Hindutva nationalists dubbed COVID-19 ‘Corona Jihad’ online
Evidence
In swift order, Hindutva nationalists took to social media, dubbing the virus “Corona Jihad” and Muslims “human bombs.” These labels were accompanied by vile caricatures of Muslims spitting on bystanders and physicians, bigoted political cartoons spread in newspapers and disseminated on social media. Then doctored videos of Muslims disobeying stay-at-home orders went viral online, shared millions of times over within the country and beyond. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 463
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Hindutva nationalists weaponized social media to label Muslims as Covid spreaders (similarity 0.93)
- Hindu extremists blamed India’s COVID outbreak on its Muslim community (similarity 0.86)
- COVID-19 in India was blamed on all 200 million Muslims nationwide (similarity 0.85)
- Hindu mobs boycotted Muslim businesses over fake COVID infection claims (similarity 0.85)
- Indian Muslims fear Hindutva mobs more than the coronavirus (similarity 0.84)
- India’s COVID-19 outbreak was weaponized against Muslims through state and mob violence. (similarity 0.84)
- Hindu gatherings of similar scale drew no COVID blame (similarity 0.83)
- India’s Muslim minority was scapegoated by Hindu extremists for the domestic outbreak of COVID-19 (similarity 0.82)
- Indian Muslims fear state-driven Islamophobia more than the pandemic itself. (similarity 0.79)
- Pandemic scapegoating escalated from media smears to physical violence and economic boycotts (similarity 0.79)
- Indian Muslims frame Islamophobia as a newly contracted national disease (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Hindu gatherings of similar scale drew no COVID blame
#complicates(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 459 - Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India
#expands(0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 400 - Hindu mobs boycotted Muslim businesses over fake COVID infection claims
#corroborates(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 466 - All 200 million Indian Muslims were scapegoated as COVID spreaders
#corroborates(0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 461