Saturday, November 07, 2020

Can't be bashful and all powerful at the same time.

 "Wrapping up his two-day visit to West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reiterated his government's commitment to implement the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)." "West Bengal goes to poll in the next six months." The CAA aims to give citizenship to non-Muslim illegal immigrants who have fled religious persecution in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The passage of the Act led to widespread protests all over India, which were brutally suppressed by the police, as usual. "After the systematic targeting of religious minorities, increase in lynching cases, the partisan attitude of the police during communal riots, the use of religious symbols in public discourse and the raising of slogans, 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'Allah-o-Akbar', in Parliament, we have now, for the first time, added a religious test to the procedure of granting citizenship," wrote Faizan Mustafa. "But if Hindus really feel threatened from Muslims and Christians, we must address their concern and not shy away from discussing the possibility of a Hindu Rashtra, Minorities, too, are now fed up with this facade of secularism, with all state institutions tilting toward one religion. Perhaps some kind of Hindu Rashtra can help us bring peace and save the country from the path of self-destruction." "In 1981, Muslims were about 94.96 percent of Kashmir while in 2011, the community's population stands at 96.41 percent," wrote Suhas Ambale. On the other hand, "The proportion of Muslims in the Jammu region has increased substantially from 30.7 percent in 2001 to 33.5 percent in 2011". The Census in 1961 revealed the proportion of Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir at 68.31%, with Hindus at 28.45%, while the 2011 Census showed that the Muslim population is still at 68.31% of total population with Hindus at 28.43%, wrote Zeeshan Shaikh. "Liberty, equality and fraternity have been the watchwords of democracy, since the French Revolution. In India, fraternity has been trampled into the mud by rioters and lynch mobs, Equality has been given a formal farewell with the Citizenship Amendment Act that diminishes the quality of Muslim citizenship. If anyone thought that liberty could not survive on its own, they should suppress the urge to cry wolf," wrote TK Arun. "I think this regime is the ripening of things which have been happening for 40 years," said Arun Shourie. "It is progressive decay over time of all institutions, starting with Parliament, the legislatures, judiciary and the media." Mrs Indira Gandhi had a sense of shame, but "That is missing in the rulers of today." CAA is just a diversion. Power is total.            

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