Hindu Nationalists Are Boycotting Amazon For Signing Up An Actress Who Spoke Out Against Rape

I can’t believe I’m writing this headline but this is what things have come to.

This is Swara Bhaskar, an Indian actress who recently protested against the brutal rape and murder of an 8-year-old Muslim girl in a Hindu temple in the country.

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The girl, Asifa, belonged to the Bakarwal community, a nomadic pastoral tribe who are primarily Sunni Muslims. Her alleged rapists and murderers were right-wing Hindus — a fact that has pitted India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi-supporting nationalist Hindus against the rest of the country. Hindu hardliner lawyers, for instance, tried to stop officials from taking the accused to court and chanted pro-Hindu slogans.

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Some of them also left 1-star ratings on Amazon's app in the Indian Google Play Store and left outraged comments as app reviews.

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• Furious Indians downrated Amazon's app because the company was selling doormats with the Indian flag on them in Canada (touching something with one's feet is considered a sign of disrespect in India).

• Pissed off Indians downrated Snapchat after its CEO allegedly called the country "poor".

LINK: American Tech Companies Are So Afraid Of Offending Indians That They're Censoring All Their Products

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