“Critics have called the proposed law anti-Muslim.”
Why? Are non-Muslims not actually being persecuted in Muslim countries? This shows how the charge of being “anti-Muslim” is used to intimidate and silence anyone who dares stand against the jihad or with its victims.
Meanwhile, every nation on earth should offer a similar refuge.
“India’s cabinet sends religion-based citizenship bill to parliament,” by Devjyot Ghoshal and Zarir Hussain, Reuters, December 4, 2019:
NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI (Reuters) – India’s cabinet approved a bill on Wednesday to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighboring Muslim countries, the first time that the country is seeking to grant nationality on the basis of religion.
Last month, Amit Shah, India’s federal home (interior) minister, told parliament that non-Muslim minorities – Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Christians, Sikhs and Parsis – who fled from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan would be given Indian citizenship under the proposed law.
The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) was first introduced in 2016 by the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi but was withdrawn after an alliance partner withdrew support and protests flared in India’s remote and ethnically diverse northeastern region.
Giving Indian citizenship to “Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs escaping persecution” was part of the manifesto of Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of a general election in May 2019 that the nationalist leader swept.
Critics have called the proposed law anti-Muslim, and some opposition parties have also pushed back, arguing citizenship cannot be granted on the basis of religion….
Krishna says
Muslim refugees are also welcome but as long they as have few children and integerate to the society
gravenimage says
Good luck with that, Krishna…
Infidel says
There is absolutely no reason for India to take in any Muslims from Afghanistan, Pakistan or Bangladesh.
For the Nehruvian/Gandhians and Leftists in India, anything that doesn’t pretend that Pakistan and Bangladesh are no different from India is ‘communal’. That’s why they were humped in the last elections despite India having one of their worst employment figures in 40 years
AP says
Never let a muslim in your country, unless you want some of your neighbors slaughtered.
Mural says
That has never happened anywhere in the world for a sustained period of time. Any government who believes this are either Ignorant or Evil or botH.
peter says
I cannot believe that you could be so naive even after knowing how muslims even as a minority in India usurped power and established the moghul empire and lot of Hindu princes were falling at the feet and offering their daughters to that SOB Akbar .I thought you will be more prudent !
Infidel says
150 million Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs died at the hands of myriad Muslim sultanates – the Ghaznavids, Ghorids, Mamluqs, Khiljis, Tughluqs, Sayyids, Lodis, Mughals, Bahmanis and several others. There is no reason to invite a repetition of history, now that the Nehru/Gandhi legacy is pretty much dead
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
÷1 India! Time for all. countries to bring this issue out of the shadows by passing legislation that offers refuge from the storm of Islam.
Jaladhi says
It’s about time that Indi a did this! Kudos to PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for showing courage in introducing this bill which gives hope to all persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmaar. If it is anti Islam then so be it since no country has actually cared for persecuted minorities – Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Jains and others from these countries. Maybe US and the West can learn something here and start giving help to the persecuted Christians from Middle East who are given hard time for asylum in the West as compared to Muslims. One wonders why Muslims are leaving their Islamic paradises in middle east for the West and after coming here demand the same hellish religious customs to be imposed from which they fled in the first place. Perhaps invading the West in the guise of asylum seekers is their motive!
Infidel says
+1
Save Europe says
I applaud you Modi and India ??
Sylvia Maresca says
We should consider doing this
gravenimage says
We *should* be helping the victims of Muslims.
Lydia Church says
India’s cabinet approves bill to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighboring Muslim countries
“Critics have called the proposed law anti-Muslim.”
Because?
Because muslims persecute other religious types and create minorities out of them and want to hunt them to extinction. They don’t want them to survive and escape to neighboring countries as TRUE REFUGEES. They want them dead. So to rescue them would be ‘un-islamic.’ “How dare you rescue them and not let us murder them all to extinction?! We are supposed to persecute them and martyr them, after all, our good book says so!” You see, THAT would be pro-islamic.
And they themselves have admitted it!
And on the reverse, we now have the green light to say no, we will not take in any muslim refugees for any reason (they are not persecuted, but even if they were), because that would be un-Christian.
Ha ha!!!
Lydia Church says
And on another note, this is precisely WHY we ARE anti-islam!
But they never explain HOW or WHY this is supposedly ‘anti-muslim’!
Infidel says
It’s anti-Muslim b’cos it doesn’t allow the re-Islamization of India by limitless immigration from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh
gravenimage says
India’s cabinet approves bill to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighboring Muslim countries
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Bravo India! I hope all Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and other non-Muslims get out of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Grimly, there is no future for any non-Muslims there.
More:
“Critics have called the proposed law anti-Muslim.”
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Is allowing Infidels to flee Islamic persecution “anti-Muslim”? Good God…
Jayell says
So giving help to anyone fleeing islamic oppression is anti-islamic? In other words, denying islam its Allah-gjven right to oppress? What a give-away!
