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That's not what is actually happening, and is a very common incorrect characterization by progressive/Western groups/others. India's Citizenship Amendment Act (
by throwawaysea 6y ago
That's not what is actually happening, and is a very common incorrect characterization by progressive/Western groups/others. India's Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) grants refugee status and paths to citizenship for refugees from some of the surrounding countries, but only if they belong to certain persecuted groups. If you're a Muslim from a Muslim-majority country, then almost always you are not a refugee escaping persecution. In fact Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan all have Islam as their official state religion. So why would you be given the same refugee status and path to citizenship in India?
You have to also keep in mind, when you're asking for nationalism to take the form of unification, to Hindus in India that sounds like asking victims to accommodate their oppressors, given hundreds of years of invasions and brutal occupation of India by Islamic powers and then Western colonial powers. The push from Western actors like America to push for a secular India is equivalent to saying "indigenous people in America need to make way for the occupiers that perpetrated their genocide".
- rdedev 6y agoIf you are an LGBTQ muslim in one of those muslim majority countries you listed above then you will certainly be persecuted. A single factor should not be used to determine the refugee status of a person
- john_max_1 6y agoSo, one criteria is bad just because others weren't considered? FWIW, Muslim hijras are not treated badly in these Muslim countries.
- naruvimama 6y agoOk, is it possible to be an LGBTQ muslim? Meaning you believe gay people need to be stoned to death and still be gay? Or is it the other way round. Even in this case the comparison is unfair considering that Hindu children can be killed or kidnapped and married to an old muslim man just because they are non-muslim.