The raout around the AI held at the Grand Palais – and which provided the opportunity for Emmanuel Macron to deploy his favorite role of tactile friends of this world on the international scene – had the Prime Minister for co -president Indian, Narendra Modi. The country – from now on, the most populated in the world and the fifth world economy – is a master of “multi -alignment”, a concept summarized by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jaishankar Subrahmanyam: “get involved alongside the United States, Manage the relationship with China, cultivate links with Europe, reassure Russia, include Japan and our neighbors in the diplomatic game, while expanding the traditional space of our supporters. ” In other words India is everywhere. G20, Shanghai cooperation Organization (OCS), BRICS and finally quadrilateral dialogue for safety (Quad) with Australia, the United States and Japan.
And if it is obvious that we must treat – to court, even – the essential Indian giant, which has had nuclear weapons since 1998, there is someone in the room to move from “the ‘Hindutva “applied by Narendra Modi and his right arm Amit Shah? The Hindutva is Hindu supremacism. In fact, it is CURTURE CULTURE, Indian sauce: standardization by Indianity, domination of Hinduism. It is the rewriting of textbooks where the assassin of Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, is no longer presented as the Hindu nationalist that he was, where the Moghole period of the Muslim emperors between the 16th and the 19th centuries disappears – better Laughing: on Indian social networks, the image of the Taj Mahal, a mausoleum built by Shâh Jahân, fifth Moghol-Muslim emperor, is haloed with this legend: “This white marble structure appeared from nowhere to AGRA in 1653” -, where Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, activist for independence alongside Nehru, no longer exists.
Erasure and persecution
The Hindutva is Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution erased from the compulsory program of Indian students because, for radical Hindus, as soon as man appeared on earth, he was a man and no one has ever seen , with his own eyes seen, a monkey turns into a human being. Are also “erased”: the periodic table of the chemical elements of Mendeleïev, the study of electromagnetism and the theorem of Pythagoras, because they do not exist in the sacred texts. According to Narendra Modi, the god Ganesh would be proof that India has undergone plastic surgery since the dawn of time; The texts “prove” that ancient India already manufactured giant planes and rockets and that television and internet were invented by the Hindu deities. Let us also add that Modi does not believe in global warming: “If we change, it is because God has built the system so that he can balance himself.”
Finally, in 2019, Modi and Shah put an end to the autonomy of the Muslim majority of Jammu-et-Cachemire; In 2020, they decreed that Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh could no longer ask for Indian nationality (Hindus, Sikhs, Jain, Buddhists, Christians, Parsis, can do it). Antimuslim attacks are daily, Christians are persecuted, the churches regularly burnt down. Amit Shah does not speak of Muslims but infiltrated, he promises to “hunt out of the country the illegal infiltrates who live as termites in Indian soil and to pick them one after the other to throw them in the Gulf of Bengal” .
Dear reader, I offer you a game: reread this column by replacing India by United States, and Modi-Shah by Trump-Musk. The effect is striking. However, there was neither a catchy nor prestigious television set debating on the dangers of Hindu supremacism or Indian racialism that would recall dark hours, not a single noisy public indignation to denounce the fate reserved for Muslim and Christian minorities in Indian land. Paternalism always has the same face: that of racism which sees the Indian as an eternal victim and the white always like a executioner.
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