Hindutva Terrorism in India
In the name of protecting cows, members of extremist outfits affiliated to India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are attacking Muslims. On June 29, a mob beat up and killed Asgar Ansari, a 45-year-old Muslim trader in the eastern state of Jharkhand, for allegedly carrying beef in his car. Three days earlier, a Muslim dairy owner, Usman Ansari, was beaten up and his house set on fire; a cow carcass was reportedly found near his house. In September 2015 a Muslim man from a village near Delhi was lynched after being accused of storing beef in his freezer. The past seven years have seen a total of 63 cases of violence triggered by 'cow protection', of which 20 happened in the first six months of 2017. What is more disturbing in these numbers is that out of the 28, deaths 24 were Muslims, which is a whooping 86 percent of the total fatalities As many of 97% of these attacks were reported after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go