Legs of a Cow were thrown in a Hindu area and then a dead piglet was left inside a mosque just to spur Commnal Violence.
First the legs of a cow were thrown in a Hindu area and then a dead piglet was left inside a mosque. Despite these deliberate attempts to provoke violence, the efforts of concerned citizens and a dedicated police chief ensured peace prevailed.
controversial meat was used to spur communal incidents in Bhagalpur:
On September 26 and then again on the 30th, Bhagalpur town saw two mobs form over the deliberate placement of particular forms of meat in a town that has seen widespread communal clashes and pogroms in the past. A month-old piglet, with his hind legs tied, and its neck cut, was thrown into a mosque; three days earlier, three beef shanks (legs) were thrown onto a street in a predominately Hindu area.
Why would anyone throw beef in a Hindu area?
Tanti Bazaar in Champanagar, Bhagalpur is an unremarkable road separating the Muslim bunkars (weavers) from their Hindu counterparts. It is also the site of a large Jain temple. It was around dusk when, in the cover of darkness, three beef shanks appeared to have been left on the road.
Within minutes, there was a mob of young people, locals and outsiders, clamouring for the administration to arrive. They apparently called for apt retribution, screaming at the few local Muslims how happened to be around: ‘What would happen if we throw a pig in your locality?’
Nujahid Ansari, who lives a mere five minutes away was called by the police and told to go and deal with the matter. He is part of the Bunkar Sangarsh Samiti, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), as well as the local peace committee. He wanted to take the meat away himself but was restrained by the crowd who wanted the administration to appear first. His next action was to send reliable people to nearby cross-roads, and make sure that Muslims returning home from work did not walk into the angry crowd.
Sajjan Kumar Sah recalled for the riots of 1989: how he and few young men would patrol the area, where just two kilometres away, Muslim localities were being attacked. ‘Doh mussalmaan bhaag rahe the, aur unke peeche thode log talwaar leke aa rahe the.’ (Two Muslim men were running away from people with swords.)
Sah remembers that he saved the life of 70-year-old Inamul Haque, describing the men who were trying to kill him as ‘BJP-minded’ people. He goes on to add that whoever threw the beef to provoke people were neither Muslim nor Hindu, but inhuman.
‘Why would anyone throw beef in a Hindu area?’ asks Nujahid. ‘And why that part of the animal? The legs? I don’t think any Muslim could have done this. If a Muslim wanted to provoke the Hindus why would he throw the most cherished part of the animal? He could throw bones, he could throw the waste.’
Why would anyone throw Pig in a Muslim area?
It was around 8 in the morning at the Shahi Masjid at Jabbar Chowk that labourers working on the second floor of the mosque discovered a piglet with its throat cut left on a rug. They quickly informed the Imam, 25-year-old Mohammed Ulfad Hussain, whose first action was to shut the gate of the mosque, and then call the people whom he trusted the most.
Yet rumours began to spread, and within 30 minutes, hundreds of people had gathered near the mosque.
Dr. Sallauddin Ahsan, Principal of M.M. College Bhagalpur was one of the first to arrive on the scene, and began calling the police and the administration.
‘We wanted the administration and the police to just catch who did this,’ he said. ‘The DSP was the first senior officer to arrive, but he was also a Muslim. So we decided to wait for the SDO or DM who is Hindu. Otherwise they would’ve thought that we Muslims did this to ourselves.’
When Sallauddin and Professor Hasnayn Alam saw that their relatives in Delhi and the Gulf began to put the photo of the pig on Whatsapp and Facebook, they instantly called them and got them to delete it. They refused to share the photos they had with people they knew, keeping it only for evidence – to show that this was no accident but a deliberate attempt at provocation: the image clearly shows the animal with its neck slit and its hind legs tied.
Read this Story its Really Awesome:
I received a story that is going a bit viral amongst Indian Muslims, whose author I am unable to trace:
“In a small village in India, a little fox told its father of his desire to eat human flesh. Next day father fox managed to get some pig meat and offered it to his cub. But the little fox wouldn’t have it. Then the father fox managed to get some cow meat and offered it. The cub refused to eat that as well.
“The stubborn little fox was adamant that he will not settle for anything other than human meat. That night the father fox left the pork in the front of a masjid and the beef in the front of a temple. The next morning the entire village was filled with dead humans and the little fox ate his fill.
