Sunday, February 09, 2020

Why is the government trying to prove Imran Khan right?

A 14 year old Christian girl was abducted in October, forcibly converted to Islam and forced to marry her abductor Abdul Jabbar in Pakistan. This is nothing new as Hindu girls are regularly abducted and raped in that barbaric country. A judge ruled that rape of a 14 year old is allowed under Sharia law because she had had her first period. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is designed to grant citizenship to refugees of Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Zoroastrian communities in Pakistan who manage to escape from violence perpetrated against them. Since Muslims are the majority and are the ones committing these crimes they have been excluded from the Act. Instead of condemning rape, Pakistan Prime Minister said, "We are witnessing a fascist, racist government in India." Only a fanatical pervert can be that shameless. He even had the gall to threaten nuclear war with India. Why the protests against CAA? Surely every civilized person should support an Act meant to protect refugees fleeing violence and rape? Widespread protests against CAA are because the government is contemplating a National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the whole nation even after a restricted exercise in Assam supervised by the Supreme Court resulted in confusion as over 4 million residents were unable to prove their citizenship. The final list published on 31 August 2019 reduced the exclusions to just over 1.9 million. "In Assam, the NRC asked people to produce documents proving they were Indian. A whopping 1.9 million failed to produce documents, of whom 1.2 million were Hindus, 0.6 million were Muslims and 0.1 million were tribals," wrote SA Aiyer. People think that CAA was passed to protect Hindus, while Muslims, even those born in India but with no documents, would be deemed illegal. The government is engaged in a census to compile a National Population Register (NPR), "But today, for fear of losing citizenship, many Indians refuse to answer questions, and even beat up surveyors." Which means there will be no reliable statistics about India's demography, said Aiyer. The NPR is being linked to biometric data known as Aadhaar which will enable surveillance of every citizen and may even result in a Social Credit System, like in China. As if to prove Imran Khan's allegation of being fascist, the Central government and its allies in states have responded with extreme violence. At least 25 protesters have been killed by the police in India, 18 of them in UP alone where Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath promised revenge against protesters, wrote an article in Gulf News. An entire school in Karnataka has been charged under the law against sedition, enacted by the British in 1870 to suppress Indians, in response to a play against CAA. The teacher who wrote the play has been arrested and pupils of the school are being interrogated by the police for up to 4 hours at a time. Protesters are reading the preamble to the Constitution to show up police repression and a team of lawyers is working to protect protesters from arrests and other actions by the police. Trying to protect refugees from Pakistan by killing Indian citizens. Whose government is it?  

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