The AIMIM chief's remarks followed the incident of a teacher asking students to slap a Muslim classmate in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarpur.
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad, Asaduddin Owaisi, on Saturday described the situation of Indian Muslims today as similar to the Jews in Germany in the 1930s. He said Muslims in India are facing similar “discrimination” and “persecution.”
Sharing a Nazi Germany photo posted by a user on X platform (formerly Twitter), Owaisi said: “Indian Muslims are facing the same persecution & discrimination as Jews faced in the 1930s, will it lead to Kristallnacht? Hope not,” he wrote on a picture of two Jewish boys being humiliated in a German classroom in the 1930s, media reports said.
The photo shows two Jewish boys being humiliated in a German classroom where the blackboard reads: “The Jew is our biggest enemy. Beware of the Jew.”
Owaisi’s remarks follow the incident of a teacher asking students to slap a Muslim classmate in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarpur. The video of the incident was widely circulated on social media and sparked massive outrage.
The teacher, Tripta Tyagi, has been booked for a non-cognizable offence under Sections 504 (punishment for insulting someone), and 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code.
The case was registered based on the complaint of the student’s father, who had earlier refused to file a complaint after coming to an ‘understanding’ with the school. Later, he decided to cancel his son’s admission and the school reimbursed the fee.
What is Kristallnacht?
According to Wikipedia, Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) was a mass homicide against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party’s Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9-10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening.
The name Kristallnacht (literally ‘Crystal Night’) comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.
Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked as attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. Rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudentland. Over 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.
