The trauma primarily to Muslims but also to the entire polity, will take years to heal

Roy, Aruna and Narayanan, Rajendran (2020) The trauma primarily to Muslims but also to the entire polity, will take years to heal. The Indian Express.

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On August 11, violence broke out in Bengaluru claiming three lives and leaving several injured. The violence was in response to a derogatory social media post concerning Prophet Muhammad by the nephew of a Karnataka Congress MLA. While the accused and numerous others, including several innocent people, have now been arrested, the incident has been reduced to ugly political slander. In February, riots broke out in Delhi after incendiary speeches by BJP Union Minister Anurag Thakur and ex-MLA Kapil Mishra. The hate speeches were a deliberate attempt to incite Hindus against Muslims and especially those protesting peacefully against CAA/NRC/NPR. The promulgation of discriminatory laws and policies like the CAA, NRC and NPR, and other violent propaganda, reflect in-built prejudices of the ruling dispensation. And, prejudices only promote violence.

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Roy, Aruna and Narayanan, Rajendran

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