While speaking to a YouTube channel, Bhat informed that she was brainwashed into lying by activists Girish Mattannavar and T Jayanti. The duo had been campaigning to defame the temple town of Dharmasthala.
The controversy’s beginning was tied to an AI-generated propaganda video by a YouTuber named Sameer Mohammed, who released shocking falsehoods claiming that “1,000 girls raped and buried” in Dharmasthala.
A similar template of violence and arson attack was used by Muslim mobs in May this year to punish the Hindu community in Jessore district of Bangladesh.
Hindus say that the temple was there for a long time with the knowledge of the administration, and it was never deemed to be illegal, with some saying it was donated by the railways.
In the first attack, Khalistani terrorists, armed with automatic weapons, opened fire, killing 62 passengers, mostly Hindus, and injuring 40 others. The terrorists hot-wired the signal box to stop the train.
It turns out, Wazahat Khan Qadri Rashidi is the co-founder of the Rashidi Foundation in Kolkata, and had actively promoted Sharmishta’s arrest on social media.
This controversy comes across as a redux of the 2022 Nupur Sharma episode wherein then BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma made comments about Prophet Mohammad and his marriage.
Hindu Munnani plans a mass protest on February 4 to protect Thiruparankundram Hill, a sacred Hindu site, from alleged encroachments and religious unrest.
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