The West suffers selective myopia and amnesia over India's Muslims

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Here’s a good example of the way the Indian authorities ignore physical assaults on Muslims even as the US and the western world refuses to speak against such violence in the same vein as they condemn China’s treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang.

On April 10, at least 20 students of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were injured after a group of other students became violent, allegedly over the serving of non-vegetarian food in the mess. It was Ram Navmi, when Hindus celebrate the birth of the Lord Rama, and the violent group objected to the consumption of anything non-vegetarian. At least that was their justification for searching for the cook of JNU’s Kaveri Hostel and beating him up for the crime of cooking a non-vegetarian dish on Ram Navmi. They also beat up other students who were defending their right to consume a chicken curry. (For the record, it’s a myth that Hindu-majority India has always been a largely vegetarian country. A 2018 survey