A video has gone viral taken in a small village in Muzaffarnagar in the RSS-run state of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in North India, shows the upper-caste teacher-owner of a private school asking her Hindu students to slap a Muslim child hard for making mistakes in multiplication tables.
She then goes on to spit her venom against Islam and blames the Muslim family structure for this mistake, inciting violence against a defenceless child facing a pack of wolves in the most sacred of modern institutions, the school.
The area has a population of about 3,000, with 400 houses. The literacy rate is about 63 percent. Twenty percent of the population comprises Dalits and the so-called lower castes.
The Upper-caste teacher said the following:
“Maine toh declare kar diya, jitne bhi Mohammedan bache hain, inke wahan chale jao(I have declared – all these Muslim children, go to anyone’s area)…”“Kya tum maar rahe ho? Zor se maaro na(Why are you hitting him so lightly? Hit him hard).”She then asks, “Chalo aur kaska number hai(Whose turn is it)?”As the boy cries, Tyagi says: “Abki baar kamar pe maaro… chalo… munh pe na maaro ab muh laal ho raha hai… kamar pe maaro saare (Start hitting him on the waist… His face is turning red, hit him on the waist instead).”
Tyagi represents the ugly face of RSS-defined Hinduism or Hindutva. It is this religious philosophy that threatens world peace.
Earlier in July, an Indian Railway policeman killed three Muslims, identifying them with their beard and caps, and forced a Muslim woman to remove her hijab.
A few days later, a Bajrang Dal operative and a follower of an alleged murderer incited people to attack Muslim homes in Mewat and coerced the state administration to bulldoze their residential and commercial buildings under a law that is not part of the Indian penal code.
Subsequently more than 300 Muslim homes and businesses are bulldozed with widespread calls to boycott Muslims and threats against those who employ them in the North Indian state of Haryana.
Then India landed its craft on the moon, and a television station associated with a Hindu militant organization showed a cartoon with Muslims in beards and caps throwing rocks at the Indian flag, sharing we would not let you on the moon.
These are not isolated incidents. Behind every incident mentioned above and hundreds and thousands of others that go unreported daily all over India, one can see an organized effort on the part of a section of Hindus to promote violence and hatred against Islam and Muslims.
Behind all such incidents are the statements India’s political and religious elites have made for decades.
It is hard to believe that Hindu deities would condone the two dominant traits of modern Hinduism and their normalisation in amongst masses as Hindutva ideology: the caste system and institutionalised hatred and violence against Muslims combined with vilification of Islam.
Scriptural evidence suggests that the initial target of hatred and violence were the people of the Hindu sacred book Manusmriti, described as Shudras created from the feet of the creator.
Jains, Buddhists, Animists, Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, and non-conformist Hindus became later targets depending on the political will of the religious and political elites.
Ironically, they spit venom against Muslims for coming to India and destroying its so-called Sanatan Dharam. However, they refuse to acknowledge that Hindu rulers and their elites invited Muslim armies from Afghanistan and central Asia.
Empirical evidence suggests that a specific group of Hindus believe in the supremacy of their upper caste origin and religious philosophy. They see significant threats from Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, and Christianity.
The four negate the concept of human hierarchy based on divinely ordained birth. They promote egalitarian ideas. India’s religious and current power elites refuse to accept equality as part of their religion. They are on the path of war and, in the last 11 decades, have turned many Hindus against Islam, Christianity, Dalits, Sikhs, and Buddhists.
The poisonous philosophy of this type of Hinduism is spreading like wildfire worldwide, where groups like the BJP, the RSS, the VHP, and the Bajrang Dal have established their strong presence. In Hindu temples controlled by such groups, the message of supremacy is evident, and hatred is common.
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