Hamza Ali Abbasi compares anti-Muslim riots in India to Holocaust

The celebrity urged the world and the Indians who love their country to rise against it

Entertainment Desk March 01, 2020 1 min read

Popular actor Hamza Ali Abbasi has been constantly sharing tweets reiterating the violence against Muslims in Delhi. He urged the international community to speak out against the violence and Human Rights violations in India.

The actor and religious speaker while commenting on the atrocities against the peaceful protesters, noted that Pakistan had religious and sectarian issues too, but what is happening in India is now no longer just a matter human rights - 'it is a clear persecution.'

Read: Hamza Ali Abbasi speaks out on Delhi brutality against Muslims

Among the several news articles addressing the violence that he shared on his Twitter during the past few days - he passed a particularly interesting remark with one of them.

As he re-tweeted the report of a man who died after being forced and beaten by the Delhi police to sing their national anthem on video, Abbasi wrote:

"Pakistan has religious and sectarian issues too. But what's happening in India is not an individual issue of rights, it's open and clear persecution, oppression and an organized state backed Holocaust."

Pak has religious/sectarian issues too. But whats happening in India is not individual issues of rights, its open/clear persecution, oppression and an organized state backed HOLOCAUST. THE WORLD & those Indians who love thr country MUST RISE UP AGAINST IT.https://t.co/VuuN5xExBa
— Hamza Ali Abbasi (@iamhamzaabbasi) February 29, 2020

Not only did he compare the crisis with the 'Shoah', which is considered the World War II genocide of the European Jews, but he urged the world and the Indians who love their country to rise against it.

"The world and those Indians who love their country must rise up against it."

He had also shared a post addressing an 85-year-old woman who was burnt to death in her home in Delhi. The post noted that this woman had survived partition, the riots of 1984, 1992 and 2002, but fell prey to the Delhi genocide in 2020.