‘RSS, Hindutva not answerable for Leicester riots’: UK assume tank

On 4th November 2022, the Henry Jackson Society – a UK-based assume tank – launched their analysis report on the anti-Hindu riots that came about in Leicester. The report is titled ‘Hindu-Muslim civil unrest in Leicester: “Hindutva” and the creation of a false narrative’. This report has denied any attainable involvement of so-called Hindutva extremism or RSS extremism within the Leicester violence, which was alleged by Islamists and left-liberal media homes. After an Asia Cup cricket match between India and Pakistan on August 28, violence erupted in Leicester, UK. Up to 47 individuals have been detained for his or her involvement within the incident.

It is notable that the western media broadly blamed the entire Hindu group in Leicester for this violence beneath the guise of utilizing phrases like Hindutva extremism or RSS extremism. Now, the assume tank primarily based within the UK itself has give you the conclusion that no Hindutva extremism in any angle is discovered answerable for the riots. Not solely this, however the report additionally mentions {that a} group of social media influencers, some with hyperlinks to terrorism, peddled this faux narrative to fire up tensions and instigate violence.

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— Henry Jackson Society (@HJS_Org) November 4, 2022

Henry Jackson Society’s (HJS) Centre on Radicalisation and Terrorism carried out this analysis and printed the report from their official Twitter deal with. The 39-page report is written by Charlotte Littlewood. It mentions that influencers on social media unfold a false narrative that “RSS terrorists” have been responsible for the violence with the intention to persuade Muslims from all throughout the UK to take part within the demonstrations. In a video displaying himself main a bunch by way of Leicester, an influencer named Mohammad Hijab with over 800,000 followers urged Muslims to “protect themselves against Hindu fascism” and wrote, “Muslim patrol in Leicester.”

The same influencer with 150,000 followers propagated false details about Hindus kidnapping a Muslim lady. He had beforehand bragged on social media about his involvement with Pakistan’s D Company and admired Dawood Ibrahim. Littlewood concluded that the rioting was brought on by a “micro-community cohesiveness dispute” involving Muslim and Hindu kids in Leicester who “had prejudiced sentiments against one another” and that this dispute had been “falsely portrayed as a problem of organized Hindutva extremism and terrorism.”

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— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) November 6, 2022

This report additionally famous that one other influential one that is recurrently supplied with a platform by UK media to unfold the falsehood that Hindutva was concerned within the occasions in Leicester had beforehand prayed for the Taliban and the brother of an ISIS member. The demonstrations in opposition to the Lady of Heaven film’s screening have been led by one of many fundamental opponents of LGBT training in faculties, and she or he was additionally instrumental in stirring up the mob that besieged the Hindu temple in Birmingham. Anjem Choudary, a convicted hate preacher, and Hizb ut-Tahrir, a banned group that seeks to revive the Islamic Caliphate, has additionally expressly acknowledged linkages between the upheaval in Leicester and Hindu nationalism.

Charlotte Littlewood stated in her report, “Evidence of a Hindu nationalist presence in the UK is tenuous. Some organizations have been accused of links to RSS and RSS-linked individuals have visited the UK, this is problematic for community relations and requires further investigation.” She added, “Accusations of RSS terrorists lead to a number of Hindu youth temporarily relocating for their safety. There has never been a Hindu extremist terrorist attack in the UK and the youth in question had no affiliation to RSS.”

An try to attract consideration to the in poor health results of this false reporting was additionally seen on this report. According to Charlotte Littlewood, it’s the Hindu group the world over that needed to undergo this unfavorable reporting in some or one other manner. The accusations of “Hindutva extremism” and “RSS terrorism” within the UK have led to web hate speeches to violence and anti-Hindu hatred, injury to Hindu temples, experiences of assaults in opposition to the Hindu group, and people who’ve expressed sympathy for the Hindu group, amongst different issues, she stated within the report.

In the concluding half, she additionally talked about, “The methods employed have included projections including a false claim of a BJP organized bus, whilst car sharing of anti-Hindutva protestors were in fact taking place; claims of racists, terrorists, extremists, etc; misinformation regarding crimes being committed; attempts to have the uptake of their narrative by the mainstream press and collaborating with political leaders to gain sympathy for their narrative and potentially influence future policy. The successful spread of these claims has led to a security threat posed to the Hindu community and attacks on their places of worship.”

Commenting on how media relied on these Muslim social media influencers for reporting slightly than going into the minor particulars of the incidents, Charlotte Littlewood famous, “The media has at times conflated the issue by regularly relying on influencers included in this report for comment and focusing on an issue of Hindutva extremism and India politics rather than providing nuanced and accurate analysis of the incidents.”

Underlining threats in entrance of the area people, she additional stated, “There is a real concern that Majid Freeman is regularly being provided a platform to express his views regarding the presence of Hindutva extremism in the UK and posing as a ‘community leader, meeting with the City of Leicester’s mayor and discussing the future of the upcoming independent review.”

It is notable that the western media portrayed Hindus as the primary villains of this violence. Hindus within the UK protested outdoors the workplaces of those anti-Hindu media homes. Now {that a} UK-based analysis group has printed its discovering and underlined how Hindutva or RSS had nothing to do with the violence and the way it was instigated by Islamist social media influencers, this has uncovered the fact of the deliberate anti-Hindu reporting of the incident.