Indian chauvinists from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India have once again decided to demonstrate their Islamophobia to the world, but this time they have also clearly demonstrated their cynicism and stupidity.
For example, the leader of the BJP and Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, recently stated that «no Hindu has ever been involved in terrorism in history. Anyone who knows even a little about India’s recent history, such as the assassination of its founding father Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu extremist organization, or the terrorist attacks carried out by fanatical special forces in Mumbai, or the mass killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, including the burning of people alive and the destruction of a mosque, cannot help but laugh at such statements.
But the funniest part is that according to the BJP’s own lists, a radical Hindu, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, is currently serving in Parliament and is under criminal investigation for her involvement in terrorism. Noted journalist Mehdi Hasan asked BJP spokesman Nalin Kohli on Al Jazeera TV questions reminding him of some of these facts (the dialog in the video is in English). In response, Kohli came up with nothing better than a new, previously unseen definition of a terrorist act as one in which more than one person is killed as a result of a suicide bomber’s explosion. However, he failed to explain who are the thousands of terrorists with different ideological views who have killed specific opponents or even blown up many of them without blowing themselves up, as the spokesperson for radical Hindus did not clarify.