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Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 Some Questions to Denouncers
Dt: 24/12/19
Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019
Some Questions to Denouncers
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
The traditionally self-styled secular political leaders and their parties, the congenitally Hindu-hostile communists, and their fellow -travelers and Mecaulayised (only in blood and colour Indian but unIndian in every other aspect) have been whipping up the innocent and ill-informed persons in the country, especially Muslims against the CAA -2019. Would they kindly answer the following questions, if not publicly, in their true conscience for themselves at least?
1) If Muslims are persecuted in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan (BAP) all of which are members of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), why don’t the above politicians and leaders and intellectuals advise the persecuted Muslims in these three countries to seek refuge, shelter and citizenship in any of the 57 Muslim countries of the OIC ? Does not Islam speak of a borderless Umma (community) of believers in Islam and Mohammed as the only and last Prophet of God, Allah?
2) Why don’t any one country in the OIC invite persecuted Muslim brothers to its country ? Why don’t Turkey and Malaysia, the two Muslim countries which are faulting India’s CAA invite the persecuted Muslims into their countries and why should they demand that they should be allowed to come to India and gain its citizenship ? Is this to swell the ranks of Muslims in India ?
3) Why are Indian Muslims providing refuge, shelter and succor to Rohingyas, the Bangladesh origin Muslims who had entered India and not Bangladesh or Malayasia or any one of the OIC countries ?
Why is it that Rohingya Muslims of Bangladesh origin are settling in Hindu- majority Jammu and not in 100% Muslim Kashmir Valley towns like Srinagar ? Why are they in the Muslim majority area of Hyderabad and not in Dhaka or Islamabad ?
4) Some Muslim leaders, Islamists, their traditional allies, the various communist parties and seculars of Sonia (Italian origin) Congress variety are saying that India’s Muslims are experiencing extreme insecurity with the rise of the Hindutva forces and the BJP led government. Why then are they wanting the Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan to come to India, where Muslims are already said to be insecure by these champions of secularism and minorities ?
5) If Shias in Pakistan or Bangladesh or Afghanistan are persecuted , why can’t they go to Iran, the leading Shia Muslim power and their champion in the world ?
Are not the Internal feuds in Islam as between Shias and Sunnis, Ahmedias and Ismailis etc ., are a matter to be arbitrated and settled by the OIC ?
6) While the rest of the 192 member states of the United Nations have accede to and endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the OIC countries had come out with the Islamic Declaration of Human Rights, thus setting Muslims apart from the rest of humanity ? Does it not therefore behove the OIC to arrange for shelter and citizenship of persecuted Muslims anywhere in the world ?
7) If some sections of India are so much concerned for Muslims persecuted in the neighboring Islamic countries, cannot Bharat, the spiritual and millennial mother of all Hindus including Buddhists , Jains and Sikhs be concerned with the fate of these non- Muslim minorities, who until 1947 could be the citizens of what is now India anywhere at any time; be accommodated and treated as Bharat’s children and given Bharat citizenship ?
8) The CAA does not say that the persecuted Muslims of the three neighbouring countries cannot apply for citizenship in India . Such applicants will be considered on their merits as indeed over 500 of them from Pakistan had been given India’s citizenship.
9) Why did the defenders of secularism and persecution on the basis of religion organise one rally against the brutal expulsion of five lakh Hindus and Sikhs from Muslim -majority Kashmir Valley of the J&K state of India?
10) Why did they not raise any voice against citizens of India and their progeny working in that state as menials at the invitation of the J&K government, denied the right to any employment other than as menials and right to vote in elections to the State Assembly ?
11) Similarly, Hindus and Sikhs who fled from Pakistan and have been living in J&K since 1947 are not given J&K citizenship. Is this not discrimination on the basis of religion by the so called secular governments headed by the Muslim Chief Ministers in that state?
12) Why have you not spoken about Muslims becoming Chief Ministers in Hindu majority states like Bihar, Assam, Rajasthan and Maharashtra but not a single Hindu ever becoming the Chief Minister of J&K ?
Does secularism mainly mean that the Indian State should privilege Muslims (and Christians ) by giving them special rights (as in Art 30) like carving Muslim majority districts, Muslim First (Development) Programs ( as during UPA government 2004-14), subsidizing Muslims Haj ( and Christians’ Holy Land ) pilgrimages, construction of churches ; paying Imams and Muezzins (and Pastors) , funding Madrassas etc, all from the tax and debt monies of the State (s) administration of Hindus’ temples by government(s) and Leaving churches and mosques from government administration management?
Are Muslim parties (like IUML, AIMIM, AIUDF) pass off as secular but not Hindus’ Bajrang Dal Hindu Mahasabha etc? (882 words)
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