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Blamed, Attacked, Denied Treatment: Coronavirus Fans Islamophobia in India Anti-Muslim Sentiment Could Threaten the Country’s Fight Against the Pandemic and its Relations with Muslim Countries
by Yasmine El-Geressi A hospital in India demanded Muslim patients and their attendants prove they didn’t have Covid-19 before being admitted for
treatment. The privately owned Valentis Cancer Hospital in Uttar Pradesh state apologized a day later “for hurting religious sentiments.” But the message written in black and white cemented for many the growing demonisation of India’s Muslim community,
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