Attacks on religious minorities in India occurred in the future of 2021: US Command Division
The US Command Division in its annual legend to the Congress on world religious freedom has alleged that in India in 2021 attack on members of the minority communities, along with killings, assaults, and intimidation, occurred in the future of the yr.
Launched by Secretary of Command Antony Blinken on the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the Command Division, the legend offers its possess point of view to the assign and violations of religious freedom across the globe and possess separate chapters on each and every of the worldwide locations.
India previously rejected the US religious freedom legend, saying it sees no locus standi for a international authorities to boom on the relate of its residents’ constitutionally staunch rights.
The India fragment of the legend avoids giving any conception on the assign of religious minorities, nonetheless paperwork somewhat a number of facets of it as appeared in the Indian press and the Indian authorities experiences. It also liberally quotes the allegations of somewhat a number of non-profit organisations, and minority institutions on assaults on them, nonetheless as a rule is highly restful on the outcomes of the investigations being undertaken by the officers, responses of the authorities.
“Attacks on members of religious minority communities, along with killings, assaults, and intimidation, occurred in the future of the yr. These incorporated incidents of ‘cow vigilantism’ towards non-Hindus in step with allegations of cow slaughter or trade in purple meat,” acknowledged the India fragment of the legend.
It does takes existing of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that Hindus and Muslims in India had the identical DNA and would possibly well maybe simply now not be differentiated by faith.
“In July, Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the RSS, which is commonly regarded as to be the ideological father or mother to India’s ruling social gathering BJP, publicly mentioned that Hindus and Muslims in India had the identical DNA and would possibly well maybe simply now not be differentiated by faith,” the legend acknowledged.
“There can never be any dominance of either Hindus or Muslims (in the nation); there can most fascinating be the dominance of Indians,” Bhagwat acknowledged, adding that members of the Muslim neighborhood must now not be afraid that Islam is in hazard in India. He also acknowledged that killing non-Hindus for cow slaughter used to be an act towards Hinduism, the legend acknowledged.
“Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on September 12 publicly mentioned that earlier governments in Uttar Pradesh had favoured Muslim constituents in advantages distribution,” it acknowledged.
The legend acknowledged that the police arrested non-Hindus for making feedback in the media or on social media that were regarded as offensive to Hindus or Hinduism.
NGOs, along with faith-based mostly completely mostly organisations, endured to criticise 2020 amendments handed to the Abroad Contributions Legislation Act (FCRA) as constraining civil society by lowering the amount of international funding that NGOs, along with religious organizations, would possibly well maybe utilize for administrative capabilities and adding now not easy oversight and certification requirements, it acknowledged.
The authorities endured to claim the law strengthened oversight and accountability of international NGO funding in the nation.
Essentially based mostly completely on the media experiences, FCRA licenses of 5,789 NGOs, along with an total bunch of faith-based mostly completely mostly organisations, lapsed after the authorities acknowledged the organisations failed to apply for renewal in time. To boot, all the intention in which thru the yr the authorities suspended FCRA licenses of 179 NGOs, along with some that were faith-based mostly completely mostly, the legend acknowledged.
