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Mobs of Hindus and Muslims had clashed on roads and alleyways in northeast Delhi, throwing stones and crude gasoline bombs. At least three mosques were torched, as were scores of homes and businesses. Witnesses said that instead of stopping the violence, police joined crowds shouting Hindu nationalist slogans and fired indiscriminately.

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But Muslims have led the opposition to the law. Meanwhile, members of Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have vilified the protesters, calling them traitors who deserve to be shot and linking them with India’s rival Pakistan. One such leader, Kapil Mishra, helped trigger this week’s violence: He threatened to clear a sit-in conducted by Muslim women, sparking a clash between supporters and opponents of the citizenship law.

The way the police responded to the violence in Delhi points to a troubling conclusion, said Ashutosh Varshney, a political scientist at Brown University who has researched communal clashes in India. “The cops either looked away or participated,” he said. That means there was “state connivance and state culpability — it’s a pogrom,” Varshney said.

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Both sides are to blame. The Muslims should have continue to join Hindus, Christians and others who were protesting with them rather than listen to socalled Leaders who called for violence and disturbance. The Leaders on both sides are to blame. Also, do not forget the Paki ISI has Cells in Muslim Communities that they finance for such events.

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Abdul Samar was praying at a mosque in the northeast of India's capital on Tuesday evening when protesters stormed in brandishing weapons, attacking worshipers and setting the building ablaze.

The mob descended on the mosque in the Ashok Nagar neighborhood of New Delhi chanting praises to a Hindu deity, Jai Shri Ram, before beating up the imam and killing the muezzin, who was leading the call to prayer, Samar told CNN.
"They brought batons and stones inside the mosque and the people outside had guns as well. We had to stop praying and run away," Samar, whose eye was severely injured in the attack, said.
Protesters hoisted a saffron flag, associated with Hindu far-right groups, from the mosque's blackened minaret. The flag was only removed Wednesday morning after a CNN team asked police why it was still hanging there.
 
 
Tuesday was the third consecutive night of deadly communal clashes in the capital between Hindus and minority Muslims over a divisive new citizenship law.
More than thirty people have been killed since riots broke out on Sunday, according to a hospital spokesperson. It is the worst sectarian violence Delhi has seen in decades.
 
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Ray posted:

Abdul Samar was praying at a mosque in the northeast of India's capital on Tuesday evening when protesters stormed in brandishing weapons, attacking worshipers and setting the building ablaze.

The mob descended on the mosque in the Ashok Nagar neighborhood of New Delhi chanting praises to a Hindu deity, Jai Shri Ram, before beating up the imam and killing the muezzin, who was leading the call to prayer, Samar told CNN.
"They brought batons and stones inside the mosque and the people outside had guns as well. We had to stop praying and run away," Samar, whose eye was severely injured in the attack, said.
Protesters hoisted a saffron flag, associated with Hindu far-right groups, from the mosque's blackened minaret. The flag was only removed Wednesday morning after a CNN team asked police why it was still hanging there.
 
Tuesday was the third consecutive night of deadly communal clashes in the capital between Hindus and minority Muslims over a divisive new citizenship law.
More than thirty people have been killed since riots broke out on Sunday, according to a hospital spokesperson. It is the worst sectarian violence Delhi has seen in decades

This is unacceptable behaviour. I read this article yesterday. How can they justify beating someone in a place of worship ? 
This is fanaticism, imagin how they will flog you or chop off your hands if you try to open up a temple in Saudi Arabia ? 


 

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Sean posted:

Wait, so you want the man to honour crooked Biden or racist Bloomberg ? The man lives in a democracy and knows a good leader who respects his country. Dem should broadside you rass for sounding like a jealous democrat socialist/communist. Leff de man alone. 

You should not engage in "racist" topics as a Trump supporter. The $150,000 abused tits and countless multiple entries cunny buyer is an extreme racist advised by Stephen Miller, a Jewish racist.

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Correction: 76 percent of democrats support Socialism:

76 PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS SAY THEY'D VOTE FOR A SOCIALIST FOR PRESIDENT, NEW POLL SHOWS

Just over three-quarters of Democratic voters said that they would vote to elect a socialist president, according to poll results from Gallup released Tuesday.

The poll, conducted between January 16 and 29, asked respondents whether they identified as Republican, Democrat or independent and questioned them about their willingness to vote for candidates with "diverse characteristics."

 

"Between now and the 2020 political conventions, there will be discussion about the qualifications of presidential candidates—their education, age, religion, race and so on," read the poll question, according to Gallup. "If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be [characteristic], would you vote for that person?"

When it came to candidates who were socialists, Democrats were most likely to answer that they wouldvote for them. Seventy-six percent of Democrats said they would back a socialist candidate, compared with 17 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of independents.

Being a socialist was the only characteristic to receive "majority opposition" from most Americans, according to Gallup. That is, a plurality of Americans said they would not vote for a socialist. About 53 percent of Americans said they would not vote for a socialist, while 45 percent said that they would. The percentage of those who would vote that way was down 2 points from a 2015 Gallup poll that asked the same question.

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Supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders attend a rally at the University of New Hampshire on February 10, the day before the state's primary.JOSEPH PREZIOSO/GETTY

The poll results came on the day of the New Hampshire primary, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in the Democratic field to have declared himself a socialist—albeit a democratic socialist, which the Gallup poll did not specifically ask about. Sanders performed well in the Iowa caucuses earlier this month and took away only one less delegate than former Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, who earned the most. However, both campaigns are asking for a partial recanvass of the caucus results.

https://www.newsweek.com/76-pe...w-poll-shows-1486732

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76 PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS SAY THEY'D VOTE FOR A SOCIALIST FOR PRESIDENT, NEW POLL SHOWS

Just over three-quarters of Democratic voters said that they would vote to elect a socialist president, according to poll results from Gallup released Tuesday.

The poll, conducted between January 16 and 29, asked respondents whether they identified as Republican, Democrat or independent and questioned them about their willingness to vote for candidates with "diverse characteristics."

https://www.newsweek.com/76-pe...w-poll-shows-1486732

 

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Was listening to this on the way home last night.

“Dead Bodies Everywhere”: Hindu Nationalist Violence Rocks Delhi as Trump Visits Modi in India

"PRIYA GOPAL: Well, I think that we have to drop the language of clashes and even riots and communal violence. A lot of the language, certainly in the British press, and I think in the American press, as well, has been presenting this as a conflict between equal and opposite sides, as a kind of religious fight. It is not a religious fight. We are witnessing a situation of very deep structural violence. There is a majoritarian supremacist party in power in India. And mobs, directly incited by senior Indian politicians, are roaming around in Muslim-majority areas, identifying Muslim shops, businesses, homes, setting them on fire, identifying Muslims, beating them up. There is some pushback, certainly, as you might expect, but this is not a situation of equality. And I’ve said that any press outfit which refers to this as “clashes,” clashes between Hindus and Muslims, or even as kind of riots, is actually culpable of a dereliction of duty, and certainly of critical analysis."

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