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The Daily Fix: Gau rakshaks murder another Muslim. Is bovine anarchy India's future?
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The Big Story: Bovine theocracy

Two days after he was attacked and brutally beaten by a gang of cow protection vigilantes in Rajasthan, Pehlu Khan, 55, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday. The vigilantes attacked Khan and four of his associates as they were transporting cows for slaughter. While Khan and his associates claim they were simply transporting their own cattle and had the necessary papers, the gau rakshaks accused them of smuggling cows.

In Rajasthan, cow protection groups often work in tandem with the police. Not only was this murder effected in broad daylight, the assailants were even bold enough to share mobile videos of the lynching. Khan’s associates claim that they were denied proper treatment at the Alwar hospital, reported the Indian Express.

This incident captures the state of the cow in India today: violence in her name is wanton, brutal and carried out openly without fear of the law.

This is, of course, not the first instance of bovine-related violence. India’s first large-scale communal riot in 1893 in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, was driven by the issue of cow protection. However, with the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a lumpen side-show has now taken centre stage. Cow protection laws across India’s states are harsh. States like Madhya Pradesh have junked the legal principal of “innocent until proven guilty” in cases of cow slaughter. In Gujarat, the act carries a life sentence. In India, it seems, the legal system is harsher on people killing cows for food than it is on murderers.

Given the laws in place, the political signalling for cow vigilante violence comes right from the top. Prime Minister Modi himself campaigned in 2014 on the theme of a “pink revolution”, accused the Congress of making money of cow meat. After the 2015 lynching of a Muslim man in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, based on rumours that he had eaten a beef dinner, top BJP leaders weighed in on the side of the alleged killers. The current Uttar Pradesh chief minister’s own private vigilante squad even offered guns to Hindus in Dadri following the incident.

This hysteria is now not even limited to the cow. Given the upper caste distaste against all meat, Uttar Pradesh has now launched a crackdown on even chicken, goat and buffalo meat in the state. Cow vigilante squads have a free run of the state, attacking Muslims transporting cows.

As people in South Asia well know, the failure to maintain the separation between religion and governance has tragic consequences. In Pakistan, post the 1970s, for instance, Muslim attitudes towards blasphemy allowed theological ideas to increasingly be enshrined in law. What resulted was chaos as a host of groups, using religion as their authority, challenged the state itself. Like India’s current cow hysteria, rumours around blasphemy and Quran desecration often result in violence that the state is either unable or unwilling to control.

India’s secularism, while far from perfect, has thus far kept naked theology away from the state. Now with cow protection laws, cow vigilante murders and explicit political backing for cow violence, this separation has all but ended with Hindu theological concepts directing politics and policy. Will bovine anarchy now be India’s future?



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Hindu terrorism will eventually push Muslims in India to react in their defence. So what is India heading towards, Hindu-Muslim clashes another time after 70 years? Last time that happened, India had given birth to separate territory.
 
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A Muslim man has died after he was attacked by hundreds of Hindu vigilantes while transporting cows in India, police said Wednesday, amid rising tensions over the slaughter of the sacred animal.

Pehlu Khan, 55, died in hospital late Monday, two days after a mob attacked his cattle truck on a highway in Alwar in the western state of Rajasthan.

Cows are considered sacred in Hindu-majority India, and their slaughter is illegal in many states.

In parts of northern and western India, squads of vigilantes roam highways inspecting livestock trucks for any trace of the animal.

Alwar police chief Rahul Prakash said at least six others were injured in the attack, but had now been discharged from the hospital.

Police are still trying to identify the attackers and have filed a murder case, he said, adding that a postmortem would determine the cause of Khan's death.

“We are yet to receive the postmortem report but he had multiple rib fractures,” he told AFP.

Prakash said the victim and his associates were returning to their home state of Haryana when the mob intercepted their vehicle.

At least 10 Muslim men have been killed in similar incidents across the country by Hindu mobs on suspicion of eating beef or smuggling cows in the last two years.

In 2015 a Muslim man was lynched by his neighbours over rumours that he had slaughtered a cow. Police later said the meat was mutton.

Critics say the vigilantes were emboldened by the election in 2014 of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

Last year Modi criticised the cow-protection vigilantes and urged a crackdown against groups using religion as a cover for committing crimes.

But last month, he appointed a right-wing Hindu priest to head the country's most populous state Uttar Pradesh, which is also home to much of the country's meat industry.

Shortly after he was sworn in, police began shutting butcher shops, grinding much of the industry to a halt.
 
Hindu terrorism will eventually push Muslims in India to react in their defence. So what is India heading towards, Hindu-Muslim clashes another time after 70 years? Last time that happened, India had given birth to separate territory.


This is the kind of thing that led to the 1947 partition. Hindutva can never keep India United.
 
With such infantile attitude, India can't leap forward and increase its pace of social progress. Cement jungle alone is not a barometer of nation's progress.
 
Law will take it's course.

I didn't see such breast beating by the secular folks when BJP/RSS workers are hacked to death in Commie bastion of Kerala just for having a different political point of view. This selective outrage on the human lives has lost it charm.
 
Hindu terrorism will eventually push Muslims in India to react in their defence. So what is India heading towards, Hindu-Muslim clashes another time after 70 years? Last time that happened, India had given birth to separate territory.
These Small things Happened Infinite Times Since Independence by both communities So Its Part of the game
 
Growth of hindu cow terrorists in states like Rajasthan
ROfl a muslim anywhere near a cow in india is a DEAD MAN, but hindus killing, eating, profiting fgro a cow are just fine. The india's biggest meat exporter [incl. cow beef] al-kabeer is hindu sabharwal, hindus using parts of cow bones to make products in Madhya Pradesh are also exempted from facing hindu cow terrorists, leather traders, india's favorite sport cricket, the balls is also made of cow hide. Delhi,Maharashtea, Jaipur hindu owned restaurants publicise their menu and beef dishes openly, but the dagger is laid on muslims near eid ul adha or muslim biryani sellers who now have policemen putting their hands in the pot to check beef. SHAME ON THE SO CALLED Indian muslims esp. the shia indians in UP, selfish, looking for their own interests and shameless in putting more pressure on the muslims in rural areas.
 
Law will take it's course.

I didn't see such breast beating by the secular folks when BJP/RSS workers are hacked to death in Commie bastion of Kerala just for having a different political point of view. This selective outrage on the human lives has lost it charm.
LOL jab kuch nahi mila toh kerala pe roliya:D

Many RSS/BJP members are caught while making bombs, killing rival party members and other violence. So apna dhukda kisi aur din sunana;)
 
LOL jab kuch nahi mila toh kerala pe roliya:D

Many RSS/BJP members are caught while making bombs, killing rival party members and other violence. So apna dhukda kisi aur din sunana;)
Nah I merely pointed out the selective outrage, I didn't say don't prosecute these guys. Police will do whats required.
 

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