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Dadri Lynching: Isolated In Their Grief, Muslim Family Contemplates
Moving Out Of Village
HuffPost India | By Rituparna Chatterjee
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Posted: 01/10/2015 08:32 IST Updated: 2 hours ago

As the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) sought a report from
the district administration after a Muslim man was beaten to death
over rumours that he killed and ate a cow, his despairing family said
they are thinking of leaving the village they've lived in for two
generations, according to reports.

Speaking to the Indian Express, Askari, the 75-year old mother of
victim Mohammad Akhlaq, said no one from the village had come to share
their grief even two days after her son was lynched by a Hindu mob.

"Once our child (Danish) is treated and he is in a stable condition,
we need to make arrangements to live somewhere else. Who will buy this
house? The government should help us out," Askari told IE. Danish,
Akhlaq's son, was also beaten up by the raging mob on Monday night
after it dragged both father and son out of their homes.

The NCM stated it was monitoring the measures being taken by the
district administration to bring the perpetrators of the "ghastly"
crime to justice, reported PTI.

Also Read: Hindu Mob Lynches Muslim Man Suspected Of Killing And Eating A Cow

"The NCM strongly condemns this cowardly and reprehensible attack on
an innocent Muslim which also resulted in severe injury to his
23-year-old son. The Chairman, NCM has already spoken to DM, Dadri and
asked him to send a report on the incident to the NCM at the earliest.
After receipt of the report, we will be taking up the matter with both
the Union Home Minister and the Chief Minister. It will also be
discussed in the next weekly meeting of NCM," Commission member
Praveen Davar said.

Tension prevailed in the village, where nearly 40 percent of the 1,500
residents are Muslims, after some cows and buffaloes went missing. A
temple priest stoked the communal fire by allegedly announcing that
the family had slaughtered cows and stored the beef in their house, an
AP report said, quoting District Magistrate Nagendra Pratap Singh.

Singh said the mob dragged Akhlaq and his son from their home and beat
them with sticks and bricks. Akhlaq was declared dead at a nearby
hospital, while his son was being treated for serious injuries.

A group of protesters also torched police vehicles after the arrests,
forcing police to open fire, the Indian Express reported.

An FIR has been filed against 10 people for attacking the family, six
of whom were arrested, police said.

Meanwhile, a report in the Times of India said that there is no
mention of beef in the FIR filed by the police. Police is were looking
for two youths who had allegedly forced the village priest to announce
over the temple loudspeaker that the family had beef in the house, the
report said.

"We have lodged an FIR under sections 147, 148, 149, 302, 307, 458,
504 and 7 of the IPC. So far, 10 people have been named in the FIR and
six were arrested. All the accused are in the age group of 22 to 28
years. Four of the accused are graduates and employed in the private
sector, while others are unemployed," DSP Anurag Singh told TOI.

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A mob in India just dragged a man from his home and beat him to death
— for eating beef

By Michael E. Miller September 30 at 6:50 AM

An Indian woman sprinkles yoghurt paste onto a cow’s forehead during a
Hindu Bach Baras ritual to bless the animal in the Rajasthan city of
Udaipur on September 9, 2015. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)

Mohammad Akhlaq was in bed when the mob arrived.

The commotion began in the distance, but crept closer and closer like
encroaching thunder. Suddenly, there was a pounding at the door. Then
the door broke inwards and men dragged the 50-year-old farmer from his
sheets and into the street, according to the Indian Express.

They beat him with bricks found underneath his own bed; beat him until
the bricks broke in their hands; beat him until Mohammad was dead.

Akhlaq’s alleged crime?

Eating beef.

The attack on Monday night in the northern Indian city of Dadri has
shocked the country, but it wasn’t exactly a surprise. For the past
six months, meat has been a matter of major debate in India.

Eighty percent of the country’s of 1.3 billion inhabitants are Hindu —
many of whom avoid beef for religious reasons. Roughly 250 million
Indians are not. That tally includes almost 25 million Christians and
up to 140 million Muslims, like Akhlaq.

The issue has raged in India for years. Since Prime Minister Narendra
Modi came to power last May, however, incidents have increased, as
they tend to do whenever a conservative government has been in power.

Cows are seen at the Shree Gopala Goshala cow shelter on Sept. 7 in
Bhiwandi, India. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

Modi is a Hindu nationalist who, as chief minister of Gujarat state,
presided during religious riots in 2002 in which more than 1,000
people — most of them Muslims — were killed. For years afterwards,
Modi was blocked from visiting the United States because of his role
in the riots.

[New Indian leader draws cheers, criticism from diaspora as he arrives
in the U.S.]

