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Safa Ahmed on Discrimination Against Indian-American Muslims

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Today, we are here with Safa Ahmed. We will discuss a topic, which I previously mentioned with Edward Mitchell from CAIR. It involves political and social fallout, particularly the discrimination against Indian American Muslims. This discrimination is not the sole cause of the issue but acts as an amplifier.

Safa Ahmed: Yes, sure. What this new survey reveals is that 80% of Indian American Muslims are reporting experiences of discrimination and exclusion, particularly by a political version of another religion, Hinduism, in the form of Hindu nationalism, often from their American peers.

For some background on where the idea for this survey came from, the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) has existed for around 20 years. It was founded in 2002, right after Modi became the prime minister of Gujarat, a state in Northern India. In 2002, he was the chief minister of that state. Under his watch, and as reported by the BBC, many people claim, with his explicit permission, a pogrom was carried out against Indian Muslims.

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