On an earlier post I had discussed India’s prime minister Narendra Modi and his support of radical ideas that would tear the nation apart on religious grounds. He as well as many of his staff and many people throughout India believe that India should be a nation with only one religion and Muslims do not belong. However, it has been difficult to find something to pin on them to justify their harsh policies. With Covid-19 they have found the answer they were looking for. This New York Times article details exactly what has been happening lately with the anti-Muslim sentiment in India. Muslims have been being beaten and discriminated against all across India. Hate has been sprouting up all over the internet, and a “wave of apparently fake videos” have been coming up all over the internet, “telling Muslims not to wear masks, not to practice social distancing, not to worry about the virus at all, as if the makers of the videos wanted Muslims to get sick”. All of these things are happening because of the already brimming hate of Muslims that the Indian government has allowed to happen, and, “After India’s health ministry repeatedly blamed an Islamic seminary for spreading the coronavirus — and governing party officials spoke of “human bombs” and “corona jihad” — a spree of anti-Muslim attacks has broken out across the country”. Now with this global pandemic sweeping across India and the rest of the world, the people in India that believe Muslims should not be there finally have their excuse to beat them and drive them out of the country, and that is absolutely despicable.
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