In November, a young Muslim engineering student was casually addressed as a terrorist by his teacher. This month witnessed a government school principal’s arrest for letting his students sing a popular poem called Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua, also known as Bachche ki Dua.
From having a cup of coffee with a friend from a different faith to the colour of a railway station, religious intolerance has solidified its presence in the country.
This article is a part of Siasat.com’s tracker of incidents of hate crimes and Islamophobic incidents that took place against Muslims across India.
List of incidents
On December 3, a video was circulated where a first-year Muslim student accused her history teacher of using Islamophobic slurs during the class. Hasina Bano, a student of MBR college in Balotra town in Rajasthan alleged that the teacher named Badam Singh while teaching a lesson on Gautam Buddha mentioned Muslims are ruthless and they have no remorse. A frustrated Bano left class and raised the issue with the college administration.
On December 5, the Jamia Masjid in Srirangapatna in the Mandya district of Karnataka witnessed a huge crowd of Hanuman devotees who tried to forcefully enter the mosque, turning out to be a hurricane task for the police force.
Further, a young Hindu devotee climbed atop a Muslim household where he replaced the green flag with the saffron one amidst chants of “Jai Shri Ram“.
The mosque has been a constant target for right-wing organisations who have persistently demanded it is replaced by a temple.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Babri Mosque demolition, a leader from the right-wing organisation Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha was arrested on December 6 for trying to recite Hanuman Chalisa at the Shahi Masjid Idgah in the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi complex in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.
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