India’s treatment of Muslims threatens to repeat apartheid, Mandela’s granddaughter writes

Ndelika, Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter has expressed her concern about the mistreatment of Muslims in India.

In an article she wrote in the British newspaper ‘The Independent’, Ndelika – a social activist – said, “India, the world’s largest democracy, has long been the hope of southern countries, but it is increasingly vulnerable to becoming an apartheid state.”

Mandela’s granddaughter said she was talking about India today “where Islamophobia has been so generalized and institutionalized that India risks a system with the same features of apartheid as the inequality” that prevailed in South Africa.

She noted that the last Muslim lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) resigned last week, leaving the party without a single Muslim member in the parliament.

Recently, BJP leaders mocked the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his pure family, “which put India’s important diplomatic relations at risk,” as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration’s move came too late to contain the crisis.