Muslims in India say they have been fired from their jobs and face the closure of their businesses after two states brought in a “discriminatory” policy making it mandatory for restaurants to publicly display the names of all their employees.
The policy was first introduced by Yogi Adityanath, the hardline Hindu monk who is the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Last month the state of Himachal Pradesh, governed by the opposition Congress party, announced it would also make it compulsory for all names of workers and employees to be put on display.
Both state governments have said it is to ensure compliance with health and safety rules and vending regulations in the north Indian states. However, locals and activists have alleged that the new rules are instead a thinly veiled attack on Muslim workers and establishments.
Honestly, the Hindu nationalists are pretty crazy. Dare I say, roughly as crazy as the nationalist Christians we have in the states.
If you mix nationalism with religion, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Not to defend them too much, they are crazy.
But Hindus were enslaved by Muslims for centuries, which started with: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Delhi_(1398)
He singlehandedly destroyed India, all of it, and it wasn’t to regain any independence till the 20th century.
Sure, but just as the Holocaust does not give Jewish nationalists carte blanche to ethnically cleanse German people, the sack of Delhi does not give Hindu nationalists carte blanche to ethnically cleanse Muslims.
I absolutely agree.
I just think we need to remember the emotional backdrop, we need to get them to chill the ever loving F* out, but this shouldn’t also be like “oh, god, I wonder why they would ever do such a thing!”
If the germans hadn’t been decent post-ww2 and jews started killing germans we’d be pissed and force them to stop by any means necessary, but we wouldn’t be like “this is unthinkable!?!?”.
We have to figure out how to build peace while appreciating the historical context.