Jobless Haryana men have a new mission in Muslim hate. ‘They think cow protection is govt job’( The Print )

Young Hindu men from Jatwas had never been to Nuh, but they had seen videos of the violence. That’s when they found their own local enemy in Shakeel, the only Muslim in their village.

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By JYOTI YADAV / The Print

Mahendragarh/Rewari/Jhajjar: Shakeel came to Jatwas village in Haryana from Meerut 20 years ago to work as a barber in a highway shop. He is the only Muslim in the village of Hindu Jats and has never been made to feel he is any different. Then Nuh violence erupted. And his two-decade life in Jatwas came rapidly undone.

An angry mob of around two dozen young Hindu men stormed the village panchayat bhawan and called him “mullah” (a term for Muslim cleric used as a slur) and “aatankwadi” (terrorist).

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