India: No country for Muslims

December 17, 2017 12:27

A rising tide of hate is surging through India, of toxic speech and attacks on religious minorities, mostly Muslims.

A permissive environment that tacitly or openly encourages hate speech and assaults is actively, even aggressively, fostered by the majoritarian anti-minority ideology of the countrys political leadership.

Muslims are systematically demonised as sexual predators, as being sympathetic to terrorism and as people who slaughter and eat cow, which is held sacred by many Hindus. Most hate attacks on Muslims are never publicly condemned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is otherwise extremely voluble on Twitter and public addresses. This has fostered widespread social legitimisation of anti-Muslim prejudice, hate speech and hate crimes.

Read human rights activist Harsh Mander's column here.

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