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Recently, the right-wing group Hindu from India destroying Jesus statues and burning Santa Claus ornaments.
They consider Christians in India to use Christmas celebrations to make Hindus in the country convert.
The day after Christmas, the statue of Jesus was destroyed in the state of Haryana. In addition, the Church of the Holy Redeemer in Ambala was also targeted by radical Hindu groups.
In Indian Hinduism, there is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The group was founded in 1927 by people who were fascinated by Mussolini’s fascists.
The RSS is the parent organization of Hindu supremacists: Hindutva, as it is called.
Hinduism has no main church, no single pope, no one ordained or ruled. The RSS has pointed to itself as the arbiter of theological meaning and the architect of the Hindu nation-state, according to The Guardian.
The group has at least 4 million volunteers, who swear allegiance and take part in paramilitary exercises.
Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead in 1948 by members of the RSS, although the RSS claims the man left the organization that year.
RSS does not just get involved in electoral politics. However, one of its affiliated groups is the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP). The party has ruled India for the past six years, under prime minister Narendra Modi. In his reign, he has turned India into an authoritarian Hindu nationalist state.
Long before that, in 1996, the BJP won a majority of seats in parliament for the first time. The party runs a platform of Hindu nationalism and pushes for a ban on the slaughter of cows, meat eaten by Muslims, and the reclaiming of Kashmir as Indian territory.
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