Prabhakar Sinha | SabrangIndia https://sabrangindia.in/content-author/prabhakar-sinha-1-12552/ News Related to Human Rights Tue, 31 Dec 2019 05:27:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://sabrangindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Favicon_0.png Prabhakar Sinha | SabrangIndia https://sabrangindia.in/content-author/prabhakar-sinha-1-12552/ 32 32 Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA 2019) : A hate-driven move https://sabrangindia.in/citizenship-amendment-act-caa-2019-hate-driven-move/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 05:27:40 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2019/12/31/citizenship-amendment-act-caa-2019-hate-driven-move/   The Citizenship Amendment Act is in pursuit of the Sangh ‘s congenital hatred of Muslims. The sarsanghchalak of tje RSS,  Hedgewar  had declared way back in  1925 at its inception that its purpose was not to join the national movement against the British , but to oppose “the Yavan-snakes ( Muslims ) ,who , […]

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The Citizenship Amendment Act is in pursuit of the Sangh ‘s congenital hatred of Muslims. The sarsanghchalak of tje RSS,  Hedgewar  had declared way back in  1925 at its inception that its purpose was not to join the national movement against the British , but to oppose “the Yavan-snakes ( Muslims ) ,who , reared on the milk of non-cooperation , were provoking riots in the nation with their poisonous hissing.” Later , Sangh’s iconic Guru Golwarkar declared , “Hindus, do not waste your energy fighting the British Save it to fight the internal enemies that are the Muslims , the Christians and the communists.”  In his book,  We or Our Nationhood Defined,   published in 1938, he categorically declared that ‘Muslims may stay in the country but wholly subjugated to the Hindu nation ,claiming nothing ,deserving no privileges ,far less any preferential treatment , not even citizen’s right .’ The  Sangh never reconciled to the idea of an India in which Muslims enjoyed the same status and prestige as Hindus. It’s  dream of a Hindu Rashtra was also inspired by a congenital hatred for Muslims that it has been harbouring for decades.The Jan Sangh ( present BJP )  was formed in 1951 with the sole purpose of making its  dream of India as a Hindu Rashtra come true. One thing that has remained constant in the Sangh’s character and conduct has been its visceral hatred for the Muslims of India. And one goal which has remained the Sangh’s obsession and mission, has been to turn India into a Hindu Rashtra by complete subjugation  of  her Muslim citizens. 

The repeated declaration of forcing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) on the whole  country is a major step in that direction. The Citizen’s Amendment Act, too, is a corollary, now a pre-requisite to the same move. As many as 19 lakh plus have failed to find a place in the NRC in Assam. Out of the 19 lakh, more than 12 lakh are Hindus and 7 lakh plus are Muslims.They cannot deny citizenship to the 12 lakh Hindus ,who could not find a place in  the NRC .The number of Hindus failing to prove their Indian citizenship in the country  could swell to an unimaginable high figure, but they can not be made stateless. The Citizenship Amendment Act is aimed at meeting that contingency by giving citizenship to Hindus, Sikh, Buddhists, Jains, Christians Parsis  i.e. to all except the Muslims. Thus, CAA 2019 serves several of their purposes:  it grants citizenship to all  illegal immigrants except Muslims thus winning their gratitude and votes and excludes the Muslims they hate and reduces their  number, who they believe , vote  against them. They are confident that  opposition to the CAA by other parties  would win them more Hindu votes . Thus, they believe that the CAA would place them in a win win situation.

Amit Shah has been arguing that the move is not against the Muslims but is meant   to offer relief to the religious minorities suffering persecution on account of their religion in Muslim Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. This claim is  false. Even Muslims suffer in these countries on account of their religion. In  Pakistan, Ahmadiya Muslims are probably the most persecuted. They are not recognised as Muslims and are hated and savagely persecuted for claiming to be Muslims. The most glaring is the example of Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam. He was awarded the Nobel for Physics in 1979. Any country would have been proud of him, but he remained a persona non grate to the Muslim society of Pakistan. His love for Pakistan is exemplary. Despite hostility and rejection by Pakistan, he retained  his citizenship of Pakistan though he lived and died in the U.K. Shia Muslims are also targeted by Sunni Muslims . Their mosques are attacked from time to time. The Baloch are also a persecuted Muslim community .They speak a language , which is a version of the language spoken in Iran.They are so persecuted that they are often  reported to look towards India for help.Even Pakistan blames India for fomenting trouble in Balochistan.

