Hindutva Islamophobia penetrated Indian universities and professional classes

Evidence

“I have seen people whom I respected my entire life, professors of great and national institutes, certain family members blatantly blaming Muslims for anything and everything without even giving a thought,” said Dr. Sharath R., a Hindu physician from Bengaluru, India. “Of course [Islamophobia is] propagated by the politics and the media.” If the nation’s intelligentsia were infected by Modi’s hate, then it is safe to assume that its imprint on the lay and working classes would be just as potent, if not more so. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 409

Categorization

• XREF: Islamophobia reaching the intelligentsia mirrors the American and European cases where elites normalize anti-Muslim sentiment — a cross-case convergence for the reader.