A wise woman once said, “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in this world, but has not solved one yet.” Had she said it today she would have seen how the hate factories work tirelessly to prove her right.
Recently, the Hindutva hate groups took offence to Halal food being served at an Indian restaurant, a cocktail named Indian bride, and a mural of Gods sharing a meal in suburban Melbourne.
Not only the restaurant owners but their patrons were also targeted by these hate mongers. Social media was filled with misogynistic posts by their supporters.
One Sonu Singla, a fake profile created to amplify hate, started putting private pictures of restaurant owners and making misogynistic offensive comments like, “Take your clothes off”, and “Why just sell burger, sell your body.”
When these sexist comments were called out, rightly by another Hindu woman, the group decided to target her and brand her as Hinduphobic and anti-Hindu. An old post of her where she spoke against the rape culture was picked up and used out of context to target her.
Australian Hindu Media, an organisation registered in NSW, then targeted her with their supporters calling her part of ‘Sar tan se juda gang’, a convert, and someone who plays by ISIS book among others.
The hate was further amplified with Sachin Gaur of Australian Hindu Media then sharing the post in Indians in Melbourne – Official, a Facebook group with 50K members run by Amit Singh Jadaun.
The group continues to host hate-filled content and continuously targets local businesses with one latest post asking people to boycott a Kebab joint in Werribee by calling them Khalistanis.
Sachin Gaur also shared the post in a group called Indians in Australia. A group which has him, Jay Shah and Bharti Kundal as Admin and Jitarth Jai Bhardwaj as moderator. Both Sachin Gaur and Bharti Kundal, who has since changed their Twitter profile to Bharti Shankar have been targeting the patrons of the restaurant.
Bharti’s twitter account continue to host pictures of patrons visiting the restaurant without consent and links to their Facebook profiles. Bharti Kundal previously also targeted a couple for eating at the restaurant.
The sharing of posts has resulted in the poor woman getting threatening messages of beheading by a fake profile. The profile further mentioned that he knows where the family of the Hindu woman targeted by the Hindutva group stays and her number and details of her family are being shared by WhatsApp groups in India.
The threat messages did not just stop here and further stated that she will meet the same fate as Kanhaiyalal. Kanhaiyalal was a tailor in India who was recently beheaded by religious extremists.
It seems the group has been following the same modus operandi. First, create a hate narrative against others. Then label anyone who does not agree with them as Hinduphobic, anti-national, anti-India and a separatist. Then play a victim and tag the same group of people to share the posts.
This is followed by tagging BJP members in India and sharing posts in India.
Just recently a journalist and broadcaster who was stood down by SBS for his Islamophobic social media posts posted on Twitter appealed to Hindus in Australia to ‘Go beyond recreational outrage on social media.’
These words were nothing but a dog whistle calling Hindutva hate groups to pick up arms.
The Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw in a budget estimates hearing held earlier this year stated that AFP is at a heightened alert to protect our community, high office holders, our democratic institutions, and democratic values.
He further added that it has never been more important for the AFP to protect Australia and the way Australians live.
It is hoped that AFP picks up this matter and ensures that they protect the democratic values and citizens of Australia whose only crime is that they called out hate and ate a burger.
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