Chand says
It is anti-Muslim because the Indian Constitution DOES NOT ALLOW any discrimination on the basis of religion, whether the asylum seekers claim to be victims of ‘religious persecution’ or ‘economic distress’.
Muslims (like the Ahmadiyas or Shias) might also be ‘religiously persecuted’, in neighboring Muslim countries.
Mural says
You are using the classic leftist/Islamic tactic of using the freedom given in a country’s constitution to undermine/subjugate the majority.
You, evidently, are either ignorant about the historical genocide of Hindus under Islamic Tyranny ot want to see this tyranny repeated again.
gravenimage says
The appalling Islamophilic Chand is against India offering any help to victims of Jihad terror.
Infidel says
There is no reason to allow either Shias or Ahmadiyas into India, given that they are as intolerant of Hindus as Sunnis are. Shias can go to Iran if they like. Besides, leaders of Pakistan like the Bhuttos were Shia, so the idea that Shias are a discriminated lot in Pakistan is false
peter says
Don’t be so naive . The same Ahmadiyas or Shias once they are allowed in all their aim would be to establish their own regime based on the religious faith .Burmese are not cruel people but wise after having seen what Rohingas have done to their country . Try to think harder .
Infidel says
Many Indians have the misconceptions that Shias are more tolerant than Sunnis. If they study the history of the Bahmani-Vijayanagar wars, they’ll know otherwise. The Bahmani sultanate was a Shia sultanate that was constantly at war w/ Vijayanagar and ultimately destroyed that great city.
Yeah, the Shias are a persecuted lot when they’re a minority, but when they become a majority, they give as good as they get. Just look at Iraq or Lebanon
As for Ahmadiyas, there is no reason to take such a fake religion that makes up its own history (“Christ died in Srinagar, Kashmir”) seriously, much less give them a state
Halaku says
People’s memories are understandably short, but it may not be out of place to mention that it was the Shias and Ahmediyas who led the movement for partitioning of India. So it’s kind of funny that things didn’t play out their way and probably the best country for them today is the truncated “Hindu” India.
Kepha says
It seems that Bharatiya Janata initially wanted to offer this only to Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains, not Christians.
gravenimage says
I know that India has offered citizenship to any persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, *and* Christians, Kepha.
Infidel says
And Jews. Only bizarre thing that India does is define Jews as Christians. Which would be like defining Hindus as Buddhists
gravenimage says
True, Infidel–this is odd, but not ill-meant.
Carl -stealth Infidel- says
If done, India will be the Light of the World!!!
Janice Mermikli says
Agreed,
Infidel says
I pretty much endorse everyone above (up to the point of this posting) who’s supported this.
One note about something about the bill above:
The reason protests erupted in North East India was that these states, which have tribal populations, didn’t want to accept anybody outside their community from Bangladesh, no matter what the religion, since that would dilute their concentration in their states. Also, since the Hindus and Buddhists in Bangladesh are Bengali speaking, they tend to move more to Assam and Bengal than to other non-Bengali parts of India. This is different from refugees from Pakistan/Afghanistan, who tend to be conversant in Urdu/Hindi and have a much wider area to move to in North India.
But the other thing driving this bill was the National Citizenship Registry – an initiative by the Indian government to take a census and weed out illegal immigrants from the population. While a lot of those from Bangladesh are Muslims, there are also others, like Bangladeshi Buddhists and Hindus who were scared of this move, since that would mean deporting them to a Muslim country. Such a move caused the BJP to lose recent by-elections in Bengal, which is why they emphasized that they won’t pass the NCR before they passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill, which would prevent non-Muslim immigrants – even illegal ones – from being deported to Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh
One more point – while Jews were missing from the listed religions, India bizarrely classifies Jews as Christians, so they too would be allowed, assuming that they didn’t prefer Israel instead
Chand says
Infidel says :”But the other thing driving this bill was the National Citizenship Registry – an initiative by the Indian government to take a census and weed out illegal immigrants from the population.”
This National Registry of Citizenship was recently done in Assam but it was totally flawed as many of the people excluded are Indian Hindu citizens and not illegal aliens.
This registry move coupled with this Citizenship amendment bill is a pincer move to target Muslims. Muslims who are deemed to be non-citizens will not be allowed citizenship but non-Muslims will be.
So now every Indian Muslim must prove his/her citizenship of India if they are to remain there while non-Muslims, if deemed to be illegal aliens, will be automatically granted citizenship (on the argument that they are religious minorities in Muslim countries who have fled persecution).
This pincer move by the ruling BJP is a blatant effort to communally divide the country further in the hope of getting Hindu votes.
