: How the ‘Bangladeshi’ dog whistle helps justify violence against Indian Bengali Muslims #IndiaNEWS “There is a Bangladeshi type of language…some kind of Bengali sounding language in which they

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How the ‘Bangladeshi’ dog whistle helps justify violence against Indian Bengali Muslims #IndiaNEWS
“There is a Bangladeshi type of language…some kind of Bengali sounding language in which they were shouting slogans,� said Medha Lal of the Delhi Police in a TV interview.While trying to identify the perpetrators of the communal rioting on Saturday, Lal used a common dog whistle, conflating Bengali and specifically the Bengali Muslim residents of Jahangirpuri with Bangladeshi citizens. And he wasn’t the only one: powerful politicians, cutting across party lines used the same tack. This xenophobic dog whistling was at least partly used to justify collective punishment in Jahangirpuri, with demolitions carried out on Wednesday using bulldozers.Now that more information is emerging on what actually happened, we know that the locality is inhabited by small Hindu traders and Bengali Muslims from West Bengal who work as waste collectors. None of the people arrested have been identified as being from Bangladesh.Conflating Bengali-speaking Indian Muslim citizens with Bangladeshi immigrants or bracketing rural dialects from West Bengal as something foreign has a long history with major ramifications for the safety of Bengali Muslims across India. And this trend is only becoming stronger as Hindutva becomes more powerful across India.Political attackAfter the communal violence on Saturday, a number of mainstream politicians used xenophobic dog whistles to tar the residents of...Read more

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