All that changed last year, however, when Modi and his Hindu
nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept to power. Modi
campaigned on a vision of India finally fulfilling its economic
potential — a promise highlighted by his recent tour of Silicon
Valley.

Yet, critics claim Modi’s tenure also has been marked by a concerted
cultural shift that undermines secularism and threatens to drag India
back into sectarian bloodshed.

In the past, Modi has complained about India’s “pink revolution” of
rising meat exports and backed the idea of a national ban on cow
slaughter, according to the BBC.

Since Modi’s election, Muslims have grown worried about a string of
inflammatory statements and actions by Hindu nationalist leaders.
Accused Islamist terrorists have been executed ahead of non-Muslims,
stirring anger. Meanwhile, BJP lawmakers have openly called for Hindus
to out breed Muslims to “protect Hindu religion.” That same
politician, Sakshi Maharaj, invited outrage when he called Mahatma
Gandhi’s assassin a “patriot.” (Nathuram Godse was a militant Hindu
activist who killed Gandhi for “appeasing” Muslims.) Finally, India’s
foreign minister has called for the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu scripture,
to be declared a “national scripture.”

Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
(Saurabh Das/AP)

Hindu leaders have also launched efforts to convert Muslims and
Christians to Hinduism and warned against romantic relationships with
members of other religions.

It is beef that has drawn the most blood, however.

India’s 36 states and territories have long been a patchwork quilt
when it comes to their laws regarding beef. Some said that only old
cows could be killed. Others allowed only bulls or bullocks to be sent
to the butcher.

In the past 15 months, however, many states have tightened their laws
— with encouragement from Modi’s political party.

The most prominent example is the western state of Maharashtra, home
to the bustling metropolis of Mumbai and many of the country’s
Muslims. Under BJP leadership, the state passed the Maharashtra Animal
Preservation Bill back in 1996 but it was blocked from becoming law
because president Shankar Dayal Sharma of the Opposition Congress
Party refused to approve it.

With Modi’s election last year, however, times have changed. And in
March of this year, BJP members in Maharashtra convinced the current
president to approve the law.

The move effectively banned beef overnight, putting thousands of
predominantly Muslim butchers out of a job and putting anyone eating
beef in the state at risk of arrest.

A woman packages toothpaste made from cow waste at the Keshav Srushti
cow shelter on Sept. 7 in Thane, India. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

Despite legal challenges to the ban, the new law immediately brought
results. Just days after the law’s implementation, two people were
arrested for allegedly slaughtering two calves, the BBC reported. Last
month, four more people were accused of smuggling beef into Mumbai,
according to the Indian Express.

The crackdown on cow-eating is driven by a desire for
religious/national purity, but critics point out that it’s already
creating political and practical problems.

“Some Hindu hard-liners insist the idea of eating beef was introduced
by Muslim invaders, despite references to its consumption in ancient
texts like the Vedas, written more than a millennium before the time
of Muhammad. By eradicating this ‘alien’ practice, they hope to return
the country to values they hold dear as Hindus,” wrote novelist Manil
Suri in a New York Times op-ed.

Suri said it was part and parcel of a broader conservative cultural
shift under Modi and the BJP.

“With the recent re-criminalization of gay sex, bans on controversial
books and films and even an injunction against the use of the
colonial-era name ‘Bombay’ instead of ‘Mumbai’ in a Bollywood song,
the new laws join a growing list of restrictions on personal freedom
in India,” he warned.

Since his election, Modi has said he is committed to secularism at the
same time members of his party openly push to outlaw beef, the BBC’s
Justin Rowlatt pointed out in April.

“That’s why while the idea of cow mug shots may be amusing, the beef
ban is deadly serious,” he said. “India’s triumph has been forging a
nation in which Hindus and Muslims can live happily together. The fear
is that the beef ban is part of a process that is gradually
undermining the compromises that made that possible.”

Kashmiri Muslim protesters and Indian police and paramilitary soldiers
during protests after the Eid al-Adha prayers in Srinagar, India on
Sept. 25. (Farooq Khan/EPA)

Rowlatt’s words proved prescient when protests erupted earlier this
month in India-administered Kashmir, where the Supreme Court suddenly
enforced a 83-year-old beef ban on the Muslim-majority state.

Beef again became a pretext for violence during Monday’s mob attack in
Dadri, a city of roughly 60,000 near New Delhi in the northern state
of Uttar Pradesh, where a near-total ban on beef is in effect.

