Hindu mobs boycotted Muslim businesses over fake COVID infection claims

Evidence

After the lies came the batons, cricket bats, and boycotts. Hindu extremists mobbed and then pounced on Muslims in New Delhi. Muslims were being beaten physically, then financially. “In Punjab State, loudspeakers at Sikh temples broadcast messages telling people not to buy milk from Muslim dairy farmers because it was infected by coronavirus,” and shops owned by Muslims in both big cities and small towns were boycotted as sources of COVID-19 outbreak. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 466

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Category: Factual Claims

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