{"id":19077,"date":"2022-11-09T02:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=19077"},"modified":"2022-11-09T02:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T02:15:19","slug":"report-no-hindu-extremism-involved-in-leicester-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2022\/11\/09\/report-no-hindu-extremism-involved-in-leicester-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: No Hindu Extremism Involved In Leicester Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LONDON, UK, November 5, 2022 (MSN): The first report into the cause of the recent Hindu-Muslim clashes in Leicester and Birmingham has found no evidence of any Hindutva or RSS extremism. Instead, the report by the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) UK think tank has concluded that a group of social media influencers, some with links to terrorism, peddled this fake narrative to stir up tensions and instigate the violence. The report, published on the HJS website and written by Charlotte Littlewood, a research fellow at HJS and former counter-extremism coordinator, said that a fake narrative of \u201cRSS terrorists\u201d being behind the unrest was peddled by social media influencers to rally Muslims from across the UK to attend the protests. One influencer with over 800,000 followers posted a video of himself leading a group through Leicester captioned \u201cMuslim patrol in Leicester\u201d and called on Muslims to \u201cdefend themselves against Hindu fascism\u201d.<br><br>Littlewood found that the unrest was the result of a \u201cmicro-community cohesion issue\u201d between Muslim and Hindu youth in Leicester \u201cholding prejudicial attitudes towards one another\u201d which was \u201cfalsely presented as an issue of organized Hindutva extremism and terrorism\u201d. Police are investigating allegations of both sides engaging in name-calling, threats of violence and assaults. But there is \u201cno evidence of involvement of any organized Hindu extremist or terrorist groups,\u201d her report states. The men who organized the Hindu march had their photos splashed across social media with the words \u201cHindutva terrorists\u201d even though had no relation to the RSS or BJP and no understanding of Indian politics, the report said. \u201cFalse allegations of RSS terrorists and Hindutva extremist organizations active in the UK have put the wider Hindu community at risk from hate, assault and vandalism,\u201d the report notes.<br><br>More at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/world\/no-hindutva-or-rss-extremism-involved-in-leicester-violence-report\/ar-AA13MIKr?rc=1&amp;ocid=winp1taskbar&amp;cvid=20bd94aad94d49978a57b2d837cadd4c\n\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/world\/no-hindutva-or-rss-extremism-involved-in-leicester-violence-report\/ar-AA13MIKr?rc=1&amp;ocid=winp1taskbar&amp;cvid=20bd94aad94d49978a57b2d837cadd4c<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, UK, November 5, 2022 (MSN): The first report into the cause of the recent Hindu-Muslim clashes in Leicester and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19092,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions\/19092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}