India rejects critical US religious freedom report, says 'proud of its secular credentials'
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India hit out Sunday at a US report saying religious intolerance was growing under its right-wing government, setting off a new spat ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The 2018 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom released by Pompeo on Friday said Hindu-groups had used “violence, intimidation, and harassment” against Muslims and low-caste Dalits in 2017 to force a religion-based national identity.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, however, insisted that no foreign country had the right to criticise its record.
Pompeo arrives in New Delhi on Tuesday for a trip intended to strengthen ties, but already complicated by spats over trade tariffs, data protection rules, US visas for Indians and buying arms from Russia.
The US religious freedom report said groups claiming to protect cows — considered sacred by Hindus — have attacked Muslims and Dalits. Christians have also been targeted for proselytising since Modi came to power in 2014.
“Despite Indian government statistics indicating that communal violence has increased sharply over the past two years, the Modi administration has not addressed the problem,” the report said.
The Indian foreign ministry rejected the report, saying there was no right “for a foreign entity/government to pronounce on the state of our citizens' constitutionally protected rights”.
“India is proud of its secular credentials, its status as the largest democracy and a pluralistic society with a longstanding commitment to tolerance and inclusion,” spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in a statement. “The Indian Constitution guarantees fundamental rights to all its citizens, including its minority communities.”
The United States has sought to boost ties with India as a counterweight to China, and both US President Donald Trump and Modi have highlighted their good relationship. However, India last week imposed higher import tariffs on 28 US items in retaliation to Washington's recent withdrawal of trade privileges for New Delhi.
Pompeo wants to use his New Delhi trip to lay the ground for a Trump-Modi meeting at the G20 Summit in Osaka this month. It will be their first since Modi's new landslide election win last month.
Pompeo is also to give a speech on the future of the relationship between the two countries.
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Jun 23, 2019 01:39pm
Good rebuttal by India.
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Jun 23, 2019 01:58pm
Real face of shining India.
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Jun 23, 2019 01:59pm
The growing atrocities against its minorities are deplorable and so is the continuous denial.... India is no longer a secular country... Just see how Mr. Asaduddin Owaisi's oath taking ceremony was conducted yesterday in the parliament... that is supposed to protect rights of minorities... The entire parliament sounded like a mob of Hindu nationalists that were hell bent on disrupting and enforcing their will.
Time for India to realize they cannot for long keep their over 300 million Muslims and Sikhs, Christians victimizing... this will weaken india further and disintegrate it.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:03pm
Don't interfier in others matters
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Jun 23, 2019 02:09pm
Denying the obvious is foolish because the world may look the other way for their own self interest but they know what India is upto when it comes to the ill treatment of it's minorities. India can no longer claim to be a secular state under Modi's extreme right wing hindu nationalist regime. One only need to look at what is happening in Kashmir.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:11pm
India was bold enough to outright reject his fact finding report as false. Can Pakistan do the same???
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Jun 23, 2019 02:16pm
May be it is difficult for indians to face criticism but the world is not deaf, dump or blind...
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Jun 23, 2019 02:17pm
Ofcourse India will reject the report.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:17pm
The U.S. should worry about why it has more Jails and Prisons than colleges. Why it can't treat people of color even remotely fair. Why nearly everyone in Prison is a minority. And why it has more Prisoners than any other country in the world. The U.S. does not need to worry about India.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:18pm
India can afford to reject.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:19pm
Report speaks truth because US never lies.....Indian society is becoming very intolerant towards muslims.....US must condemn it in UN and impose sanctions.....
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Jun 23, 2019 02:19pm
Yes because denial always helps your case and image.
Instead of image control maybe just clean up the issues in your country. And yes I know Pakistani has problems too. I am just saying denial won't make it better.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:20pm
Now watch how Modi treats Pompeo. My bet is Pompeo will be denouncing this report before he leaves India.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:21pm
Country with racism have no right to say about India.Every Muslim in India is proud Indian.Ask them...
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Jun 23, 2019 02:22pm
To people unknown, both the current PM and President of India are from backward caste. The earlier PM was from minority religion.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:24pm
A routine ritual every year. US releases a report, India rejects it. Life goes on..
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Jun 23, 2019 02:24pm
What about Kashmir??
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Jun 23, 2019 02:25pm
Have lived in 3 continents and five countries. India is the best as far as secularism concerned.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:26pm
Awwww indian suddenly angry at its BFF?
