Sir: ‘Secular’ India is always in search of subterfuges to persecute minorities such as beef eating, shouting Pakistan zindabad at sports matches, and what not. In Assam, the current slogan is bongla kheda (drive out Bangladeshis). Several other Indian states are preparing to set up national registers of citizenship to exclude Bangladeshis Muslims settled in India.
The modus operandi is to dub settlers as ‘East Pakistani infiltrators’ and drive them back into Bangladesh. No regard for principle of jus solis (birth) or jus sanguinis (kindred relationship). Not to speak of Muslims or minorities in general, even a low-caste Hindu could be mob-lynched for entering a Brahmin temple. The latest episode in Hindutva frenzy is to punish even long-settled Indian Muslims for having beards. They kidnap bearded Muslims, and forcibly shave off their beards.
M Arshed
Gujranwala
Published in Daily Times, August 8th 2018.
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