State terror in India will radicalise its Muslim: PM Imran – The Express Tribune

PM Imran Khan. PHOTO: PTI

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday warned that state-sponsored terrorism in India at the hands of police and Hindu extremist outfit Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) would lead to a blowback in the form of the radicalisation of 200 million Indian Muslims.

In Delhi carnage of Muslims, state-sponsored terror through police and RSS gangs is going to lead to radicalisation of the 200 million Indian Muslims just as the Kashmiri youth has been radicalised through the oppression of Indian occupying forces and deaths of almost 100,000 Kashmiris, the premier tweeted.

I have been predicting that unless the international community intervenes, these developments will have disastrous consequences not only for the region but eventually for the world also, he added.

At least 38 people were killed and 200 others injured in the Indian capital this week in the worst bout of violence in the city in decades triggered by a disputed new citizenship law.

RSS mobs, backed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), carrying iron bars, clubsand bats, roamed Muslim-dominated neighbourhoods, killing and beating Muslims after identifying them and torching their homes, shops and mosques.

The citizenship law is seen by critics as anti-Muslim and part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis Hindu nationalist agenda.

PM Imran has time and again tried to warn the world that it must accept the brutal reality of the Modis fascist and racist regime. He has repeatedly likenedIndian ModisBJP to Hitlers Nazis, and called for international intervention to resolve the Kashmir dispute.

Their policy towards Pakistan is full of hate, it is the policy of the RSS, which hates Muslims. They dont consider Muslims equal human beings in India, the premier wrote in an earlier tweet.

The premier warned the international community about the Nazi-inspired RSS ideology taking over a nuclear-armed state of over a billion people. Whenever a racist ideology based on hatred takes over, it leads to bloodshed, he added.

As I had predicted in my address to the United Nations General Assembly last year, once the genie is out of the bottle, the bloodshed will get worse.

Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) was the beginning: now 200 million Muslims in India are being targeted. The world community must act now.

The IOJK has been facing a continuous lockdown since August 5, 2019 when India revoked a constitutional provision that gave the disputed territory a semblance of autonomy.

From thereon, hundreds of people, particularly young men, have been lodged in faraway jails under the 1978 Public Safety Act, described by Amnesty International in 2016 as a draconian law.

Three former chief ministers of the region have also been booked under the law that allows the government to detain a person for up to two years without a trial.

While some restrictions have eased in the restive Muslim-majority state, high speed internet still continues to remain blocked in the region with a complete ban on social media.

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