Anti-Muslim Social Media Posts: India is the Epicenter of Global Islamophobia

[RiazHaq]

Anti-Muslim Social Media Posts: India is the Epicenter of Global Islamophobia

India has just 5.75% of global Twitter users but the country accounts for 55% of all anti-Muslim tweets, according to a recent report entit...

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India has just 5.75% of global Twitter users but the country accounts for 55% of all anti-Muslim tweets, according to a recent report entitled "Islamophobia in the Digital Age" published by the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV). It also found that the US, the UK, and India contributed a staggering 86% of anti-Muslim content on Twitter during a three-year period. It should be noted that both the US and the UK have a sizable Indian diaspora infected by hateful Hindutva ideology.

India Accounts For 55% of Islamophobic Tweets. Source: ICV

Individuals and organizations connected to the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) are active users of social media. They are working to promote India's divisive Islamophobic politics among the Non Resident Indians (NRIs) and their children. Hundreds of the RSS shakhas (branches) are now found in at least 39 countries around the world. Hindutva is a Hindu supremacist ideology inspired by 20th century Fascism and Nazism in Europe; it is very different from the ancient Hindu faith, according to American history professor Audrey Truschke who teaches Indian history at Rutgers University in the US state of New Jersey. Top Indian economists have raised alarm about it.

Active Twitter Users. Source: Statista

India has only 23 million Twitter users, 5.75% of 400 million Twitter users worldwide, but Indians generate more than half of all Islamophobic tweets in the world. Numbers published in Twitter’s advertising resources indicate that Twitter had 3.40 million users in Pakistan in early 2022. ICV counted 15,766 Islamophobic tweets geolocated to Pakistan in a three year period.
Executives at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently told human rights groups that they wouldn’t release the full India Hate Speech study for their own security. An earlier 2020 company study concluded that Hindutva groups support violence against Muslims and Christians & should be banned from the platform, according to the Wall Street Journal. Here's an excerpt of the Wall Street Journal story:
"Meta has for years faced criticism from rights groups and has been probed by authorities regarding the presence of hate speech on its platforms in India, where more than 300 million people use Facebook and more than 400 million are on its WhatsApp messaging service. Meta has said it invests significantly in technology to find hate speech across languages in India. In 2020, Meta’s safety team concluded that a Hindu nationalist organization in India supported violence against minorities and likely qualified as an organization that should be banned from Facebook, the Journal reported that year. Facebook didn’t remove the group following internal security-team warnings that doing so might endanger both its business prospects and staff in India".
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Anti-Muslim Social Media Posts: India is the Epicenter of Global Islamophobia

India has just 5.75% of global Twitter users but the country accounts for 55% of all anti-Muslim tweets, according to a recent report entit...

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[-=virus=-]

isn't there already a thread running on it ?

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

after kuffar Mecca, its obvious who would take their place at some point in time

 

[RiazHaq]

Hindutva is a facist ideology that threatens ALL of us, regardless of faith or nationality.

False narrative of victimhood underlies Hindutva ideology. Indian historian Aditya Mukherjee characterizes the Hindutva victimhood as follows: “The great achievements of the past are then contrasted with a false sense of victimhood, the concept of a great threat the majority is supposedly facing from the minority. This is how fascism works, globally". "Hindutva was never meant to be understood as bounded by national borders; his (Savarkar's) ambition was always planetary", writes Vinayak Chaturvedi, author of "Hindutva and Violence". "He (Savarkar) gained notoriety for his programme to “Hinduise Politics and Militarise Hindudom” while also arguing for permanent war against Christians and Muslims", Chaturvedi adds.

Recent hate incidents in Leicester (UK), Edison (NJ) and Silicon Valley (California) all have connections to the far right Hindu organizations in India. Here's how a recent New York Times report "Tensions That Roiled English City Have Roots in India" explains what is going on with the Indian diaspora since Prime Minister Narendra Modi rose to power in India:

"Across the Indian diaspora, ugly divisions are emerging. A bulldozer, which has become a symbol of oppression against India’s Muslim minority, was rolled down a street in a New Jersey town during a parade this summer, offending many people. Last year, attacks on Sikh men in Australia were linked to extremist nationalist ideology. In April, Canadian academics told CBC News that they faced death threats over their criticism of growing Hindu nationalism and violence against minorities in India. Since India’s independence struggle, Hindu nationalists have espoused a vision that places Hindu culture and religious worship at the center of Indian identity. That view, once fringe, was made mainstream when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party came to power".


http://www.riazhaq.com/2022/10/hateful-hindutva-ideology-infects.html

 

[RiazHaq]

India has 9 times the number of Islamophobic tweets compared to the US. Here’s how:

The US has 3 times the number of active Twitter users and one-third the number of Islamophobic tweets compared to India.

