In India, a film released this week, The Kerala Story, is causing significant controversy. It chronicles the alleged indoctrination of tens of thousands of women in Kerala by Islamic State Islamists.
This reality is greatly exaggerated, but this scenario is used by the Hindu nationalist government to stigmatize Muslims. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the film at an election rally in the neighbouring state of Karnataka, saying people needed his party to protect themselves from this "new form of terrorism" The controversy resembles that surrounding the release last year of another Islamophobic-leaning film, called The Kashmir Files.