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please share this, I'm so sick of your selective activism, nobody has been talking about it because you guys apparently don't care about India's issues, I haven't seen anyone talking about this and I feel like I should try to talk about this.
India is trying to become a Hindu public and that'll be harmful in so many ways (below)
In the seven decades after India won freedom from British rule -- and it was the culmination of a struggle in which Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and other communities participated in an inspiring show of national unity, a fact not negated even by India's tragic Partition -- never have+
Muslims been made to feel so alien in their own land as now. And never has India witnessed Hindu triumphalism so openly and aggressively as now.
Secularism, which is a preambular cornerstone of the Indian Constitution, Indian state and Indian society, is under assault like never+
Secularism, which is a preambular cornerstone of the Indian Constitution, Indian state and Indian society, is under assault like never+
before. Removing this cornerstone, de facto and de jure, and replacing it with a 'Hindu First' principle, both at the state and societal levels, has become the Bharatiya Janata Party's foremost governance objective+
Ask yourself: has Modi even once affirmed his commitment to secularism since becoming prime minister in May 2014? With the prime minister himself making no effort to hide his aversion to secularism,+
his vast legion of supporters has felt emboldened to trash it as 'sickularism', a ploy for Muslim appeasement, and, worse still, to brand its votaries as 'anti-national'.
if you didn't know then secularism is basically the separation of church and state
De-nationalising a community, or at least diminishing its place in the nation, is the hidden agenda of the Citizenship Amendment Bill and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). This legislation irrefutably discriminates citizens on the grounds of religion, and thus violates+
Articles 14 and 15 of India's secular Constitution. By enacting it, the Modi government is asserting that India belongs more to Hindus than to Muslims. If ever a proof were needed that the current BJP leadership believes in the same 'Two Nation Theory'+
that the pre-Partition Muslim League propounded to demand a separate 'Muslim Nation', here it is. And this could well be the beginning of several more discriminatory laws and policies to come.
this act will discriminate against people of the Muslim, Sikh and Christian religions that live in India and will allow them to be religiously discriminated against in a political way.
if this act passes then it won't be the last act to pass which will discriminate against someone religiously.
