Hate Speech

‘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

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.

UP: Yati Narsinghanand delivered provocative anti-Muslim hate speech, invoked Love-Jihad, temple demolition

He announced a ‘Hindu Bachao Morcha’, a group that will take revenge if any Hindu is killed by a Muslim

Days before Bakri Eid, threats of violence issued, calls for ban on Halal meat made

“If you find blood in the drain, you tell me, and I will tell these people how Eid is celebrated”: Bajrang Dal Member

The speaker called Muslims necrophiles, demanded a central law on ‘Love-Jihad’ treating it as genocide or organised crime

The speaker, who referred to Muslims as necrophiles, called for a central law that classifies 'Love Jihad' as genocide or organised crime

Countering hate thru’ spreading #EverydayHarmony the CJP Way: Int’l Day against Hate Speech

In the face of escalating acts of hatred, CJP uses social media to share uplifting, real life stories and perspectives, traditions, and historical incidents

Now, a Goa outfit wants film on ‘Portuguese horror’

In the long list of propaganda films generated by allies of the present regime, the extremist Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS), not to be outdone, now wants a Goa Files, to wipe out “atrocities on Hindus during Portuguese rule”

UN calls to end Hate Speech Now

"But we are far from powerless in the face of hate speech. We can and must raise awareness about its dangers, and work to prevent and end it in all its forms." - UN Secretary-General António Guterres

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