Current Events > Muslim man brutally killed by gang of radical hindus over cows.

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Muslim man has died in western India after he was attacked by hundreds of Hindu cow protection vigilantes, the latest attack in a spate of mob killings in the name of the revered animal.

Police said on Wednesday that Pehlu Khan, 55, had died in hospital two days after a group attacked his cattle truck on a road in Alwar in the desert state of Rajasthan. Gangs of “cow protectors” have been implicated in killing at least 10 people in the past two years as the welfare of the animal has become an increasingly charged issue in Indian politics.

Cows are revered by most of India’s majority Hindu community and beef consumption is permitted in only eight of the country’s 29 states and territories. Alwar’s police chief, Rahul Prakash, told Agence France-Presse at least six others were injured in the attack, but they had now been discharged from hospital.

Police posted a 5,000-rupee reward to help identify the attackers and have listed more than 200 people as suspects in the murder case.

“We are yet to receive the postmortem report, but [the victim] had multiple rib fractures,” Prakash said.

Khan was driving in a convoy of six cattle transport trucks and returning to his home state of Haryana when the mob intercepted his vehicle. Video of the attack was broadcast on Indian television, showing the men being beaten with iron rods and sticks.

Cow protection has been a trigger for sectarian violence throughout modern Indian history and its resurgence since 2015 has been linked to an increasingly assertive Hindu nationalist movement.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, won office in 2014 pledging to ban beef across India, and calls to declare the cow India’s national animal have grown since his election.

Illustrating the careful path some Indian politicians walk in discussing the violence, the Rajasthan home minister said on Wednesday the vigilantes had “done a good job by protecting cows from smuggling”.

“But they have violated the law by beating people brutally,” Gulab Chand Kataria said.

Police are regularly accused of working alongside cow-protection vigilantes and one state, Haryana, announced plans last year to license some of the groups.

A Muslim man from a village near Delhi was lynched after being accused of storing beef in his freezer. Modi rebuked the vigilantes last August after videos emerged showing young Dalits – India’s least socially dominant caste, tasked with disposing of dead cows – being flogged for handling the animals’ carcasses.

Cattle slaughter has become a prominent issue again in the past month after Modi’s party selected a Hindu monk with a history of incendiary remarks about minorities to run the country’s most populous state.

Yogi Adityanath commenced his administration of Uttar Pradesh state by cracking down on illegal slaughterhouses, sparking a four-day protest by butchers across the country.

Most Hindus eschew beef, but it is regularly consumed by some in the country’s south, as well as by Muslims, Christians and traditionally poorer castes, who regard the animal as a cheap source of protein.

Last week Gujarat state raised the sentence for cow slaughter to life imprisonment. The chief minister of another state, Chhattisgarh, said at the weekend that anyone caught killing cows there would be hanged.

Another five people were injured in clashes in Delhi this week after a woman was accused of warding off a cow by throwing stones at the animal.

Full Article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/05/muslim-man-dies-in-india-after-attack-by-hindu-cow-protectors

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It's crazy to me man, I have a lot of hindu friends who don't give a **** if you eat at McDonalds. Then you go online and hear about things like this.
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Hindus drew first blood. Just before the British partition of India, extremists Hindus were fear mongering over the "imminent" attacks coming at the hands of "evil Muslims". When that didn't come to past, they just decided to massacre Muslims themselves.
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Ammonitida posted...

Hindus drew first blood. Just before the British partition of India, extremists Hindus were fear mongering over the "imminent" attacks coming at the hands of "evil Muslims". When that didn't come to past, they just decided to massacre Muslims themselves.

Caste system...Sharia Law....they both suck. You act like Islam has never initiated an attack though. Didn't they literally just kill a model at a college cause she wore jeans and defended atheists? Stop playing on a strawman of "evil Muslims" when it is backwards Islam.
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Can we at least have a moment for this guy and his family before you have a pissing contest about what religious and nations are worse than each other?

There's an empty space at the dinner table in this guy's home now because he eats cow.... That's really sad.
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jihad his ass, then run before Trump MOBAs your ass in turn
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Can we at least have a moment for this guy and his family before you have a pissing contest about what religious and nations are worse than each other?

There's an empty space at the dinner table in this guy's home now because he eats cow.... That's really sad.

Not on CE. This place is shit compared to when I first started posting here.
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...

Ammonitida posted...

Hindus drew first blood. Just before the British partition of India, extremists Hindus were fear mongering over the "imminent" attacks coming at the hands of "evil Muslims". When that didn't come to past, they just decided to massacre Muslims themselves.

Caste system...Sharia Law....they both suck. You act like Islam has never initiated an attack though. Didn't they literally just kill a model at a college cause she wore jeans and defended atheists? Stop playing on a strawman of "evil Muslims" when it is backwards Islam.

I don't "act" like that. Just pointing out the batshit crazyness of Hindu extremism.
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expected India.
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...

Ammonitida posted...

Hindus drew first blood. Just before the British partition of India, extremists Hindus were fear mongering over the "imminent" attacks coming at the hands of "evil Muslims". When that didn't come to past, they just decided to massacre Muslims themselves.

Caste system...Sharia Law....they both suck. You act like Islam has never initiated an attack though. Didn't they literally just kill a model at a college cause she wore jeans and defended atheists? Stop playing on a strawman of "evil Muslims" when it is backwards Islam.

Took 3 posts to start bashing Muslims? CE's losing its touch.


Anyway, my thoughts are with the victim and his loved ones :/
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Radical Hindus. Don't hear about them much.
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Wow that's uhhh
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Religion is a disease
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While murder is wrong, the muslims still have centuries of violence against Hindus to answer for.
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NurseRedHeart posted...

While murder is wrong, the muslims still have centuries of violence against Hindus to answer for.

This is why we are doomed as a species.
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Ammonitida posted...

This is why we are doomed as a species.

As long as there are at least two people on the planet, someone will want someone else dead.
~ The Sniper
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The people basically ignoring the story and saying "well Muslims are bad!" are a special sort of person

sending good vibes bro to the family
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BilalPowell posted...

Radical Hindus. Don't hear about them much.

You don't hear anything about the Muslims being killed by Buddhist in Myanmar or what Christians are doing in Africa either.

It's all about creating a narrative.

I gotta say I was shocked when I learned radical Buddhists were a thing.
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That's really sad. All that brutality over a fucking cow.
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Broseph_Stalin posted...

BilalPowell posted...

Radical Hindus. Don't hear about them much.

You don't hear anything about the Muslims being killed by Buddhist in Myanmar or what Christians are doing in Africa either.

It's all about creating a narrative.

Indeed. Though recently the bigot Ann Coulter called attention to the situation in Burma, only to say that "even Bhuddists can't get along with Muslims", as if the Bhuddists were the victims in the whole affair.
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Doom_Art posted...

I gotta say I was shocked when I learned radical Buddhists were a thing.

Seriously?
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Radical Buddhists were a major cause of the genocides committed by Japan in World War II, among many orther things.

-A Buddhist
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Don't have a cow, man.
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Cowthief posted...

Don't have a cow, man.

Oh u
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bump
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Logos posted...

That's really sad. All that brutality over a fucking cow.

Yes
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