13 people including a policeman have been killed and at least 150 injured since violence erupted in Delhi clashes amid Trump’s visit, according to CNN.
DESPARDES — A mosque was set on fire and Hanuman flag was placed on its minaret late Tuesday afternoon in Ashok Vihar locality of North East Delhi — India’s capital.
A mob shouting “Jai Shri Ram” and “Hinduon ka Hindustan [India of Hindus]” paraded around the burning mosque, and a “Hanuman flag” was placed on top of the building, according to the TheWire.
Commenting on the incident, India watcher Khaled Almaeena, a Saudi Political and Media Analyst said “the act of entering a place of worship and desecration is vicious. The RSS thug who brazenly and with police protection goes up and cheered on by a murderous crowd has defiled Ghandij’is philosophy. Modi and others have shown the true face of the BJP government. It also proves who were behind the Gujarat massacre”.
“India is on the brink of disasters which it may never recover..I truly hope secular Hindustan will resist this fascism”, Almaeena added.
Miscreants also looted shops within and around the mosque’s compound. Residents told The Wire that the people looting the shops were not from the locality. Police personnel could not be seen in the locality. Residents alleged that police had removed members of the Muslim community from the locality.
13 people including a policeman have been killed and at least 150 injured since violence erupted in Delhi clashes amid Trump’s visit, according to CNN.
“Very painful for minorities specially Muslims…India (is) slowly descending into communal chaos,” a Pakistani defense analyst says.
A renowned award-winning Editor of Indian-descent when asked to comment said, “I am sick and tired of all this hate and madness”.
Shops were burnt and people armed rival mobs from different communities with sticks in parts of Bhajanpura, Chand Bagh and Karawal Nagar in northeast Delhi on Tuesday, which saw clashes between protesters for and against the controversial citizenship law (CAA) spiral into unprecedented violence in the capital yesterday, The Muslim Mirror reported.
