Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, slammed Indian government for its failure to address the issue of nefarious Islamphobic campaign against Muslim minority in the country which is being singled out and blamed for the coronavirus spread.
In a statement, the OIC’s Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (OIC-IPHRC), tweeted, “OIC-IPHRC condemns the unrelenting vicious Islamophobic campaign in India maligning Muslims for spread of #COVID-19 as well as their negative profiling in media subjecting them to discrimination & violence with impunity.”
The organization further urged Narendra Modi government, “To take urgent steps to stop the growing tide of Islamophobia in India and protect the rights of its persecuted Muslim minority,”
The statement comes as COVID-19 outbreak in India has been nefariously linked to Muslim minority population in the country. Since March 28, tweets with the hashtag ‘CoronaJihad’ have appeared nearly 300,000 times and potentially seen by 165 million people on Twitter.
Earlier, a promiment figure of Tablighi Jamaat was charged with ‘manslaughter’ by Indian authorities accusing him of intentionally ‘spreading’ the novel virus.
Prime Minister Imran Khan, on several occasions has condemned Indian brutalities, discrimination and state sponsored hate crimes against Muslim minority of India.
On Sunday, he took to social media to criticize Narendra Modi government for its ‘deliberate and violent’ marginalizing of Muslims to divert attention from its own failure to contain COVID-19 spread in the country.
