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Malegaon targeted by arrows of hate has seen a rich and varied past

Malegaon, a city in the Nashik district of north-western Maharashtra state is the latest target of Hindutva’s hate and vitriol with highly charged hate speeches being delivered here on July 3, organized by the notorious Sakal Hindu Samaj; with a chequered communal history of clashes, the city witnessed the bomb blasts of September 2008

Sakal Hindu Samaj: Another video surfaces, speaker openly calls for violence against Muslims in Malegaon

In the said rally held in Maharashtra, demands for law providing capital punishment to ‘love-jihadis’ were raised

Maharashtra: Threats of violence made, anti-Muslim insults used at the Hindu Janakroash Morcha in Malegaon

Far-right leaders publicly attacked the Muslim community in yet another blatant demonstration of impunity

Multiple incidents of Muslims being targeted by extremist reported, attacks included hate speech and discrimination

Patna, Haryana, Uttarakhand: From Pravin Togadia to Bittu Bajrangi, Muslim community being targeted with impunity

Three instances of Bajrang Dal members breaking the law with impunity reported on a single day

MP, Haryana: Members delivered hate speeches, harassed interfaith couple, threaten to convert mosques into offices

Karnataka HC: Proceedings against Pramod Muthalik for delivering offensive statement quashed

The Bench noted lack of recording of independent eyewitness statements, no data to substantiate that accused made inflammatory statements as reasons

Kapil Mishra delivers anti-Muslim statements, targets activist Harsh Mander in his speech

He also promoted fallacies about Halal products, attacked Jamiat-Ulema-E-Hind for protecting terrorists and criminals

Poster-boy of ‘Hindutva’, Assam CM targets, Himanto Biswas Sarma threatens ex-US President with Islamophobic Slur: ‘Hussain Obama’

Barrack Obama had earlier said that if US President Joe Biden meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then the protection of the Muslim minority in a majority Hindu India is 'something worth mentioning.'

Haryana: Abusing Gandhi, Nehru, Muslims in one breath, saffron-clad mendicant at VHP-Bajrang Dal meet

The speaker, one Shivanand Maharaj, said that killing of thousands for protecting religion, women and cows is justified in Hindu scriptures

FIR filed against Chavhanke at Sangamner for his communal speech, which had resulted in violence and vandalism

In an invitation video put up by him, he had said that he was going to Sangamner to stop the “Islamification” of the city.

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