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Muslim Views, July 2020
Between virus and violence: the horror of being Muslim in India
by KHALED BEYDOUN
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TWO weeks after Donald Trump’s visit to New Delhi, the ascending Indian public intellectual Rana Ayyub asked, ‘What is left for a virus to kill in a morally corrupt nation?’
As the pandemic ravaged Iran and Italy, and ripped into nation after nation between and beyond, the Indian capital was besieged by a different kind of home-grown pandemic, concocted by none other than the nation’s prime minister, Narendra Modi.
