The BJP is ‘legitimising’ hate speech: Indian Muslim MP

Indian Muslim MP Kunwar Danish Ali, who was the target of Islamophobic verbal abuse inside the Indian parliament, warns that the silence of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shows the legitimisation of the hate speech he experienced [Danish Pandit/Al Jazeera]

On September 21, Kunwar Danish Ali, an Indian Muslim member of parliament with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), was subjected to Islamophobic comments and communal slurs by a legislator from India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri called Ali a “pimp”, a “terrorist” and used the pejorative “circumcised” among other derogatory remarks inside the Indian parliament.