The Washington Post has published a report on the transformation of the Muslim government of India into a scapegoat in light of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic around the world.<\/p>\n
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The Washington Post has published a report on the transformation of the Muslim government of India into a scapegoat in light of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic around the world.<\/p>\n
According to the report that its correspondents, Joanna Slater and Niha Masih, worked on, \u201cOn a bright morning earlier this month, a former army officer was riding his motorcycle down a rural road south of India\u2019s capital when he reached an improvised barricade. He had no idea the villagers were looking for a scapegoat.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report continued, \u201cHe slowed his bike to a stop. The men at the barricade quickly identified him as a Muslim from the neighboring area in the state of Haryana. These people are spreading the coronavirus,\u201d said one of the villagers, according to a police complaint filed by the man\u2019s family. Grab him.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cSahimuddin, 49, who goes by only one name, felt a rope thrown around his neck. The attackers tightened the noose until he fell unconscious, the complaint said. He was later rushed to a hospital coughing blood, where doctors performed emergency surgery on his ruptured vocal cords and damaged trachea. He will require two more operations in the weeks ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
In India, the search for scapegoats during the coronavirus pandemic has focused squarely on the country\u2019s sizable Muslim minority, a community of 200 million that felt under threat even before the advent of covid-19.<\/p>\n
News channels and some ruling-party officials rushed to blame Muslims for the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country after an Islamic missionary group in New Delhi emerged as a super-spreader. In recent weeks, Muslims have been assaulted, denied medical care and subjected to boycotts \u2014 all in the name of fear of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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