Hindu mobs target Indian Muslims after the Kashmir attack
Muslim shops vandalized, workers assaulted as Hindu supremacist mobs unleash violence across India after Kashmir incident
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindu supremacist groups in northern India have launched a wave of targeted attacks on Muslim-owned shops and street vendors in the days following the deadly April 22 assault on tourists in Pahalgam, located in Indian-administered Kashmir.
In Ambala, a city in the northern state of Haryana, mobs associated with Hindu right-wing organizations vandalized at least five Muslim-run businesses during protests staged ostensibly against Pakistan.
Among the targeted establishments were biryani shops and carts selling juice and flowers.
Viral footage circulating on social media showed a crowd chanting “Jai Shri Ram” — a Hindu slogan frequently weaponized in hate crimes — as they ransacked “Shama Biryani,” a Muslim-owned eatery.
The violence was concentrated in Sadar Bazaar and Rai Market, where the mobs overturned carts and physically assaulted workers.
A young employee at one of the shops sustained a head injury after being beaten by the crowd.
Mehmood, a juice vendor, described the assault on his cart, “I didn’t know what was happening. They just came and destroyed everything,” adding that he was too afraid to call the police.
This is part of a wider trend of rising anti-Muslim violence in India, where supremacist mobs increasingly exploit moments of national crisis to target minorities.
In the immediate aftermath of the Pahalgam attack, online hate campaigns blamed Islam and Indian Muslims for terrorism, with many social media accounts calling for “Israeli-style” military action in Kashmir—openly invoking the genocide in Gaza as a model.
Earlier this week, similar incidents were reported across India where Kashmiri students were harassed, detained without cause, or forced out of their accommodations.
The latest wave of mob attacks signals not only a deepening normalization of anti-Muslim violence in India but also a worrying trend where state institutions continue to look the other way, emboldening Hindu supremacist groups to act with impunity.
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