Religious clashes erupt in India

RSS is at it again and is inciting muslims for no good reason. Camping and raising provocative slogans in Muslim dominated areas doesn’t make any sense.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Religious clashes erupt in India

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At least 40 people have been injured in religious clashes on a remote delta island in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, police say.

Fifteen of those injured in the clashes on Sagar island, at the confluence of the Ganges and the sea, were policemen. Supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) and local Muslim villagers clashed after the RSS set up a camp in the area. This caused unease amongst Muslims, who have a large population on the island.

The RSS is active throughout India and is the ideological fountainhead of India’s main opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Hindu group is trying to expand its organisation in West Bengal, particularly in the Muslim-dominated border districts, where they say illegal migrants from Bangladesh are slowly becoming a majority.

Wave of unrest
Mohsin Ali, a local resident, said that supporters of the RSS had raised “provocative slogans” in the area. The RSS however blamed Bengal’s ruling Marxists for instigating the attacks. RSS leader Bijoy Addya told the BBC that the Marxists provoked the local Muslims into attacking the RSS supporters.
“We had conducted the training camp peacefully. But from the very beginning, we sensed a conspiracy to attack us and that finally happened,” Mr Addya said.

But Marxist leader and state minister Kanti Ganguly denied the RSS charge. “The RSS is a provocative organisation and if they raise slogans against a community, some reaction is bound to happen. There were clashes and now they have been controlled,” Mr Ganguly said. West Bengal has seen frequent violence and shutdowns recently. On Thursday, more than 30 people were injured and the army had to be called out to control clashes between Bengali and Nepali residents around the town of Siliguri.

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The best solution is for these bengali to revert back to hinduism.

And the best solution for you to do is to quit using one-liners and explain your hateful stance. :)

On the topical issue: It's unfortunate that one community cannot see another prosper, and that in turn leads to clashes often resulting in loss of lives. The illegals should be deported back to their land of origin in a civil manner. As i see it, India has its own poverty issues, taking on the responsibility of an extra batch of immigrants would probably hurt it.

haha. ...........................

May God bless the Quaid. He saved future of millions of Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh through his long-sightedness.

Are serious in suggesting that??

I guess you belong to the same RSS then, that is responsible for these clashes.

And why should Muslims "revert" , only so that they are allowed to live peacefully in India ??

pakistan was also meant for bangla's and baluchi's... one half seperated not so long past and the other half fighting to get seperated...

so much for jinnah's long sightedness...

sorry to spoil the party..the situation is very much under control instead focus on baltistan where sunni-shia violence killed hundreds in the recent past..

Absolutely. Ameen.

India should take strict actios on these illegal immigrants and shld be deported asap.

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^^ west bengal should be given to bangladesh

we must assist our bengali brotehers in retaking this area

Soon Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal will all seperate and leave India

what happened to you dude? r u allright? never seen such stupid posts from u before?

OK , Gujjars, Lower caste Hindus etc are all Hindus then why are there ethnic crimes against them in India ? Can you explain it to me ? Which religion should they convert to , to live in peace in India ?

is your id hacked, or you are into some drugs

Gujjars are not lower caste, they are forwarded caste and they did the agitation like what they are doing now to add them to Backward caste list and succeded and now they want more reservation and demanding them to add to scheduled caste

Humans find reasons to fight, even if all are one religion they will search for some reasons to fight

inshallah.

coming to the topic, i second those who said that events like these do vindicate why the two nation theory was spot on.

for those citing Bangladesh, its not as if the bangalies decided to merge back with India. Even when seperating on the basis of being a seperate cultural/racial entity from west pakistanies, nobody said hey lets go back to akhand bharat, so thats hardly a refutation of the partition.

at best you could say that history shows the British should've drawn more lines, not less.

in ur dreams ravage. India is united and will be nomatter what. In last 60 years no one was able to divide india and neither that will happen in next 500 years. take a chill pill and think about how to tackle your talibani brothers.

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Im not sure how you're extrapolating the next 500 out of the previous 60. Why not 80? I can cite two countries that were previously part of India that are now viable nations or broken away from India. 3 if you include azad kashmir, 4 if you include chinese administered tibet.

touche...teggy might like it :D

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Im not sure what your rear has to do with the topic, but ok.

I know about Gujjars but they got killed in their agitation to get declared lower caste.
My point is , anybody who says that Muslims living in India should become Hindu to live in peace is a joker.
These jokers should instead focus their attention on finding some better way of riding India of these religious and ethnic clashes and make a land of peace and Harmony.
I agree with you that if every living soul in India becomes Hindu then people will find some other reason to hate each other and slit each other's throat . So making everybody Hindu is not the solution , the solution is to spread the message of peace instead of message of hate.