Is it a deliberate misunderstanding?

"Dishonesty and perverse logic have marked the rhetoric and protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA)," wrote an angry R Jagannathan. This Act is meant to protect those who were "forced or compelled to seek shelter in India due to persecution on the ground of religion" in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. As these are Muslim majority nations, Muslims cannot seek citizenship under this Act. There were no protests when 3 other decisions preceding the Act protected non-Muslim immigrants and allowed them the right to buy real estate in India. When the police reacted violently to protests at Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi students and activists in other parts of India also started protesting in solidarity. Around 20 protesters have been shot dead in Uttar Pradesh where Chief Minister Yodi Adityanath promised to take revenge on those who resort to violence. "All properties of those involved in damaging public assets will be seized and auctioned to compensate for the losses," he said. "We will take badla (revenge)," "It's not the first time Adityanath's administration has been accused of violence since he took office," wrote Nilanjana Bhowmick. The fact is that minorities suffer "state sponsored discrimination in Pakistan and Afghanistan" and Bangladesh has seen its "Hindu population reduce from 21-22% in 1951 to around 8% of the total now". The Act fast-tracks non-Muslims for citizenship but does not stop Muslims from applying to become citizens. Pakistani singer Adnan Sami was given citizenship in 2015. Sami has supported the Act but his son has chosen to be a citizen of Pakistan although he has grown up in India. "The real problem with the CAA is not that it is unconstitutional, but that it has shone a light on the persecution of Hindus and other minorities in three Muslim-majority countries. There is an unstated consensus in 'secular' India that the persecution of Hindus by Muslims will always be underplayed in order to spare the feelings of our own minorities," wrote Jagannathan. The architect of the Constitution Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar said, "I would like to tell the Scheduled Castes who happen to be impounded inside Pakistan to come over to India by such means as may be available to them." Scheduled Castes are known as Dalits today. He added that Nehru suffered from Muslim mania and his heart was pitiless to the Scheduled Castes. Protesters are respectable citizens and not "urban Naxals", as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, or "Pakistani", as some police officers have said, wrote Sagarika Ghose. "In UP, instead of disciplinary action against excessive policing, the government has responded by repeatedly imposing Section 144, preventing public gatherings." Ironically, Section 144 was enacted by the British to subjugate Indians. Ironic that Indian citizenship is being authenticated by an anti-Indian law. The good thing is that the violence against citizens is not selective. That makes India secular.