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Whether they are or not is a security issue, not their religious affiliation.
It is also a discrimination issue, because of a specific caveat that exists in your Asylum law. Whether your reasons are because of religion or security does not matter. The point made is all asylum laws are discriminatory for various reasons. BTW, these people have been in residing in Pakistan for close to decades in many instances. How does security become an issue now?
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.
Your first sentence proves what I've been saying about you not having read the CAA law. Quote "I clearly argued the case against CAA by describing how it impacts on those who cannot prove their legal status".
CAA does not force anyone to prove their legal or illegal status! ALL CAA applicants apply 'Voluntarily' and are thereby voluntarily declaring they are not legal residents.
CAA is for exclusively non residents in neighboring countries to apply or and illegal in-country residents.
Worse yet you try to intertwine others laws into the CAA. NRC & CAA are two independent laws. NRC is only in one state- Assam. You have a NRC in Pakistan too where citizens and lawful residents of pakistan have to prove they are as a such.
Asylum laws have several statues, immigration laws have several statues in every country. India's CAA is one such asylum statue that is for 'persecuted religious minorities' in Islamic republics. Ever figure out how Pakistani artists get Indian residency rights and or citizenship? Because they can apply under 'other' asylum statues.
refer to the above answer. Under the NRC/CAA double play, such a potential deportee will be saved by being a non-Muslim.
You keep trying to bring a NRC into CAA showing you have not read either. The NRC is a separate law, albeit an incomplete law, partially in place in Assam to make all residents prove their are citizens. Not unlike laws in Pakistan, which IK and his supporters ignore.
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.
Again, after repeatedly failing to read CAA you bring NRC and plan B theories in the mix. Even so your example above is flawed under the NRC. If one is an illegal resident and a Muslim originally from a neighboring Islamic republic. How can he/she say they are 'persecuted religious' minority?
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.
All asylum laws are inherently discriminatory in every democracy, worse in dictatorships or under communism. It is the sole prerogative of a country to set its asylum statues.
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'm being transparent when I say you seem to have selective argument on discrimination. Discrimination is not just based on religion. If SCOTUS says it is legal it is legal and cannot be a violation of the laws, period.
You cannot apply for asylum under 'persecuted religious minority' in the US as a Christian if you come from most parts of Europe. BTW, US designated 10 countries as “countries of particular concern” for their particularly severe violations of religious freedom, and for the first time the Secretary named Pakistan to a Special Watch List. Why not look in your own house first Mr. Khan, over playing politics.
US shows favoritism to Christians in Islamic countries over Muslim under its religious persecuted asylum laws.
That's odd, no security concerns for the decades they lived in Pakistan, but now suddenly the whole lot becomes a threat? What you have effectively said is that you are discriminating them with a false excuse to adapt to your situation. You could not be any more surreptitious in your concern for Indian Muslims.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.
.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".
What do you mean by "Whether they are actually persecuted or not is irrelevant to this discussion." lol. They are applying under "persecuted religious minority" statue. How is not relevant then? What I find telling is that you've now confessed that your concern for Muslims is really a non concern for them, as much as it really about politics. Holding some to a standard, not because of what you think is ethical and non discriminatory to dos so, but because they claim to be secular. Muslims butchered in communist countries, in non secular countries; that's all fine with you because they've declared themselves as being non secular.
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.
Did you actually write above that you don't care about Muslims being butchered and mistreated because a country is non-secular? And then in the same breath, couple of sentences later proclaim to be for the fair treatment of Muslims?
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