Hindu gatherings of similar scale drew no COVID blame
Evidence
The Muslim conference, planned months in advance, converged with growing concern within India about the domestic spread of COVID-19. The state had not yet issued a lockdown, and Tablighi Jamaat conference, and religious gatherings of other faith groups, particularly India’s majority Hindu congregations, continued without interruption. Modi himself even staged events attended by tens of thousands of people. The crowds at Modi’s rallies were far greater than those at the Muslim groups’ meetings, and his massive events were far more frequent. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 459
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- QUESTION: Worth verifying the size and frequency claim about Modi rallies relative to Tablighi Jamaat conferences as a comparative data point.
Related
- Modi’s own mass rallies escaped the blame Muslim gatherings received (similarity 0.93)
- COVID-19 in India was blamed on all 200 million Muslims nationwide (similarity 0.84)
- Hindutva nationalists dubbed COVID-19 ‘Corona Jihad’ online (similarity 0.83)
- Hindu mobs boycotted Muslim businesses over fake COVID infection claims (similarity 0.83)
- India’s COVID-19 outbreak was weaponized against Muslims through state and mob violence. (similarity 0.80)
- Indian Muslims fear Hindutva mobs more than the coronavirus (similarity 0.79)
- Hindu extremists blamed India’s COVID outbreak on its Muslim community (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- All 200 million Indian Muslims were scapegoated as COVID spreaders
#contradicts(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 461 - Hindu mobs boycotted Muslim businesses over fake COVID infection claims
#corroborates(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 466