Incident At UP School And Fueling Of Hate Crime In India

A horrific video showing a teacher at a private school in the Muzaffarnagar area of Uttar Pradesh ordering pupils to repeatedly slap a Muslim classmate sparked outrage throughout India, leading to demands for her arrest for inciting hate crimes. The instructor made snide remarks about “Mohammedan children,” alluding to the youngster’s religion, and instructed her pupils to “hit him (the boy) hard.”

On Friday, the video went viral on social media and ignited a debate about Islamophobia and hate crimes. The episode demonstrated how the country’s secular fabric is deteriorating as a result of a widening religious split. Tripta Tyagi, the alleged accuser, has been placed on leave from the school and is being questioned by police, but has not yet been taken into custody. The event was also noted by the National Commission for the Protection of Children’s Rights (NCPCR).

Tyagi made an attempt to defend her behavior by calling it a “minor issue” that had “unnecessarily been turned into a big issue.” She also made an attempt to defend herself, claiming that the child’s parents had urged her to be stricter with him. She told reporters, “I am disabled, so I had several classmates smack him so he would start completing his schoolwork.

Violence against minorities has sharply escalated in the nation during the previous ten years. Attacks on specific individuals, lynchings, riots among communities, ideas about forced conversions, and vigilantism are all on the increase.

Outlook has written extensively on the violence and prejudice against minorities in the past.

Outlook magazine recently published an article on Islamophobia that went in-depth on the incidents of harassment and atrocities suffered by Muslims as well as how the politics of polarization profoundly affect Indian culture. It examined the Nuh violence in Haryana, when conflicts during a VHP march resulted in the deaths of six persons, including two home guards and a priest. Homes were demolished, Muslim-owned businesses were shut down, a mosque was set on fire, and residents were compelled to return to their villages.

In response to the demolition of a Christian booth at the New Delhi Book Fair at Pragati Maidan, Outlook examined how Christians are forced to live in dread in the nation as a result of the rising number of assaults on churches and Bible burnings.

For the first occasion in over 20 years, hundreds of Christians gathered in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on February 19 to condemn recent violence, church assaults, and arrests of Christians.

These are only a few of the many hate crimes and discrimination events that occur every year, leading us to wonder what motivates them and where they lead.