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NEW DELHI: One of India’s biggest states on Monday banned a movie critics accused of stoking communal hatred and propaganda against Muslims but defended strongly by the ruling right-wing Hindu government.

‘The Kerala Story’ claims 32,000 Hindu and Christian women from the mixed-faith state of Kerala have converted to Islam, and that some were recruited by the Islamic State group.

Critics have called the film out for peddling lies aimed at fomenting communal polarisation and unrest.

But the movie has been endorsed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and seized on by Hindu hardliners who say its portrayal is accurate.

The state of West Bengal, which has a larger population than Germany, on Monday banned the movie, with chief minister Mamata Banerjee – whose party opposes Modi’s – slamming it as a “distorted story”.

“This is to avoid any incident of hatred and violence, and to maintain peace in the state,” she told reporters in Kolkata.

The trailer for the Hindi-language film initially claimed that thousands of women had fled their homes “to be buried in the deserts” but as controversy mounted it was edited to say it was a story about three women from Kerala.

But the closing credits still say it is “dedicated to the thousands of girls in Kerala and Mangalore who didn’t come back home after their conversions”.

Anurag Thakur, the information and broadcast minister, said the film showed “the reality of ISIS” and that by banning it, West Bengal was effectively siding with terror outfits that “lure women with love”.

“Everyone must see this movie to understand the agenda of these terror outfits who operate globally but do their recruitment in some parts of India,” Thakur told broadcaster India Today.

Multiplexes in the southern state of Tamil Nadu have also stopped the screenings of the movie fearing violence and unrest.

India, the world’s largest democracy, in January banned the screening of a BBC documentary about Modi’s role during deadly 2002 sectarian riots in Gujarat, calling it “hostile propaganda and anti-India garbage”.

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SAMIR SARDANA May 11, 2023 03:52pm
32,000 HINDOO AND CATHOLIC MALAYALIS ARE EXPORTED TO SYRIA AND AFGHANISTAN ! WHEN ? ISIS IS IN 1 PROVINCE OF AFGHAN FOR LONG IN SYRIA ALSO,IT HAS LIMITED PRESENCE NATO FOUND NO INDIANS THERE - LET ALONE MALAYALIS ! WHAT CAN A MALAYALI OFFER A DAESH FIGHTER - BESIDES IDLI AND SAMBHAR ? IT IS MADNESS ! GHAZNI AND GHORI ALSO EXPORTED INDIAN WOMEN - BUT THEY WERE NORTH INDIAN WOMEN ! THIS IS THE MADNESS THAT IS SYMPTOMATIC OF THE HINDOO HINDI BANIA MEDIA OF ZEE/ABP/ NEWS18 DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKERS,ARE IN THE SAME BOAT ! SAMIR SARDANA KERALA HAS THE SEA BORDER AND THE TIP OF INDIA - WHICH MAKES IT A HUB FOR ALL IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.SO A SEZ AT THE TIP OK KERALA, WILL HAVE THE LOWEST EXIM LOGISTICS COSTS - AND THUS,WIPE OUT ALL THE MANUFACTURING EXPORTS, OF CHAI-STHAN ! AN INDEPENDENT NATION OF KERALA WILL WIPE OUT ALL NAVAL BASES IN VIZAG,KAWAR AND ANDAMAN AND THUS,BE A NATURAL ALLY FOR PLN AND PLA AND PRC INVESTMENTS, AND CREATE THE MOMENTUM FOR INDEPENDENT NATION OF DRAVIDISTAN.
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SAMIR SARDANA May 11, 2023 08:06pm
CHAIWALA ALSO MENTIONED THE KERALA STORY IN THE KARNATAKA POL,LS CHAIWALA SEES THE THREAT OF KERALA KERALA IS THRIVING UNDER KARL MARX AND MAO ! IT IS ONLY MARX AND MAO,WHO CAN KEEP THE MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS SAFE ! WHICH IS Y IN THE NON-BJP STATES,CHAIWALA SPREADS LIES ABOUT ISIS/MUSLIMS ETC., LIKE IN KERALA AND THE LIBRARY BURNING IN BIHAR AND IN BJP STATES THERE ARE ONLY "ENCOUNTERS" LIKE IN THE LAND OF YOGI GOBARNATH ! THAT IS THE CHAIWALA MODEL ! AIM IS TO MAKE MUSLIMS INSECURE IN NON-BJP STATES,DEMONISE MUSLIMS,AND THEN HOLD UP THE BJP STATES AS SAFE ZONES,FOR MUSLIMS !THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME CREATION ! IF KERALA IS GONE, -ANDAMAN COMES UNDER CLOSE SURVEILLANCE BY PLN AND ALSO KARWAR = INDIAN NAVY WILL BE,AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ARABIAN SEA,OR THE INDIAN OCEAN ! PLN NAVAL PENS IN LANKA AND DRAVIDISTAN WILL MEANS THAT EVEN PLN DIESEL SUBS CAN CHOKE OFF THE INDIAN PORTS AND INDIAN NAVY ! TIME TO BRING XI JINGPING TO MAO LAND OF KERALA !
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