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Greta Hirschman
Greta Hirschman
1 year ago

Great article and a sad true. Khan and so many other zealots are standing for the very same people that slaughtered the natives and plundering their riches. They stand for the same ideology that served to justify the rape of over 200,000 women in Bangladesh in 1971. Not to mention the roughly 1,000 honour killings reported every year.

Aphrodite Rises
Aphrodite Rises
1 year ago

Hypocrisy is one of the greatest evils.

Last edited 1 year ago by Aphrodite Rises
Aphrodite Rises
Aphrodite Rises
1 year ago

How strange. My comment has been downvoted. Does that mean someone thinks hypocrisy is not a great evil?

Last edited 1 year ago by Aphrodite Rises
Samir Iker
Samir Iker
1 year ago

“Hindu-supremacist regime of Narendra Modi”
“Modi— another exponent of religious nationalism who wants to turn India into a Hindu facsimile of Pakistan”

Reading unadulterated BS like this makes me wish Indian Hindus genuinely did treat muslims the way they treat minorities in Islamic nations.

In Pakistan (which means land of the “pure”, incidentally), Islam is the state religion by law, no non muslim can be president, blasphemy laws, raping and forcefully converting Hindu minor girls is legal and frequent.

Point out where Modi, other BJP leaders or BJP voters have suggested replicating the same?

What Modi’s India did have since 2014 is special religious laws for muslims, frequent stabbings or beheadings because someone insulted their prophet, regular instances of Hindu girls being tricked or forcibly converted / murdered.

And to highlight just how ridiculous it is – the muslims in current India voted en masse for the muslim league and partition. They voted for Pakistan and the butchering of the “impure”. But the ones remaining in India were stuck in states where muslims were a minority. And today they demand special treatment for themselves.

What a fine bunch of specimens of humanity.

Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher
1 year ago
Reply to  Samir Iker

I only agree to the extent that India is nowhere near as bad as Pakistan. But minorities there, including Muslims, often ARE viciously mistreated and find state officials and the police uninterested or hostile. And you must be wilfully naive at best if you ignore Modi’s role in the 2002 anti Muslim pogroms in Gujarat

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charles bradshaw
charles bradshaw
1 year ago

So, an Indian hates the leader of Pakistan. Well I never.

Samir Iker
Samir Iker
1 year ago

I think you will find most Indians really like the leaders of Pakistan. Whether it was launching a stupid war in 65, losing the entire eastern half by trying to violently suppress them, sending Balochistan and the Afghan borders down the same path, or generally fu**ing up the country by encouraging Islamisation and blind hatred of India rather than developing the economy…..

And Imran Bhai has continued that noble tradition. Indians love what he has done in just a few years!

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Mirax Path
Mirax Path
1 year ago

If an Indian hadn’t written this, would you have engaged with the substance of the article? Also, the Indian left loves Imran Khan far more than Modi. They operate on the same simplistic level as you.

Adrian Clark
Adrian Clark
1 year ago

The link “to three million Bengalis — a people denigrated by Pakistani officials as “black monkeys” — in 1971.” seems not to work.

M. Gatt
M. Gatt
1 year ago

I take it that the author is not a fan? (I hope Unherd will publish a rebuttal This is an extremely one sided piece)

William McKinney
William McKinney
1 year ago
Reply to  M. Gatt

Agree. It’s dire – a travesty. And let’s see the rebuttal from a Pakistani, not another Indian.

Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher
1 year ago

Why, specifically, is it a travesty?

Samuel Ross
Samuel Ross
1 year ago
Reply to  M. Gatt

On Unherd, I have read biased pieces (from both sides of issues) and neutral pieces. There are all sorts here.