Muslims in India are being subjected to worsening persecution under Prime Minister Modi

This appeared in The Millennial Source

Despite their numbers — or perhaps because of them — the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu, has singled out Muslims for imprisonment and deportation.

The last decade has been one of global persecution for adherents to the Islamic faith.

In China, the Uighur Muslims, a minority ethnic group native to the Xinjiang region, have experienced mass detentions in “ re-education camps” (though the Chinese Communist Party denies the abuse). Within the southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, the predominantly Muslim Rohingya people have also been subjected to state persecution.

In the United States, residents of seven predominantly Muslim nations were barred entry into the country by the Trump administration. One of newly elected President Joe Biden ‘s first acts in office was reversing the so-called “Muslim ban,” but for many whose lives were upended by the original ban, the damage was already done.

Concurrent with those realities, Muslims in India have become one of the largest oppressed minority groups in the world. After Hindus, Muslims are the second largest religious group in the nation, making up nearly 15% of India’s population, or just over 200…