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Jun 23, 2019 02:28pm
Another way to twist Indian arm to commit undesired deeds. Welcome to the American camp!
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Jun 23, 2019 02:31pm
There are stray incidents here and there. There is no massive sit in like Asia Bibi case, which can paralyse the country. Instead of criticising US report, Govt should increase vigil and prevent these types of incidents. To do its part, opposition should shun minority appeasement policies, which resulted in capitalising their insecurity for vote bank politics. Thanks Dawn for focusing on India's problems. No wonder, Dawn attracts many Indians than any media from the neighbourhood.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:37pm
Agreed with report however it’s still better than USA and fraction of what it is in Pakistan
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Jun 23, 2019 02:40pm
Yeah! This you will reject. India and its hooplas.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:48pm
As long India constitutions calling for secular state. Any religious intolerance is individual responsibility and there is always possibility it will diminish in future ,
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Jun 23, 2019 02:54pm
India cares a damn for what USA has to say about religious freedom in India. Ours is a democracy no less vibrant than that of USA. Minority rights are fully safeguarded under our Constitution. The report has political overtones. Besides we didn't know what is there in the report about minorities living condition in Pakistan , Saudi and Bangladesh.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:59pm
US also raised issue of blasephemy and Pakistan accepted it with pride. India should also do something similar for it's majority religion and for once get inputs from Pakistan
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Jun 23, 2019 02:59pm
So the honeymoon is over before it could begin. India's habit of throwing stones keeps damaging its glass house.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:59pm
Well done India
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Jun 23, 2019 03:01pm
think the US should worry about the Blacks being shot on a daily basis in their country
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Jun 23, 2019 03:01pm
India has earned the singular distinction of being the worst country for women and minorities.
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Jun 23, 2019 03:02pm
Indian navy is doing free service for US in gulf waters still USA is putting restrictions on trade, H1B, H4 and now concerns on religious intolerance.
TRUMP " do more"
Modi "YES SIR"
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Jun 23, 2019 03:02pm
If it comes to India then not only but whole world is wrong about their state of mind!
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Jun 23, 2019 03:03pm
Plight of Dalits, Muslims and Sikhs giving rise to uncontrollable anger.
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Jun 23, 2019 03:07pm
He's right. India has been the one oasis of secularism is south Asia, and it isn't difficult to see why. With countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China and Myanmar in the area, India is far above each of them, and then some, when it comes to inclusivity.
And I'm speaking as an Indian Muslim!
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Jun 23, 2019 03:09pm
Random instances cannot be taken as a rule. Such incidents happen in US also. Important thing is people should continue respecting fellow being irrespective of any difference.
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Jun 23, 2019 03:19pm
How long could the US cover up the atrocities by this Hindu nation against its minorities. Finally the independent bodies came up with the pressure on US administration to spill the beans on India.
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Jun 23, 2019 03:22pm
Denying does not change facts
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Jun 23, 2019 03:22pm
Haha
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Jun 23, 2019 03:28pm
Good step in the right direction. Perhaps the U.S. report should have also mentioned Indian military abuses in Kashmir.
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Jun 23, 2019 03:33pm
Please look at the statistics and one would find there is more killings if religious minorities in US than in India though India has more than three times of the population and move diverse. Just count the killings of Sikhs, Muslims and Jews and the attacks on their places of worship
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Jun 23, 2019 03:37pm
This has become an annual farce - US published so trash, India rejects....not even worth reporting.
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Jun 23, 2019 03:39pm
India doesn't need a certificate from USA on anything.
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Jun 23, 2019 03:44pm
A US certification?
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Jun 23, 2019 03:53pm
What about Indian Occupied Kashmir where Indian army is continuously killing Kashmiris for right to live.
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Jun 23, 2019 03:53pm
To say India is secular when Modi is at the helm is the biggest joke of the century.
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Jun 23, 2019 03:56pm
Jinke khud ke ghar shishe ke hote hain wo doosro ke gharo per pathar nahi feka karte. Cheers
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Jun 23, 2019 04:02pm
What did he say about Pakistan?
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Jun 23, 2019 04:05pm
“India is proud of its secular credentials, its status as the largest democracy and a pluralistic society with a longstanding commitment to tolerance and inclusion,“. Tell that to the thousands of Kashmiris and those lynched on the streets by cow vigilantes and those killed in Gujarat riots and 1984 Sikh massacre. This list is very long.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:07pm
Intolerance grew in last decade and mostly in last four years. But timing is important. Otherwise why Egypt dictatorship is not denounced?
