Islamphobic Remarks :
Former communist Aabhas Maldahiyar is an architect, journalist, and supporter of Hindu supremacy from the Indian town of Hazaribagh in the state of Jharkhand. He has participated in the Government of India’s Namami Gange project, which aims to purify the River Ganga, as an architect.
He has been contributing to a number of Hindu far-right media outlets, such as Firstpost, Organiser, and Swarajya. He has written numerous works, both fiction and non-fiction.
His book, ‘Modi Again; Why Modi Is Right For India,’ was released by the Hindu nationalist publishing business Garuda Prakashan in March 2019, just before the general election.
Maldahiyar is a pathological Islamophobe who regularly spreads hatred against Islam and Muslims through his writings and talks. He is a routine guest at Sanjay Dixit’s The Jaipur Dialogues, Sangam Talks, The Festival of Bharat, and numerous other Hindu far-right propaganda platforms to vilify Islam and praise Hindu nationalist ideology.
He frequently misinterprets the Quran in order to support anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. He tweeted, “I just said, Qur’an 2.221 substantiates Love Jihad & the entire jamat of anonymous trolls got behind me,” in June 2021. I believe the Indian government may use this to pass a legislation prohibiting Muslim men from dating non-Muslims. Otherwise, this verse must be deleted after hearing Rizvi ji!”
He gave a talk titled “Re-Thinking the Origin of Islam & Quran” at Sangam Talks in 2021. In an effort to misrepresent the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN), he offered his faulty interpretation of Islam under the label Alternative Islamic Theory (AIT).
His Alternative Islamic idea (AIT) idea holds that the war between the Judaic sects was what gave rise to Islam, which had its origins in the northern Arabian Peninsula. He added that the Qur’an, which was composed between the eighth and ninth centuries, had nothing to do with Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), who lived in the seventh century.
He gave another Sangam Talks presentation titled “Who Wrote the Quran and Who Was Muhammad?” in which he made fun of the Prophet Muhammad’s credentials and called into question the accuracy of the Quran.
He defended Hindu nationalism in a column for the Firstpost in November 2021, connecting terrorism to the Quran.
“And the attempt to draw parallels between Hindutva and Islamist terror groups is among the most abhorrent cases. The truth is that organizations like the Islamic State and Boko Haram are to blame for the persecution of millions of individuals who do not share their religious beliefs. Whether one likes it or not, they are undoubtedly taking their cues from the Holy Book. One may make the point that such groups are misinterpreting the scriptures, but this just makes the case look more flimsy. I say this because, despite their desire for every Hindu to celebrate “Not in my name,” they frequently engage in the “interpretation business” in the wake of events like Charlie Hebdo or the murder of Kamlesh Tiwari.Even when towns are burned because someone insulted the Qur’an or Muhammad, they would not continue to use the phrase “Not in my name,” the author stated.
In early 2022, he extended his support for the Karnataka government’s ban on Hijab in educational institutions.
In June 2022, through a series of tweets, he tried to trivialize the 2002 anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat by putting up false claims that the incident was blown out of proportion to vilify Hindus and Hindu nationalist sentiments.