‘Dirty Hindu, disgusting dog’
ByKesh
In the wee hours of Monday, February 6, unknown miscreants broke into a Hanuman temple in Narapat Pur village, Chairaigaon Block, Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, and vandalised the Lord Hanuman idol. A Shivling, Trishul, and a Nandi idol were also found to be uprooted and desecrated. The donation box was also broken and looted.
Tarique Rahman, co-convener of the Bangladesh Gono Odhikar Parishad and a key adviser to Nurul Haque Nur, launched an attack on Hindu minorities by claiming that the scriptures of the Hindu faith are pornographic and do not provide any moral teaching.
Mohammed Hijab, for example, who declared at a pro-Palestine rally in 2021 that “we love death” and rallied the crowds in Leicester with anti-Hindu slurs, referring to them as “violent vegetarians” and declaring he was leading a Muslim patrol, was interviewed on Channel 4.
A video showing a Hindu college principal being compelled to wear a garland of shoes has provoked fury on social media in Bangladesh.
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell told AFP that the decline in the number of Christians in the UK was ‘no surprise’, but added that spirituality was still the need of the population in light of the increasing cost of living and the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
It may be noted that religion is a voluntary entry in the UK population census. The question was added in the UK census in 2001. According to the UK population census data.
Talking to reporters, Mayor Pandey claimed that the temples, which were once integral to the community, have either been encroached or fallen into disrepair. “Decades ago, this area was home to more than 100 temples—one after every ten houses. Today, they are nowhere to be seen. Even idols are missing, and the temples are either dilapidated or occupied,” she added.
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