From my limited view, it appears Modi & the Hindu Nationalists are more or less (American) right-wing extremists comparable to Trumpers. Is this accurate at all?
Modi’s party is inspired from RSS which was inspired by nazism so even worse. Unfortunately the number of these people are way too high. There are centrists too that don’t make anything better.
I’m American as well, born in the US. So unfortunately I don’t know a lot more than you about the national mood or how popular the Hindu nationalists and BJP (their party) actually are.
With that said, yes, I would say that’s accurate. They’re a mix of the Republicans/American far right and Israel’s conservatives and Netanyahu. The BJP leadership has called Muslims an infestation and blamed them for all of India’s issues. They’ve demanded ancestral papers for Muslims to prove their citizenship, and there has been wanton police violence against Muslims that reminds me of settlers in Israel and Palestinians.
If we were to establish a scale of fascism and the far right, where Hitler and the Nazis are the absolute highest on the scale, I would put Republicans at the bottom; the BJP and Hindu nationalists are higher than them, and Israel is even higher than them. I think they’d all be the same if they weren’t held back by the law or oppositional parties.
I hope that helps. My worry is that the right wing extremists are more popular in India than they are in the US.
So to give us Americans some insight…
From my limited view, it appears Modi & the Hindu Nationalists are more or less (American) right-wing extremists comparable to Trumpers. Is this accurate at all?
Modi’s party is inspired from RSS which was inspired by nazism so even worse. Unfortunately the number of these people are way too high. There are centrists too that don’t make anything better.
I’m American as well, born in the US. So unfortunately I don’t know a lot more than you about the national mood or how popular the Hindu nationalists and BJP (their party) actually are.
With that said, yes, I would say that’s accurate. They’re a mix of the Republicans/American far right and Israel’s conservatives and Netanyahu. The BJP leadership has called Muslims an infestation and blamed them for all of India’s issues. They’ve demanded ancestral papers for Muslims to prove their citizenship, and there has been wanton police violence against Muslims that reminds me of settlers in Israel and Palestinians.
If we were to establish a scale of fascism and the far right, where Hitler and the Nazis are the absolute highest on the scale, I would put Republicans at the bottom; the BJP and Hindu nationalists are higher than them, and Israel is even higher than them. I think they’d all be the same if they weren’t held back by the law or oppositional parties.
I hope that helps. My worry is that the right wing extremists are more popular in India than they are in the US.