> These aren't violent protests.

I beg to differ. Protests in Delhi, Bengal, and UP are clearly violent.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/hundreds-on-streets-of-old-d...

> Here's your proof: BJP, the ruling party, has been caught red-handed, like there were in 2002, https://thewire.in/communalism/murshidabad-bjp-lungi-skullca....

This is from the article you shared:

While speculation has been rife on social media on how BJP workers have been posing as anti-CAA protesters with the intention of turning the protests violent, this is the first noted case where police have taken action against someone for purportedly seeking to blame a particular community.

There has been a lot of speculation on BJP's involvement in fanning violence. But it's not clear how much truth is there to it. I hope they are held accountable for whatever wrong they have done. And victims of riots (that happened in 1984, 2002 and other years) get their deserved justice.

> The cognitive dissonance is strong.

Could you be more specific about what you're trying to say here?

> These aren't violent protests.

Setting police stations on fire and lynching policemen is not violence?

They've broadly been peaceful in nature. It's immoral to paint the entire struggle as being violent. People are just trying to uphold India's founding principles.

Police brutality has reached a new low as well.

I don't think they termed entire protests as violent. You are right in saying that protests have been largely peaceful in nature. But there has been some significant violence throughout the protests. Acts like stone pelting, lynching policemen, torching buses, uprooting train tracks, attacking school buses are petrifying. And this will become worse as protests spread to semi-urban areas.

The protesters in Hong Kong were also throwing Molotov cocktails, destroying public property, and beating people up, but Western news media didn’t call it “violent.”

Perhaps that’s the new normal?

Western media is always anti India (largest secular democracy) and pro Pakistan (Muslim only). It makes no sense..