Mohammed Rizwan is angered at the growing anti-Muslim crimes in India. “I cannot even post on social media now,” said the 21-year-old engineering student living in India’s West Bengal state.
“It wasn’t like this before, I could call out whomever I wanted.” Rizwan linked his own silence to the arrest of a local Muslim who was arrested for “protesting on social media.”
On May 4, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won one of the most contentious political battles in the country in West Bengal. Modi’s victory was celebrated countrywide, with his supporters calling it a “historic” win.
Meanwhile, in West Bengal – a border state of more than 100 million people – a different kind of crackdown on Muslims began taking shape.
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