It is deeply ingrained in you to call for acts of violence, genocide and attacks on religious sites, particularly targeting the Sikh community. Such actions are not seen as inhuman because Sikhs are not regarded as equal or fully human to you. However, the world is now watching.
BREAKING | Ron Banerjee, of the Hindu Conference of Canada, has been arrested by @PeelPolice in connection to his speech inciting violence against Sikhs.
Banerjee's call to storm Gurdwaras was met with loud cheers during the Monday evening @CoHNACanada led pro-India protest.
@anandpur_exile Why not challenge the norms that define peaceful, law-abiding citizens in England? Once you’ve done so, you could guide others on how not to conform strictly to those expectations. Until then, keep your opinions to yourself.
“We have so many targets… will provide 2-3 jobs a month…”
June '84: India meticulously planned an attack on Sikh gurdwaras for years to align with a gurpurab.
Nov '84: new intelligence reveals India initially planned national Sikh genocide timed for Guru Nanak Sahibs’s Gurpurab 11/08, for its symbolic impact.
Today: India goes out its way to send death squads to kill Sikh activists on western soil- symbolically timed with June anniversary- risking global trade ties and reputation.
What the global civil society has failed to register is that unlike political violence, Brahminical violence is essentially ritualistic and libidinal.
Unlike other systems of violence, Brahmanical violence aims to dishonor and humiliate its (non-Hindu) Other, to rejuvenate and nourish Hindu society.
Yet unlike other paradigms of violence— anti-blackness, islamophobia, antisemitism. colonialism— Brahmanical violence escapes global civil society’s scrutiny, mainly because of west’s inability to see it in its true abstraction, as a psychic structure and not just a political tool.