There's one parliament heatedly discussing the Delhi riots. And it isn't in India.
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00:00This is in fact a continuation of sustained and systemic Hindutva violence.
00:06Incited mob violence in Delhi on the basis of someone's faith brings back painful personal memories.
00:12Stoking fear amongst all quarters of society across that country.
00:16It's heartbreaking to see the violence in India.
00:31Mr Speaker, we must learn from history, not be fooled by those whose insidious aim is
00:38to divide society, hell-bent on killing and destroying religious places, all in the name of religion.
00:45Persecution of Indian Muslims, many of whom have been peacefully protesting against the
00:50Citizenship Amendment Act, is utterly intolerable and that the police cannot just stand idly
00:55by or worse still be complicit, as is alleged by many victims and social activists, and
01:02that the perpetrators must feel the full force of the law.
01:06Calling the recent violence community clashes seeks to normalise a far more sinister event.
01:11India is now controlled by Hindutva supremist RSS ideology with strong historic link to
01:19the Nazi party and the current Prime Minister of India was a member of the RSS.
01:23What step is the Prime Minister taking to call out this discriminatory practice at the
01:27heart of the Indian government?
01:29Will the Minister join me in rejecting language of riots, clashes, protests and communal violence
01:37when this is in fact a continuation of sustained and systemic Hindutva violence waged on the
01:45Muslim and many minority ethnic communities in India that is sanctioned by Modi's BJP government?
01:53Those of us with significant Indian Muslim communities will have seen videos showing
01:58shocking orchestrated sectarian violence.
02:02Can I encourage the Minister to invite the Indian High Commissioner to his office to
02:06share with him the deep concern of so many of our constituents about their families and
02:12friends' current lives in India.
02:15And if there is one silver lining in this very dark cloud it is what one Gujarati Muslim
02:20said to me which is that he and his family now value even more than ever the pluralism
02:26and safety across faiths that this country provides.