With the government of India passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), the ruling party’s highly sectarian agenda became clearer and clearer. This discriminatory piece of legislation allows refugees from neighboring nations a pathway to citizenship. All refugees, that is, except Muslim ones. Given the rising incidents of violence and discrimination against Muslims in India, the…
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How India’s New Citizenship Law Makes Muslims Second Class Citizens
On the 11th of December, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)-led Indian government struck a deep blow at the ideals of secularism and egalitarianism that the country was founded on. The Indian Parliament voted in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 (CAB), a legislation that seeks to strip millions of Muslim migrants in India of…