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Jun 23, 2019 04:12pm
India is most safe country for minority's.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:12pm
the majority of the country is standing strong behind the elected government.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:12pm
A pure Hindu republic state always tries to hide it's real face behind secularism.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:14pm
Just because you're proud of how you treat your minorities, it doesn't mean that they're treated well.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:16pm
US must ban H1B Visa facilities on Indians, this is the minimum action what US can do, based on this report.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:18pm
Lol...US advising India about religious freedom! Laughable. One of my relative got checked at an US airport. But it never happened in India. US is deteriorating under Trump. Good for the World.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:20pm
Most probably due to India's decision to go ahead with S-400.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:20pm
Before he won the first election, Narendra Modi was denied visa to the US, as CM of state of Gujarat he was held responsible for the massacre of over 2000 Muslims.Indian court did not find him guilty but he was guilty in the court of world opinion. Since he took over the government, he invigorated Hindutva Doctrine and became the Patron Saint of intolerant groups, likes of RSS.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:22pm
US is good friend. India will look into their concerns for addressal.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:24pm
Does the US has any moral high grounds at all to comment on a secular nation such as India at all; check who their best friends are in the middle east.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:26pm
I guess the truth hurts, India still living in denial.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:33pm
Just rejecting the truth does not make it go away.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:37pm
Modi is upset and says no country has the right to criticize India, well in that case what about his comment on Balochistan? Double standards and the world knows India is becoming intolerant to non Hindus thanks to BJP.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:40pm
India is a vibrant democracy and secular nation. People of all religions of the world , people of diverse cultures , speaking different regional languages live in harmony. One India One People.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:44pm
Mike Pompeo will announce X thousands more visas for Indian techies-- The US is paying to the piper, US will pick the tune and Indians will dance at the tune. India will live with the criticism by the US government
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Jun 23, 2019 04:50pm
Waiting for the defensive comments from the Eastern neighbor (these would be offensive comments had the report been about Pakistan)
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Jun 23, 2019 05:06pm
RSS rejected the massacre in Gujrat also
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Jun 23, 2019 05:10pm
In few years, india wont even mind replying back
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Jun 23, 2019 05:15pm
India used be a secular however, since Gujrati murderer took the control, its transforming the whole structure as follows: government by the goons in which the supreme power is vested in the goons and exercised directly by goons under a bigoted electoral system.
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Jun 23, 2019 05:23pm
Typical Indian to go into denial mode instead of seeing the reality for what it is.
1. Minorities are openly questioning their forefathers decision to stay in Hindustan in 1947.
2. Cow vigilanties.
3. Killings disguised as riots
4. Mass HR abuses in Kashmir
5. State terrorism: Kulboshan Yaved and BLA
6. Hindustanis have never been secular. Har that been the case then a united India would have been on the map.
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Jun 23, 2019 05:24pm
Indians always telling Pakistanis not to bury heads in the sand about something or another. Let's sit back and watch Indians do the same here!
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Jun 23, 2019 05:27pm
Denying the obvious is stupid. You see muslims getting lynched in India everyday on twitter.
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Jun 23, 2019 05:50pm
@RAja Raman ,
"There are stray incidents here and there."
Stray incidents! In 2002 your own state machinery was used to carry out a genocide throughout entire neighbourhoods of Gujarat, and that was a "stray incident". So stray, even your own PM was implicated in the bloodletting.
Frankly Hindustanis should be grateful - the US report isn't scathing enough.
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Jun 23, 2019 05:50pm
The facts speaks for themselves. US report is credible, correct, and confirmed by non other by UN itself. The boosts of BJP has unwarrantedly uncalled for placed Indian rulers under grandiose illusion, it’s so funny to read that India raise tariffs on 28 US products while simultaneously begging for Visa comforts, in fact the number of Indians exceed their quotas numbers in US, and their waiting period is just second to Chinese. The relations between India & US are a classic example of donor & donee, forget the friendship, had there be a friendship US may have granted another waiver to India to buy oil from Iran, but that didn’t happened, besides there’s a constant pressure on India to buy more from US. Mr Pompeo will negotiate to get more from India, sorry no free breakfast from Mr Pompeo.
