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Hindu extremists blamed India's COVID outbreak on its Muslim community

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Hindu extremists blamed India’s COVID outbreak on its Muslim community

Evidence

Three months after the CAA was enacted into law, Muslim citizens were forced to face the compounded effect of hateful policy and popular scapegoating, during a global pandemic that was infected by a hysteria that knew no ceiling and had no exit. Islamophobia in India took its most vile turn yet as Hindu extremists, seeking to scapegoat Islam through any measure and purge Muslims from India by any means, blamed the outbreak of COVID-19 in India on no other than the country’s Muslim community. As a pandemic was shutting the world down in March 2020, Muslims in India found themselves locked between intensifying Hindutva violence and what became one of its deadliest weapons: the coronavirus. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 457

Categorization

  • XREF: Waves of pandemic-era scapegoating of minorities, connecting to anti-Asian blame narratives during COVID in the US; ties to the global Islamophobia synthesis the reader is studying. — connects to: Hindutva nationalists dubbed COVID-19 ‘Corona Jihad’ online; All 200 million Indian Muslims were scapegoated as COVID spreaders; COVID compounded state violence against Delhi’s Muslims (+5 more)
  • SEED: An article angle on how the same COVID-19 moment produced parallel minority-scapegoating in India and the US, showing the global transmission of Islamophobic technique.
  • corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 457

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