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    Wow, I used to dream of visiting India. The history and culture are fascinating.

    These days, though… not sure I would make it out alive. To make matters worse, I’m Canadian. The fuck is going on over there?

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      Nothing has changed, it’s just no longer seen as a harmless country. It’s basically going through an accelerated version of China’s transition in the media circa 2015 to today: instead of reporting about the good things, only report on the bad things.

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    According to the neighbours, Ishaq was mentally challenged. “He was a simple boy who did not bring any harm to anyone,” autorickshaw driver Mohammad Saleem, who lives in the same lane, told Al Jazeera.

    So a kid with down syndrome or something picked up a banana off the ground and people literally beat him to death because of it. Well, mostly because he was doung the “eating while Muslim” thing)

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    Assaults and mob lynchings, mainly of Muslims, have been rising in India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014. The government denies the allegation.

    Hindu nationalists are fascists. Call them what they are.

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    I couldn’t find any other source of this news other than this website. Could someone point me to another source? This article was unclear on the date when this happened.

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    So guys, not saying this was right, murder is wrong in almost all scenarios. That being said I feel like no one in this thread actually read the article, he didn’t just eat a banana. He took a banana that was give as a ritualistic offering to a Hindu deity. Didn’t deserve death, but if the accusation is true he had to have expected some serious consequences.

    Like come on, if this was an article about a Muslim community beating the shit out of someone for throwing bacon at a mosque, we’d all probably have a different reaction. Murder was too far, but you can’t spit in the face of someone’s religion or culture and expect nothing to happen.

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      Like come on, if this was an article about a Muslim community beating the shit out of someone for throwing bacon at a mosque, we’d all probably have a different reaction.

      No?

      Well, “beating the shit out of” vs “killing” are still two different things…