I'm an English-speaking white dude who practices Buddhism, but I've been paying lots of attention to South Asian politics lately because I am simultaneously overjoyed with Pakistan becoming more democratic and horrified by India quickly descending into fascism.

I know that the BJP has bombarded India's public with Hindutva propaganda for years, with the assistance of the Indian media, but I have been watching videos on YouTube made by members of the general public and academics that are sympathetic to Hindutva ideology, and I am shocked and appalled. I knew it was bad but I had no idea it was this bad.

A lot of these are in English. Some of these are in languages I don't speak, but I can nevertheless get the general gist of them: they depict Muslims as a group of deranged, irrational fanatics and anyone who criticizes the BJP or Hindutva as "Hinduphobic." I'm not afraid of Hinduism, it seems like a pretty chill and enlightened religion if you stick to the Vedas and the Upanishads in my experience. But when you get into (a) Bhramin Supremacy and (b) lynching religious minorities to death and lighting Dalits on fire in the streets, and (c) the Indian army raping Kashmiri women, shooting kids in the head, and kidnapping political dissenters, then I'm not going to entertain any argument that attempts to shield this behavior by attaching it to Hinduism. Vigorous opposition to this fascist aggression is not fear of Hinduism, it is a defense of the values of universal spiritual truth that Hinduism is supposed to be based on.

Take this lady's YouTube channel for instance: https://www.youtube.com/user/PayalRohatgiOnline/videos

I'm gonna be straight with you, I only understand like 40% of what she's saying, but the message is unmistakably clear: she thinks that Muslims are all psychotic and have no place in India. She harbors a deep-seated hatred for Muslims and Western leftists. It's full of attempts to make people think that Muslims are aggressive and destructive -- never mind that Muslims built all of India's most recognizable monuments.

All I can say is that I hope that Pakistan and India's Muslims are able to tell a counterstory about India's identity that clamps down on this psychopathy. In India today, we are witnessing the closest thing the world has known to a fascist state since Hitler's Germany. The psychology of 1/3 of India's voters is akin to the psychology of a pre-Holocaust German: they are clearly spending a lot of time preparing themselves mentally for something unspeakable.

The Muslim community has my support. It's not much, but it's what I can give.