'Hindutvavaad / Manuvaad/ Brahmanvaad se Azadi' : Bengaluru Pride march raises ‘anti-Hindutva’ slogans

In a shocking development, the Pride March in Bengaluru recently concluded, several LGBTQ+ participants dragged Hindutva into the rally and raised anti-Hindu slogans, causing outrage. The event took place near Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium on Sunday.

 

This incident came to light after the video in which students were seen chanting slogans like "Hindutvavaad se azadi'. The video drew criticism from some social media users.

 

The widely circulated video showed participants carrying the Pride flag and placards as they marched down the streets. One participant initiated the "azadi" slogans, quickly joined by others. Several participants could be seen chanting "Manuvaad se azadi," "Brahmanvaad se azadi," and "Hindutvavaad se azadi."

 

 

 

"'Hindutva se azadi'- Pride march in Bengaluru. All JNU students shifted to Bangaluru," said one user on X (formerly Twitter).

 

"'Hindutva se azadi' pride march in Bengaluru? Some people seem to have lost their way, asking for 'freedom' from their own roots. Maybe they're just following the herd without a clue," one of the X users wrote.

 

Muslim homophobia is institutionalized. Islamic law as derived from scripture, and as evolved over several centuries, not only condemns but prescribes cruel and unusual punishments for homosexuality.

 

As per Quran, ‘People of Lot’ were destroyed by the ‘wrath of God’ because men had sex with men. Some Hadith collections also condemn homosexuality and transgender acts. Male homosexual acts are prescribed death penalty. Many Islamic countries have death penalty for homosexuality. In most Muslim countries, homosexuality is illegal and in some countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, it is punishable by death.

 

In his 2006 book “Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law,” the Dutch scholar Rudolph Peters notes that most schools of Islamic law proscribe homosexuality. They differ only on the mode of punishment. “The Malikites, the Shiites and some Shafi’ites and Hanbalites are of the opinion that the penalty is death, either by stoning (Malikites), the sword (some Shafi’ites and Hanbalites) or, at the discretion of the court, by killing the culprit in the usual manner with a sword, stoning him, throwing him from a (high) wall or burning him (Shiites).”

 

Under Shariah—Islamic law—those engaging in same-sex sexual acts can be sentenced to death in nearly a dozen countries or in large areas of them: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, the northern states of Nigeria, southern parts of Somalia, two provinces in Indonesia, Mauritania, Afghanistan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and more. Death is also the penalty in the territories in northern Iraq and Syria controlled by ISIS.

 

Iran is notorious for hanging men accused of homosexual behavior. The Associated Press reports that since 2014 ISIS has executed at least 30 people in Syria and Iraq for being homosexual, including three men who were dropped from the top of a 100-foot building in Mosul in June 2015.

 

The rise of modern Islamic extremism has worsened the intolerance toward homosexuality. Extremists don’t just commit violence against LGBT people. They also spread the prejudice globally by preaching that homosexuality is a disease and a crime.

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