79 Final Country Report Draft :Discrimination against Muslims.

For this report, I’m going to discuss the anti- Muslim hate within the country of India and how new forms of media literacy, internet access and control led to different forms of online hate and discrimination against many of India’s Muslim Inhabitants.  In March of 2022, a hijab ban would set in the state of Karnataka, prohibiting female college students to wear hijabs in the class, causing public outcry.  This political and social issue is one of many when it comes to Muslim hate within the country.  This situation comes after the “Bulli Bai” app case, which were pictures of prominent  social media Muslim identified women, Lawyers, Journalist, writers, activists, and social workers media, would wake up to see photos of themselves edited lewdly claiming the women were for sale.  This case is also not the first of its kind. In July of 2021 and app called “Sulli deals” would make national headlines that shared the photos and social media profiles of over 80 Muslim women. This app would be hosted by GitHub, displaying the women as “deals of the day” The words “Sulli” and “ Bulli” are derogatory terms that are used by right-wing people to denote the women.

Government-

As previously mentioned the Bulli Bai app case is not stand alone situation. Hate crimes in the India against Muslims is unfortunately commonplace, and it is steadily on the rise. With the current Prime Minister of the country, Narendra Modi who leads the Bharatiya Janta Party (a right-wing group) that Seeks the ensue the Indian governance of the culture and laws that are shaped by Hindu religious values. The Bharatiya Jata Party also stands for the Peoples Party and has been ruling under the county next to the National congress since 2014.  The Hindutva organizations associated with the Bharatiya group are mainly the ones that are also perpetrating these attacks.

Religion –

When comes to religion In the county, Indian is the birth-place of some of the world’s major religions, Including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.  In the Constitution of India, it defines. The freedom of religion as a “fundamental right” and that it is a “secular state” which seems to contradict itself. Right-wing Hindu groups on July 28, 2020, go as far to pleas for the Supreme court of India to remove the words Secular and Socialist from the Constitution.

New/Media-

When it comes to critical independent news and media in India, it is difficult to take a stance that is against the government.  Most media in the country of India are funded by advertising and it can rely mostly on government advertisings. So, with the pressures from the pressures from the government and quest to gain larger audiences, forces them in a way to make sure to present sensationalist news. There are some that share other points of view such as Deshbhakt, The Wire India, and NewsClkck.

Citations:

Civic Media Observatory. (2021, December 6). Undertones: A deep-dive into Indian hyper-nationalism. Global Voices. Retrieved April 6, 2022, from https://globalvoices.org/2021/12/06/undertones-a-deep-dive-into-indian-hyper-nationalism/