The National Muslim Conference of Ghana has joined Muslims throughout the world in calling on the Indian government to apologize unconditionally for the two politicians' disrespectful remarks.
It condemned the statements, saying they were not isolated outbursts from two politicians, but rather a reflection of a growing trend of intolerance in India that has advocated for violence and even genocide against Muslims.
The organisation called on the Indian government to take aggressive measures to halt the tide of Islamophobia in the nation in a statement released in Accra yesterday.
It regretted the government's delay in penalizing the two people, which came only after certain Islamic nations released critical remarks. Currently, the statement claims that persons in positions of authority are making constant and inflammatory statements that verge on hate speeches, hostile harassment, and pervasive violence towards Muslims.
Such volatile acts that sought to erode the very foundations of the international community should not be countenanced as a nation that was a signatory to most international conventions on the protection of human rights, which protected the rights of freedom of religion and proscribed discrimination on the basis of ethnic or religious origin.
The organization was also concerned about incitements to violence, which have grown alarmingly in recent months under the present administration, according to the statement.
It called the ban on Muslim head coverings in schools and the imposition of Hindu food preferences on Muslims Islamophobic.
The Citizenship Amendment Act, which made faith a criterion for gaining Indian citizenship, was also fueled by Islamophobia, according to the statement, and was a flagrant violation of their fundamental human rights.
The group also expressed worries about the power of a new mass culture characterized by incendiary material and nasty anti-Islam lyrics in movies, poetry, and music.
The goal of these, according to the statement, was to politically mobilize the majority of Hindus against Muslims.
"This religious polarization and well-oiled ecosystem of hatred, which the current government has nurtured," the statement continued, "has found frightening expression in the Indian mass media, where the overwhelming majority of news outlets have, lock, stock, and barrel, become echo chambers and cheerleaders of such bigotry."
Coopting the media for the aim of propagating hatred for political benefit was not sustainable, according to the statement, and the government was encouraged to address the matter.
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