Dogwhistles
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Dogwhistle
The triangular red flag emoji (

) refers to the flag of
#Hindu Rashtra, simply known as
Bhagwa Dhwaj (lit. Saffron Flag). The
RSS has infamously been against the usage of the Indian national flag (

), saying "it will never be respected and owned by Hindus."
[2]
The bow-and-arrow emoji (

) refers to the iconic bow and arrow (
Brahmastra) of
Rama, a Hindu
god.
Akhand Bharat
Akhand Bharat (lit.
United India or
Greater India) is an
irredentist mythical geographical extension of the Indian territories to encompass most of South Asia, akin to the
Nazi concept of
Lebensraum.
 |  |
A conceptualization of Akhand Bharat, encompassing the 'base-set' of countries; Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar | What constitutes Akhand Bharat varies wildly depending on which type of Viraat Hindu one is talking to and how detached from reality they are. |
Bvll
Bvll is faux-
Latinization of 'bull', roughly equivalent to the
manosphere term, '
chad'. It is also used within the Western
alt-right.
[3]
Cauliflower farmer
The term
cauliflower farmer refers to the
1989 Bhagalpur violence, which killed more than a thousand people comprising mostly
Muslims, and displaced 50,000 more, during which a
Hindu police officer killed more than a hundred Muslims in the Logain massacre and buried them in the cauliflower plantation nearby to hide the evidence.
[4]
Ghar Wapsi or Suddhi
Ghar Wapsi (lit. Homecoming) is the name under which various modern
Hindutva organisations orchestrate their religious conversions to Hinduism.
[5] It is part of the larger
Suddhi (lit. Purification) movement.
[6] They prefer this term over conversion because of the pseudohistorical myth that in the past,
Hindu Rashtra extended all over the globe and everyone was a Hindu. Hence, a religious conversion outside Hinduism is seen as betrayal of one’s culture, but a foreigner adopting Hindu culture is seen as “purification” rather than conversion as they are returning to the “truer” religion.
Hindu Rashtra
The
Hindu Rashtra (lit.
Hindu Nation) is the main goal for
Hindutva; a Hindu supremacist
ethnostate.
This was first described by the major
RSS leader,
M.S. Golwalkar.
Kali Yuga
Kali Yuga is a concept in Hinduism that refers to the "age of the demon" or the "age of darkness". In far-right political spaces, the Kali Yuga is appropriated by traditionalists; to denounce the modern world as being decadent, while reminiscing of the
good old days, the
Golden Age of India.
Kattar Hindu and Viraat Hindu
Kattar Hindu and
viraat Hindu refer to Hindus who are "proud of their culture;" supremacists. Similar to saying "
It's OK To Be Hindu."
[7] Kattar means 'hardcore' in Hindi and
Viraat means 'huge' in Gujarati.
Trads
Trads are
Hindu traditionalists; they are called unapologetic for subscribing to the old beliefs of Hinduism, such as
casteism and
sati.
Religious slurs
Abdul
Abdul is a common Arabic name in the Muslim community, but used as a slur.
[8]
Abdul is not used as a standalone name, but rather with another word such as Abdurrahman (Abd-ul Rahman, "slave of the merciful
[God]").
Alia Malia Jamia
Alia Malia Jamia is a catchphrase referring to Muslims. The phrase itself has no real meaning besides the fact that the three names sound a bit Muslim and have assonance. It was first used by
Narendra Modi and then popularised by Amit Shah.
[9]
Bakri premi
Bakri premi (बकरी प्रेमी) in Hindi translates to "
goat lover".
[8][10] It refers to
RationalWiki’s fascination with goats Muslims because of
Eid (sometimes called Bakri Eid
[11]), the Muslim festival of sacrifice, in which a domestic animal is required to be sacrificed, often a
sheep or a goat.
Bulla
Bulla is the text form of

