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Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

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Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

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As an Indian, the situation is a bit more complicated than what the article frames it as. Religion (and caste) have always been a sensitive issue, to the extent that there are multiple laws preventing people from "inciting" others (and yes, these laws are often abused by whichever government happens to be holding power, including the ones before the current government) - this is especially true for public figures lik…

Everything in this comment is trying hard to whitewash the current bjp gov, using half truths to mis represent.

Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

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Bit of an odd article, man makes defamatory and false tweet, gets arrested for defamation, cries free speech? Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy

[parent] > Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy ---- [answer] > Indeed and better reasoning explained here over guardian [...] Are you trying to answer from alternate account @amreeksohata, to hustle traffic? Making a comment & replying it as an legitimate answer looks bit confusing & suspicious otherwise.

I should have probably edited the original one

Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

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The genocide of Indian Muslims has begun. The economic cornering process has begun already and there are large scale riots incited by armed extremists who go for processions in Muslim communities and play loud music which have abusive lyrics towards Muslims. They are dancing with weapons in their hands. This is extremely common now and is a daily occurrence. There will be lots of deaths and even larger scale violence…

While I understand the emotion but anyone who believes that 200 million Muslims in a country are a target for genocide, is being unfair. Situation isn’t as straightforward.

Its not straightforward and only a few million in the northern states may die at max so its not a genocide. :thumbs_up:

Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

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Fundamentally they are same but their depth of crimes aren't same. Congress did appease minorities but it never was like 'let us kill all muslims'. Fundamentally and ideologically, congress is neither anti hindu or anti muslim. However BJP/RSS has always been ideologically against muslims. It is in their blood. It is the party of religious bigots. If you read the history of RSS, you'll find RSS was established not to…

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Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

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Fundamentally they are same but their depth of crimes aren't same. Congress did appease minorities but it never was like 'let us kill all muslims'. Fundamentally and ideologically, congress is neither anti hindu or anti muslim. However BJP/RSS has always been ideologically against muslims. It is in their blood. It is the party of religious bigots. If you read the history of RSS, you'll find RSS was established not to…

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Appeasement is bad policy either you appease to Hindus extremist or Muslim extremists. Please don't undersell the BS of Hindu or regional extremism in India. In Mumbai, political powers hate and beatup north Indians. So please don't project the picture, that the glimpses of akhand bharatvarsh are pretty.

Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

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As an Indian, the situation is a bit more complicated than what the article frames it as. Religion (and caste) have always been a sensitive issue, to the extent that there are multiple laws preventing people from "inciting" others (and yes, these laws are often abused by whichever government happens to be holding power, including the ones before the current government) - this is especially true for public figures lik…

Everything in this comment is trying hard to whitewash the current bjp gov, using half truths to mis represent.

When the opposition starts to argue semantics, they don’t have a leg to stand on and have lost the argument anyways.

Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

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UK is half way to Sharia?! It's not true, but even it is, why has that got to do with the criticism? There are continuous calls in India for genocide of Muslims, publicly. Past two weeks, religious processions have been undertaken by Hindu extremist orgs in front of mosques with swords and Guns, mocking Muslims. And PM of the Nation has been silent, with no calls whatsoever for peace. It's not 'funny' to criticize PM…

The same is true of Muslim extremists. In general there has been an uptick in India with regards to religious extremists. Please don't try to make it sound as if only one group is making these things happen.

But one side has the support of the government. That same government is passing laws against Muslims. Maybe that’s the reason why they are getting riled up?
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