Celebrated thinker Noam Chomsky said the "pathology of Islamophobia", now growing throughout the West, was "taking its most lethal form in India where the Modi government is systematically dismantling Indian secular democracy and turning the country into a Hindu ethnocracy".
Chomsky's comments came in a recorded message to a congressional briefing the third in a month organized by US-based Diaspora organizations on communalism in India.
Islamophobia is taking its most lethal form in India, with almost 250 million Muslims in the country becoming a persecuted minority, said Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the world's leading public intellectuals and Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"The assault is taking other forms as well, including a general attack on independent thought and the educational system primarily directed against Muslim victims, but by now expanding beyond. That's apart from India's terrible crimes in Kashmir, those crimes have a long history. They've been sharply escalated by Modi's rightwing Hindu nationalist regime," Chomsky said.
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