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| Coronavirus: Indian politician warns against buying produce from Muslims |
| 2020-05-12 |
| [JPost] - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India's current ruling party, reprimanded one of its leaders after a video surfaced of the politician instructing people not to buy vegetables from Muslims amid unsubstantiated fears surrounding the coronavirus spread. "Keep one thing in mind. I am telling everyone openly. There is no need to buy vegetables from 'miyans' [Muslims]," said Suresh Tiwari a lawmaker from Deoria town, according to Al Jazeera. ...The coronavirus has exacerbated the festering great divide between the country's Hindus and its sizable Muslim minority, many of whom have seen their livelihoods threatened by the establishment of quarantine zones in densely-packed areas like Dharavi. There have been at least 71 confirmed cases in Dharavi. ...Muslim leaders say a belief that the coronavirus is not real has spread in their communities, but that they have been working through mosques to change those perceptions. Corona hoax? |
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