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Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India
(www.theguardian.com)
I'm sorry,I can't hear over the sound of some religious hysteria.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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India's very own equivalent of MAGA have Modi's support as they keep him empowered. I'm a Hindu and know that this ultranationalism is not what Hinduism is.
That's what moderates in any religion says about the extremists in it. But the fact is that a religion cannot deny its responsibility in crimes committed in its name - because religion is the instrument used for indoctrination and radicalization. At best you can say that your religion is being misused.
At best you can say that your religion is being misused.
Misused in the sense that if I dropped an open case of sharp knives in a daycare with smiley faces painted on them and then tied up all the workers.
is not what Hinduism is.
Where have I heard that before? Oh wait literally every religion ever.
Honest question from an ignorant 'Murican, with no context about what this controversy is about:
To a Hindu, would naming the lion 'Akbar' kinda be like naming an elephant 'Hitler' in Israel?
Or is this all just a religious/ cultural thing that makes no sense to outsiders such as myself?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Akbar was a Mughal emperor who extended Muslim rule over much of the Indian subcontinent, a time Hindu nationalist groups consider to have been a period of slavery.
“Sita cannot stay with the Mughal emperor Akbar,” the VHP official Anup Mondal said on Sunday, suggesting it would offend religious sentiments in the Hindu-majority country.
“Such an act amounts to blasphemy and is a direct assault on the religious belief of all Hindus,” the VHP said , after having lodged a plea on Friday calling for a name change.
Critics say religious intolerance has been growing in the world’s most populous country since the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, came to power in 2014.
Mondal said the lion called Akbar had previously been named after the Hindu deity Rama when he was in the neighbouring state of Tripura, which is controlled by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party.
A West Bengal forest department official, Dipak Kumar Mandal, said “the lion and the lioness are now kept separately”.
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We should just give a bunch of nukes to all the shamans of all the faiths and tell them to sort it out amongst themselves.
What a shitty title.
A more unbiased title would have been "Hindu nationalists and Muslim nationalists in India fight each other by renaming lions to offend the other side."
I don't see anything about Muslim nationalists