Minorities' issue in India vs US

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Surprising that the "minority" guys didn't go to Bangladesh and join the majority. That would have been easier for them.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Surprising that the "minority" guys didn't go to Bangladesh and join the majority. That would have been easier for them.

You mean, just as it would've been easier on you & I to go back to India than staying here and whining about Trump. Unlike those folks we're the first generation guys and have no history whatsoever in the US, unlike the minorities in India who are Indians and lived on that land for generations.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Surprising that the "minority" guys didn't go to Bangladesh and join the majority. That would have been easier for them.

You mean, just as it would've been easier on you & I to go back to India than staying here and whining about Trump. Unlike those folks we're the first generation guys and have no history whatsoever in the US, unlike the minorities in India who are Indians and lived on that land for generations.

And secular is now spelled “sickular” by the Hindutva trolls on Twitter

The bottom line, alas, is that the “sickular libtards” are in retreat, the religious minorities are being marginalized, and the people who define India as a “Hindu country” are in charge. It’s too early to say that this is an irreversible change, but it’s a radical departure from the country’s founding values. It’s still a democracy, but it’s starting to look a lot more like Pakistan.

Two persons were lynched at a village in the Dhupguri block of West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district in the early hours of August 27, 2017 under suspicion of stealing cows. Police has lodged a murder case and no one has been arrested so far.

“Hafizul Sheikh of Dhubri district in Assam and Anwar Hussain of Patlakhawa village of Cooch Behar district were beaten to death by locals at the Dadon II gram panchayat area in Jalpaiguri’s Dhupguri block,” a senior district police official told The Hindu. He also said the villagers noticed that a pick-up van carrying cows was aimlessly wandering around the area. When challenged by the villagers the van picked up speed and tried to escape, the official said

As many of 97 percent of these attacks were reported after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government came to power in May 2014, and about half the cow-related violence–32 of 63 cases–were from states governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) when the attacks were reported, revealed our analysis of violence recorded until 25 June, 2017.

In 23 attacks, the attackers were mobs or groups of people who belonged to Hindu groups, such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and local Gau Rakshak Samitis.

During the period under consideration–2010 to 2017–the first such attack occurred on 10 June, 2012, in Joga town in Mansa district, Punjab, “after carcasses of about 25 cows were found” near a factory, as The Hindureported the next day.

Of the 63 attacks over eight years, 61 (96.8 percent) occurred, as we said, after Modi’s government came to power (2014-2017), with 2016 reporting the most attacks: 25. In the first six months of 2017, 20 attacks were reported–more than 75 percent of the 2016 figure.