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Jun 23, 2019 05:51pm
@Lost cause, Random instances can't be taken as a rule but what happens in Parliament can't be taken as random either.
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Jun 23, 2019 05:53pm
50 Muslims lynched by gau-rakhshak is not a human rights violation. Yeah, right! Spot on!
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Jun 23, 2019 05:54pm
@Jehengir khan, and would you say that Muslims are becoming even more intolerant towards non-Muslims?
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Jun 23, 2019 05:56pm
@Laila, can you elaborate what problems Pakistan has?
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Jun 23, 2019 05:58pm
Trump lectures all. Listens to nobody. Who care what he says?
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Jun 23, 2019 05:59pm
@Fastrack, the biggest glasshouse is the one you are living in!
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Jun 23, 2019 05:59pm
@Baba Vickram Aditya Bedi, please come to America and you will See the reasons behind
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Jun 23, 2019 06:00pm
@Fastrack, and what distinctions do you have?
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Jun 23, 2019 06:01pm
One more thing I would like to add is that people in Pak are so afraid of Mullahs and hardliners/radicals hold on the country that they bring religion into everything to appease Mullahs i.e. politics, sports, education, judicial matters, medical issues etc etc.
If Pak wants to move forward then Pak must eliminate the 3 isms from the country i.e. Feudalism, Mullahism and VIPism and establish the supremacy of the law by bringing everyone under the purview of the law plus carry out severe punishments if anyone dare breaks a law. Also depoliticize the police force so it protects law and order instead of rich and powerful. Additionally, introduce the same education system in private and public (i.e. English medium) schools so tomorrow the kids of a poor man can also dream of becoming PM etc and then Pak can point fingers at others.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:02pm
It is true that few such cases have indeed happened and we as Indians should strive for zero cases
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Jun 23, 2019 06:05pm
As an Indian i thought that the report was quite reasonable and objective. India should check these shameful activities instead of tolerating extremist vigilantes. Today we are all connected and the whole world knows whatever happens in any onc corner. India has an admirable record of pluralism. Don’t let this be ruined by Hindutva activists.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:08pm
@Laila, you are right. Even US does terrible things (treatment of illegal children, police brutality on blacks etc). That doesn’t mean we can continue doing what we do. Everyone should change for the better, US, Pak, India.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:09pm
@Jehengir khan, " Report speaks truth because US never lies.....". Keep this words for future, we have to verify it when US say or act something against Pakistan.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:09pm
@Jehengir khan, lol, what was Iraq war (@US never lies) ...funny,!!
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Jun 23, 2019 06:09pm
@Baba Vickram Aditya Bedi, US should clean up its act and so should India. It is not a zero sum game.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:10pm
@RAja Raman , indeed.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:10pm
@AK, If India is secylar, 25 crore people want to eat beef but are not allowed too. Rings the bell?
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Jun 23, 2019 06:13pm
India should call back their ambassador immediately.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:17pm
Many people may not be aware of these reports- Many Black going Churches are burnt down by White supremacists for the past many decades. Most of the news media deliberately not reporting this news either in India or Pakistan as well as the rest of the world.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:19pm
India is still secular? That is news to many. Hindutva movement and Sangh parivar are all about anti secularism? They even try to justify Mahatma Gandhi's murder who wanted RamRaj albeit where all relegions coexisted. Recent elections where BJP awarded tickets to extreme right wing politicians was a prove in itself how far the BJP had become from founding principles of India, i.e. secularism. In a secular society, people from different cultures and religions are able to criticise each other in an amicable manner. Let us see what happens if a Muslim or a dalit criticises PM Modi for something in an Indian Street.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:24pm
I love my India. Why there is no report on china, Arab...?
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Jun 23, 2019 06:27pm
With 1.3 billions people living in India, some incidents do happen which should not have happened. But to use these incidents to indicate India lost its secular credentials is unfair and not true. These incidents and or riots have happened in past government too so why blaming past government too. Minorities in India get decent participation in Government and public sector. There is no bias to minorities to pursue any opportunity in India. In past 70 years minorities percentage increased from 5% to now around 21 percent. India has many presidents, army chief, chief
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Jun 23, 2019 06:28pm
@Saad, US wants only highly talented people safe for country. They can't deny visa to Indians.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:30pm
Western countries can question India’s secular credential when they can have a Muslim or Sikh as head of nation or army Chiefs or Chief Justices. Muslims countries can’t question India’s secularism.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:31pm
The report is drafted by US right wing evangelists who run a conversion industry using fraudulent means and monitory inducements. No body has authorised US to interfere in other countries' internal matters.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:35pm
By the way, how do they come with these reports every year? India has been rejecting them visa for past several year..... Google search is it ?
