Far-right wingnuts storm Diwali fest in Seattle after lights go out on MAGA

TOI correspondent from Washington: A celebration of light, colour, diversity, and religious pluralism in Seattle turned into a brief demonstration of America's darker side when two far-right activists gate-crashed the festivities carrying placards demanding the deportation of "dot heads" and warning of a “Hindu takeover of Christian America.”Jake Lang and Thomas Allen apparently didn't get the memo that Diwali is a celebration of the triumph of good over evil. They turned up at a local Diwali celebration with American flags determined to underscore the evil part.

They were eventually escorted out of the Seattle Center Armory after a scuffle, but not before Lang, who seems to have a particular talent for turning provocation into publicity, claimed that he and Allen had been assaulted by "Antifa and Hindus," while blaming Hindus for the Republicans' electoral disaster in Texas. ""Hindus flipped Texas blue.