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India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims (www.npr.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Othering 172M residents in a country prone to fractious internal conflicts and with large nuclear armed majority Muslim neighbors next door?

What could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by 172 million residents? Are there really that many Muslim refugees from their neighboring countries that won't get citizenship now? Or are you just referring to Indian Muslims generally?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Indian Muslims generally

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ah right, well theres probably over 200 million of them by 2024, which is why I was confused.

Also to be clear, those 200 million shouldn't be considered "Residents" they are every bit Indian citizens as any other Indian, and should be referred to as such, which is something the current government is trying to alter the perspective on.