Hindus targeted with genocide calls; Muslim woman spreads Ghazwa-e-Hind and terror propaganda
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India 
8 July, 2025
Case Summary
Calls for the genocide of Hindus were made by a Muslim woman named Shama Parveen Ansari through her social media account. According to reports, Shama Parveen is a 30-year-old Muslim woman from Jharkhand, residing in Bengaluru, who was arrested by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on 29 July 2025 for being an operative of Al Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). She was in direct contact with Pakistan and actively engaged in spreading jihadist and terror propaganda, recruiting for terrorism, and inciting violence against Hindus and the Indian state. Through two Facebook pages and one Instagram account with over 10,000 followers, she used to post content supporting Al Qaeda, Ghazwa-e-Hind, and speeches targeting Hinduism and India. On 9 July 2025, just two days after India launched Operation Sindoor against terrorist bases in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, she posted an image of Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir on Facebook with the caption "You have a golden opportunity. Adopt the Khilafat plan to propagate Islam, unify Muslim lands, and move forward to eliminate Hinduism and Jews." Another video she posted was of a cleric criticising Muslims for condemning the Pahalgam attack and also opposing support for the Indian Army. In another video posted by her, Imam Abdul Aziz of Lal Masjid in Lahore was making provocative statements about bringing the Khilafat system in India by fighting the government with arms. ATS confirmed that in one of the videos, the leader of Al Qaeda was seen talking about Ghazwa-e-Hind and inciting violence against India. In this video, objectionable comments were also made targeting Hinduism and the institutions of democratic governance in India. On 23 July 2025, her name came up during the interrogation of 4 Islamic terrorists arrested from different states of the country. This led to her arrest at her Bengaluru residence. It was revealed that she was the kingpin of the Al Qaeda module in India. She was produced in court and placed in ATS remand for questioning about Al Qaeda’s network in India. The Pahalgam Hindu massacre was a deadly Islamic terrorist attack that took place on April 22, 2025, in the Pahalgam region of Jammu and Kashmir, where Islamic terrorists specifically targeted Hindu tourists, asking their religion before executing them. India strongly condemned this act of Islamic terrorism, particularly emphasising the brutality of targeting people solely based on their religious identity. The military operation was a firm retaliation aimed at dismantling the terror camps in Pakistan harbouring and training Islamic terrorists responsible for the Pahalgam Hindu massacre.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of - Hate speech against Hindus. Within it, the sub-category selected is - Call for genocide/violence against Hindus/specific sects of Hindus. Hate speech is defined as any speech, gesture, conduct, writing, or display that is prejudicial against a specific individual and/or group of people, which is leading to or may lead to violence, prejudicial action or hate against that individual and/or group. Often, animosity against Hindus or a specific panth/sampradaya/group of Hindus or a specific ideology they hold manifests itself into hate speech and calls for genocide/violence against that specific section of Hindus. For example, it has often been seen that those who hold animosity against the Hindu faith use specific sects/sampradaya/pant of Hindus as a proxy to express hate against Hindus as a whole. It has been seen that the word ‘Hindutva’ has been used to call for violence against those who say they believe in ‘Hindutva’. It is observed that ‘Hindutva’ is only used as a proxy to call for violence against Hindus as a whole, as seen in the Dismantling Global Hindutva conference where speakers admitted that ‘Hindutva’ cannot be eradicated till ‘Hinduism’ is eradicated. The eradication of an entire faith, in turn, is a genocidal call against the entire community that practices that faith. Further, it is also observed that violence against a specific section of Hindus is made, justifying these calls by weaving exaggerated tales of historical injustices. Often, those who hold animosity towards Hindus and their faith attempt to make their animosity more palatable by justifying their hate for a specific section, claiming that they are against that particular section because of their faith in the broader community and the religion they process. Such calls for violence against specific sections of Hindus, as mentioned, is a proxy for their animosity against the entire community and the faith they profess, and therefore, would be considered hate speech under this category. The second sub-category selected here is - Violent threats. Violent threats, explicit, implicit or implied, is the most dangerous form of hate speech since it goes beyond discriminatory and prejudicial language to express the intent of causing harm to an individual or a group of people based on their religious identity and faith. There could be several different kinds of threats that are issued to Hindus based on religious animosity. An explicit threat would mean the direct threat of violence towards an individual Hindu, a group of Hindus or Hindus at large. Physical violence, death threats, threats of destruction of property belonging to Hindus and threats of genocide would mean explicit threats against Hindus for their religious identity. Implicit threats may not be a direct threat but implied through the use of symbols of actions – for example – in the Nupur Sharma case, other than explicit threats, there were also implicit threats when Islamists took to the streets to burn and beat her effigies. It implies that they want to do the same to Nupur Sharma – thereby is considered an implicit threat. Violent threats can be delivered in person, through letters, phone calls, graffiti, or increasingly through social media and other online platforms. It would be important to understand that a threat – explicit or implicit, online or offline – to an individual who happens to be a Hindu does not qualify as a religiously motivated threat. Such a threat, while vile and dangerous, could be owing to non-religious reasons and/or personal animosity. To qualify