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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For as broken Pakistan is, this is direct evidence of why its a good thing it exists lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (11 children)

How exactly?

They claim that they are doing this to help non-muslim refugees fleeing places like Pakistan. Their claim is that they can't accommodate all refugees so the first preference is for non-muslims being persecuted.

If Pakistan didn't exist, this persecution wouldn't be there?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Before anyone who freaks out without reading the article, no, they’re not removing citizen status for Muslims already in India. They are however making it a lot easier for every religion except Islam to come to India and get nationality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah yea, the salami strategy.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I've read about this but my understanding is that many people in rural areas will lack the documentation showing that they've always lived in India and have citizenship. Basically, this would let the government then start questioning people's citizenship and effectively pretend that many rural Muslims are illegal immigrants while allowing Hindus without documentation to be unaffected.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

Exactly this. Already there is a strategy and accusations of "Bangladeshi immigrants" all over the country. Guess what? How do you prove you are not from there when you are poor as shit, are now allowed to communicate (Police will beat you damn near to death), have no paperwork cause you are poor as shit or had poor illiterate parents?

Sonny, you eat meat, you are Muslim, believe it or not, straight to jail.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Still makes them disgustingly horrible. Just...a teeny bit less so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Well that's . . . less . . bad, then

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Oh fuck this is not going to be pretty.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Gotta love Hindu nationalism...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (11 children)

religious fervor.
Modi takes his orders from Stephen Harper a wannabe autocrat who runs a shadowy organizations pushing the far right across the democratic world.

It's why Pierre Poilievre doesn't say anything bad about Modi and India, because they are both in Harper's org.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Religious nationalism is so hot right now.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Y'know I was just sitting out on the veranda, sipping a cool beverage and musing, to myself, y'see, I was thinking there "Hey - what this planet needs is another ethnostate. I mean, really, another ethnostate with nuclear weapons would be ideal."

And here we are. Boy sometimes everything's comin' up Milhouse.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

India, Israel, and Pakistan pretending to be functioning democracies with nukes

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs announced the rules Monday, ahead of India’s general election in the spring, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek a rare third term in power.

Despite being well-received by Modi, a Hindu nationalist, the bill was heavily protested by opposition parties, which claimed it was unconstitutional and marginalized India’s 200-million Muslim population.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah praised Modi on Monday evening, saying he “delivered on another commitment and realized the promise of the makers of our constitution to the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians living in those countries” in a post on X.

Since Modi’s rise to power nearly a decade ago, critics say the once secular and democratic founding ethos of the world’s largest democracy is crumbling at an alarming speed, with minorities feeling persecuted under the BJP’s majoritarian policies and any criticism of the government facing censorship and punishment.

It comes a month after two mosques were demolished in Uttarakhand state and Delhi, within days of each other, leading to clashes and local curfews.

While many Hindus celebrated the opening of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya, the inauguration was a painful reminder to the country’s minority Muslim population of the religious divisions that have grown more pronounced under Modi’s rule.


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