The West looks carefully away from the situation of Muslims in India

Seen on Facebook, courtesy Hasan Suroor. There is some debate this was an iftar party per se, but none about the reality a secular, mixed group is breaking bread together

As previously noted, the Indian authorities have conspicuously ignored physical and psychological assaults on Muslims for years and the US and the western world has carefully looked away. This, despite being vocal about China’s treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang.

Since 2014, when the Hindu nationalist BJP won a parliamentary majority and set out to remake India according to its vision, Muslims have been under assault — physically, verbally, economically, culturally and by means of legislative action.

There have been all too many lynchings — conservative Muslims often sport a beard and there have been instances of incensed Hindu mobs literally tugging a man’s hair out of his face, while people watch.

Cow vigilantes remain on the prowl for any bearded Muslim unwise enough to be leading a bovine creature anywhere. In the name…