Tag: Hate Speech

CJP formally approached the Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra, urging the registration of an FIR against Kajal Hindustani for her inflammatory anti-Muslim hate speech, Highlighting serious violations of the Model Code of Conduct ahead of the Maharashtra state assembly elections

Profile of Hate: Suresh Chavhanke, a relentless advocate of communal division, has turned Sudarshan News into a mouthpiece for bigotry, fueling Islamophobia and inciting hostility at far-right events through toxic and incendiary broadcasts.

An overview of Yati Narsinghanand’s hate history, a self-proclaimed “preacher” who has become a countrywide threat to social harmony and whose consistent hate speeches permeate an already corrosive public sphere, making it conducive to harm and violence against Muslims

Complaint alleges that Zubair posted a video from an old program of Narsinghanand with the aim of inciting violence against the controversial priest; FIR also names AIMIM leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, as well as prominent Muslim cleric Arshad Madni.

Provocative statements threaten the harmony of Goa’s diverse communities, igniting protests, demands for accountability and arrest; Church condemns the hurtful statement made by former RSS chief, raises calls for peace

Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has been working 24 X 7, round the clock, to monitor and combat hate speech --and through this promote peace --in Maharashtra and across the country. In past week, CJP has filed six complaints to the Maharashtra Police, seeking preventive action against the ‘Hindu Janakrosh Morchas’ and SHS’s events

With over 19 hate speech FIRs stuck in limbo, no reports of further investigations nor arrests, the Mahayuti state government faces criticism for slow (or no) action as communal tensions rise; CJP intensifies legal action and monitoring to curb growing communal violence in Maharashtra; details of the complaints filed by CJP may be read here.

Incendiary calls for arming Hindus and vilifying Muslims echo from a press club stage, Yati Ramswaroopanand Giri brazenly urged Hindus to arm themselves to "protect the women in their families"

The Nagamangala communal riots and the Hindutva strategy for impregnating the Tipu Fort!

A detailed look at the events intensifying communal divides, rising islamophobia and state complicity from Jharkhand to Himachal