Opinion | Islamophobia taints India’s response to the coronavirus

a newspaper, “My pregnant wife had to deliver a child. She was referred from Sikri to the Janana Hospital in the district headquarter but the doctors here mentioned that we should go to Jaipur because we are Muslim.”after members of his village socially boycotted him for allegedly being in touch with members of the Muslim congregation in Delhi who had tested positive.in anti-Muslim riots that left more than 50 people dead.

I fear for all my fellow citizens, but I know many don’t feel the same way about me and my community.In the past 10 days I have been reporting from the slums of India, where social distancing is a privilege many cannot afford. The threat of starvation, agony, the structural discrimination against the poor in the face of the pandemic is the need of the hour, a story that India and the world needs to hear and act on.

But now almost two weeks into a lockdown that threatens the life of every Indian, irrespective of faith, class, gender, I am being forced to write on prejudice and majoritarianism yet again, a subject I have raised consistently in this column. It is unfortunate that during this global crisis, when we should be putting all hate aside, my country and its leaders force me to focus on prejudice yet again, revealing an acute and disturbing crisis of morality.

Shameful

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