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‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate

From contested places of worship to demographic fearmongering, a series of speeches used Hindu religious identity to construct Muslims as an existential threat and recast exclusion as religious defence

Hindu Sena burns Clinton posters, backs ‘Ally against Islamic Jihad’ Trump

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BJP MLA warns theatres to not screen Karan Johar’s movie casting a Pakistani actor

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RSS: The anti-Constitutional “power centre” of the Modi Sarkar

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