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Jun 23, 2019 06:38pm
A country such as USA whose president is so racist that he encourage violence to white supermist against immigrants and hated black citizen, immigrants says it all and have the dare to judge India.
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Jun 23, 2019 06:38pm
@Kashmiri , oh it is the real shining India which does not need certificate fron those super power who are highly involved in destruction of so many peaceful countries for political gain. India would decide what is wrong or right for her
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Jun 23, 2019 06:52pm
Pakistan should immediately open its doors to all muslims from India.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:01pm
@Mian, only people in self denial can appreciate it.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:04pm
@Prateik, so you admit that it's a state policy to murder and intimidate minorities, as long as you're rich enough, so morality has no relevance to you.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:07pm
@Prateik, Your statement itself is a prove that India is not only intolerant to religion but also arrogant and proud of it.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:08pm
"Pompeo on Friday said Hindu-groups had used “violence, intimidation, and harassment” against Muslims and low-caste Dalits in 2017 to force a religion-based national identity."
This is just the tip of the iceberg! The bulk of the iceberg rem of violence, intimidation and harassment against Muslims and low-cast Dalits remain invisible ot the world!
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Jun 23, 2019 07:10pm
Thanks to Modi, minorities are not treated as special or the burden of secularism is not only the job of Hindus. All treated same is what Modi is doing vs allowing minorities to go awry as with past governments. The call for prayer would happen so many times in India that it would wake up people... why? Why can’t such things be done silently without bothering others? Glad Modi and Yogi are around to ask these questions and fix these blatant actions.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:10pm
@Rani Sharma, This report is talking about India. Focus on this.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:11pm
@AK, Really.... since when. Realities do not change by making false statement or on the power on mere population.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:11pm
Under Modi Indian secularism is fake.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:12pm
Unlike in India, Muslims in the US hide their religion to avoid bias and attacks.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:12pm
A country that wiped out the entire population of ethnic Red Indians, by unspeakable crimes against humanity, kept blacks as slaves, and building walls to keep migrants out, is judging others on their human rights record. What a paradox!
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Jun 23, 2019 07:12pm
@RAja Raman , you have voted in a Hindu fundamentalist party into power. the bjp has used anti Muslim propaganda to garner votes, which the likes of you have voted for. so could you address the issues at hand rather than deflect criticism that you know to be true.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:18pm
@K Srinivas Rao, yes the Constitution protects the minority. But since BJP has come to power, the minorities are being persecuted by Hindu fundus.
It is no more a secular state it used to be. There is intolerance and hatred which is fanned by media.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:24pm
India is no more a secular state. It is now "HINDUSTAN". Welcome to the land of ignorance and bigotry.There is no difference between RSS and Taliban.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:27pm
In written, Indian constitution guarantees to the minorities but in practically, India persecutes the minorities. This is the real face of so called largest democracy and shining India. Since Modi has come into power, he has turned secular India into Hindutva. Minorities especially the Muslims are living in fear.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:31pm
@RAja Raman "There are stray incidents here and there"
Agree with you and we can not avoid them. Government is secular
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Jun 23, 2019 07:35pm
Modi and his govt should face the music now. You are in a era, where nothing is hidden anymore. How secular India, is now very well exposed. No where to run my friends !!!!!
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Jun 23, 2019 07:37pm
India is one of the most peaceful and loving countries in the world.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:39pm
When I was studying Bachelor of Engineering in Hyderabad, India, we had 5 Muslim students in a class of 50. Religion never came between our friendship.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:44pm
Truth is evident. India is Hindustan, where all minorities are only allowed to live if they submit to Hindu domination. Its horrible that Indian persecution of minorities is ignored by the international community.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:44pm
And what did the report say about religious freedom and treatment of religious minorities in Pakistan?
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Jun 23, 2019 07:49pm
India can reject but truth is truth.
The whole world knows these atrocities against the Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Dalit-Scheduled Caste.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:50pm
I can’t believe India still have the audacity to claim themselves as being a secular state when videos of brutality against Muslims and Dalits going viral everyday
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Jun 23, 2019 07:52pm
@Jagnik ghosh,
Mr. Jagnik ghosh,
Ask the Kashmiris about their genocide.