Also, don’t forget the US has a sizable Indian diaspora infected by the Hindutva bug. At least some of the US Islamophobic tweets could be attributed to it.

Read my original post again for data.

 

[Battlion25]

Okay where does India want to go with this... There are 50 Muslim sovereign countries and 25% of the world population..

Pakistan is right there..... Cross the Border to Pakistan and find out what next.... Indians are honestly irrelevant in the grand scale of things..

Besides this is not new.. The first Hindutva facist was none other then our old friend Rama Raya.. He started this absurd hatred filled campaign targetting civilians, children and what not forcing a disunited element in the 5 sultanate era and note this 5 sultanates really hated each others guts he miraclously managed to band them together and destroy him in the battle of Talikota..

The Hindutva is not a supremist element but rather an element that suffers from inferiority complex and they wanna make up for this by consistently being focussed on irrelevant stuff

 

[One_Nation]

Hindutva is a facist ideology that threatens ALL of us, regardless of faith or nationality.

False narrative of victimhood underlies Hindutva ideology. Indian historian Aditya Mukherjee characterizes the Hindutva victimhood as follows: “The great achievements of the past are then contrasted with a false sense of victimhood, the concept of a great threat the majority is supposedly facing from the minority. This is how fascism works, globally". "Hindutva was never meant to be understood as bounded by national borders; his (Savarkar's) ambition was always planetary", writes Vinayak Chaturvedi, author of "Hindutva and Violence". "He (Savarkar) gained notoriety for his programme to “Hinduise Politics and Militarise Hindudom” while also arguing for permanent war against Christians and Muslims", Chaturvedi adds.

Recent hate incidents in Leicester (UK), Edison (NJ) and Silicon Valley (California) all have connections to the far right Hindu organizations in India. Here's how a recent New York Times report "Tensions That Roiled English City Have Roots in India" explains what is going on with the Indian diaspora since Prime Minister Narendra Modi rose to power in India:

"Across the Indian diaspora, ugly divisions are emerging. A bulldozer, which has become a symbol of oppression against India’s Muslim minority, was rolled down a street in a New Jersey town during a parade this summer, offending many people. Last year, attacks on Sikh men in Australia were linked to extremist nationalist ideology. In April, Canadian academics told CBC News that they faced death threats over their criticism of growing Hindu nationalism and violence against minorities in India. Since India’s independence struggle, Hindu nationalists have espoused a vision that places Hindu culture and religious worship at the center of Indian identity. That view, once fringe, was made mainstream when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party came to power".


http://www.riazhaq.com/2022/10/hateful-hindutva-ideology-infects.html

Hindu grudge against Muslims is due to what Arabs and Afghans did to them. Hindus take out their anger on local Muslims who were themselves Hindus.
They bend over in fear for Afghans, Arabs and Iranians but go after easy targets. This coward nature of their religion got them into trouble in the first place.

 

[RiazHaq]

Rana Ayyub
@RanaAyyub
To the world that continues to give Narendra Modi a free pass. Indian foreign minister
@DrSJaishankar
says that the western press is out to discredit Modi. In the last two days in India, there have been calls for economic boycott & genocide of Muslims by government lawmakers.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1579173940735676417

 

[Areesh]

Yup pajeets have taken their bigotry and hatred global thanks to internet

 

[IndianLite]

India has 9 times the number of Islamophobic tweets compared to the US. Here’s how:

The US has 3 times the number of active Twitter users and one-third the number of Islamophobic tweets compared to India.

Also, don’t forget the US has a sizable Indian diaspora infected by the Hindutva bug. At least some of the US Islamophobic tweets could be attributed to it.

Read my original post again for data.

Most of the Islamophobic hate in USA is driven by the Hindu diaspora, various Jewish and end times Christian organisations.

On something as mundane as traffic accidents involving Muslims - you will get mobs of Hindu Americans making false and accusatory posts against the party identified as Muslim.

It is systemic and cordinated.

They are hell bent on demonising Muslims in America. They are forming alliances with US fascist organisations to coordinate hate speech and aggression against Muslims.

 

[Muji.Iqbal]

There is also a lot of Islamophobia in USA. lol.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

There is also a lot of Islamophobia in USA. lol.

Why you hate USA so much I'm living in USA there's no Islamophobia in USA at least Not in common people of USA

 

[Muji.Iqbal]

Why you hate USA so much I'm living in USA there's no Islamophobia in USA at least Not in common people of USA

I have encountered anti-Muslim sentiment in USA.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

I have encountered anti-Muslim sentiment in USA.

Where?? And when few means nothing

 

[Muji.Iqbal]

Where?? And when few means nothing

I took grey-hound bus from Toronto to New York City.
I encountered a racist. lol.

In the bus