The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) known for it’s notoriety to meddle in the internal affairs of other countries seems to have not learnt any lessons in the changing world where it’s clout is decreasing in the new world order. The unscrupulous US Agency cannot anymore dictate terms to sovereign republics like India and get away with it.
Yesterday the Lok Sabha passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill by a huge majority. The bill tabled by Home Minister Amit Shah was supported by political parties across the spectrum. However, many parties and forces inimical to India’s interests have been indulging scare mongering ever since the debate on CAB started. Several NGOs and HR organisations have portrayed CAB as being anti-Muslim which is far from truth.
This nefarious agenda to stymie passing of CAB has now spilled over to the US and few of its agencies which are still under the impression that they are still the policeman of the world. Now the USCIRF with its half-baked knowledge of the CAB and with information solicited from the Left-Liberal cabal has tried to meddle in India’s internal affairs using CAB.
The USCIRF had issued a statement saying that the agency is deeply troubled by the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) in the Lok Sabha. The agency accused that CAB provides citizenship for immigrants excluding Muslims. It charged that the Amendment sets up a legal criterion for citizenship based on religion. However, the misinformed or deliberately ignorant USCIRF was given a scathing reply by the MEA.
The MEA has called out the USCIRF for it’s inaccurate and unwarranted comments on CAB. The MEA statement said that the agency has chosen to be guided by their prejudices and biases on which they have little knowledge and no locus standi.
The complete statement by MEA is as below (pic):
It is worthwhile to remember that the US government under Trump had declared that US will prioritize Christian refugees who have been persecuted in various countries, especially Islamic countries.
With such a precedent, the USCIRF’s concerns are not only fake but hollow. It would do well for the agency to stand by the Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Jain, Buddhist and Christian minorities who have been persecuted in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and forgotten by the world and to whom India is only trying to provide the much needed succor.
