Islamophobia Discourse in India and the Response of Minority Muslims

Abstract

This article examines how Islamophobia has grown in contemporary India, as reported in the media. The study's focus is on how the media portrays Islamophobic discourse and how it affects the lives of Muslim minorities in India. What is the relationship between the Indian government's policies and the rise of Islamophobia? How do Muslim minorities in India respond to Islamophobic attitudes? As library research, this article contends that Islamophobia manifests in various forms of violence against Muslim minorities in India, including hatred, destruction, and physical violence against Muslims. This is supported by India's Hindu supremacist ideology, Hindutva, which has grown in popular in tandem with the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shri Narendra Modi in occupying the Indian government, as well as the tendency of the Indian mass media to appear to be biased in favor of the ruling party. Meanwhile, the Muslim minority's reaction to various acts of violence and Islamophobic attitudes in the Indian media is dualistic, namely a counter-attitude as practiced by Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind (JUIH) and an accommodating attitude as practiced by Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM).