The Independent: Muslims are slaughtered in India and the world does not care
A British writer accused the international community of being careless in condemning the massacre of Muslims in India a few days ago.
A British writer accused the international community of being careless in condemning the massacre of Muslims in India a few days ago.
While Muslims were being killed in India, the world seemed careless in condemning the recent violence in New Delhi, as Patrick Coburn said in his article in the British newspaper The Independent.
The journalist specializing in the wars in the Middle East compared the massacre of New Delhi on February 23, 2020 to the violence that occurred against the Jews on November 9 and 10, 1938 in Germany, occupied Austria, and areas in occupied Czechoslovakia by German forces.
Going back to the 1930s, when the German government incited its supporters to burn temples and destroy the homes of Jews, their shops, companies, and schools, where at least 91 Jews were killed in those events in what was known as the Crystal Night or the Night of Broken Glass.
The writer said that what Muslims suffered in late February in Delhi is similar to what happened to the Jews on the Night of the Broken Glass.
Crowds of Hindu nationalists have roamed the streets of the city and set fire to mosques, Muslim homes, stores and companies, and looted them, and killed or burned Muslims alive.
He added that the Indian police left the Muslims without any protection, noting that 37 people – almost all of them Muslims – were killed and many others were beaten until they were about to perish.
The writer accused the international community of what he considered careless on its part in understanding the magnitude of what is happening in India, and attributed that carelessness to the fact that the Modi government has been underestimating its project to change the position of the country as a secular, pluralist country.
He said that the number of people affected negatively by this change is so great that if the Muslim minority in India had their separate state, it would be the eighth largest country in the world in terms of population.
In the opinion of the author of the article, the violence that erupted in Delhi recently stems from the fear of hate triggered by the riot movement against Muslims at the direction of the Indian government.
The willingness of Modi and his ruling party to move forward with their anti-Muslim campaign is evident in the predominantly Muslim Jammu and Kashmir region, and their announcement of the abolition of self-rule.
Although the violence, fire and killings in Delhi last week against Muslims received widespread media coverage, they were met with international forgiveness and tolerance, according to the Independent article.
