Recent videos online show a worrying trend in India where people are calling for a boycott of Muslim businesses. These calls come from different places including some political and religious leaders as well as regular folks and have been captured in various social media posts. People in these videos are shown taking vows to not buy from or do business with Muslims. This has been seen in a few states like Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.
It looks like this movement to boycott Muslim businesses is getting more popular with lots of these incidents popping up. The videos show people actively involved in these boycotts and they’re promoting it too. It’s not super clear how these boycotts are being organized exactly but the fact that these calls are all over social media shows that there’s a lot of people who support it. One video in particular that got a lot of attention came from Hapur in Uttar Pradesh.
These calls for boycotts are specifically aimed at the Muslim community in India. The reasons for these actions seem to be a mix of political and religious ideas. Those who are pushing these boycotts are seemingly trying to make Muslim communities weaker both socially and financially. The full effect of these boycotts isn’t clear yet but this type of discrimination is worrying because it could divide society and cause a lot of harm.