Hindutva activists use Eid to intimidate muslims in India

A flurry of incidents showed that Hindutva activists used Eid to intimidate Muslims in India.

Mosques were asking worshippers to pray in shifts, as authorities issued threats against congregations, Al Jazeera reported.

In one incident, Hindu supremacists attempted to bring a pig into a housing society of Muslim families in Mumbai’s Mira Road, Maktoob Media reported.

Hindutva activists protesting Eid sacrifice plans in Mumbai’s Mira Road attempted to bring a pig into a housing society after opposing the presence of goats kept by Muslim families.https://t.co/DjYldorYXu pic.twitter.com/5FRGpSFUm1

— Maktoob (@MaktoobMedia) May 26, 2026

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The Bombay Municipal Corporation removed and relocated the goats owned by the Muslim families, Maktoob added.

Hindutva group carrying a pig to a housing society in Mumbai, where Muslims were preparing to celebrate Eid. Hindutva jokers have turned India to a terrible joke. pic.twitter.com/2yL281tGNt

— Ashok Swain (@ashoswai) May 26, 2026

Hindu supremacists, through their antics, had turned India into a “terrible joke,” Professor Ashok Swain posted, sharing a video from Mira Road, Mumbai.

Maktoob Media also reported that local Muslim organizations in Karnataka’s Hassan boycotted buying animals for Eid amid fear of backlash from Hindu supremacists.

Local Muslim organisations in Karnataka’s Hassan announced a boycott of purchasing animals for Eid ul-Adha amid Hindutva intimidation campaigns, triggering anxiety among dairy farmers who warned they would march their cattle to the deputy commissioner’s office if their… pic.twitter.com/zVRpNKzUeK

— Maktoob (@MaktoobMedia) May 27, 2026

Hindutva bulldozer bullying

In Kolkata, a video was posted by Article19 India showing a campaign to run bulldozers on several houses belonging to Muslim families on the eve of Eid. The video claimed that the houses were being bulldozed by local authorities using the pretext that they were illegally built. 

“एक घर है वो भी छीन लोगे तुम लोग, बताना चाहिए क्या गलत है ना कि सीधा बुलडोजर चलाने का नोटिस चिपकाना चाहिए”

बकरीद त्योहार से एन वक्त पहले पश्चिम बंगाल में मुसलमानों के साथ ये सब हो रहा है!

कोलकाता के तोपसिया में अवैध निर्माण बताकर कई घरों पर बुलडोजर चलाने की कवायद शुरु हो गई है pic.twitter.com/v6uO3LktVc

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— Article19 India (@Article19_India) May 26, 2026

The bulldozer is a symbol of fascist violence, the South Asia Solidarity Group recently wrote in an op-ed for The Canary.

It involves both the state and a section of fascist social forces that spearhead and celebrate the violence. JCB remains the primary instrument; the British company is synonymous with home demolitions.

With several Indian states showing rising anti-Muslim rhetoric and restrictions around religious practices, Muslim communities have spent Eid in India in fear.

Featured image via Yawar Nazir/Getty Images

By The Canary

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