{"id":75348,"date":"2017-07-01T16:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T10:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=75348"},"modified":"2017-07-01T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T10:45:59","slug":"think-not-name-protests-held-india-mob-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=75348","title":{"rendered":"What do you think about the \u201cNot in My Name\u201d protests held all over India against mob violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I would have supported a movement against mob justice, if not for the blatant anti-Hindu posters played around and sheer political opportunism around.<\/p>\n

See here someone is abusing Hinduism\u2019s holy symbol of Swastika [not the Nazi one] – imagine what would have happened if another religion\u2019s holy symbol was used.<\/p>\n

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And people complained I was cherry picking. These posters I found in 2 minutes were the \u201cexceptions\u201d. Fair enough. And how about the protests just because 5 idiots among 500,000,000 right wingers did a criminal thing?<\/p>\n

It is horrific for a child to die and it is equally horrific to have mob lynching. This happens a lot in India and as a society it makes sense of us to fight this. Hundreds of innocent people die every year due to mob anger for a variety of reasons. However, I didn\u2019t see a bulk of protestors fighting for the concept. Rather they are abusing the death of a child to have potshots on a religion and further their own political agenda. As they say never waste a tragedy when you could chase ambulances.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t seem to be fighting for justice. Rather it is dancing on top of a dead child.<\/p>\n

And he is not Muslim or Hindu boy. He is a boy. If you are going to add religion and caste to every crime, you are not looking forward, but backward. Everytime a bomb exploded, shall we report how many \u201cHindu boys\u201d died?<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t assemble mobs to fight mob justice.<\/p>\n

A friendly note to the liberals:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As a nation, we often don\u2019t know how to fight the right way. During the Nirbhaya rape case, there was an opportunity to tighten the rape laws & improve security. However, once the movement became anti-men [admission refusal of Indian applicants] and anti-India [India\u2019s daughter] things quickly fell apart. In the same way, the Jallikattu protests went sane until people started taking potshots on India.<\/p>\n

In general, if you want to kill your own movement, paint as broad a stroke as possible. If you want to fight successfully for an idea, fight with as sharp a focus. For instance, the first two waves of feminist movements succeeded because they were not anti-anything. They asked for their due rights and they got. Same for the Indian independence movement where Gandhi carefully avoided making anyone the enemy or villain.<\/p>\n

Once you start making villains of good people [in the name of religion, gender, nation] etc you are nailing a coffin on your protest. Rather than ending mob violence, this protest is not going to change anything on the ground.<\/p>\n

If you guys say, we as Indians are going to fight mob violence of all kinds – not just for cow, but for goat, hen or whatever idea\/ideology, then I\u2019m with you. Let\u2019s fight for justice.<\/p>\n

Author: Balaji Viswanathan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

CEO of Invento<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This article was originally published at Quora.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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