The police officer arrived at the Hindu temple here with a warning to the monks: Don\u2019t repeat your hate speech.<\/p>\n
Ten days earlier, before a packed audience and thousands watching online, the monks had called for violence against the country\u2019s minority Muslims. Their speeches, in one of India\u2019s holiest cities, promoted a genocidal campaign to \u201ckill two million of them\u201d and urged an ethnic cleansing of the kind that targeted Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.<\/p>\n
When videos of the event provoked national outrage, the police came. The saffron-clad preachers questioned whether the officer could be objective.<\/p>\n
Yati Narsinghanand, the event\u2019s firebrand organizer known for his violent rhetoric, assuaged their concerns.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Violent anti-Muslim rhetoric has reached a dangerous new pitch in India while the government looks away, rights groups and local activists are warning. They fear that a singular event could ignite widespread violence that would be difficult to contain.https:\/\/t.co\/JyJ4tl5IQA<\/a><\/p>\n — The New York Times (@nytimes) February 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n