You will get the answer.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:55pm
@Thinking,
Mr. Thinking,
India doesn't have courage accepting the bitter truth.
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Jun 23, 2019 07:59pm
@AK,
Mr. AK,
Since when?
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Jun 23, 2019 08:02pm
@Osman,
Mr. Osman,
The Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Dalit-Scheduled Caste are not secure in India.
This is duly understood.
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Jun 23, 2019 08:03pm
@Fastrack,
Mr. Fastrack,
You are right.
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Jun 23, 2019 08:05pm
@M.Jan,
Mr. M. Jan,
Sooner or later Kashmir will be liberated, independent and sovereign state.
This is written on the wall and everyone can easily read this.
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Jun 23, 2019 08:05pm
@Bilal,
Mr. Bilal,
Correct.
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Jun 23, 2019 08:17pm
@Jehengir khan, it holds good to Pakistan as well. Do you believe that minorities in Pakistan have absolutely no problems?
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Jun 23, 2019 08:26pm
It is natural. No country would accept this kind of report. Even Pakistan can not accept this type of report on Pakistan, even if there are count less examples of persecution of minorities in Pakistan
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Jun 23, 2019 08:39pm
@AZAM AKBAR, Sooner is already over.. waiting for later.
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Jun 23, 2019 08:45pm
@Ashiq, Question is not that...people are worried that it is being changed,..need to answer that part, and not what India has been always.
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Jun 23, 2019 08:46pm
Pompeo's letter in the link mentioned Pakistan and not India. You guys Ok with that?
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Jun 23, 2019 08:56pm
So this is secular India..
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Jun 23, 2019 09:05pm
@Omar Sadiq, Why would you want to reject something that is true just to protect your inflated egos? Truth hurts but you cannot improve unless you admit your mistakes and take corrective actions. The beauty about western European nations, US, and Canada, is that they don't hide behind nationalism and pretend that evil does not exist in their societies. They are always willing to openly talk about it and take advice from others and work on addressing such problems. On the other hand, we people not only refuse to acknowledge our issues, but get defensive when others point them out. The result is always that ignorance of such issues turn them into cancer for the society.
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Jun 23, 2019 09:15pm
@Sweets, Yes sir, you will need a certificate for getting an American work visa and also to get their blessings.
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Jun 23, 2019 09:15pm
Yes, there sporadic incidents happening in India especially cow vigilantism. But proportionally India is still very much secular. State of minorities in India is far far far better than Pakistan and china if you are honest. In fact they can be discussed along with India. There is big segment of people to take on right wingers in India and they have their task cut out.
Coming to America, they have no moral authority to criticize India, first I ask America to stop police shooting coloured people and bring those responsible for reckless shooting of blacks to book.
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Jun 23, 2019 09:17pm
@Ashiq, I don’t believe you at all.
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Jun 23, 2019 09:21pm
@AK, LOL
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Jun 23, 2019 09:34pm
@Fastrack, pompeo is coming to India for Strategic relations with India. This all reports are dramas to pressurise India and to accept USA terms.
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Jun 23, 2019 09:35pm
@Fastrack, please take all indian minorities to pakistan.
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Jun 23, 2019 09:36pm
Indians ALWAYS speak with a forked tongue!
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Jun 23, 2019 09:37pm
@Jayaram, now it’s anothers matter? This is humanity we are talking about! It is everyone’s matter.
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Jun 23, 2019 09:39pm
@Jagnik ghosh, and I am sure the same is true of Dalits...
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Jun 23, 2019 09:46pm
Height of shamelessness, eccentricity, unilaterism and stubbornness to deny the truth, the real truth and nothing but the truth. In fact, they are notorious all over the world to deny facts and call daylight as night. Shame on them.
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Jun 23, 2019 09:47pm
Before any discussion between Indian and Pakistanis, one has to lay down ground rules to understand what is secularism, what is appeasement, how they are different, what are the goals of minority treatment and how each of these nations fare in those goals, how the minorities have grown or dwindled in these countries, etc.... This will lead to auto-silencing the trolls.