On top of this Bangladesh or Pakistan will not accept any Muslims from India who are pronounced to be illegal aliens. Where will they go? Camps? Detention centers are being built already. How long will they be detained?
Carl -stealth Infidel- says
Maybe now in that region the muslims will be too busy to kidnap non-muslim girls for “marriage”
Mural says
Why should India provide citixenship to Muslim economic migrants from Bangladesh? They conyribute zilch to the economy, breed like rabbits and mooch off government subsidies and would eventually want to bring Sharia to non-muslims too
Infidel says
Especially when those people can go to the GCC countries and do the same thing there.
Infidel says
No, the people excluded were Hindu and Buddhist refugees from Bangladesh who were in India illegally. No Indian Hindus were excluded, although there was an amusing case of the scions of a former Muslim president of India Fakhirudin Ali Ahmad being initially excluded (They were included again)
Only if one conflates Muslims w/ Bangladeshis. The reason those countries – Pakistan and Bangladesh – exist at all is to be a home for Muslims. There is therefore no justification for any Muslims from either of these countries for being given refuge in India. However, endless number of Bangladeshi Muslims were convenient vote banks for previously the Marxists, and currently the regime in Calcutta, just like all the illegal Central American aliens in the US are convenient vote banks for the Democrats, which is why they are so aggressively for it. There is no reason for BJP leaders, who have a totally different perception of things than the Congress or the Marxists, to play along
‘Communal’ divisions already existed, which is why the BJP, which was a non existent party in Left Bengal, won almost half the seats this year in the elections that consolidated Modi’s power. In several parts of Left Bengal, Hindus were so outnumbered by Bangladeshi Muslims that they became afraid of being subsumed and voted BJP. Also, you had the state government ban Durga puja immersions in favor of Muharram, and this sort of discrimination by an ostensibly secular government.
First things first: this refugee issue only exists on the Bangladesh border: India has a pretty ironclad border w/ Pakistan due to mutual suspicions. There ain’t too many Pakistanis who can come to India other than thru buses and trains that have been discontinued since the Balakot faceoff this year. There is a reason ISIS and other Jihadist groups have moved from Pakistan to Bangladesh for their anti-India operations.
On the Bangladesh side, their government has already agreed to take in people who are their citizens, and what’s more, most recently, 180 Bangladeshis were arrested while fleeing India due to the NRC. In other words, Bangladeshis are getting fearful of getting deported and are leaving India in advance.
The only fly in the ointment is the issue of non-Muslim Bangladeshis who are there in India illegally, and are genuinely scared of going back, since they’d be targets of Muslims. That’s what the CAB is meant to address. There is no reason for Indian Muslims to root for Paki or Bangladeshi Muslims to be given refuge in India. There is every reason for Indian non-Muslims to want non-Muslims from these 3 countries to be given refuge in India
Khushi says
PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are trying to do the right thing and I hope opposition will allow this to happen.
Infidel says
The BJP has 400+ seats in parliament – out of 544. They just need a 2/3 majority to pass anything, so they can pass this easily, regardless of what the Muslim pandering parties think of it.
Khushi says
If anyone claims that non muslims are not being persecuted in muslim countries, one only needs to look at the numbers.
Non Muslims are dwindling rapidly in muslim countries, and muslims are growing ever larger in non muslim countries. Especially the muslim population in India is ever expanding.
dfhdnjdn says
INDIA IS NO SAFE HAVEN FOR CHRISTIANS…
as can be seen by recent (and past) reports from within India by Christians there.
“ANIMISTS OPPOSING CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA FIND ALLIES IN MAOISTS, POLICE & HINDU EXTREMISTS
Christians In Tribal Areas Face Persecution On Many Fronts.
The family had been attending Christian worship services for more than a year in Gadiras village, Chhattisgarh state. When they refused to bow to the tribal deities, villagers expelled the family from their home in the Kalgundapara area of Gadiras village on Nov. 4, Bandi said. “The villagers threw out the belongings, animals and chickens owned by Sodi Joga,” Bandi said. “Joga did not know where to go. It was his relatives and kinsmen who were threatening that they would kill him, his wife and 5-year-old daughter.”
There are regular such reports from Morning Star News
Mural says
Do you also read reports on the lengths Christian missionaries go to to convert tribal people to Christianity?
Hindus In india face persecution from Muslim.zealots, evangelical idiots and leftist idiots too.
gravenimage says
Muslim apologists often claim that Christians peacefully preaching is just as bad as Muslims forcibly converting Hindus or outright murdering them.
gravenimage says
Whatever India’s problems, it is a hell of lot safer for Christians than is Pakistan or Bangladesh.
janwog says
So India is more merciful for persecuted Christians in Pakistan than the pope.
infidel says
Already the Indian Left-lib and their Bollywood cronies are crying foul for excluding Muslim immigrants..