Deccan Herald’s Editorial: Anti-minority hate speech in India rose by 74% in 2024, says US-based research group
India Hate Lab said a third of hate speech incidents last year occurred from March 16 through June 1 during the height of election campaigning. Instances of hate speech against minorities in India such as Muslims increased 74 per cent in 2024, a Washington-based research group said on Monday, with incidents ballooning around last year’s […]
BARRON’S: Anti-Muslim Hate Speech Surges In India Led By Modi: Report
Hate speech in India targeting the country’s religious minorities saw a “staggering” surge in 2024, a US-based think tank said Monday. The alarming rise was “deeply intertwined with the ideological ambitions of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the broader Hindu nationalist movement”, the India Hate Lab (IHL) said in a report. During India’s […]
Dhaka Tribune: Report: Anti-Muslim hate speech surges in India led by Modi
Hate speech in India targeting the country’s religious minorities saw a “staggering” surge in 2024, a US-based think tank said yesterday. The alarming rise was “deeply intertwined with the ideological ambitions of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the broader Hindu nationalist movement,” the India Hate Lab (IHL) said in a report. During India’s […]
Kuwait Times: Anti-Muslim hate speech surges in India led by Modi: Report
NEW DELHI: Hate speech in India targeting the country’s religious minorities saw a “staggering” surge in 2024, a US-based think tank said Monday. The alarming rise was “deeply intertwined with the ideological ambitions of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the broader Hindu nationalist movement”, the India Hate Lab (IHL) said in a report. […]
Deccan Herald’s Editorial: Rising Hate Calls for Tough Curbs
India in 2024 saw a 74% rise in anti-minority hate speeches than in 2023, according to Washington-based, non-partisan research group India Hate Lab. Hate speech is a parasite which, if not weeded out, will further damage India’s secular fabric. The challenge, as observed by the Supreme Court in 2023, is in implementing existing verdicts – and that […]
DropSite: How a controversial law allows Modi’s Hindu nationalists to monitor private relationships
This week, the Mumbai-based Center for Study of Society and Secularism reported an 84 percent increase in communal riots across India from 2023 to 2024. Last year, Washington, DC-based think tank India Hate Lab documented 668 hate speech events across India that targeted Muslims. Two-thirds of those incidents occurred in states where the BJP is in power. As the UCC debate […]
UnHerd: Movies are Modi’s new weapon Bollywood is rife with anti-Muslim hatred
Not, of course, that this matters simply for India’s spiralling international reputation. On the contrary, Modi’s usurpation of his country’s media is having a real-world impact on the safety of Muslims. In 2023 alone, India Hate Lab, a Washington DC-based group that documents hate speech against India’s religious minorities, recorded 668 hate speech examples targeting Muslims. Even […]
Outlook Magazine: India Hate Lab’s Hate Speech Report Highlighted in Indian Parliament
The 18th Lok Sabha witnessed a change in the Indian Parliament. For the first time in a decade, there is a consolidated Opposition with a potential to hold the ruling party accountable. Member of Parliament Sagarika Ghose cited the data of India Hate Lab that states that 75% of the hate speech comes from the […]
TIME: How India’s Newly Empowered Opposition Can Stand Up for Rohingya
The Muslim Rohingya came to India fleeing genocide by the military in neighboring Myanmar, but now has to contend with death threats, police brutality, arbitrary arrest, deportation, and dehumanizing hate speech from leading figures within Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. The hatred of the Rohingya is pervasive in India. Despite them comprising only around 0.02% of the country’s 200 million Muslims, 6% of […]
London School of Economics: Religiophobia or Islamophobia? Deciphering India’s inconsistency
The use of ‘religiophobia’ and ‘Islamophobia’ have been at odds during recent United Nations assemblies. Muhammad Ahmad Khan and Shafaq Zernab provide an analysis of India’s contribution to the debate. Instances of hate speech have been instigated over time in India. Meticulous data gathered by the India Hate Lab Report documented nearly two anti-Muslim hate speech […]