With rising number of Islamophobia cases surfacing in India under Modi, Muslims in the country and in Indian Administered Kashmir are facing impending genocide with some experts saying that this extermination has already begun.
Each year, on 9th December, United Nations observes the UN Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims and Crimes of Genocide. The genocide underway against Indian Muslims in riots, lynching, etc needs to be focused more keenly before the advent of the day.
Several Indian commissions of inquiry have tried to ferret out reason for miserable life of the Indian Muslims. For instance, the 2006 Sachar Committee Report commissioned by the Congress party–led government, identified many inequities for India’s Muslim society.
The Indian government is opposed (14 November 2022) granting Scheduled caste status to the Muslims to entitle them to some privileges. BJP-ruled Indian government is never short of grounds to persecute Muslims on one ground or another to persecute them (Citizenship amendment Act and National Register of citizens, Muslim preachers as carriers of Corona virus, saying azan (prayer call) aloud) to disturb sleep of non-Muslims in vicinity, offering prayers in open space or in houses, and so on).
At Haridwar, a so-called Hindu religious assembly exhorted Hindus to buy the latest arms and ammunition to kill Muslims. India’s Supreme Court, though ostensibly secular pronounce judgments that are against common beliefs of Indian Muslims.
For instance they declared a mosque inessential to Muslim worshipping, non-necessity of hijab, Muslims offering prayers in open space at Gurgaon and even those praying in congregation within houses were beaten up. In January 2022, Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, publically warned that India could very well be sprinting into genocide of Muslims, comparing the situation to the environment in Rwanda in 1994.
According to Dr Gregory Stanton, the founder of Genocide Watch “India has all of the preparatory stages for more genocidal massacres”. India is becoming a Hindu Rashtra where Muslims will be forced to live as second-class citizens and will be persecuted and murdered.
In October 2022, The Bridge Initiative under Georgetown University in the US published a report claiming that Muslims are in the 8th stage of genocide in India. Echoing the claims of Islamists and left-liberals alleging persecution of Muslims in India, the report titled “Is Genocide of Muslims underway in India?” concludes that “the process of genocide of Muslims is underway in India”. India eminently qualifies to be an offender of “genocide”. The government abets mass murder of the terrified minorities in riots. Occupied Kashmir has been turned into a Guantanamo Bay prison (Mehbooba Mufti).
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