Bal Thackeray

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Thackeray

“”If you take Mein Kampf and if you remove the word Jew and put in the word Muslim, that is what I believe in.

—Bal Thackeray^[1]

Bal Thackeray also known as Balasaheb Thackeray (born as Bal Keshav Thackeray, 1926-2012) was an Indian ~~don~~ spiritual leader. He headed a political party known as Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena's motto is "Mumbai for Marathis".

Views[edit]

Thackeray was very vocal in his opposition to people who migrate to Mumbai, to non-Marathis (especially from Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh), and to Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. In the late 1970s, as part of his "Maharashtra is for Maharashtrians" campaign, Thackeray threatened migrants from South India with harm unless they left Mumbai. In 2002, Thackeray issued a call to form Hindu suicide squads to counter alleged Muslim violence.

On Muslims[edit]

He equated Islam with violence, regularly wrote inflammatory anti-Muslim columns in his newspaper Samna. and criticized former Indian president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam since he was a Muslim.

Admiration for Hitler[edit]

Bal Thackeray was a great fan of Hitler, and has made various Islamophobic statements mirroring Hitler's anti-semitics statements, such as saying that Indian Muslims will meet the same fate German Jews did.^[2]

Religious beliefs[edit]

Ironically he claimed that he was once an atheist, perhaps in an attempt to discredit atheists.^[3]

External links[edit]

See the Wikipedia article on Bal Thackeray.

References[edit]

↑ https://www.thedailybeast.com/hitlers-strange-afterlife-in-india
↑ In rod we trust, Varsha Bhosle, 29 January 1998
↑ The Rebirth of Shiv Sena: The Symbiosis of Discursive and Organizational Power, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Uday Singh Mehta, Usha Thakkar, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 371-390, JSTOR link (requires subscription) Google Search result showing the quote

[1] ttps://www.thedailybeast.com/hitlers-strange-afterlife-in-india

[2] In rod we trust, Varsha Bhosle, 29 January 1998

[3] The Rebirth of Shiv Sena: The Symbiosis of Discursive and Organizational Power, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Uday Singh Mehta, Usha Thakkar, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 371-390, JSTOR link (requires subscription) Google Search result showing the quote

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