Indians Protest Laws That Leave Muslims Stateless ☪️
Channel: Atheist Republic
Date: 11/03/2020

In recent months, protests have erupted across India due to two controversial laws that critics say target Muslim immigrants, and even those born here. At odds are the country’s deeply religious roots and its secular constitution. Milan Vaishnav, director and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: “India is a very poor country. Even today, only about 70% of births happen with an official birth certificate. So a lot of people cannot prove their citizenship status. They’re worried that this essentially is going to disenfranchise a bunch of genuine citizens who simply are either too poor or come from the wrong community to be able to justify their existence.” People who are not considered citizens fear being sent to detention centres, even though Prime Minister Narendra Modi has denied the camps exist. Across the country, Indians of all faiths have been protesting for months. They claim these laws go against the constitution by deciding citizenship on the basis of religion. In the weeks and months to come, Muslims fear that life in their homeland may get increasingly harder if they can’t prove Hindustan is home.

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Source: Why Indians are protesting 2 controversial laws that could leave millions of Muslims stateless
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