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Alexei Zhuravlev, a lawmaker in the Russian State Duma, said it would be acceptable to exterminate up to half of Ukraine’s population to eradicate what he called “Nazism”

During an interview, blogger Ivan Mironov asked Zhuravlev, “How many Nazis do you think there are in Ukraine now?” Zhuravlev then claimed the figure had once been around 2 percent but was now “perhaps 20-30%”

When Mironov asked whether they should all be exterminated, Zhuravlev responded by saying “desirably”

“All Nazis must be exterminated. All of them. You see, even if it’s 50 percent – even 50 percent – they must be exterminated… So that this plague won’t be there, so that no one will threaten us,” he said

According to Zhuravlev, he had personally witnessed atrocities allegedly committed by Ukrainians

“I saw with my own eyes when these bastards come and hang everyone in sight – Russian, non-Russian, regardless of your views,” he claimed

“If this plague isn’t eradicated from there, it will remain forever,” he added

Zhuravlev acknowledged that some Ukrainians could change their views but insisted that those who did not should be killed

“If they don’t change their minds, they must be destroyed, of course,” he said

When Mironov asked how to distinguish a “fascist” from a non-fascist, Zhuravlev said the presence of a weapon was the defining criterion

“If he has a machine gun, yes, he must be destroyed. What’s there to distinguish? If you see him, kill him,” Zhuravlev said

He then reiterated that those unwilling to “change their minds” should either be deported or killed

“If you don’t want to change your minds, you must either be expelled from there or destroyed,” he said

For nearly 90 minutes, the woman in a sari spoke uninterrupted, her voice echoing over the microphone into a cavernous room at the main temple hall of the Umiya Dham Mandir in Edison, New Jersey. “So long as the last enemy is on Earth, peace is impossible!” she shouted. “So long as the last demon is on Earth, peace cannot come!” […] The woman’s speech seemed to turn progressively more virulent. Life in the U.S., she chided the audience, had made them lazy and complacent. They were unaware that the danger was at their door. Its form? A “demon,” a “monster standing on the chests of Hindus” — Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani, the speaker falsely claimed, had been backed by George Soros and his son Alex to the tune of $34 million. […]

Soon after, the woman began to lay out how Muslims — whom she referred to alternatively as “braindead zombies,” “treacherous jihadis,” or “living monsters” — were conspiring, through halal-certified food, to make Hindus sexually impotent, and called for an economic boycott of Muslims. “If someone consumes halal food in front of us, and we know it, and remain silent, then we too are committing a sin,” she exclaimed. “Every moment, you must do your religious duty. So stop eating there, stop purchasing halal! Look, who is making the food, and what drugs they are adding to it.” […]

The woman on stage was Kajal Hindusthani. Recorded as the worst purveyor of hateful rhetoric in India in 2023 by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, Hindusthani has multiple cases registered against her in India for inciting violence.

[…] in Edison, Hindusthani explicitly recounted a story from an earlier event on her tour, invoked as a lesson for the audience. It involved a young man who had confronted her at an event, telling her that her hate speech against Muslims was unwarranted, and that Hindus and Muslims lived in harmony. But the man was being duped, she told the audience. “Voh miyan tera bhai nahi, wo kasai hai.” (“That Muslim is not your brother, he is your butcher.”) Hindusthani went on to say that Muslims could not be considered human. “When I speak about Hindu-Muslim, you call me racist, you say I should speak of humanity,” she shouted. “But I told him, ‘Son, humanity is for humans. These are braindead zombies. Humanity can’t be applied to zombies … If even one of them were human, they would try to stop this mob of braindead zombies.’”