Case Summary

In Nagaon, Assam, a Muslim man named Masum Parvej Ansari was arrested by Nagaon police for posting a violent hate comment against Hindus on Instagram. The accused wrote (translated from Assamese), “Motherf*cker, I will f*ck your mom’s a*s and dump her in the streets. Will chop you (Hindus) up like a cow, motherf*cker.” The comment was written under a reel shared by Sanidul Islam, also known as Sunny Miya Bhai, who had earlier been arrested for making inflammatory remarks, including violent threats against Hindus. The accused used highly offensive slurs and explicit swear words, issuing a violent threat that involved dismembering members of the Hindu community in a manner likened to cow slaughter, alongside vulgar and derogatory references to women. The Nagaon police took swift action upon receiving reports of the offensive content. In a tweet issued the same day, they confirmed that Ansari had been taken into custody. The statement was accompanied by a photograph of the accused and noted that legal proceedings would follow. It is pertinent to note that the Instagram reel on which Masum Parvej Ansari posted his threatening comment belonged to Sanidul Islam, also known as Sunny Miya Bhai, who had earlier been arrested for issuing violent threats against Hindus. His case has been documented by the Hinduphobia Tracker, which reported his remarks vowing to slaughter Hindus like cows and goats. The comment by Ansari was a continuation of this pattern of hate speech.

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Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Hate Speech against Hindus. The subcategory selected 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 other subcategory selected is- 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. The hate crime committed by Masum Parvej Ansari is best understood as a direct and dangerous escalation of communal animosity already evident in the earlier case involving Sanidul Islam (popularly known as Sunny Miya Bhai), who had publicly issued threats to “slaughter Hindus like goats and cows.” That incident, already recorded in the Hinduphobia Tracker, had revealed a clear pattern of religiously motivated hostility. Ansari’s subsequent response on social media, posted under Sunny Miya Bhai’s video, further entrenched this communal hatred by amplifying it with even more explicit and violent language. The most telling indicator that Ansari’s actions constitute a hate crime is the generalised nature of his threat. He did not direct his outburst at any specific Hindu individual, nor did he reference any personal provocation. Rather, he issued a public and open threat to violently attack Hindus as a collective, expressing an intent to “chop them like cows” while using vulgar, sexually violent slurs. The abuse was not grounded in individual conflict but flowed from an evident contempt for the Hindu identity itself. In hate crimes, the defining motive is the targeting of an individual or group solely on the basis of identity; here, that motive is unmistakably religious. The threat was explicit, public, and motivated by religious hatred. The intention was not only to insult but to assert dominance and communal superiority by threatening violence against a faith community. The graphic nature of the statement—combining threats of slaughter with sexualised abuse—amplifies its impact, not only degrading individuals but denigrating Hindu religious identity itself. His use of extreme profanity and graphic threats was not incidental but served to dehumanise Hindus and instil fear in the wider community. The invocation of cow slaughter, an act deeply offensive to Hindu religious sensibilities, was a deliberate attempt to mock and degrade a core symbol of Hindu reverence. The language mirrored and even intensified the rhetoric used in the Sunny Miya Bhai case, situating Ansari’s comments firmly within the domain of identity-based hate speech and psychological intimidation. The threat was explicit, public, and motivated by religious hatred. The intention was not only to insult but to assert dominance and communal superiority by threatening violence against a faith community. The nature of the statement, combining threats of slaughter with sexualised abuse, amplifies its impact, not only degrading individuals but also denigrating Hindu religious identity itself. The tone, content, and delivery of the threats were meant to instil fear and assert a supremacist posture. This act goes beyond hate speech. It’s a targeted expression of religious hostility, meant to degrade, dehumanise, and provoke the entire Hindu community. Thus, it constitutes a hate crime driven by doctrinal contempt for Hinduism and its adherents. Disclaimer: The news report does not specify the exact date on which Masum Parvej Ansari posted the threatening comment. For the purpose of accurate documentation, the date of the incident has been recorded as the same date associated with the Sunny Miya Bhai case, under whose content Ansari’s comment was posted.