The attack allegedly came moments after an announcement at a nearby
Hindu temple that Mohammad Akhlaq had slaughtered a calf. The calf had
gone missing several weeks earlier, according to the Indian Express.
Rumors quickly spread around the neighborhood that Akhlaq was the
culprit.

Incited by the announcement, the mob broke down Akhlaq’s door and
dragged him into the street, where 100 men beat him to death with
bricks, his family members told the Express. The invaders also dragged
Akhlaq’s 22-year-old son, Danish, outside, beating him until he was
close to death as well.

“They accused us of keeping cow meat, broke down our doors and started
beating my father and brother,” Akhlaq’s daughter, Sajida, told the
Express. “My father was taken outside the house and beaten to death.
My brother was dragged to the courtyard downstairs and they used
bricks to hit him on the head and chest, leaving him unconscious. They
also tried to molest me and hit my grandmother on her face. They
threatened to kill me if I said a word to the police.”

A cow looks on with colored dyes and paste on its forehead after being
blessed by Indian women during a Hindu Bach Baras ritual in the city
of Udaipur on Sept. 9. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)

This is how America is being shamed by these fundamentalists in USA. Once it was called MODERN. See the fate now. India looks better now a days Indian.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/30/us/polygamist-flds-warren-jeffs-update/index.html

Watch an encore presentation of "This is Life with Lisa Ling: Children of the Prophet," Saturday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. ET/PT or watch the episode right now on CNNGo.

Jeffs leads a polygamist sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It gained worldwide attention in 2006 when authorities accused Jeffs of sexual offenses against girls he took as wives. At one point Jeffs disappeared, prompting the FBI to put him on its 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list until he was captured.

In 2008, authorities raided the church's sprawling Texas ranch. Police removed more than 460 children from the property, including mothers under 18 years old. Authorities seized and shut down the ranch last year.

Eventually, Jeffs was convicted in 2011 of "sexual assault" and "aggravated sexual assault" of two girls ages 12 and 15. He was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years.

Exclusive: Jeffs' children allege sexual abuse

The FLDS broke away from the mainstream Mormon church more than a century ago because its members refused to renounce polygamy.

The church allegedly exercises control over the adjacent towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah -- an area informally known as Short Creek. Other enclaves exist in Mancos, Colorado; Boise City, Oklahoma; Custer County, South Dakota; and a Canadian community known as Bountiful, British Columbia.

FLDS leaders seldom speak with the news media and did not respond to CNN's multiple requests for comment on this story.

So, what's the status of FLDS today? Several key issues continue to play a role in the church's future:

'Seed bearers' and ritualistic sex

Although day-to-day leadership of the church is run mostly by Jeff's brother, Lyle Jeffs, Warren Jeffs actively directs church matters from prison, said Sam Brower, a private investigator who's been closely following FLDS activities for 10 years.

Brower's New York Times best-selling book "Prophet's Prey" inspired a documentary of the same name, which debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival. He played a key role in the FBI's investigation of Jeffs' and his eventual conviction.

First obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune, a child custody petition filed in a St. George, Utah, juvenile court by Lyle Jeffs' estranged wife Charlene Jeffs describes a group of followers called "seed bearers." "A seed bearer is an elect man of a worthy bloodline chosen by the Priesthood to impregnate the FLDS woman," according to Charlene Jeffs' petition. Under a new doctrine, "FLDS men are no longer permitted to have children with their multiple wives. That privilege belongs to the seed bearer alone," the petition said. "It is the husband's responsibility to hold the hands of their wives while the seed bearer 'spreads his seed.' In layman terms, the husband is required to sit in the room while the chosen seed bearer, or a couple of them, rape his wife or wives," according to the document.

Utah juvenile court records are not usually available to the public, so it's unknown if anyone filed documents disputing any details in Charlene Jeffs' petition, or the veracity of the petition's allegations. Lyle Jeffs eventually agreed to share custody of their two teen children with Charlene Jeffs -- the Salt Lake Tribune reported -- with the children living with their mother.

Roy Jeffs: Why I left my father's church

Brower said he was able to confirm similar reports of "seed bearers" through his own sources. "It's ritualistic procreation," Brower said, "performed on a ritualistic bed-slash-altar." As part of this new system, Warren Jeffs has withheld any relationships between husbands and wives, Brower said. Any touching between spouses outside rituals like these, even a simple handshake, can now be considered adultery in the church.

When asked about his sources for this information, Brower would only say he didn't want to violate confidences. "I'm 100% satisfied as a private investigator that it exists," he said.

There has been no response to CNN's multiple attempts to connect with an FLDS representative to get their side of the story.

A convicted child rapist still leads the church ....