COVID lockdowns doubled as Muslim protection from state-tolerated violence
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Staying at home and social distancing, for Muslims in India, may be a matter of life and death. Not as much out of fear of the global virus that has had much of the world confined and quarantined, but out of fear of a far more ominous and deadly pandemic—Indian Islamophobia. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 470