The mistreatment of Indian Muslim continues

             Muslim Kashmiris continue to have their basic rights violated by the Indian government, which forbids Muharram processions and attacks anyone who attempts to peacefully protest the prohibition. We would have anticipated that they would have drawn some conclusions from the previous year when a similar prohibition and accompanying use of force against processions drew strong condemnation on a global scale.

 

Even though the processions did not appear to involve any attempts to agitate against the Indian government, members of the ruling BJP and their front men in the media have already started trying to portray participants as separatists. Additionally, the Ministry of External Affairs actually dared to accuse them of "bigotry" and fostering religious differences in India in the face of worldwide criticism, including that of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (IOC) and several other nations who are typically friendly with India. Remember that the BJP, a political party whose policies are essentially founded on a Hindu-supremacist ideology, runs India's central government. Since coming to power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP government and several state governments have continually astounded observers with how brazenly bigoted and anti-minority their policies can be and how they fail to put an end to acts of communal violence against Muslims, Christians, and low caste Hindus. In the meantime, Modi's fascist administration has made it nearly impossible for the truth to reach the Indian media, with the majority of outlets presenting blatant state propaganda and the small number of independent outlets still operating seeing their owners and staff subjected to harassment and fabricated police cases.

 

Islamabad also defended the IOC's recent statement criticizing the removal of the special status granted to the disputed Kashmir area and other unlawful measures carried out on or after August 5, 2019. Regarding the bigotry allegation, the foreign ministry stated that India has made "ludicrous comments and baseless claims," and added that "India's hubris in this area is disgraceful." In fact, it appears New Delhi's most recent strategy is to rely on Islamophobia to sway public opinion in its favor by making such patently false and hypocritical claims.