Hindutva activist Kajal Hindusthani, notorious for her speeches targeting Muslims, delivered another hate-filled address at a New York event, using slurs like “Abdul,” “zombies,” and “enemies of Hindus,” and comparing Muslims to demons from Hindu mythology.
Speaking at an event organised by a right-wing Hindutva group in New York, Kajal Shingala used pejorative terms like “Abdul” and “zombies” to refer to Muslims, labeling them as “enemies of Hindus” and comparing them to demons from Hindu mythology, specifically invoking the term “Mahishasura” to further dehumanise the community.
Earlier, a diverse coalition of religious and civil rights organisations, including Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Sikh groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) NC chapter, Indian American Muslim Council, the Sikh Coalition, and Muslims for Social Justice, called for the cancellation of Kajal Hindusthani’s events in the U.S.
Responding to opposition to her visit to the U.S., Kajal Hindusthani said, “It’s everyone’s America, Mullo ki baap ka America thodi hai” (America doesn’t belong to the fathers of ‘Mullahs’), a remark that uses “Mullo,” a term often deployed as a pejorative to stereotype and demean Muslims as backward, oppressive, or alien.
Calling Muslims “zombies,” she said, “Is zombie se ladega to milke karna padega” (If we have to fight this zombie, we must do it together), dehumanising Muslims and inciting collective hatred and violence against an entire religious community.
She claimed that only “Chhatrapati Shivaji’s ideology could establish a Hindu Rashtra in Bharat where Hindus would be truly safe.”
“Muslim population is growing, so where will Hindus go?” she asked.
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