The recent Pew Study has found that India is ranked as the world's third most-unfriendly country for minorities. This is unsurprising given the rise of Islamophobia in India under the Modi government. Since Modi's election in 2014, there has been a sharp increase in Hindu nationalist sentiment and violence against Muslims. Muslims have been lynched, beaten, and killed for supposedly eating beef, carrying cow carcasses, or for simply being Muslim. Muslim women have been forced to remove their hijabs and mosques have been attacked. The Indian government has done little to stop this violence or to protect its Muslim citizens. Some members of the government have openly encouraged it. This Islamophobia is not only harmful to India's Muslims, but it also undermines India's secular democracy and further alienates India from the Muslim world. Islamophobia in India Since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, there has been a steady rise in Islamophobia in Indi...