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Jun 23, 2019 09:57pm
@M.Jan, well said. But brainwashed idiots still refuse to see the truth. They are filled with such hatred.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:01pm
US government always asks for the atrocities in IOK to be removed from the report every year. Once it is mentioned, world media will turn up, see the truth and force India to implement the UN plebiscite and bring peace to the Kashmiris.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:02pm
@Jayaram, learn the spelling of interfere first.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:04pm
@Samir,
Because this article is about a specific report specifically about India and its minorities.
Kindly stop this whataboutery. Two wrongsc don't make a right. Be that China, US or others.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:13pm
@Siva D,
Agreed. If more people worked to improve things I think the world in general would be a better place. But to solve any issue one must first acknowledge it.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:14pm
@Abid,
But accepting the truth and the issues is the only way to resolve the problems. Denial will only allow the problems to continue and fester. Is that really desirable? Basic human rights must be observed.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:15pm
Truth hurts
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Jun 23, 2019 10:20pm
What is a secular state...what a joke..folks..How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:22pm
@Jagnik ghosh,
Not sure there is that much racism over teste considering its smelting pot and attracts many different people to pursue American dream. Hispanic, South Asians, Arabs, Persians, Europeans, Africans, Muslims, Jews, Christians Hindus, Buddhists, Alevis, Druze, you name it.
You seem indeni about that India as problems. It does. The right step would be to work to solve these issues instead of denying. No offense.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:23pm
@Manoj,
I will never bewble to understwwne this caste business. Why aren't all Indians just equal? Dividung humans into caste, untouchables? I can not understand this.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:25pm
@Rani Sharma, this article is about India, not Pakistan. Stay on topic here.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:32pm
It is strange how Pakistan accepts a US report which criticize India yet reject if Pakistan is criticized in the similar fashion by US reports.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:38pm
.. It is true.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:44pm
@Baba Vickram Aditya Bedi, .... The American people don't care what India does or does not do. This is all politics.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:49pm
Even though the report includes other minorities, the US report is prepared by inputs from foreign evangelicals and missionaries for their difficulties and frustration in propagating their activities against prescribed rules of the host country. Many times nun rapes and other incidences get published in media but most of the time they turned out to be fake after police investigation. If the report was representative of the facts, so many Muslims and Dalits would not have voted in favor of BJP.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:50pm
@Monsieur , .... Unfortunately, in my city Blacks are shooting Blacks in large numbers.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:56pm
india has become a fascist state.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:58pm
@Rashid, .... India has played Russia and the US for all the money and arms it could get out of the Cold War. The US owes India nothing.
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Jun 23, 2019 10:58pm
@Jayaram, read your own news then and mind your own business
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Jun 23, 2019 11:01pm
@Idrees Raja, ... The problem is we cannot control our emotions. We need more meditation.
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Jun 23, 2019 11:04pm
@Ashiq, ..... Only because the Brahmans' believe they are superior to every one else, and force themselves and their children to keep up appearances.
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Jun 23, 2019 11:09pm
@Mindshare, TX, ....... ........ Quite so.
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Jun 23, 2019 11:13pm
@Alia, ..... ..... You are closer to the truth.
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Jun 23, 2019 11:16pm
@N_Saq, ..... ..... Good advice.
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Jun 23, 2019 11:20pm
@Ramakrishnan Kinattukara, ..... ..... I wish you knew what you are talking about.
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Jun 23, 2019 11:28pm
@Yusufa, ..... Half the Muslims in America are not very religious. As generations pass they become more secular.
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Jun 23, 2019 11:37pm
@Ali Sikandar Chachar , ..... To some extent this is the truth.
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Jun 23, 2019 11:49pm
Pompeo calls it like it is ....... many in India would agree with this view and many will be in denial.
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Jun 24, 2019 07:53am
@ZZQ, implosion is the only logical consequence.
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Jun 24, 2019 08:00am
@Md, keep sowing seeds of your own destruction, bravo.
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Jun 24, 2019 08:09am
Truth is always bitter. Instead of hollering foul against those who speak for the minorities, it is better to mend one's ways. This goes for every country without any exceptions. Humanity should be the order of the day for all of us.
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Jun 24, 2019 08:13am
@Ashpak Shaikh - Indore, that was random profiling.
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Jun 24, 2019 02:43pm
And what right India may have on commenting to situation in Pakistan... time and again?
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Jun 24, 2019 08:11pm
@Tamilselvan, But in US there is no caste system, no minorities prosecution and women are respected and everyone has rights. In India, well, hopeless!
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