Indian Islamophobia escalated into hijab bans, bulldozings, and detention camps

Evidence

Forgetting is only permanent in death. And when Modi flew into Houston, the place where Abdul thought he had found escape, forgetting was permanently suspended for Abdul. … The horror of the past was linked to an even more horrific present. A present that spread like a virus through India and beyond, unleashing violence of such scope that there was no hope of slowing it down. A virus that in the years to come would spread into Karnataka, where hijab bans at public schools and colleges would prohibit Muslim women from pursuing their educations. A virus that devolved into new forms, including the bulldozing of Muslim homes and businesses, a form of state-sponsored Islamophobia that destroyed the brick and mortar symbols of Muslim life in cities across India, foreshadowing more violent stages of ethnic cleansing still to come. A virus that spurred the assembly of a developing network of prison camps in Assam, on the eastern edge of India, where undocumented Muslim citizens would be cast as “immigrants” under the CAA, uprooted from their homes and incarcerated indefinitely. A virus that would police the dress of Muslim women and punish the bodies of Muslim men, with limitless impunity and without stop, comprising a front of Islamophobia that stands as one of the world’s deadliest. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 484

Categorization

• XREF: This list of escalating state Islamophobic tactics echoes the staged progression of anti-Muslim measures evident in the Iftikhar global survey the reader is pairing with this chapter. — connects to: Indian Islamophobia rests on casting Muslims as foreign invaders rather than citizens; Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China; Modi’s India serves as a laboratory for virulent Islamophobia — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 485 (+9 more)
• QUESTION: The CAA detention-camp claim deserves verification against primary sources on the National Register of Citizens and Assam documentation process.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 484

Broader Connections

• Modi’s India serves as a laboratory for virulent Islamophobia #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 485
• Hijab-wearers and mosques both symbolize Islam’s threat and face violence #exemplifies (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 506
• American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations. #expands (0.55)
• Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China #expands (0.50)
• Fear of violence after terror attacks places hijab-wearing women under house arrest. #corroborates (0.50)
• Indian Islamophobia constitutes a more immediate lethal threat to Muslims than the pandemic does #expands (0.50)
• The hijab marks Muslim women instantly and provokes hostile public encounters #corroborates (0.50)
• France’s Hijab Ban inaugurated gendered Islamophobia that polices Muslim women’s bodies #qualifies (0.45)
• Liberal Islamophobia under Obama worsened conditions for Muslims at home and abroad #expands (0.45) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 436
• Anti-Muslim fear is being weaponized electorally in Europe and India simultaneously #expands (0.45) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 34
• A country famed for religious tolerance now leads European Islamophobia #qualifies (0.35) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 517