India’s 200m Muslims fear the prime minister is building a Hindu state
Narendra Modi
Leaders- Jan 23rd 2020 edition – Jan 23rd 2020 – The Economist
Last month India changed the law to make it easier for adherents of all the subcontinent’s religions, except Islam, to acquire citizenship. At the same time, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp) wants to compile a register of all India’s 1.3bn citizens, as a means to hunt down illegal immigrants (see Briefing). Those sound like technicalities, but many of the country’s 200m Muslims do not have the papers to prove they are Indian, so they risk being made stateless. Ominously, the government has ordered the building of camps to detain those caught in the net. Continue reading
OPINION: A plea to humanity amidst the brutality – By Yvonne Sam
By Yvonne Sam
Are we not our brother’s keeper?
I am in no way soliciting a response, to the afore-stat
ed inquiry, based on the fact that current happenings in Guyana reveal that the people are still answering Cain’s question to God. (Genesis, 4:9). Ironically, the Brother’s Keeper epithet was first framed as a negative: When God asked after Cain, fresh from murdering Abel, where his brother was. Cain answered, “I know not; am I my brother’s keeper?”
Today any morally upright, sane thinking, god fearing, people loving, oil benefitting Guyanese knows that where God is concerned, the right response is a resounding “Yes!” After all, Jesus told us so Himself, through stories like the Good Samaritan and imperatives like “Love Your Neighbor.” Continue reading →
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