A virus that in the years to come would spread into Karnataka, where hijab bans at public schools and colleges would prohibit Muslim women from pursuing their educations. A virus that devolved into new forms, including the bulldozing of Muslim homes and businesses, a form of state-sponsored Islamophobia that destroyed the brick and mortar symbols of Muslim life in cities across India, foreshadowing more violent stages of ethnic cleansing still to come. A virus that spurred the assembly of a developing network of prison camps in Assam, on the eastern edge of India, where undocumented Muslim citizens would be cast as "immigrants" under the CAA, uprooted from their homes and incarcerated indefinitely.

XREF: Connects to themes of state nationalism and minority targeting, potentially relevant to the reader's understanding of contemporary authoritarian governance patterns.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 484