India’s beef ban: ‘They want to make Muslims jobless’

Muslim meat traders say they are being targeted as the Hindu nationalist BJP closes slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh. Meat sellers in Uttar Pradesh state say the police have been troubling them [Sakib Ali/Gallo/Getty] Meerut, India – On a midweek afternoon in Meerut’s centuries-old Gudri Bazar, a buffalo meat trader called Gufran Farooq displays the blade of a cleaver against his palm. There are n