Hindutva narration casts Muslims as violators of the sacred Hindu body to justify dominance.

Evidence

Building an entire narration that constructs the sacred Hindu body as having been injured by non-Hindus, Hindutva accused Muslims of violence, including demolishing Hindu temples, killing cows (which are sacred to Hindus), abducting and raping Hindu women, and so on. This sensational narration against Muslims, aimed at searing the public consciousness and legitimizing racialized ideologies, positions the Hindu as superior and the Muslim as inferior. Hence, performativities of sacralized politics are not only about acting, speaking, using sacred scripts, and participating as having intrinsically been born with power. Such performativities are also about using sacralized politics to reproduce dominance and dominant structures. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 112

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India; Media narratives mark Muslims as bodies that require surveilling — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 250; Muslims are racialized by reframing their religion as a violent ideology. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslims are racialized by reframing their religion as a violent ideology. #corroborates (0.85)
• Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India #corroborates (0.80)
• Media narratives mark Muslims as bodies that require surveilling #corroborates (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 250
• Indian police and Hindutva mobs acted jointly against Muslim students #exemplifies (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 419