India Finds New 'Problem': Citizens Expressing Religious Affection
India's Hindu nationalist BJP government is now prosecuting over 2,500 Muslims for the crime of saying 'I love Muhammad.' This isn't some rogue local law enforcement; this is a systematic erosion of minority rights under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose administration presided over the 2002 Gujarat riots. These riots, where over 1,000 people (mostly Muslim) were killed, saw Modi banned from
entering the US for a decade. Now, as the US cozies up to India as a counterweight to China, such inconvenient histories (and current oppressions) are simply... smoothed over. Modi, once a pariah, is now a global statesman, apparently. Funny how geopolitical convenience can whitewash a multitude of sins, isn't it? Critics might politely 'raise questions' about why the 'world's largest democracy'
finds expressions of religious devotion so threatening. But let's be blunt: when a government demonizes its largest minority, demolishes their places of worship, strips their citizenship rights, and then arrests them for loving their prophet, that's not 'maintaining public order.' That's state-sponsored Islamophobia, pure and simple. How many 'democratic allies' get a pass on persecuting 200
million of their own citizens before we start calling it what it is?