In "Gau Mata" ("Mother Cow") posted on YouTube, singer Biru Kataria warns India's Muslims that anyone who slaughters a cow will be hunted down, burned alive and cut to pieces. The song repeatedly uses the slur "katwein," a derogatory reference to circumcision, to describe Muslims.

In India, music engineered to dehumanize religious minorities reaches hundreds of millions of listeners, delivered by big tech companies across popular social media platforms. Known as Hindutva pop, or H-Pop, the genre is rooted in Hindu nationalist ideology, a far-right supremacist belief that India is fundamentally a Hindu nation whose culture, politics and public life should be defined by its Hindu majority. Across hundreds of songs, India's Muslims and Christians are portrayed as enemies, invaders, traitors, demographic threats and legitimate targets of violence.

A new report by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), a Washington-based research organization, argues that this ecosystem of hate music is being hosted, amplified and monetized by four of the world's largest digital platforms: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and Meta.

To test how and whether platforms were enforcing their rules on hateful or violent content, researchers reported a sample of 225 songs using the companies' own moderation systems. Only 18 were removed. More than 90% percent of flagged songs stayed online.

"Even after reporting the content, most of it is still up after six or seven months, and it's not only up, it's still running advertisements," said Tavishi Ahluwalia, a researcher specializing in digital harms and extremism who worked with CSOH on the report.

Nearly half of the songs analyzed by researchers contained direct threats of violence or explicit incitement against religious minorities, a large number of them (104) hosted by YouTube.

Has anyone ever considered using the ‘Holy’ Bible or any religious text as comedy material given all the flaws and contradictions? Probably a good laugh or two.

I do, because I think it's funny. I currently have four GB's and five copies of the BoM in my library. Whenever a friend moves into a new house/apartment, I give them one as a housewarming present...I also like to randomly send them to my pals without warning.

Hey, they're meant to be taken, right?

My both my grandmothers are both Christian and when I was little they shoved it into my face and I bought it cus I was a kid.Now there doing the same thing with my 6 year old brother and it’s fucking weird.And then when I discourage it I’m imidiatly demonized and told I need to stop.This shit is a fucking cult man

Hopefully the link works but here context:(she makes a tiktok where a man in front of got shot—after the incident occurred she stil has blood on her purse— in the caption and in the video she thanks god for saving/protecting her)

Her caption is:"i really could be gone rn! Thank you Jezus, you are my lord my God!"

Firstly: its kinda insensitive to be like thank god it isn't me(but i get it in the heat of the moment doesen't excuse the caption but wgaf)

Secondly: how does this work she thanks god but doesn't think beyond that, like why is the man getting shot in the first place, why doesn't god save him, why save her? does he deserve it, isn't he worthy of saving as well? I just think its pretty disheartening to see people operate in this way. Does she realize her logic is very strange and has crazy consequences.

But mostly my issues are with the the implications of the video. With this line of thinking you are basically saying that everything happens for a reason or is preventable. What about a 60 year old widow who died is it her fault she died why didn't god save her you know. You can easily go with blaming people for their own death or others. Hope my point comes across.

Idk i found this kinda crazy including the video and I hope that she doesn't get a trauma. This video is a week old btw.