cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/21886458

While Judaism is excluded despite never having any conflict with them.

Why the same excuse which is used to exclude muslims and Jews is not used to exclude Christians?

Are they afraid of western retribution? What is the logic behind keeping Christianity but excluding Judaism?

There are plenty of Christian countries for Christians to go to just like muslims. So, why include Christians?

    • velox_vulnus@lemmy.mlM
      6·
      3 months ago

      Syrian Christians were the oldest Christian community in Kerala, so OP is wrong here.

      The written records of Saint Thomas Christians mention that Christianity was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by Thomas the Apostle, who sailed to the Malabar region (present-day Kerala) in 52 AD.

      Way before the Romans forced Christianity on the Anglo-Saxons, around the 4th century.

  • velox_vulnus@lemmy.mlM
    4·
    3 months ago

    It’s all bullshit and fear-mongering. There is no justification to hate.

    If you look into history, there are several temples that have non-colonizer Christian and Muslim history of syncretism. Take for example, in my hometown the Bappa Beary temple, believed to be built by a Muslim, and everyone used to be allowed, at least before the BJP’s rise in popularity.

    NRC was a waste of tax-payers money. CAA contradicts Article 15. Don’t lose your focus on the electoral bond scam, let me remind you that.

    Also Christianity wasn’t necessarily imposed in all parts. The oldest Christian community lives in Kerala, called Syrian Christians.

    • TVgog56789OP
      1·
      3 months ago

      I don’t disagree with you. I know Christians and Jews and muslims were all coming to India way before any kings or colonists came.

      I am just pointing out the completely flawed logic they have used to justify this law.

    • velox_vulnus@lemmy.mlM
      3·
      3 months ago

      Adding to the other reply because it does not mention NRC.

      NRC is the particular bill that will make Indian citizens stateless, assuming that the folks caught aren’t Indians well, life does not work that way, right? Many Indians themselves do not have the document to identify themselves as Indians. By the way, NRC has been tried and tested in Assam almost a decade ago - resulting in 19 lakh (~19,00,000) of 3.29 crore (~3,29,00,000) people ending up in immigration detention, which is a lot of people. Interestingly, most of them were Hindus.

      Now, CAA is the bill for people identified as persecuted minority to bypass that. CAA and NRC works in tandem to allow only acceptable legal-but-lost-their-document and illegals. That clearly excludes Muslims, and other refugees from Afghanistan (Hazaras Muslim), Pakistan (Ahmaddiya), Sri Lanka (Tamilians, Hindus, Christians, Muslims), Nepal (Christians), Myanmar (Rohingya Hindus and Muslims, Chin Christians) and Bhutan (Lhotshampa).

    • TVgog56789OP
      2·
      3 months ago

      CAA is a new amendment to Indian citizenship act made by Modi led hindu nationalist government.

      The ACT aims to provide India citizenship to persecuted minorities in the countries neighbouring India.

      However the act only cherrypicks certain religions and certain countries to please hindu nationalist votebank.

      Only persecuted minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh can get citizenship.

      Which means Rohingyas ( irrespective of their religion ) from Myanmar can’t get asylum.

      Further certain religions are excluded from CAA like Muslims, Jews, Baha’i and Atheists

      In Pakistan there are Ahmedi muslims and atheists which are also persecuted minorities which cannot get asylum.

      The law in itself doesn’t pose much harm to Indian muslims, Jews and atheists but along with this the government is planning an updated national register for citizens where everyone living in India will be asked to prove their grandparents were citizens of India. Most people don’t have birth certificates of their grandparents or other documents that can prove that.

      Therefore this risks muslims, Jews and atheists losing Indian citizenship and becoming stateless. They risk getting deported or kept in prison camps.