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Right-wing Hindutva voices on social media are promoting a dangerous conspiracy theory accusing #Muslims in #India of devising a sinister plot, "Coronajihad," to spread the #Coronavirus. This is leading to violence & hostility against Indian Muslims.
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia
It's not just online, Indian media & BJP politicians r guilty of promoting this reckless, dangerous, & racist accusation. A political cartoon in The Hindu equated #Muslims to the virus, leading to further dehumanization of Muslims. #StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://twitter.com/KhanSahira/status/1243515484189982723?s=20
Indian media networks have platformed this dangerous conspiracy theory, giving greater airtime to bigotry. #StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://twitter.com/RizviUzair/status/1244981119415541760
Indian media has played a big role in promoting Islamophobia in the wake of the #Coronavirus. Segments have used the "us" vs. "them" narrative accusing #Muslims of being "enemies of the nation," & deliberately spreading the virus.
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-and-nizamuddin-tv-news-returns-to-bigotry-with-a-bang
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-and-nizamuddin-tv-news-returns-to-bigotry-with-a-bang
On social media, individuals are tweeting & publishing old videos and doctored images and pairing them w/ accusations that #Muslims are deliberately spreading the virus.
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/video-of-muslims-licking-plates-to-spread-covid-19-its-a-tradition-fact-check
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/video-of-muslims-licking-plates-to-spread-covid-19-its-a-tradition-fact-check
Politicians, & the media have used the #TablighiJamat gathering to support their claims while ignoring the govt's failures in addressing the spread & the virus's disproportionate impact on migrant workers, & daily wage earners. #StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.outlookindia.com/website/amp/india-news-corona-outbreak-afflicted-by-communal-virus-blaming-tablighi-jamaat-could-be-misdirected/349784?__twitter_impression=true
The #TablighiJamaat issue has been "cynically exploited to stoke naked communalism, on social media & TV channels, had a singular aim: to give a communal color to the fight against coronavirus." #StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://theprint.in/opinion/coronavirus-test-of-secular-nationalism-tablighi-jamaat-became-scapegoat/392764/
#ArnabGoswami's fear-mongering monologue railed against #Muslims in the country, accusing them of "spreading hate against the lockdown and told their followers to do everything possible to defy the lockdown”. #StopCOVIDIslamophobia
#Goswami’s fulminations foreshadow how the fight against #coronavirus would likely be framed in the coming period. It would no longer be ‘India against the virus’ but ‘India against the Muslims spreading the virus’. - @AsimAli6
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://theprint.in/opinion/coronavirus-test-of-secular-nationalism-tablighi-jamaat-became-scapegoat/392764/
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://theprint.in/opinion/coronavirus-test-of-secular-nationalism-tablighi-jamaat-became-scapegoat/392764/
Scapegoating Muslims is a tried & tested tactic of the #Modi govt, especially when it wants to divert attention away from its failures, whether it be #India's stagnating economy to #Modi's haphazard lockdown, causing great turmoil. #StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/india-coronavirus-covid19-narendra-modi/608896/
Targeting of Muslims in light of #COVID19 comes at the heels of the anti-Muslim pogroms in #Delhi. Mobs of Hindu men violently beat & murdered Muslims, & looted & torched their homes & businesses- all w/ the approval of the police. #StopCovidIslamophobia https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/28/india-delhi-first-came-the-pogroms-now-theres-coronavirus/
Anti-Muslim hatred is having deadly & dangerous consequences in #India. A doctor denied care to a pregnant Muslim woman simply because she was Muslim. The woman ended up losing her baby. #StopCovidIslamophobia https://thewire.in/communalism/rajasthan-muslim-woman-baby-dies-doctor
The campaign to demonize the Indian #Muslim is impacting #India's attempts to stop the spread of the #virus. #Muslim workers playing an essential role from transporting supplies to examining ppl, are being attacked.
#StopCovidIslamophobia https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-india-s-muslim-truckers-and-aid-workers-fighting-covid-19-face-attacks-35204
#StopCovidIslamophobia https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-india-s-muslim-truckers-and-aid-workers-fighting-covid-19-face-attacks-35204
The vendors said they had gone to small villages to sell vegetables on Saturday, when a group of men urged people to stop purchasing anything from them because they are #Muslims.
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://scroll.in/latest/959111/covid-19-muslim-vendors-stopped-from-selling-vegetables-in-up-accused-of-being-tablighi-members
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://scroll.in/latest/959111/covid-19-muslim-vendors-stopped-from-selling-vegetables-in-up-accused-of-being-tablighi-members
#babitaphogat had used a hashtag derogatory towards #Muslims and had said that for #India, they were a bigger problem than even the virus.
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-52320900
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-52320900
All too often in times of uncertainty & instability, pundits & politicians have preyed on people’s heightened emotions & fears, rhetorically scapegoating & passing laws & policies tht target marginalized communities.
#COVID19
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://truthout.org/articles/islamophobia-has-no-place-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/
#COVID19
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://truthout.org/articles/islamophobia-has-no-place-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/
The outbreak of #COVID19 in #India has presented yet another opportunity to launch a fresh attack on the #Muslim community. Physical, verbal & psychological warfare is being waged against Muslims.
@Apoorvanand__
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-outbreak-india-blamed-muslims-200418143252362.html
@Apoorvanand__
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-outbreak-india-blamed-muslims-200418143252362.html
#Meerut’s Valentis Hospital published an advertisement in a Hindi daily, saying that it will not accept new #Muslim patients unless they or their caretakers submit negative test results for #COVID19.
#India #StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://scroll.in/latest/959607/meerut-hospital-demands-negative-covid-19-result-to-admit-muslim-patients-up-police-launch-probe
#India #StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://scroll.in/latest/959607/meerut-hospital-demands-negative-covid-19-result-to-admit-muslim-patients-up-police-launch-probe
Police brutally beat Rizwan after he stepped out to buy essential items. His family were so afraid tht they didn’t take him to hospital, instead treating him at home. Eventually, he was shifted to a hospital when his condition deteriorated. He died there. https://thewire.in/communalism/coronavirus-muslims-communal-healthcare
#BJP politicians & Hindutva troll online are instrumentalizing virus fears to amplify existing prejudices, playing into growing #Hindu nationalism which in recent years has seen India's #Muslim societies increasingly marginalized.
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/23/asia/india-coronavirus-muslim-targeted-intl-hnk/index.html
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/23/asia/india-coronavirus-muslim-targeted-intl-hnk/index.html