as a religiously motivated threat, it would need to exhibit an indication that the individual is being targeted for religious reasons and/or owing to his/her religious identity as a Hindu. The third sub-category selected here - Anti-Hindu slurs, mocking faith. Anti-Hindu slurs and the deliberate mocking of the Hindu faith owing to religious animosity involve the usage of derogatory terms, stereotypes, or offensive references to religious practices, symbols, or figures. One of the common anti-Hindu slurs used against Hindus is “cow-worshipper” and “cow piss drinker”. The intention of using this term is to demean and mock Hindus as a group and their religious beliefs since Hindus consider the cow holy. Additionally, some symbols and the slurs attached to them have a historical context that exacerbates the insult, hate, stereotyping, dehumanisation and oppression against Hindus. Cow worship has been used for centuries to denigrate Hindus, insult their faith and oppress Hindus specifically as a religious group. There has been overwhelming documentation about how cow slaughter has been used to persecute Hindus with cow meat being thrown in temples and places of worship. There has also been overwhelming documentation where cow meat (beef) has been force-fed to Hindus to either forcefully convert them to Islam or denigrate their faith. Apart from cow worship, the Swastika – which holds deep religious significance for the Hindus – has also been misinterpreted and distorted to use as a slur against Hindus. Similarly, the worship of the Shivling has been used by supremacist ideologies and religions to denigrate Hindus owing to religious animosity. Such slurs and denigration stem out of inherent animosity and hate towards Hindus and their faith, therefore, it is categorised as hate speech targeted at Hindus specifically owing to their religious identity. This case has been added to the tracker because calls for the genocide of Hindus were made by a Muslim woman through her social media account. During Operation Sindoor, which was conducted in response to the Pahalgam Hindu massacre, she urged Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir to adopt the Khilafat plan to propagate Islam and eliminate Hinduism, calling it a golden opportunity. Her posts revealed her deep-rooted religious hatred towards Hindus and were a strategic call to Pakistan and Islamist forces to unite Muslim territories and violently eradicate the Hindu community. Such statements are not just rhetoric; they aim to instil fear and enforce religious supremacy by invoking violence against those who are non-Muslims, Hindus in this case. In one of the videos she posted, a cleric was seen criticising Muslims for condemning the Pahalgam massacre and supporting the Indian Army. The cleric was essentially criticising his fellow Muslims for condemning a terror attack that targeted Hindus. By calling for Muslims not to support the Indian army, the cleric was essentially invoking the concept of Ummah or the global Muslim brotherhood to justify unwavering solidarity among Muslims worldwide, often at the expense of fellow citizens of other faiths. In this worldview, loyalty to the ummah supersedes loyalty to the nation-state. This meant that Muslims should support each other even if some of them were involved in terrorism or violence, especially against non-Muslims. By saying this, the cleric was essentially celebrating the Pahalgam Hindu massacre, where Hindus were targeted and killed by Islamic terrorists. By sharing this video on social media, the accused was endorsing and promoting this idea, spreading the message that such attacks should not be condemned because they are committed by fellow Muslims. Moreover, this was not an isolated incident. The Hinduphobia tracker has covered multiple such incidents where Muslims attempted to whitewash the Pahalgam Hindu massacre. Such videos were aimed at subtly dismissing the gravity of the massacre and implicitly justifying the actions of Islamic terrorists by suggesting that Muslims should side with other Muslims regardless of their involvement in terrorism or violence. These videos attempted to delegitimise India’s national response to terrorism and reinforced a religiously exclusive narrative that justified even extremist violence if committed by Muslims against non-Muslims. Also, in this case, the Muslim accused not only shows pro-Pakistan sentiments, but also anti-Hindu sentiments. It is pertinent to note that Muslim extremists harbour specific animosity towards Hindus and their faith and also view India as a Hindu collectivity. The very basis of the partition of India was that the Muslims believed that Islam was a nation unto itself, which could not survive with a Hindu collectivity like India. Further, Muslims often believe in transnational unity - or the Ummah - which is a belief that all Muslims across the world are a nation unto themselves and therefore, loyalty as far as the nation-state is concerned lies with the Muslim collectivity and not with a Hindu collectivity like India. This would also mean that the pro-Pakistan sentiment is about hailing a Muslim collectivity and an expression of transnational loyalty and anti-Hindu sentiments. Furthermore, the call to bring the Khilafat plan to propagate Islam and her sharing videos of Imam Abdul Aziz, who was making statements about bringing the Khilafat system in India by fighting the government with arms, further revealed Shama Parveen’s hatred towards Hindus. In this context, bringing the Khilafat system to India referred to establishing an Islamic caliphate in India, a form of government ruled by Islamic law (Sharia) under a single religious and political leader, the Caliph, through violent means such as armed revolt or jihad. It was essentially a call for the genocide of Hindus in order to establish the Khilafat system. Similarly, Ghazwa-e-Hind is a term rooted in extremist Islamic theology, routinely invoked by Muslim extremists who advocate for the violent conquest of India and the large-scale massacre of Hindus. Such statements go far beyond mere hate speech; they amount to open calls for genocide against Hindus. The fact that she shared these videos on social media reflects the deep-rooted religious animosity towards Hindus and Hinduism. Since her actions were rooted in hatred towards Hindus, this case has been added to the tracker.
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
female
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