ulla (using the 'B emoji'). It is used to avoid censorship of pejorative use of '
mulla' (or mullah, a Muslim clerical title). It is a slur for
Muslims generally.
[8][12]
Katua,
katwa (katua +
fatwa), and
k2a are used as crude slurs for
Muslim males,
[13][14][15] derived from
kat (काट), which is a cognate for 'cut', referring to male Muslims being
circumcised. It is on the same level of vulgarity as the
n-word. K2A is an abbreviation of katwa.
[8]
The word also refers to the name of a Hindu town (
Kathua) in a mostly Muslim state (
Jammu and Kashmir). Kathua was where the
Kathua rape case took place, where an eight-year-old girl was drugged, brutally gang
raped several times over the course of a week, and strangled to death by a local
Hindu priest, his son, his nephew, and four Hindu police officers, including a constable. Protests in support of the accused were later attended by two prominent ministers of the ruling right-wing
BJP.
[16]
Khalistani
Flag of Khalistan. |
Khalistani is a slur against
Sikhs (in India or elsewhere).
"Khalistan" is a proposed Sikh separatist homeland comprising the general Punjab regions of both
India and
Pakistan, and was a serious issue in the 1980s that led to major violence. So it is a real issue, less so today than in past years, but used as a blanket term for Sikhs, its implication is that Sikhs aren't "real" members of the society that they live in, but are scheming "people without a nation" pressing their own interests (
sound familiar?).
Mleccha
Mleccha refers to any non-
Hindu.
Mleccha is a
Sanskrit term for “foreign” people who did not know the
Vedic tongue.
Moslim
Moslim means
Muslim.
[17] 'Moslim' is a non-pejorative secondary spelling of Muslim, dating back to the 1600s, [18] that has come into disuse in standard English.
Mulla/Kathmulla
Mulla is a generic slur of
Muslims. It refers to 'mullahs' who are learned
theologists in Islam. Not a bad word in itself, but has turned offensive by use over time. The 'mulla' spelling of the word actually follows the Urdu transliteration
mullā, and is an archaic spelling in English. [19]
The slur has been used by famous BJP members like
Yogi Adityanath and Sambit Patra.
[20]
Ola hu Uber
Ola Cabs and
Uber are popular cab services in India. "
Ola hu Uber" is meant as a mockery of
Allāhu ʾakbar meaning “Allah is the greatest.”
[8][21]
Paki
Paki is a slur against South Asian Muslims. Derived from the country of
Pakistan.
[22] The slur originated in
Britain in the 1960s to refer to Pakistani immigrants, but more broadly all South Asians (including Hindus). [23]
Pasmandu
Pasmandu is a derogatory term for lower
caste Muslims.
Pasmanda means “those left behind” in Persian, is not derogatory,
[24] and
Passmandu is a portmanteau of Pasmanda and the Bengali
gandu (গান্ডু,
asshole).
[25][26] The word is generally used by
Hindu supremacists as an insult to Muslims. The alt-right is now using it for all liberals and leftists.
Porkistan
Porkistan is a portmanteau of
Pakistan and
pork, and is used to disparage
Muslims, who do not eat pork because it is considered haram (forbidden in Islamic law).
[27][28]
Ricebag
Ricebag is a slur against
Indian Christians, implying that they converted to get free
rice handouts from missionaries. In earlier times, lower
caste Hindus converted to Christianity to escape the caste discrimination (it didn't work, they brought the caste system along). Right-wingers being right-wingers, they view anyone that isn't a Hindu with contempt, and use the term 'ricebag' to imply that they converted for freebies.
[29]
What the people who use this word don't realize by using the word is the implication that their religion is only worth a bag of rice; then again, we are talking about people who believe in religious superiority. No surprise.
[30]
Xztians
Xztians refers to
Christians.
[8] Probably derived from the practice of using the Greek letter chi (Χx) or the visually similar X as a stand-in for the word Christ (as in
Xmas).