“Sad to see images like this of statues at the 1971 Shaheed Memorial Complex, Mujibnagar, destroyed by anti-India vandals,” Tharoor tweeted in a post on X. “This follows disgraceful attacks on the Indian cultural centre, temples, and Hindu homes in several places, even as reports came in of Muslim civilians protecting other minority homes and places of worship,” he added.
Sad to see images like this of statues at the 1971 Shaheed Memorial Complex, Mujibnagar, destroyed by anti-India vandals. This follows disgraceful attacks on the Indian cultural centre, temples and Hindu homes in several places, even as reports came in of Muslim civilians… pic.twitter.com/FFrftoA81T
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) August 12, 2024
A student-led uprising that devolved into Islamist insurrection in Bangladesh, forced the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and several other senior officials. The protests, which lasted over a month, resulted in at least 450 deaths and led to Hasina’s departure on August 5.
The protests have also had a severe impact on the Hindu community in Bangladesh, with numerous attacks targeting Hindu homes, temples, and businesses. Hindus, who form the largest minority in the predominantly Muslim country, are known to be strong supporters of Hasina’s party, the Awami League.
Since the government’s collapse, over 205 incidents of violence against minority communities have been reported across 52 districts.
Shashi Tharoor has called on the new caretaker government, led by Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus, to take urgent action to restore law and order in the country.
While Shashi Tharoor specifically called out the religiously motivated attacks against the Hindus in Bangladesh, he also cushioned it with the trope that Muslims were protecting religious places. It is interesting that those who use this trope to shield the Muslim community from taking any responsibility for their targeted hate attacks against Hindus fail to ask the few Muslims whom were they protecting the Temples from. In fact, what is far worse is that while thousands attack Hindus, this trope seems to insist that the 5 Muslims protecting the Temple are the norm while the thousands attacking Temples are the exception.
The liberal-Islamist ecosystem repeats the same trope every single time to condition the masses to elicit a particular kind of social reaction. The first and foremost is to never blame the Muslims or hold them accountable for the mayhem they cause as they are merely a victim of their circumstances. They never initiate any violence and only respond to the events that are thrust upon them. Even when it occurs at the hands of Muslims, the bloodshed simply unfolds as a result of the situation and they are not responsible for it. Hence, anyone could be blamed including the administration, the state, and even the Hindus who are usually victims during such times, but never the Muslims. Lastly, fabricate tales to demonstrate that the Muslim community was not only innocent but was defending Hindus and their holy places to bend the propaganda to the advantage of the former. Notably, in the scenario, the rioters don’t have any religion but the ‘human chain’ always does.
Note: A previous version of this article included details about a statue vandalized as claimed by Shashi Tharoor. However, this claim is not verified and hence, it has been removed from this article. The headline and the article has been changed to that effect.
