Indian Exclusionary Citizenship; Erosion of Citizen Rights Globally - Maulana Syed Muhammad Rizvi

- Right wing politics in which immigrants and minorities are being marginalized is sweeping across Europe as well as India. - Modi’s BJP government passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) which will grant citizenship to six religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh. The communities who will be given this citizenship from these countries are Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian. - The bill is exclusionary and violates the secular ethos of the Indian constitution. Faith cannot be made a condition of citizenship - Opponents says that there are minorities among the Muslims themselves who are persecuted: Ahmadis or Shi‘as or Hazaras in Pakistan. If BJP government was really concerned about persecuted minorities in the neighbouring countries, it should have opened the door for all in that neighbourhood irrespective of their faith. - The BJP government also tried to introduce the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in north-east state of Assam which has many Bengali refugees. - Locally, we need to be vigilant also. Harper’s Tory government passed Bill C-24 which gave the government the right to strip (even Canadian born individuals) who had dual citizenship of their Canadian passports if they were convicted of crimes of terrorism, treason or espionage against Canada. - Later the Liberal government repealed parts of Bill C-24 related to terrorism-related crimes, ensuring that they can keep their Canadian passport. Treat them as Canadian and if they are guilty, then punish them according to Canadian laws without deporting them to their parents’ homeland! - Some Hindu fundamentals propagate the myth that the Muslims who are originally Indians, their ancestors were converted by the Muslim rulers by force. This is the same tune which was played by the European missionaries and scholars about the spread of Islam. - Muslims ruled India for about 800 years, but there never was a Muslim majority in that country. The numbers themselves show that force was not part of the spread of Islam in that region. Youtube: https://youtu.be/jQq4GMCK9zM MP3:  https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/Jaffari/Fridays/FridayKhutba_Rizvi_2019-12-20_12-49-17.mp3 Friday Juma Khutba Recited By: Maulana Syed Muhammad Rizvi Date: December 20th, 2019 www.youtube.com/islamicentre https://anchor.fm/islamicentre www.facebook.com/IslamiCentre.org www.islamicentre.org www.facebook.com/sayyidmrizvi www.instagram.com/sayyidmrizvi www.twitter.com/sayyidmrizvi