Today, some genocide experts speak of a possible genocide against India’s Muslims. But from 2014, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) entered government, to the start of 2022 there were 348 such instances – a surge of 1,130 percent. From 2009 to 2014 there were 19 instances of hostile rhetoric towards minorities by high-ranking politicians. Hate speech directed at religious minorities has become a routine feature of public life in India. His targets are never in doubt: India’s 200 million-plus Muslims. Facebook photos in December 2019 showed him and his followers brandishing machetes and swords. Narsinghanand has done little to present himself as peaceful and tolerant: violent and chauvinistic imagery are central to his brand, as they are to many who share his views. In the wake of the public furore, The London Story, a Netherlands-based organisation which counters disinformation and hate speech, reported that interactions on the preacher’s fan pages rose sharply. In March 2021, controversy erupted in India after a 14-year-old Muslim boy entered Narsinghanand’s temple to drink water and was brutally attacked by his followers. This, experts say, is the language of genocide. 'The early warning signs of genocide are present in India' Meta, as Facebook’s parent company has been known since October 2021, failed to explain why when asked by Middle East Eye. Three years after it was delivered, the speech can still be viewed on Facebook.
I am telling each and every Muslim, Islam will be eradicated from the country one day…” “As long as I am alive,” he promised, “I will use weapons. The priest spelled out his vision more clearly in a speech posted on Facebook in the same month, which has received more than 59 million views. By the time Facebook removed it, the tirade had been viewed more than 32 million times. Delivered in October 2019, the speech by Yati Narsinghanand, head of the Dasna Devi temple in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, was filmed and posted on Facebook. “I want to eliminate Muslims and Islam from the face of the Earth,” he declared. The head priest was clear about what had to be done.
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