India: Muslims assault Hindu man for giving courtesy lift to Muslim female colleague

The ubiquitous hatred that Islamic supremacists display toward non-Muslims is scarcely addressed in human rights “dialogues.” Any such dialogue is deemed to be “Islamophobic.”

On September 17, “two persons waylaid and assaulted a Hindu man for giving a lift to his female Muslim colleague…. The accused abused the woman, forced her off the bike and also abused her husband over the phone.”

The two Muslims saw themselves as the protectors of the Muslim woman’s dignity, which they regarded as somehow having been besmirched by the fact that a Hindu man give her a lift. One of the men shouted: “If you ever take a woman clad in burqa on your bike again…,” as he was beating the Hindu man. While Muslim morality police are outraged to the point of violence when a non-Muslim man kindly gives a Muslim woman a lift, some Muslims believe that Islamic law permits Muslim men to rape infidel women when it suits them.

On September 8, an almost identical incident took place in India, when five Muslim men abducted and brutally beat up a Hindu man for traveling on a bike with a female Muslim colleague in Nizamabad district. Police “arrested four men, members of so-called ‘Sharia Police.’”

“Moral policing: Bengaluru man assaulted for giving lift to Muslim woman,” by Chiranjeevi Kulkarni, Deccan Herald, September 19, 2021:

Two persons waylaid and assaulted a Hindu man for giving a lift to his female Muslim colleague on Friday night. The accused abused the woman, forced her off the bike and also abused her husband over the phone.

The incident happened near Dairy Circle on Hosur Road. The Suddaguntepalya police registered a case following a complaint by the woman and arrested the two accused. All names have been withheld.

Police took up the matter after the video clips of the incident went viral on social media. “Two youths from the Muslim community have been arrested and their mobile phones have been seized. Further investigation is ongoing,” a police officer said, refusing to divulge more information in view of a high court order.

Police registered a case under several sections of the Indian Penal Code, including section 34 for the act done with common intention, promoting enmity on grounds of religion (153-A), outraging the modesty of a woman (IPC 354), assault (IPC 323) and criminal intimidation (IPC 596).

Police sources said the woman and the man work in a company near Richmond Circle and he was dropping her home after work. The accused chased them and waylaid their bike before assaulting the man.

One of the video clips shows the accused threatening the man. “If you ever take a woman clad in burqua [sic] on your bike again…,” the accused is heard saying before assaulting him repeatedly.

The accused force the woman to give the number of her husband and call him. The husband is overheard trying to explain that he knows that she was getting help from a friend to reach home. The accused then forced her to get off the bike and into an autorickshaw.

As the issue took a communal turn on social media, some pointed out that it hits at the heart of the cosmopolitan spirit of the city and a few noted the harassment of the woman. In some of the clips, the woman is seen trying to question the accused over their behaviour but is forced into silence with a warning against travelling with non-Muslim….