A United Kingdom-based think tank has said that the unrest in Leicester has been "falsely narrated as involving organised extremist groups and RSS terrorists", which has put the local Hindu community at risk.
"Localised (LE5 Leicester) community cohesion breakdown, involving prejudice emanating from the Muslim community to the Hindu community and vice versa has led to a number of assaults on both Muslims and Hindus and attacks on Hindu properties in Leicester. The unrest has been falsely narrated as involving organised extremist groups and RSS terrorists," the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) said in its report on the violence.
According to the report, one of the instigators of the "anti-Hindutva Leicester march is a man expressing praise for a wanted terrorist and who claims to speak with the crime syndicate the D company".
The social media influencers who peddled narratives of Hindutva extremism include a convicted terrorist offender and a man who has offered prayers to the Taliban, it said.
The report said that the men "accused of being 'RSS' terrorists, who had their festival vandalised and claim to be victims of stabbing, consequently organising the Hindu march, appear to have no links to nor an understanding of RSS".
The methods employed to target the Hindus included included projections including a false claim of a BJP organised bus, while car sharing of "anti-Hindutva protestors were in fact taking place"; claims of racists, terrorists, extremists etc; misinformation...
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