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Coronavirus: Islamophobia concerns after India mosque outbreak
BBC via Yahoo ^ | 4/03/20

Posted on 04/03/2020 3:44:28 AM PDT by Libloather

Outrage over a Muslim congregation that has sparked a new wave of Covid-19 cases in India has taken an Islamophobic turn.

States across India have traced more than 300 positive cases to the weeks-long event.

And Islamophobic hashtags have been trending on Twitter since the news first broke on Monday.

"Instead of corona quarantine, we should have hate quarantine," says historian Rana Safvi.

The gathering was by the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic missionary movement that is nearly 100 years old. And its global spiritual centre or markaz is in Indian capital Delhi's Nizamuddin area.

The event was held there - and it was attended by thousands of Muslims from India and abroad.

Officials are still scrambling to identify and trace all of those who attended, as well as their secondary contacts.

But the cases that are directly linked to the event have risen steadily through the week, exposing religious fault lines in a sharply polarised country.

Even as details about the congregation emerged on national news, #CoronaJihad, #NizamuddinIdiots, #Covid-786 (a number that carries religious meaning for Mulsims), began trending.

"We need to be secular. Religious groups should not hold congregations thinking religion is its own act of survival," says sociologist Shiv Visvanathan.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; india; islamophobia; mosque
Islamophobic memes have also been circulating - one meme, for instance, shows China as the "producer" of the virus, and Muslims as its "distributors".

Could ask Omar.

1 posted on 04/03/2020 3:44:28 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

“Islamophobia”

The leftist propagandists keep using this phrase as if it was a negative. Y’know, like fearing cancer or the Wuhan virus or having your family killed by a drunk driver.


2 posted on 04/03/2020 4:20:22 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Even more to the point, a phobia is an irrational fear. I have a deep, intense hatred of Islam, but I do not fear it.


3 posted on 04/03/2020 4:37:09 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rjsimmon

I fear it, like I fear rabies. But it’s not an irrational fear. The ill effects it often has are clear.


4 posted on 04/03/2020 5:33:14 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Libloather
Just wait until the Hajj this year. Talk about spitting in a Waring blender...


5 posted on 04/03/2020 5:56:41 AM PDT by moovova (It's not the Wuhu Flu...it's pollen season.)
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To: Libloather
I see we're back to the usual tropes: islamophobia, homophbia, xenophobia, racism, sexism ...

The Left just can't stop playing the victim card, no matter the impending catastrophe.

6 posted on 04/03/2020 6:15:26 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Libloather

“Muslims Fear Backlash”


7 posted on 04/03/2020 6:16:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather

No mention of the Muslims hinduphobia, christianphobia,homophobia, femalephobia. It is not that the media cares about anything except they like that Christian phobia that Muslims have. Enemy of my enemy is my friend.


8 posted on 04/03/2020 6:19:27 AM PDT by BRL
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To: Libloather

If you are not “Islamophobic” then you do not know enough about Islam.


9 posted on 04/03/2020 6:37:36 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: dfwgator

Or, as Mark Steyn once put it,

“Muslims fear backlash over tomorrow’s suicide bombing.”

There is no such THING as too much Islamophobia.


10 posted on 04/03/2020 6:47:36 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: fieldmarshaldj

A better word is “Islamomisia”, a revulsion of all things islamic.

Also works for “Homomisia”.


11 posted on 04/03/2020 6:55:52 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Libloather

Bkmk


12 posted on 04/03/2020 8:41:44 AM PDT by sauropod (Pelosi Galore: We know she's lying when we see her dentures flying.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

What is the phobia for fear of guns that save lives - survivaphobia??


13 posted on 04/03/2020 3:07:09 PM PDT by I_be_tc
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