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This is a must-watch video for all Hindus. Since it is a video, the first thing you do is see. You see a crowd of young girls and women. Dancing with abandon. Thrusting their bodies backwards and forwards. You see men too. Free intermingling of men and women. A liberatory moment. Women in motion, free of all the inhibitions that tradition had chained them with. All are dancing. The experience of sheer ecstasy cannot leave you untouched.

You also see saffron flags swinging in the background.

Now is the time to unmute the video. You hear a song being played on a DJ, and realise that it is the song that is making these girls dance to its tune. You try to decipher the song. It is not what we understand as song. The words are crude abuses describing the vagina of the mothers of the traitors of the nation, the anti-nationals. The worst, crudest word that everyone knows but no parent would allow their children to use. The words are repeated to deepen the pornographic pleasure they communicate. You can see in the movement of the bodies that they are relishing it.

This song is a musical weapon to injure Muslims psychologically. Hindu apologists of such songs claim that it does not contain the word Muslim. It degrades and abuses only women who are mothers of anti-nationals. Why are Muslims identifying with the word deshdrohi? Is it not an admission on their part that they are non-nationals? What is wrong with abusing anti-nationals and their mothers? After all, are not these women the real culprits, as they bring anti-nationals into the world?

The combination of the swaying saffron flags, the abusive, vulgar refrain of the Hindi song, and the Hindu bodies swinging to it sums up the state that Hindu society is in.

This is the scene of only one of the hundreds of processions across India to mark the end of Ram Navami. A sign that another Hindu festival, another sacred occasion has just gone by – an occasion marked by displays of crudity, obscenity, hatred and violence. Another opportunity to humiliate Muslims. Reports and images continue to pour in from different places: in........

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