Wednesday, January 13, 2021

They took our rights one by one. What's the use now?

"Explaining the concept of minimum government and maximum governance, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, 'Earlier my Cabinet note would take six months to reach the entire Cabinet. But now it takes only 15 days. This is what minimum government and maximum governance is'." Just as minimum government, signifying reform, is good for the economy, "That same policy must guide India's social policy framework", wrote an editorial in the Mint. But, "Witness the surfeit of laws and policies we have seen that invade our private space, baring a tendency towards a maximalist state all too keen to impose itself on our personal lives. The most invasive of these relate to marriage, as seen in decrees issued by Uttar Pradesh (UP), Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh (MP) that go under the oxymoronic rubric 'love jihad' laws." "The turn at which the country stands today, the role of you bureaucrats is of minimum government, maximum governance. You have to ensure how to reduce your interference and also ensure empowerment of common people," Modi told probationers for the Indian Administration Service (IAS). "There is no criterion by which marital motive can be judged, but even if there were, freedom of faith and conscience constitutes a fundamental right granted to everyone by India's Constitution." Indeed, but The Qu'ran (2.221)  states, "And do not marry Polytheist women (Hindus are polytheist) until they believe (meaning convert to Islam). And a believing a slave woman is better than a Polytheist women, even though she might please you." Which means a marriage between a Muslim man and a Hindu woman is void unless she converts. This is direct pressure. "Oh ye who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians as your friends and protectors; they are but friends and protectors to each other," Qu'ran (5.51). "I did not hear him (the Prophet Muhammad) permit untruth in anything people say except for three things: war, settling disagreements, and a man talking with his wife or she with him," (Sacred Hadith, Muslim). So, a Muslim man may lie to his wife or to the woman he intends to marry. "Enslaving the families of the kuffar (unbelievers) and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of he Shariah (Islamic law) that if anyone were to deny or mock, he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Qur'an and the narrations of the Prophet," the Islamic State said to justify rape of Yezidi women. There was no such outrage when the government forced everyone to become a number supported by prints of all 10 fingers and iris scans in Aadhaar. New laws permit locking up in prison indefinitely without having to establish guilt. "Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me." No use fulminating now.        

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