Modi took a question from the Wall Street Journal’s Sabrina Siddiqui, who asked him about “improving the rights of Muslims” in India.
“Mr. Prime Minister, India has long prided itself as the world’s largest democracy, but there are many human rights groups who say that your government has discriminated against religious minorities and sought to silence its critics… What steps are you and your government willing to take to improve the rights of Muslims and other religious minorities in your country and uphold free speech?” Siddiqui asked.
We shall leave Sabrina Siddiqui’s Pakistani origins , with it’s exceptional minority treatment out of study. We shall also ignore the fact that WSJ claims to be a business newspaper and the question was not buisness bit political as well as WSJ leanings and history.
We shall only dissect the “Question” in this piece.
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“There are many human rights groups who say..”
Playing with non specifics. “Some people say” “some claim”… Etc are just a acceptable way to put across ur own invented statements. Reminds of old ladies in household inventing quotes to deliver own versions and accusations in domestic power play and conflcits.
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“What steps are you willing to…”
Now what “some people are saying ” has suddenly been converted into a statement and an established fact. The perception peddler aka journalist is now saying that it’s a fact and what are you going to do about it!
- ” Improve rights of Muslims”
Now PP is claiming that it’s an established fact that Muslims and other religious minorities have lesser rights.
We shall not comment on whether India’s second majority is a minority or not as Indian govts already belive so, from and after PVNR.
So , does any Indian law discriminates against rights of Jews, Parsis, Sikhs etc vis a vis Hindus ? No!
Do Muslims have lesser rights?
In facts Muslims have more rights than hindus such as:
Personal Sharia laws,
Right to polygamy which is denied to all others,
Right to run Religious schools on taxpayers’ account,
Right to own and operate own religious worship places, denied to Hindus,
Right to have an almost sovreign WAQF board which can acquire any property it claims and no one Inc Supreme court can do anything about it,
Right to convert and marry even a hindu minor, who even a hindu can’t marry.
(https://www.google.com/amp/s/indianexpress.com/article/delhi/court-acquits-man-who-married-17-year-old-convert-to-islam-4761975/lite/)
Right to have a minority ministry and special funds and schemes and subsidies which are denied to Hindus.
So is there any shortage of rights with Muslims or any other Religious minority?
Then whats the question about?
Simply put, it wasn’t a question at all , it was a heavy propaganda camofluaged as a question, with every word and clause carefully drafted and redrafted to deliver a targeted blow to cause most damage to India.
But then that’s the core buisness of media houses, peddling paid propaganda and perceptions to their captive brains !
Destructor of Narratives! 