“Story might be hypothetical, but the Fox is for real. Author unknown.”
On September 26 and then again on the 30th, Bhagalpur town saw two mobs form over the deliberate placement of particular forms of meat in a town that has seen widespread communal clashes and pogroms in the past. A month-old piglet, with his hind legs tied, and its neck cut, was thrown into a mosque; three days earlier, three beef shanks (legs) were thrown onto a street in a predominately Hindu area.
Tanti Bazaar in Champanagar, Bhagalpur is an unremarkable road separating the Muslim bunkars (weavers) from their Hindu counterparts. It is also the site of a large Jain temple. It was around dusk when, in the cover of darkness, three beef shanks appeared to have been left on the road.
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| Nujahid Ansari, Aslam Niyazi and Sajjan Kumar Sah, who worked for peace after ‘beef’ was thrown into a Hindu area in Bhagalpur |
Within minutes, there was a mob of young people, locals and outsiders, clamouring for the administration to arrive. They apparently called for apt retribution, screaming at the few local Muslims how happened to be around: ‘What would happen if we throw a pig in your locality?’
Nujahid Ansari, who lives a mere five minutes away was called by the police and told to go and deal with the matter. He is part of the Bunkar Sangarsh Samiti, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), as well as the local peace committee. He wanted to take the meat away himself but was restrained by the crowd who wanted the administration to appear first. His next action was to send reliable people to nearby cross-roads, and make sure that Muslims returning home from work did not walk into the angry crowd.
Sajjan Kumar Sah recalled for the riots of 1989: how he and few young men would patrol the area, where just two kilometres away, Muslim localities were being attacked. ‘Doh mussalmaan bhaag rahe the, aur unke peeche thode log talwaar leke aa rahe the.’ (Two Muslim men were running away from people with swords.)
Sah remembers that he saved the life of 70-year-old Inamul Haque, describing the men who were trying to kill him as ‘BJP-minded’ people. He goes on to add that whoever threw the beef to provoke people were neither Muslim nor Hindu, but inhuman.
‘Why would anyone throw beef in a Hindu area?’ asks Nujahid. ‘And why that part of the animal? The legs? I don’t think any Muslim could have done this. If a Muslim wanted to provoke the Hindus why would he throw the most cherished part of the animal? He could throw bones, he could throw the waste.’
Why would anyone throw Pig in a Muslim area?
It was around 8 in the morning at the Shahi Masjid at Jabbar Chowk that labourers working on the second floor of the mosque discovered a piglet with its throat cut left on a rug. They quickly informed the Imam, 25-year-old Mohammed Ulfad Hussain, whose first action was to shut the gate of the mosque, and then call the people whom he trusted the most.
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| No Muslims or people of other religions were physically harmed when a piglet was thrown into this Mosque in Bhagalpur |
Yet rumours began to spread, and within 30 minutes, hundreds of people had gathered near the mosque.
Dr. Sallauddin Ahsan, Principal of M.M. College Bhagalpur was one of the first to arrive on the scene, and began calling the police and the administration.
‘We wanted the administration and the police to just catch who did this,’ he said. ‘The DSP was the first senior officer to arrive, but he was also a Muslim. So we decided to wait for the SDO or DM who is Hindu. Otherwise they would’ve thought that we Muslims did this to ourselves.’
When Sallauddin and Professor Hasnayn Alam saw that their relatives in Delhi and the Gulf began to put the photo of the pig on Whatsapp and Facebook, they instantly called them and got them to delete it. They refused to share the photos they had with people they knew, keeping it only for evidence – to show that this was no accident but a deliberate attempt at provocation: the image clearly shows the animal with its neck slit and its hind legs tied.
Read this Story its Really Awesome:
I received a story that is going a bit viral amongst Indian Muslims, whose author I am unable to trace:
“In a small village in India, a little fox told its father of his desire to eat human flesh. Next day father fox managed to get some pig meat and offered it to his cub. But the little fox wouldn’t have it. Then the father fox managed to get some cow meat and offered it. The cub refused to eat that as well.
“The stubborn little fox was adamant that he will not settle for anything other than human meat. That night the father fox left the pork in the front of a masjid and the beef in the front of a temple. The next morning the entire village was filled with dead humans and the little fox ate his fill.
“Story might be hypothetical, but the Fox is for real. Author unknown.”
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