Indian police are investigating the discovery of a burned Quran

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NEW DELHI — a Al-Quran found in a state of combustion in a mosque in Shahjahanpur, Wednesday (2/11/2022). The local community reported the incident to the police.

“A group of people protested after copies of the Quran were found burned in a mosque here,” Police Superintendent S Anand said. strategyThursday (3/11/2022).

An FIR was registered in this case against an unidentified person as soon as the police were notified of the case. Police are also investigating CCTV footage from the area.

Police said several pages of the Koran were found burned. Police said they will seriously investigate and follow up on the matter.

“We were immediately aware of the case and handled it sensitively,” he said, adding that steps were being taken to catch the perpetrators as soon as possible and take strict action against them.

Islamophobia in India still seems unfinished. The Hindu right’s hatred of Muslims is a symbol of the Islamophobia that stems from the BJP itself. Narendra Modi first came to power in 2014, promising developments and progress but also an assault by majorities against minorities, especially Muslims.

As Rayan Naqash wrote in The New Arab on Friday (24/6/2022), Modi’s victory opened the floodgates to Hindutva led by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu group that has received spiritual support from the BJP and enabled Islamophobia. to take root more deeply in the greatest democracy in the world.

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The May 26 insulting remarks against the Prophet Muhammad by BJP politician Nupur Sharma were a premeditated response to those questioning Hindu fanatics who claim that the fountain of the 17th century Gyanvapi Mosque is a Shivling, a representation of the Hindu god Shiva .

The Hindu right has long claimed that the Gyanvapi Mosque, located in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, a city considered sacred to Hindus and which is also the seat of Modi’s parliament, was built by Mughal ruler Aurangzeb on the ruins. of the Kashi Vishwanath temple.

Several petitions have been filed claiming Gyanvapi and the Shahi Idgah Mosque in Mathura since the nascent BJP mobilized Hindu fanatics across India to demolish the 16th century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992. They claim that the three mosques have been built above Hindu temples.

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