(Jewish Group) India's Bnei Menashe community in crisis as ethnic violence burns synagogues and ...

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India’s Bnei Menashe community in crisis as ethnic violence burns synagogues and displaces hundreds


Over 1,000 members of India's Bnei Menashe Jewish community have been displaced in the wake of violence in their region. (Shavei Israel)

For the past several years, life was good for Lalam Hangshing as president of the Bnei Menashe Council, the governing body for Jewish communities in the Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram.

While living at his parents’ house, he and his wife enjoyed the clean air and beautiful scenery of Manipur, a state in northeast India home to close to 3 million people. Miles away, Hangshing rented out a newly-built four-story home to a film production company.

Everything changed on May 3, when rioting broke out between the ethnic majority Meiteis and the tribal minority Kukis, a violent conflagration that had been building up for years. Local groups say Meiteis began targeting Kuki institutions and razing homes to the ground, and Hangshing — also the general secretary of a Kuki-led political party — feared his house was next.

“When the problems started on the third of May, with military precision, the mobs went straight to [Kuki] houses,” Hangshing said. “They ransacked them and vandalized them and they burned each and every house in Imphal city within one and a half days.”

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1. Why not, millions of Muslims forced out of India

in August 1947, around 12-15 million people fled their homes from one side of a new border within the former British colony of India to the other. The direction they took depended on their faith: Hindus and Sikhs came together and separated from Muslims.Aug 8, 2017

(Sorry, it's a miserable world. My friend and his family was among those forced to leave.)

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2. Probably why Hillel said:

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”

[tornado34jh]

3. Religious supremacy at its most dangerous

We have talked a lot about Christian Nationalism, Islamic jihad, and even some Jewish extremists, but it is not limited to just Abrahamic religions. There are even Buddists that are extremists, so I think we need to treat all religious extremism the same way.