World-renowned scholar and author Professor Noam Chomsky has said that the government of India is exhibiting Islamophobia in its 'most lethal form' and has effectively made the country's 250 million Muslims a 'persecuted minority'
"The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the west, taking its most lethal form in India," Professor Chomsky said. "The Modi government is systematically dismantling Indian secular democracy and turning the country into a Hindu ethno-cracy, with almost 250 million Muslims becoming a persecuted minority."
The professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was featured during a webinar organized by the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
Alluding to the ban on Muslim students wearing hijab in India, Chomsky noted, "The assault [in India] is taking other forms as well, including a general attack of independent thought and the education system, primarily directed at Muslim's students."
Chomsky further compared Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) to occupied Palestine: "India's terrible crimes in Kashmir [have been] sharply escalated by Modi's right-wing, Hindu-nationalist regime. Kashmir is now a brutally occupied territory under harsh military control, similar in some ways to occupied Palestine."
"The situation in South Asia is particularly painful, not only because of what is happening - in Pakistan as well - but also because of what is not happening," Chomsky concluded, adding that environmental degradation and destruction would make the region uninhabitable in the near future.
"The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the west, taking its most lethal form in India," Professor Chomsky said. "The Modi government is systematically dismantling Indian secular democracy and turning the country into a Hindu ethno-cracy, with almost 250 million Muslims becoming a persecuted minority."
The professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was featured during a webinar organized by the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
Alluding to the ban on Muslim students wearing hijab in India, Chomsky noted, "The assault [in India] is taking other forms as well, including a general attack of independent thought and the education system, primarily directed at Muslim's students."
Chomsky further compared Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) to occupied Palestine: "India's terrible crimes in Kashmir [have been] sharply escalated by Modi's right-wing, Hindu-nationalist regime. Kashmir is now a brutally occupied territory under harsh military control, similar in some ways to occupied Palestine."
"The situation in South Asia is particularly painful, not only because of what is happening - in Pakistan as well - but also because of what is not happening," Chomsky concluded, adding that environmental degradation and destruction would make the region uninhabitable in the near future.