Is India turning fascist under Modi?

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Re: Is India turning fascist under Modi?

@LondonsFinest

Of course there is good and bad in every group of people.

You can’t tar everyone with the same brush, that would be highly hypocritical considering this is exactly what we have to suffer as Muslims.

The main gripe is that India gets branded as a secular tolerant country, on par with the west. The issues Pakistan gets vilified for exist in India too, on a much larger scale yet we’ll get lambasted for it. You follow most International news outlets and they’re firmly lodged up India’s backside whilst the way we get treated and seen by the global press is the complete opposite despite the fact India isn’t any better than us. There are a variety of reasons for this and a lot of it is down to our own incompetence (thanks to our politicians) but I’m still sick and tired of it.

What’s even more annoying is that a lot of fellow Pakistanis believe the nonsense spouted against Pakistan in the international media.

On a different note, the user who created the “Height of hatreds by Indians” thread is an avid follower of Pakistani politics. I don’t know the fellow off this website but we’ve had discussions in the politics forum. I don’t know if you follow Pakistani politics or how much you know but a lot of attacks you see in Pakistan are funded by India. If you follow the politics, you’ll know about their media - tv channels, newspapers - and how much nonsense and lies they spread about Pakistan, how much fear and war mongering they try and instill into the general public. And of course this sort of nonsense carries over to the population, not to everyone of course but to most people, as is the case all over the world.

In contrast, our media, our tv channels, our papers - they are all very mild when it comes to India. Lots of them are blatantly anti-Pakistan. The content of our tv channels, the Indian songs, the bollywood news updates - all pathetic. You’d never see Indian media promoting Pakistani content in such fashion. They banned a Pakistani film a few months ago, good on them. They’re showing some spine.

Like I said, I’m not sure how much you’re aware of Pakistan’s political situation but currently things are very heated with India. Constant tension on the borders, threats from their government officials, from their news channels. Makes for some great comedy truth be told but it’s there. I know you didn’t really speak about any of this in the post I’ve quoted but I believe you’re alluring to it because of what was said in the other thread about Bollywood (by me anyway, not sure if anyone else mentioned it).

I’d love it if there was peace with India. I genuinely wish there was.

But there isn’t. And it’s about time Pakistani’s grew a spine and exposed all the lies and problems India spreads in and about Pakistan.

First of all this is not political discussion forum and neither I want that we use same tone here. My comment regarding bollywood was general and it is common trend nowadays that anyone saying something good about India is tagged as bollywood mesmerized.

I know there are issues between both the countries and allegations from both sides to fund terrorism in each other’s countries. My point was avoiding generalisation. I can bring more incidents from Pakistan that include violent deaths on sectarian basis and how we treated our minorities under every regime (Each and every regime, not only under scapegoat Zia), but still we defend Pakistanis against terming as fascist nation.

What is being happened India under Modi government is definitely condemnable and there exist voices against such actions in India itself. Till such voices exist in any society, I don’t find any justification to term whole society / country as fascist.