NEW DELHI (AP) — Donald Trump may find it tough to get Republican leaders behind his campaign, but he’s got some faraway fans trying to get the gods on his side.
Around a dozen members of a right-wing Indian Hindu group lit a ritual fire and chanted mantras Wednesday asking the Hindu gods to help Trump win the U.S. presidential election.
While Trump has dominated the Republican primary race to decide the party’s candidate for the November election, his calls for temporarily banning Muslims from America and cracking down on extremist groups abroad have earned him some fans in India.
“The whole world is screaming against Islamic terrorism, and even India is not safe from it,” said Vishnu Gupta, founder of theHindu Sena nationalist group. “Only Donald Trump can save humanity.”
Members of the group gathered on a blanket spread out in a New Delhi protest park along with a collection of statues depicting gods including Shiva and Hanuman — as well as photos of a smiling Trump.
Above them hung a banner declaring support for Trump “because he is hope for humanity against Islamic terror.”
The group chanted Sanskrit prayers asking the gods to favor Trump in the election, and threw offerings such as seeds, grass and ghee — or clarified butter — into a small ritual fire.
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one day, this pic will get played out and of course retired.
Until then, thank you Donald.
Now this is the coalition Trump has been promising all along! Let the ultra-nationalists and racists of whatever race, creed or religion unite!
Think about that for a second. Only Trump can save humanity. It hurts, doesn’t it? Unless it was performance art…
No, I didn’t think so. There are people out there that are even more nuts then American Trump supporters.
Sigh, how many times this year will I type the following words…
Dumb Asses!
The only joy in this, is the misery this ceremony will bring David Duke and the racist tea partiers who support Heil Trump because he IS for The White Man!
Donald Trump: The Louis Farrakhan of Hindu Nationalists.
I don’t know how many people will recognize what I’m alluding to, but the Sena protest looks like one of those tables you sometimes pass by in Manhattan, plastered with Farrakhan images and books, with some idiot evangelizing the Nation of Islam and complaining about Jews over a bullhorn or loudspeaker system.
It’s Hindu nationalists praising Lame Trump and smearing Muslims instead of NoI cultists praising Farrakhan and smearing Jews, but it looks pretty identical otherwise.
I wonder how Trump feels about the red dot they’ve painted on his forehead?