The cauliflower as a symbol of violence: the use of AI to the fuel propaganda and the revival of historical trauma

On May 23, 2025 the official X report of the Karnataka from Bharatiya Janata Party Wing published an AI gener image of Union Minister Amit Shah, who held a cauliflower with a malicious smile, about a tombstone with reading “Naxalism rest in peace”. This article, the ‘Lol Salaam, Comrade !!’, was freed in response to the press release of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)Operation Kagar ‘-India’s greatest approach to take India Naxalite-Free. Under the leadership of the Union Minister Amit Shah, the operation is trying to remove Naxalites by March 2026.

While the use of satirical caricatures has been part of the political exchange for decades, the calling of the symbolism, which is connected to the cauliflower, leads the decimation of the Muslim community. The accessibility and wide range Of AI-generated art, it enables the public and the officials to spread violent fantasies without effects. Since artificial intelligence continues to “democratize art”, it has taken out the soul of human art and integrity, visual art. This constant abuse and this exploitation of generative AI in order to maintain hate and cause emotions that celebrate the destruction of an entire community has achieved impunity due to the amazing normalization of such tools and images.

The “cauliflower” and the symbolism that it causes it

The cauliflower has recently been used to show an open call to the bloodshed of Muslims. It is a violent symbol that causes violent memory that refers to the 1989 Bhagalpur unrest And the massacre of the following Muslims. These unrest looked over 250 villages to the ground and the murder of over 1000 people, mainly Muslims.

Source: minority law group

In August 1989, a rumor spread, in the middle of the growing municipal hardship and intensification of the RAM Janmabhoomi movement, a rumor that 200 mutilated bodies of Hindu students were found in a fountain in Parbatti location in Bhagalpur Town. It was later found that there were only 12 bodies All of them family members of Mohammad JavedA Muslim. However, the rumor had triggered widespread unrest in the district. This was followed by the Ramshila procession that went towards Ayodhya. Members of the procession, which went through Muslim areas, called provocative slogans, while it was found that rough bombs were thrown over the procession.

While the source of these bombs remained unclear, it had already triggered unrest in the city. Over 70 Muslims were killed in Chanderi, with their bodies being mutilated. And 116 Muslims were killed in Bhaglapurs Logain -dorf by a mob, which was led by the Ramchaander Singh police officer. Her bodies were buried with cavala seedlings that were planted over the graves to cover up the murders. This became known as the Cauliflower massacre.

Her bodies were buried with cavala seedlings that were planted over the graves to cover up the murders. This became known as the Cauliflower massacre.

According to the report of the Volksunion for Democratic Rights (PUDR), 93% of the dead Muslims were.

India’s old on the right digital ecosystem and violence that are disguised as “dark” humor

The appeal of this grotesque historical event was a recurring coded reference to anti-Muslim violence that is widespread through right-wing-wing-IT cell accounts. It has become a form of gross humor that repeatedly causes a direct annihilation of the Muslim community that is already being followed on all fronts. After municipal violence This began in Nagpur according to the protest of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parisha, which awarded the demolition of Aurangze’s grave, the cauliflower image of Meme-fermented reports, and claimed that the “Kauliflow agriculture” was the “solution” of the “solution”.

Source: two circles

In 2022 the wire reported that a considerable number of young men and women in India was attracted to a dangerous digital old right-wing ecosystem entitled “Trad-Wing”. The people who call themselves trades call other legal wings too liberal. Both groups believe in Hindu nationalism and the creation of Hindu Rashtra. The difference between the nexus of organized hate criminal and the old rights ecosystem is to be readily associated with this ecosystem, which is seriously committed to the movement of Hindu Rasthra and its religious dominance by expressing himself through dark or twisted “humor”.

In a research Paper“Nationalism in the digital age: Fun as a meta-practice of extreme language” Sahana Udupa emphasizes that “fun” is an outstanding aspect of right-wing mobilization and realizes that this type of activity develops and develops to “group identification and collective (if sometimes anonymous) celebration of aggression.

AI is used brazenly to demand the destruction of the Muslim community, is also actively used as an instrument for sexualization of religious clothing that are bound to Muslim women.

The moral apathy, the genocidal jokes and the repeated dehumanization of the Muslim community – while it was actively committed to her extermination – was so grained normalized that it does not trigger legal acts if the official report on the government’s state wing was expressly glorified against the Muslims of the country. After the item received around 32,000 likes on X, it has not yet been removed. In her official report, it is unadorned as a harbinger of a crumbled secularist democracy, while we write the history of unprecedented oppression itself.

Fetishization and fantasies of sexual violence against Muslim women with AI

AI is used brazenly to demand the destruction of the Muslim community, is also actively used as an instrument for sexualization of religious clothing that are bound to Muslim women. This happens to claim a feeling of control over the Muslim community, since the bodies of women have been seen as a symbol of honor for the community for centuries. Through the orientation of Muslim women, fetishization and creation of fantasies of sexual violence against them, it becomes an act of the subversion of the entire community. This was named “Gender municipalism” From scholars where a woman’s body becomes a place of control, oppression and rule.

Source: Reuters

The creation and representation of Muslim women as sexualized figures – submissive and intimidated – are not isolated from the visual pictures of the total annihilation of the Muslim community. These cases feed together and at the same time fuel the desire to keep power over the Muslim community as a whole through different forms – sexual and physical violence.

Call AI as a tool for the spread of propaganda and to historical trauma

“An insult to life itself” had commented on Hayao Miyazaki after experiencing the prospect of the art of ai-generated certificate in a documentary from 2016. Miyazaki dedicated his life and years of tedious work to create every single frame in the art style Ghibli. He himself insisted that ai would never have the feeling of a human connection and the suffering of this true Art embodies in its essence.

An art form that embodies the deep connection to nature and human values ​​is caused to satisfy the blood duration of these old rights groups. The generation and recovery of past atrocities or future fantasies was used as a provocative instrument – an aesthetic representation of violence to make them tasty for their target audience. The AI ​​generation of art had created a sum at the first start, with the Internet being divided into two groups.

The people who resisted afterwards rightly referred to the ethical foundations of the use of AI to create art, and it was not long ago that AI was used for creations that are missing, a moral compass and the historical understanding of the events that create it. The widespread reproduction of violent images, which dissolve from a weight of empathy and accountability, is an invasion – a crack into the historical and cross -generational trauma that the marginalized communities carry with it.

The simple production of AI art has also led to its mass circulation, an overwhelming flood of propaganda and content that distorts history and at the same time create a new reality.

The simple production of AI art has also led to its mass circulation, an overwhelming flood of propaganda and content that distorts history and at the same time create a new reality. This leads to manipulation of public emotions and becomes a form of social conditioning. The influence of AI showed horror without regulations to keep art and writing in chess, and also made it possible to sweep into the digital mainstream ecosystems and at the same time become an acceptable “norm”.

Reeba Khan is a student of political science at the University of Delhi. As a writer and student journalist, she has a great interest in questions of identity, conflict and belonging. She writes to remember and resist