Posted on 03/02/2020 5:42:32 AM PST by Cronos
Many Indians lack the documents needed to prove citizenship—and Muslims are in the firing line.
Firoza Bano, 50, sat worried in her home in the northern Indian city of Jaipur. Born in the north Indian state of Rajasthan in 1970, she has barely traveled outside the state—but now she faces the possibility of being kicked out of her home country. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed all-India National Register of Citizens (NRC) will require Bano to prove she’s Indian. If she’s unable to produce the requisite documents, she might lose her citizenship and be declared an infiltrator. At best, she might spend months in one of the detention centers being built across the country to house the newly created refugees—at worst, she could be deported to a country she’s never known or be left stateless.
“My mother gave birth to me at home. My birth was never registered, so how do I produce a certificate?” Bano said. “Nor do I have land ownership or tenancy records dating back five decades. Although we’re law-abiding citizens, having lived peacefully in India all our lives, we might be thrown out of the country.”
Last December, India passed the CAA, which provides a route to citizenship to members of six religious minority communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan—but not for Muslims. Coupled with the NRC, a supposedly definitive list of Indian citizens, the provision is facing criticism for being anti-Muslim and unconstitutional. A similar list in Assam has already been used to single out Indian-born Muslims for potential deportation. And while members of other faiths now have the shield of the CAA as a route back into Indian citizenship if they’re branded as illegal by the NRC process, Muslims have no such respite.
That’s a big problem.
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I was puzzled that Frontpage would print such an article so I clicked the link which took me to Foreign Policy. Aha, thought I, this makes more sense. You might want to correct your error.
india already has a Moslim country to send them to: Pakistan.
It only works if a constitution protects all of them and people obey the law.
“It only works if a constitution protects all of them and people obey the law.”
The first amendment says...
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”
So the constitution gives islam the freedom to exercise their religious beliefs to kill the infidel, stone adulterous women, and cut off people’s hands for stealing, AND CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAWS PROHIBITING THAT.
What am I missing?
Thanks — Admin, please can you change the source name to Foreign Policy.
thanks pluv - I don’t know why I typed in Frontpage, but I erred
islam in India predates the Moguls.
The first contact with islam was, surprisingly, peaceful — the Arab seafarers brought it to kerala in the 8th century. This was the same route St. Thomas the Apostle used when coming to India in 52 AD.
After that, it was all violence — the Ummayyads attacked what is now Sindh in Pakistan and were repulsed.
The next serious attack was in the 11th century when Mahmoud of Ghazni slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Hindus.
Since that time Islam creeped forward
buddhism and jainism are technically offshoots of Hinduism in the same way Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism.
Japan had chaos before the Shogun era - the reason it can keep order since then is the Meiji era
Nah, this wasn’t auto-correct, just my own fault :)
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