India Takes Step Toward Blocking Naturalization for Muslims

New York Times ^ | Dec 9, 2019 | Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj

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A bill establishing a religious test for immigrants has passed the lower house of Parliament, a major step for Modi.

India took a major step toward the official marginalization of Muslims on Tuesday as one house of Parliament passed a bill that would establish a religious test for migrants who want to become citizens, solidifying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist agenda.

The measure would give migrants of all of South Asia’s major religions a clear path to Indian citizenship — except Islam. It is the most significant move yet to profoundly alter India’s secular nature enshrined by its founding leaders when the country gained independence in 1947.

The bill passed in the lower house, the Lok Sabha, a few minutes after midnight, following a few hours of debate. The vote was 311 to 80. The measure now moves to the upper house, the Rajya Sabha, where Mr. Modi seems to have enough allies that most analysts predict it will soon become law.

..The legislation goes hand in hand with a contentious program that began in the northeastern state of Assam this year, in which all 33 million residents of the state had to prove, with documentary evidence, that they or their ancestors were Indian citizens. Approximately two million people — many of them Muslims, and many of them lifelong residents of India — were left off the state’s citizenship rolls after that exercise.

..With the new citizenship bill, Mr. Modi’s party says it is simply trying to protect persecuted Hindus, Buddhists and Christians (and members of a few smaller religions) who migrate from predominantly Muslim countries such as Pakistan or Afghanistan....They also say that when India and Pakistan were granted independence in 1947, the British carved out Pakistan as a haven for Muslims, while India remained predominantly Hindu.

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Myanmar already did this years ago.

Btw, India, Myanmar and China are heavily, heavily multicultural. And multicultural WORKS - except when you add Islam....

Look at the USA in the 1800s - English, German, Irish, Jewish, Italian, heck even Chinese and native American and various American cultures (like southern black and white culture)

Multi culturalism works and has been shown to work - but only when there is no Islam