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Ahead of Durga Puja 2026 in West Bengal – Take a look at how Islamists vandalised pandals between 2017-2026

Organizer.Org · October 4, 2026

CSPII Commentary: The Organiser list ties several West Bengal Durga Puja attacks, from the 2014 Burdwan blast to the 2024 Howrah burning of a Durga murti, to mobs treating other gods’ images as things to smash. Pickthall’s Koran gives the model in Abraham, who “reduced them to fragments, all save the chief of them,” the same precedent Mohammed followed when the idols were cleared from the Kaaba.