Question: Should millions of afghans living in Pakistan for decades under refugee status be allowed Pakistani citizenship? Should 'other' illegal immigrants living in Pakistan for decades be allowed Pakistani citizenship?
Whether they are or not is a security issue, not their religious affiliation.
Fact: CAA has absolutely nothing to do with legal residents or citizens of India. Show me the verbiage in the CAA law that proves your claim. I prefer citation over your need to opine on the law, please. At a minimum, it will prove if you have indeed read the law or chose to follow the pied piper blindly.
I clearly argued the case against CAA by describing how it impacts on those who cannot prove their legal status for various reasons and how the fallout of failing to do so will negatively impact Muslims, not non-Muslims. Where did I state it has anything to do with those who can already claim legal status? You have not read my post, let alone NRC or CAA. You are deliberately obfuscating because you know my claim is right and you also know this is precisely the intention of CAA. I have no doubt that you followed the history of NRC and were aware that it affected more Hindus and fewer Muslims than it was intended to. You also know full well that CAA came in response to that failed effort in order to allow Hindu non-citizens a route back, thus short circuiting NRC to the detriment of Muslims.
Fact: You can be an illegal resident of a country regardless if one has resided there for decades upon decades, worked and had a family. US just deported the mother of a US army soldier because she has been living here illegally for 30 years! It is not against the law to do so.
refer to the above answer. Under the NRC/CAA double play, such a potential deportee will be saved by being a non-Muslim.
Fact: NRC is not CAA, CAA is the example you cited as state-sponsored discrimination. I would take a guess you have not read NRC too.
CAA is indeed where the discrimination comes in blatant form. NRC was intended to covertly remove the "termites" (Shah terminology) I.e. Muslim bengalis without raising eyebrows or blatantly stating It was an assault only on Muslims. When that failed, and the numbers showed as many Hindus would also be eliminated, Shah needed a plan B, CAA, which was more blatant in its wording. You know this already though.
India argues you can't be a Muslim and be considered a religious minority in an Islamic Republic
Ok I understand your logic here but the immigration laws under CAA are still discriminatory against Muslims whether they are a majority in their origin country or not.
Our SCOTUS approved the ban on people coming from certain countries, making it legal and lawful
Be clear and transparent please. SCOTUS accepted the argument that these individuals were to be barred on the basis of them being a SECURITY RISK. While it remains a violation of your 1st Amendment and highly dubious, with many many professional judges calling it out as discriminatory on religious grounds, the reasoning behind it is at least ostensibly due to security of the state. NO SUCH REASONING is given for CAA. I.e. CAA is based purely and unashamedly on a desire to discriminate on the basis of religion. We can strongly speculate that Trump's law are discriminatory on the basis of religion but he cites security as the motivator and we can't prove beyond reasonable doubt to the contrary. He gets the benefit of the doubt. With CAA there is no doubt as it is openly touted and by definition a means of removing illegal Muslims while saving illegal jains, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians and parsees. Nowhere is there even the facade of "security".
I would add here that if Pakistan was to deport any afghans, it would follow the Trump model of declaring it a security issue, not a demographic issue.
Fact: You are arguing that in Pakistan, minority sects among Muslims are persecuted too, and thus feel India should include them under CAA.
Whether they are actually persecuted or not is irrelevant to this discussion. If they are however claiming as such when they flee to India, they should not be discriminated against and turned back by India on the basis of their religion. That's what I'm saying. I am holding India to account by the high moral standards it sets for itself by declaring itself "secular". If India wishes to admit it is now simply a Hindutva state and remove this fig leaf of secularism, fair enough, I shall respect their honesty and withdraw my complaint and leave Indian muslims to their fate. It bugs me that Hindustan makes a mockery out of "secularism".
Regarding China, it is of no relevance because again, they don't claim secularism as their guiding principle. Moreover, China wouldn't tolerate Hindu supremacists as much as Islamic ones. In this regard, they treat everyone equally, brutally, but equally.
I therefore have no complaints about China's policies towards uighurs.
Clearly you think this is about Islam or the ummah. No. It's about fair treatment of Muslims.
Hope you understand all that and it rectifies some misconceptions you may have had.