second time in six months, a troll site for the web-auction of outspoken Indian and Kashmiri Muslim women as handmaids went viral.
Indian President Narendra Modi, who oversaw the 2002 massacre of Muslims in Gujarat state, the worst religious violence in Indian history, has recently directed Hindu chauvinist ire against Muslims in a televised address, saying Muslims “can be identified by their dress.”
Mobs have been tearing down mosques at an alarming pace, replaced with Hindu shrines. Cow vigilantism is rampant, “beef-lynching” Muslims who sell, consume, or transport beef. Muslim and Christian religious holiday observances have been banned by some local state officials.
Last month, the Hindu Religious Parliament initiated a series of “Genocide Conventions” throughout India, led by the 400,000-member Juna Akhara, a historically militant force, under the theme “Warfare, Weapons, Triumph.”
“Economic boycott won’t work. Hindu groups need to update themselves. Swords look good on stage only. This battle will be won by those with better weapons,” said Yati Narsinghanand, the militant movement’s leader.
BJP leaders heard speakers call for a “Final Solution” for India’s Muslims and remained silent or demonstrated approval.
“Like Myanmar, our police, our army, and every Hindu in India must pick up weapons and conduct this Safaayi Abhiyan (ethnic cleansing). There is no other option left,” said Swami Prabodhoanand Giri.”
BJP Chief Minister of Uttarakhand state genuflected before the religious leader and touched his foot. The swami was referencing Myanmar’s collaborative government, military, and Buddhist genocide against the Rohingya Muslims.
Globally esteemed human rights organization Genocide Watch has issued two genocide alerts for India, the most of any country, warning that India is in late-stage “organization” of a genocide of Muslims.
Prominent media figures calling for “Hindu Rashtra,” an exclusively Hindu nation, have sworn to “die and kill” for this goal and administered the same death-oath publically to others taking a Nazi salute.
All of these statements are video recorded. Yet no nation or leader has uttered a contrary word.
“Not a peep, much less a condemnation, from the [Indian] gov’t. Sad truth is that this deafening silence isn’t the least bit surprising,” Michael Kugelman of the Wilson Center tweeted.
USCMO leaders, and American Muslims, call for four actions:
- President Joseph Biden must publicly and formally condemn these statements and developments of Hindu chauvinism in India, tying this condemnation to American military sales and political agreements with India.
- The Biden administration should heavily sanction the political and religious leaders of India’s BJP and RSS endorsing Muslim genocide
- The Department of Justice must investigate American Hindu nationalist organizations that aid and abet this dangerous Hindutva ideology and threat of genocide against Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs in India and take appropriate measures.
- The Senate must immediately pass proposed legislation to appoint a US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia, as the House recently has, and President Biden must sign the measure into law and appoint an Envoy immediately.
Americans cannot stand idly by while India organizes a genocide against tens of millions of innocents simply because those people say their God is One, and seek to uphold the monotheistic Heavenly faiths.
May God be in the aid of the Muslims, Christians, and all others now facing religious persecution and genocide in India.
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