Spread a rumor of alleged blasphemy by a non-Muslim or an attack on Muslims that never happened, get triggered, mobilize multiple murderous mobs and attack non-Muslims on the pretext of avenging the nonexistent blasphemy or the contrived attack: this is the process that Muslims have implemented numerous times in many countries, and every time, of course, non-Muslims were on the receiving end; they were killed, their women molested, their homes ransacked and/or their places of worship were plundered.
We have reported on how murderous Muslim mobs targeted the Hindu population, their women, their homes, their temples, and their idols, for an alleged blasphemous act by a Hindu, which turned out to be the deed of a Muslim. The formula was applied once again by riotous Muslim mobs in Tripura, a small, quiet state in India’s northeastern arm, sharing a border with Bangladesh.
A Hindu organization, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), had organized a protest march seeking the protection of minority Hindus in Bangladesh. The unarmed participants staged a peaceful procession, but as they neared a makeshift mosque at Rowa, a large number of Muslims, including Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators, gathered in front of the mosque, armed with primitive weapons such as spears, clubs, swords and daggers, and started to provoke the people in the procession with slogans including “Pakistan Zindabad,” “Bangladesh Zindabad,” and “Hindustan Murdabad.” That is, Long Live Pakistan, Long Live Bangladesh, India Be Damned. They also shouted “Muslims of the world unite,” reports a local news site, Tripura Info.
Soon, a rumor went out on social media that the Hindu protestors had attacked a mosque with sticks and stones and set it ablaze. But given the massive crowd of Muslims gathered at the mosque, it would have been impossible for the Hindu protestors to set it on fire, as was being claimed in the viral posts. International media houses also played a vicious role in propagating the fake news to wider audiences, and this rumor handed the Muslim mobs the perfect excuse to resort to the tactics they have employed more than once in the past.
From the exodus of the Hindus from Kashmir in the 1990s to the lynching of police officer Ashwani Kumar in April 2021, mosques and their loudspeakers have been employed as tools of mobilizing mobs and executing violence. Despite the Tripura government’s repeated appeals to maintain communal harmony, numerous mosques in the state sent out provocative calls to their followers after the Friday prayers. At around 4 PM on Friday, October 29, the Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Kali in Kailashahar in Tripura’s Unakoti district was attacked by a Muslim mob. They plundered the temple and struck the idol of the deities, breaking it to pieces.
On the other hand, Shivaji Sengupta, a local youth and member of the student association Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), was attacked by the members of the Muslim-pandering political outfit, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), and the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, with a knife. The knife pierced through the right side of his abdomen and Shivaji was rushed to a hospital. His condition has been reported as stable now.
With the situation escalating, the state administration has imposed Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which allows the Executive Magistrate of any state or territory to prohibit the public gathering of four or more people, in the area until Sunday afternoon, in order to avoid further unrest and danger to life and property. It is also prohibited to go outdoors with weapons or objects that can be used as weapons.
But even before this mayhem broke out on Friday, it had been clarified that no mosque had been attacked by the Hindu procession to begin with. The Tripura Police called the viral claims fake by tweeting photographs of the mosque, confirming it was safe and secure. “During yesterday’s protest rally in Panisagar, no masjid (mosque) was burnt and the picture being shared of burning or damaged masjid or collection of sticks, etc, are all fake news,” Tripura Police tweeted.
Tripura’s Director General of Police, V S Yadav, had earlier stated that the situation is under control. “All the mosques across the state are under security cover now. We are keeping a vigil on the situation,” Yadav asserted on Wednesday.
Then why did the Muslim mob tear down a Hindu temple in retaliation for the burning of a mosque that was never set ablaze? This is a discomfiting question, and every time one poses it, one gets labeled an “Islamophobe.”
Kenneth J Johnson says
Just any excuse will do, just any particularly if is fabricated out of thin air. Just any.,
Ken
Westman says
We can also conceive of this behavior in the Western World – IF we roll back 200+ years to the time of much ignorance.
Islam seems to be the only ideology in which one can hold a cell phone in his hand and still remain ignorant. It’s like the Witch scene in a Monty Python movie.
James Lincoln says
Westman,
Muslims use of cell phones strikes me as an anachronism.