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10/24/2015

Topic Reading-Vol.1291-10/24/2015

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
India's Hindu Fundamentalists
It’s supposed to be a secular, democratic country, isn’t it? They had the world largest national election to choose its leader last year with over 700 million voters. And the elected prime minister has been pledging that the country is welcoming more foreign investment. In the meantime, the number of domestic violence in most vicious and cruel scale is rising, attacks by hardcore Hindu mobs against believers of other religions and even within their own religious community.
One of the reasons seems to be the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the majority party led by Prime Minister Modi. Ever since he took the office to run the country, the members and supporters of the party and other religious extremists seem to have intensified and expanded their activities aggressively and even violently to emphasize Hindu belief and practices.
Is the government taking actions to stop such violence?
Read the article and see the video of the report on the religious violence in the soon-to-be world most populous country.

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