Many Muslims are persecuted in Pakistan or Bangladesh for refusing to follow some  Islamic practices which are not compatible with modern life  or express views not compatible with the Quran. They may be even sentenced to  death . Some of the laws based on the Sharia are inhuman . For instance , no one can be convicted of rape unless there are male witnesses to support the allegation (this might have been changed now). And if the allegation is not proven, the victim is liable to be  punished. Death sentence is awarded also  for blasphemy. The victims of these laws or practices, too, are persons persecuted for religious reasons. The author, Tasleema Nasreen of Bangladesh has been in  India for years. All these are cases deserving the grant of citizenship by a civilized country for being victims of the State religion or not submitting to the inhuman provisions of the religion patronised by their government .

The greatest flaw of the CAA which exposes Sangh’s venomous bias is the assumption, without any  basis that all non-Muslims (from Afghanistan ,Bangladesh and  Pakistan)  illegally living in India are victims of persecution due to their respective religion when the truth is that they may be here for bread and butter and other reasons emanating from India’s Partition .

(December 9, 2011, Day of Introduction of the Ignoble CAB) 

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Is Modi’s Failed Diplomacy a Reason for Pakistan’s Ceasefire Violations? https://sabrangindia.in/modis-failed-diplomacy-reason-pakistans-ceasefire-violations/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:38:38 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2016/11/15/modis-failed-diplomacy-reason-pakistans-ceasefire-violations/ When Narendra Modi invited Pakistan prime minister, Nawaz Sharif to his swearing in ceremony  in May 2014, it was viewed as a well considered and radical to Pakistan expected to yield fruitful results, to both India and Pakistan. His honeymoon with Pakistan continued for quite some time boosting the expectation of lasting peace on the […]

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When Narendra Modi invited Pakistan prime minister, Nawaz Sharif to his swearing in ceremony  in May 2014, it was viewed as a well considered and radical to Pakistan expected to yield fruitful results, to both India and Pakistan. His honeymoon with Pakistan continued for quite some time boosting the expectation of lasting peace on the border , especially on the LOC .These expectations soared sky high, again, when Modi in an unprecedented move dashed to Lahore to join Nawaz Sharif on lunch on his birthnday on a telephone call made just a few hours before the party. And as if these moves were not enough , he even attended an engagement ceremony of a female relation of Sharif at his princely mansion. All these extra-dipolomatic efforts confirmed the belief that the bonhomie was the result of Modi's consistent master stroke(s)  in diplomacy. The Personal Touch. It was not before long that the mist was cleared and it became obvious that what was perceived and relayed as a 'master stroke' was nothing more than a flip flop of an attention-seeking novice, who not only did not understand diplomacy but refused to realise his inadequacy. This flip flop could have been just laughed off, if it had not cost India both death and destruction.

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This eye for the camera, embracing foreign dignatires kind of diplomacy conveys not what Modi has in his heart (Mann), but is misunderstood in the language of seasoned diplomacy. Modi’s embracing of Nawaz  Sharif as a long lost cousin conveyed a wrong message to Pakistan and prompted her to attack us at Pathankot and Uri. The language of peace with our neighbour was replaced by the language of confrontation. Overnight, Modi 's Pak policy lay in a shambles .
 
His response to Pathankot and Uri was what he calls a 'surgical strike 'and for which he claims great credit , but which has caused India considerable loss .The only gain of the surgical strike was the killing of 18 terrorists or terrorists in training .But this killing of 18 did not frighten Pakistan into abandoning its policy of attacking and bleeding India .The result has been just the opposite. Since September 29,2016 (the day of surgical strike) there have been 83 violations at LOC and the international border in Jammu and 17 in Kashmir. Six soldiers and a dozen civilians have been killed. One hundred villages near the border have been evacuated displacing lackhs of their inhabitants who have been forced into misery, in the approaching cold, away from their home and hearth.There had  been peace on the border for the last 13 years without a formal agreement  due to a tacit understanding between the countries; due to seasoned diplomacy. Now, even the future of the relations between the neighbours is uncertain and might get worse with less than intelligent –stupid- men occupying sensitive postions in government. Parrikar, the Defence Minister, talks of using nuclear bombs, raising a bogey no sane man would raise. Meanwhile, our Jawans and civilians are being killed without a cause, purpose and goal just because of the flip flop of a prime minister, who just does not know the first principles of how the foreign policy of a nation is conducted.

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