Uddhav Thackeray equates Nazi Hakenkreuz to Swastika whereas attacking PM Modi
On Sunday, June 18, Shiv Sena (Uddhav camp) chief and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray launched a recent assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. While addressing a conclave of his celebration management a day earlier than Shiv Sena basis day, Thackeray criticised the PM and HM. However, throughout his speech, Thackeray additionally backed Western propaganda and equated the Nazi Hakenkreuz to the Hindu Swastika.
Thackeray equated PM Modi to Hitler and claimed that his rule pushed the nation in the direction of dictatorship in the identical method Adolf Hitler pushed Germany within the Nineteen Thirties. Equating BJP to Hitler’s Nazi celebration, Thackeray stated, “Our ruling party is acting in the same way as Hitler’s party [the Nazi party]… It is silencing all Opposition, unleashing Central agencies on them, seizing control of the media. Remember, Hitler’s symbol too was the Swastika.” He claimed that the “authoritarian” rule of the PM and the BJP was threatening to “split the country into pieces”.
He criticised the PM and HM over Manipur violence and attacked the scheduled US go to of the PM whereas violence continues to be persistent in Manipur; he stated, “If you [PM Modi] want to show your strength, then first go to Manipur and try and get things under control… No one even cares about Amit Shah there, such is the fury of the locals at the moment. PM Modi is willing to go to America and advise but cannot visit Manipur. He brags about allegedly stopping the Russia-Ukraine war, but I want to see if he can calm Manipur down.”
Pointing out his intentions to attend the opposition events’ assembly on June 23, he stated, “We are not merely Opposition parties who are getting together just to oust the BJP at the Centre. We are patriots who seek to protect our country’s freedom and save democracy.”
Hakenkreuz isn’t Swastika
Thackeray, who claims to be a religious Hindu and speaks volumes on Hindutva, adopted the identical template that the West adopted by claiming Swastika was the image utilized by Nazis. However, in actuality, it was Hakenkreuz, or the Hooked Cross, that the Nazis used, which is a Christian image. It is value mentioning that that is the tactic utilized by Hindumisic propagandists who deliberately hyperlink ‘Swastika’ to the Nazi Hakenkreuz (hooked cross) with a view to point out that Hindus draw their inspiration from Nazis.
In truth, it has been debunked a number of occasions that Hakenkreuz and Swastikas are very totally different. Hindus and Hindu leaders worldwide are working laborious to vary the notion folks have created in the direction of Swastika. Interestingly, there’s documented proof that Adolf Hitler by no means used the phrase Swastika in his autobiography ‘Mein Kampf’ however used Hakenkreuz. However, when it was translated from German to English, the translator used Swastika, which has been propagated ever since.
Uddhav Thackeray’s historical past of utilizing Gaumutra jibes
This isn’t the primary time that the CM of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray, has used anti-Hindu jibes whereas attacking his political opponents of BJP and RSS. He habitually makes use of Gaumutra jibes to assault each BJP and RSS. In April 2023, he stated, “Every time I am accused of going with the Congress and leaving Hindutva, is there no Hindu in the Congress? There (RSS-BJP) Hindutva is Gaumutradhari Hindutva.” Irked by the reviews that Gaumutra was sprinkled in Sambhajinagar, the place MVA carried out a public assembly, he stated, “They recently sprinkled cow urine at the place in Sambhajinagar where we conducted our public meeting. They should have drunk some cow urine; they would have become wiser; our Hindutva is about nationalism.”
In March 2023, Thackeray stated, “Did our country get freedom by sprinkling cow urine? Did it happen that cow urine was sprinkled, and we got freedom? It was not so. The freedom fighters had made sacrifices, and then we got freedom.”
The cow urine jibe
Cow urine jibe is among the most fashionable to abuse Hindus and Indians. Sadly, this was not the primary time Uddhav used the cow urine jibe. In October 2020, he attacked BJP with crass, Hinduphobic references to Gaumutra (cow urine) and gobar (cow dung). The Shiv Sena supremo made derogatory remarks whereas addressing the annual Shiv Sena Dusshera Mela.
Not to overlook, in 2019, a Pakistan-backed Jaish-e-Muhammad terrorist in a suicide assault, killed as many as 40 CRPF troopers in Pulwama, Kashmir. Following the assault, a video was launched wherein the terrorist might be heard saying he needed to punish and kill the ‘cow urine drinkers’ within the title of Allah. The terrorist, recognized as Adil Ahmed Dar alias Waqas was seen admitting that he had joined the Jaish-e-Mohammad a 12 months in the past. In the video, he referred to Indians as “Gae ka Peshab Peene Wale” (People who drink cow urine).
