Hindu family's car set on fire by miscreants in Bangladesh
Bangladesh 
21 February, 2025
Case Summary
Amidst the ongoing large-scale persecution of Hindu minorities by Islamists in Bangladesh, a Hindu family's newly purchased car was deliberately set on fire. The family had managed to buy the vehicle after selling their belongings, but a group of miscreants targeted it, reducing it to ashes. According to the affected family, the car was parked safely in their garage when it was deliberately torched by unidentified attackers. An X user, 'k36077' alias 'Bangladesh Hindu Genocide,' shared a video from a Bangladeshi news channel featuring an interview with the devastated family. In the footage, a woman can be seen weeping, explaining how they had worked tirelessly to afford the car, only for it to be destroyed by vandals. Since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government on August 5, 2024, Bangladesh has descended into chaos, with Islamist extremists exploiting the political instability to unleash a wave of terror against Hindus. Hindu homes have been set ablaze, families displaced, and women abducted in a brutal campaign of violence. Temples across the country have also been targeted and desecrated in a systematic crackdown on the Hindu community.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The case has been added to the tracker under the prime category of- Attack resulting in death and within this, the sub-category selected is- Attacked for Hindu identity. In several cases, Hindus are attacked merely for their Hindu identity without any perceived provocation. A classic example of this category of religiously motivated hate crime is a murder in 2016. 7 ISIS terrorists were convicted for shooting a school principal in Kanpur because they got ‘triggered’ seeing the Kalava on his wrist and tilak that he had put. In this, the Hindu victim had offered no provocation except for his Hindu religious identity. The motivation for the murder was purely religious, driven by religious supremacy. Such cases where Hindus are targeted merely for their religious identity would be documented as a hate crime under this category. Here, Islamists deliberately set fire to a newly purchased car belonging to a Hindu family. While the available details do not explicitly indicate a religious motive, the broader context cannot be ignored. When there is an ongoing ethnic cleansing based on religious identity, every crime in and of itself is assumed to be motivated by the same religious animosity even if there is a lack of specific religious marker in the immediate crime. During an ongoing ethnic cleansing, the dehumanisation of people based on their religious identity and the normalisation of religious hostility drives the crimes committed against them even when there is a lack of stated religious motive. For the purpose of documenting the 2024 ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Bangladesh, the Hinduphobia Tracker is assuming religious motivation ab initio. If a case is specifically and beyond reasonable doubt proven to be driven by motivations other than religious hostility, it will post-facto be removed from the hate crime database.
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