Washington: A US-based expert tracking Hindu hate crimes targeting Muslims, Christians, and marginalised castes, in his testimony before a US government commission, presented a record of human rights abuses against minorities in India and called for targeted Global Magnitsky sanctions against leaders of the ruling party.
According to Global Mirror, in his testimony before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on the situation of Muslims and Christians in India, Raqib Hameed Naik highlighted senior political leaders’ role in enabling hate and violence, private construction firms’ complicity in demolishing minority properties, social media platforms’ amplification of hate speech, and the growing transnational repression targeting critics abroad.
The persecution “bears the sanction of the country’s top political leadership led by Prime Minister Modi” and is carried out through the state apparatus and the militant networks of the Hindu nationalist movement (the Sangh Parivar / RSS ecosystem, including the Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad), Naik, who currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), told USCRIF.
According to Global Mirror, in his testimony before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on the situation of Muslims and Christians in India, Raqib Hameed Naik highlighted senior political leaders’ role in enabling hate and violence, private construction firms’ complicity in demolishing minority properties, social media platforms’ amplification of hate speech, and the growing transnational repression targeting critics abroad.
The persecution “bears the sanction of the country’s top political leadership led by Prime Minister Modi” and is carried out through the state apparatus and the militant networks of the Hindu nationalist movement (the Sangh Parivar / RSS ecosystem, including the Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad), Naik, who currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), told USCRIF.