India's Alt-Right 'Trads' Take Up Gyanvapi Mosque Cause With Violent Memes
By Alishan Jafri In December 2021, Hindutva groups gave a call for Karseva—a campaign to demolish the mosque and replace it with a Hindu temple—at Shahi Eidgah in Mathura. Tensions gripped the town but the police foiled any large gathering by Hindu groups around the mosque. Four months later, a similar campaign started in Varanasi and Agra. The Agra campaign against the iconic Taj Mahal came weeks after a radical Hindu priest Swami Paramhans' attempt to pray inside the Taj Mahal which he describes as a temple of Shiva. Similar campaigns against Qutub Minar, and different historic Islamic monum...