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In UP, India, a Muslim restaurant owner was arrested because the non-veg food he wrapped with old newspapers had photos of Hindu gods and goddesses.

https://thewire.in/rights/up-man-arrested-for-wrapping-chick...

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All: please do not step into religious flamewar hell. Not even baby steps please. This is the most avoidable kind of flamewar.

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Not that I support the intention of cops to go at his restaurant in the first place, in the article I read, he swung his knife at the cop as well.

You definitely do not want to believe the cop versions of the story. Cops in India have been planting fake evidence in the activists phones and they will go any length to prosecute those who fight the system

It's important to note that the cops partake such actions on the directions from higher-ups.

The Nuremberg defence?

Or "the entire police force is corrupt, not just the beat cops".

Except I would rather have the cops punished along with their higher-ups. It's common in India to punish a low-level cop and call it a day. All this while the real masterminds go on to create even more problems for the society.

> Not that I support the intention of cops to go at his restaurant in the first place, in the article I read, he swung his knife at the cop as well.

No the article says - Police "alleged" that he swung his knife as well, which he and his family denies. I don't know what really happened but it would be silly to solely rely on cop's version of events.

It would not be surprising to come into a restaurant kitchen and see the owner holding a big knife. He might even gesture without setting the knife down first.

>it would be silly to solely rely on cop's version of events.

Especially in Modhi's Hindu nationalist India.

I can share ten stories where the offenders are Muslims and the victims are Hindus. Wire won't be covering those stories. This newspaper is as prejudiced against Hindus as it gets.

The Wire doesn’t need to cover them because mainstream media channels are already blasting them on primetime everyday.

Amazing that in a country where there’s a Hindu in practically every single position of authority, Hindus still harbor such a deep seated victimization complex.

Not that amazing. In the US, see Christians, white people, and men.

And like every where, if something threatens the perceived superiority of a well established, powerful group that group will do everything to fight. Regardless of religion.

Please do not take HN threads further into religious flamewar hell. Nor nationalistic flamewar hell, please. Those are the last things we need here.

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That’s exactly what I dont understand. It’s so ingrained. In my apartment complex’s (Indian residing in India here) WhatsApp group, we’ll have people whose WhatsApp numbers are from the Middle East but they’ll be fulminating about Muslims like the rules of irony don’t apply to them.

I just don’t understand what people are so angry about.

Everything is going as well as it could in a billion strong parliamentary democracy but people are still mad about old wounds.

Please do not take HN threads further into religious flamewar hell. That is the last thing we need here.

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