LONDON, UK, November 5, 2022 (MSN): The first report into the cause of the recent Hindu-Muslim clashes in Leicester and Birmingham has found no evidence of any Hindutva or RSS extremism. Instead, the report by the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) UK think tank has concluded that a group of social media influencers, some with links to terrorism, peddled this fake narrative to stir up tensions and instigate the violence. The report, published on the HJS website and written by Charlotte Littlewood, a research fellow at HJS and former counter-extremism coordinator, said that a fake narrative of “RSS terrorists” being behind the unrest was peddled by social media influencers to rally Muslims from across the UK to attend the protests. One influencer with over 800,000 followers posted a video of himself leading a group through Leicester captioned “Muslim patrol in Leicester” and called on Muslims to “defend themselves against Hindu fascism”.
Littlewood found that the unrest was the result of a “micro-community cohesion issue” between Muslim and Hindu youth in Leicester “holding prejudicial attitudes towards one another” which was “falsely presented as an issue of organized Hindutva extremism and terrorism”. Police are investigating allegations of both sides engaging in name-calling, threats of violence and assaults. But there is “no evidence of involvement of any organized Hindu extremist or terrorist groups,” her report states. The men who organized the Hindu march had their photos splashed across social media with the words “Hindutva terrorists” even though had no relation to the RSS or BJP and no understanding of Indian politics, the report said. “False allegations of RSS terrorists and Hindutva extremist organizations active in the UK have put the wider Hindu community at risk from hate, assault and vandalism,” the report notes.
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