Police are using COVID-19 as an instrument of terror against Muslims in impoverished neighborhoods.
More alarming still is the fact police are using COVID-19 as an instrument of terror against Muslims in impoverished neighborhoods, including accounts that New Delhi police officers are using the pretext of investigations into the city’s recent anti-Muslim pogrom to kidnap Muslim youths and threaten them with forced exposure to the coronavirus.
At a time when the world’s largest democracy and second largest country is in the grips of fighting a virus that doesn’t make distinctions between religious faiths, a fight that if lost could send the Indian economy into a death spiral it never fully recovers from, the government is fanning the flames of communal polarization to march the country ever closer to taking on the identity of a Hindu fascist state.