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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has become a hub of Islamophobia where Muslims are increasingly targeted for practicing their faith, while the communal rhetoric of the UP Chief Minister has normalized religious violence across the state.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, the open targeting of Muslims and their places of worship exposes the regression of minority rights in so-called secular India and reflects the systematic erasure of Muslims from the national narrative.<\/p>\n
The failure of the government and state institutions to check hate speech reveals New Delhi\u2019s permissiveness toward majoritarian extremism.<\/p>\n
Muslim rulers of India are increasingly being termed \u201cinvaders\u201d similar to the British and French, in an attempt to erase the historical legacy of Muslim rule during the Mughal era.<\/p>\n
Hindus are being systematically projected as victims while communal narratives continue widening social divisions and raising religious tensions. India\u2019s political discourse continues its descent as anti-Muslim rhetoric becomes normalized at the highest levels of leadership, providing state-level validation for communal hostility and emboldening violence.<\/p>\n
State silence has simplified and legitimized communal messaging by giving it implicit approval, while communal signaling is replacing constitutional pluralism. Human rights concerns are dismissed as \u201cexternal interference,\u201d resulting in a fractured social fabric with long-term costs for social stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has become a hub of Islamophobia where Muslims are increasingly targeted for practicing their faith, while the communal rhetoric of the UP Chief Minister has normalized religious violence across the state. According to Kashmir Media Service, the open targeting of Muslims and their places of worship exposes the regression of minority rights …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":199917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"yoast_head":"\n