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October 03, 2021

Why fears over rising Muslim population share, immigration unfounded | Swaminathan Aiyar in Times of India +

Why fears over rising Muslim population share, immigration unfounded October 2, 2021, 9:49 PM IST SA Aiyar in Swaminomics, India, TOI The rise of communal tension in recent years owes much to the BJP’s stress on two themes. One is high Muslim fertility that supposedly threatens the majority status of Hindus. The second is the threat to India from Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh, who have been called “termites” by Home Minister Amit Shah. Both themes have been torpedoed by recent analysis of India’s own data by the Pew Research Centre, a non-partisan US think tank. [ . . . ] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/Swaminomics/why-fears-over-rising-muslim-population-share-immigration-unfounded/