All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday questioned inaction on hate speech against Muslims in India.
The Hyderabad MP took to X and said, “At least 668 anti-Muslim statements were made in 2023. That means about two statements every single day of the year.” Owaisi reacted to a survey by Washington DC based research group, Indian Hate Lab.
In 2023, India recorded 668 documented hate speech events that targeted Muslims, according to a report released by the group that documents hate speech against India’s religious minorities. The report, titled ‘Hate Speech Events in India’, noted that while 255 events took place in the first half of 2023, “the number rose to 413 in the second half of the year, a 62% increase.”
About 75% of the events (498) took place in BJP-ruled states, Union Territories (administered by the BJP-led Central government), and Delhi (police and public order comes under the Union government’s purview).
Asaduddin Owaisi questions in action on hate speech
While 36% (239) of the events “included a direct call of violence against Muslims”, 63% (420) included references to “conspiracy theories, primarily involving love jihad, land jihad, halal jihad and population jihad.” About 25% (169) featured speeches calling for targeting Muslim places of worship.
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