CAA opponents show an anti-hindu bias

THE anti-india, anti-hindu bias of Bilal Qureshi, the Washington Post and of Independent Media was explicitly revealed in the article “Before Modi, India did not treat Muslims as invaders” in the

Sunday Tribune dated December 22.

Bilal’s bilge appeared in the Washington Post on December

18, the same day that the Toronto Sun published “Muslim radicals set Delhi ablaze”, by another writer of Pakistani origin, Tarek Fatah, who incidentally saw first-hand mobs burning buses, setting alight trains in protests “that seem to be engineered to falsely depict the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having an antimuslim agenda”.

Qureshi disingenuously says: “The Citizenship Amendment

Bill provides a path to citizenship for migrants who are Hindus, Christians, Jains, Parsees and Buddhists, but the bill excludes Muslims.”

There are no Muslim refugees fleeing religious persecution from Islam, are there? Contrast this with Tarek Fatah’s statement: “The current rampaging began soon after the Indian parliament enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on December 11, which grants easy access to Indian citizenship to non-muslims of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh who faced religious persecution and sought refuge in India prior to December 31 2014.”

He goes on to add: “The CAA does not affect any Indian citizen of any religion, yet Islamist groups active in India’s Jama Islamic University in Delhi and the Aligarh Muslim University came onto the streets claiming discrimination on the basis of religion.”

So, why are Indian Muslim citizens and Pakistani citizens outraged that citizenship would be expedited to persecuted Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Afghan Christians, Hindus, Parsees and Sikhs? Simply because the non-muslim population of the country would increase and the Muslim veto power would weaken.

The opposition political parties “poured fuel on the fire in their attempt to appease the Islamist agenda and garner votes in the January 2020 elections for the

Delhi State Assembly,” says

Fatah.

Fatah points out “that the genesis of Pakistan that was carved out of India in 1947 was based on the Islamist argument that Muslims cannot live in a land with a non-muslim majority. As a result, Hindus and Sikhs faced a genocide in Pakistan, a million died and close to 10 million were displaced to meet the whims and fancy of the founders of the world’s first Islamic state”.

Muslim protesters chanted hate-filled slogans such as “Hinduon se lenge azadi” (We’ll snatch our freedom from the Hindus). This was a long cherished Islamist dream even before Independence.