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what's fueling intolerance in india? religious minorities are set to be victims of hate feet. the prime ministers government is under pressure to curve this trend, but we'll do so. this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm hasha marabella. human rights organizations

around the world are sounding v, alarm india. they say hate speech is fueling violence and intolerance against minorities to levels never seen before. attacks against muslims and christians have been some of the worst seen in the country. some politicians, especially those with ties to the ruling b, j. b, have been accused of inciting, and also promoting violence against minority groups. the government has also denied access to foreign funding to one of the wells best known catholic charities. it says the missionaries of charity organizations founded by the late mother theresa in the 1950s, did not me the right conditions and local laws. the charity denies the allegations that came after a series of attacks on the christian minority in the run up to christmas day of name is todd. how's this report from the delhi? the indian government has deemed that missionaries a charity, which is

a charitable organizations taught by mother theresa nobel peace prize winner. back in 1950 is no longer eligible to receive and use foreign funds for its activities. the charity works with housings of poor and destitute people across indiana, according to its recent tax filing received donations of about 10000000 dollars last year. now in india, the law requires organizations to report it for funding and also apply for a license to be able to use money coming from abroad. now the charity had a license that had applied to renew it, but the government deemed it ineligible saying that there were adverse inputs. we don't know what these adverse inputs are because the government has specified it. the charity has in a statement said that it has asked it sent us to not use any of the bank accounts. there is a process to appeal a rejection,

but we don't know where this is going to go. not. this is not the 1st time that the government has restricted for funding for philanthropic organizations and charities . in fact, of the last 6 years, more than 6000 organizations have seen therefore, funding being restricted. one of the most prominent ones is greenpeace. this year alone, more than a dozen organizations that largely worked in climate change and child labor areas have had their funding restricted. interestingly, these are 2 areas where the indian government has received a lot of international criticism. last year i'm nesting international had to for its operation. it said that the indian government had been harassing and bullying its employees. it's offices were rated by authorities and the police several times . and at the time, amnesty says it had been up at the re, even end of the harassment because of its reports on human rights violation by

prime minister in the reins of the government. specifically in india and administered kashmir in japan and global healer. rice watchdog say the frequency of attacks has been on the rise since 2014 the year now into a muddy became prime minister bias india dell. it triggered by a citizenship law, introduced last year, led to dozens of muslims being killed and many more injured. the legislation, fast tracks, nationality of for some minorities, but excludes muslims. india has also been criticized flights hill white's record in india administered kashmir activists that have documented reports of violence and atrocities, such as mass graves, porch and extra judicial killings. they say were carried out by indians on forces. last august, the government was criticized for not taking enough action against a former spokes person of the b j. p. who incited cause for

a campaign of genocide against muslims across india. and recently, there has been a series of attacks on the christian minority doing math in the run up to a christmas. ah, let's bring in august all in new delhi, saba nuk, the journalist and author, shades of suffering from best buy tomatti. as chris shook le is a journalist and author manages the news. brad web site and son j haggerty, senior advocate of the supreme court of india. welcome to the program saba, who used to blame for the rising hate crimes in india. oh, the rising, hey, graham takes this because india's predominant ruling party or sees political capital in what is happening or there is, or there is an ideological commitment to a hindu 1st nation and plus saw because of the nature of,

for the divisions within hindu society. even as an elector strategy, the idea is to or create a feeling or oh which, which sort of goes over the cost divisions and says, yell muslims are the enemy is to create a new history. is to create a new definition. it is to create a new consciousness for indians, or there is one fact that we must bear in mind when we talk about india. we don't talk about everything because we have a system which is the 1st past the post system. the prime minister in this 1st victory got 30 to 33 percent of the wart in the 2nd victory, 28 percent of your talking about a section of india, which, you know, you're sort of in elections because you get more than the other parties was wards are divided, that is how the electoral conquest of the in the right wing has proceeded. and it is a concentrated in the northern parts of india. more so than not the south,

for instance. and though it is, it is about, oh, it is about changing or ideal what it is to looking in for their followers. as soon as i did how i would define us is how to respond to those who say the reason why the government is to blame. because of the task isn't open a support that the perpetrators of those acts of hatred against minorities receive from the political establishment, particularly from the pgp eyes. i see what is the issue here? the issue here, i presume, is the sensor congregation all tend to do who des, medical for hate crime against muslims in hot, which is in the northern state of india. now this is a fringe element. the be just be the center has nothing to do with it. i only feel the friends issues when they are given prominence and when,

when other major issues i know, then there's a feeling in the right being that they're being discriminated against. let me give you an example. and recently there were 2 incidents of engine. one was in the, into the other one in the book, but a lot. now both of them have made to make any headway use. now why is an issue where the lynching has happened gets completely ignored by the mainstream media and the so called liberals. and why and when the fringe elements of speech in so much of romulans that it takes headlines, we'd had lines and had spoken incessantly on television channels. this is a fringe argument. this has nothing to do with the bgp. this has nothing to do or with any m. p, 's or emily's of indian government. and the are be dealt with according to the law

. fire has the logic gives them an and, and, and see the, the commend which the me is reprehensible. so he's saying that my point, you can't have a biased attitude towards things where one, if fringe comment has been made into a kind of a tricky your rent. okay. really as a lynch you? because lynn, she is completely ignored. in the mean main course to source sunjay when you have a, someone like probably that, and gary inciting, the hinders, and the army to a club down on the muslim minority. the same way they by manama government has been doing with linda. and nothing happens to him. are these people taking advantage of abusing tax in the constitution in the law that pays the way for such interpretations and give them more leeway when you see it under the law? unless that is acted, violence,

wicked goods. it's very difficult to who in walk me a really tough sections i ought to bring an in bring about a successful conviction. now, it is very apparent that these elements norfolk certain that the government of the day of the administration is unlikely to come after them. that is why they are employed, what the government needs to do is it kind of us just like say these are pretty elements, every fringe element becomes mainstream. that's, that's been the recycling, right? you've seen what has happened in, in our real you, you've seen the kind of talk which preceded again inside out that you've seen what has happened with the right and the do, and on conspiracy carries and all that in the united it and how that then leads to

somebody like direct and how's people. so it is always the speech that has to be watched. when people get away with these kind of murderous calls. the next thing that happened is action. so, if you want to prevent why that. the 1st thing that you need to know is to go after why didn't speech and an unequivocal message that the case will come down. maybe that is not happening. ok, saba. so when you have the penal code, think basically that the state has the right to bring legal action against people who are promoting hate crimes. the general sentiment among people in the minority is a basically this is not really what is happening in india that the establishment is colluding with different branches to protect people are promoting those act.

so in the establishment is very openly biased. i mean, there are people who are in jail fall. there was a comedian, the famous kasen, wandering, a comedian, muslim man who never even cracked any jokes. he was in jen for a while. of course, they're part of the same ecosystem. i don't know how one of the speakers has declared that they have. one of them is a member of the be dippy. they're all part of the of the same ecosystem of the lodge. all sunk body bod, that supports the b to b. just imagine a just just imagine that is donald trump and there are right o'clock glen. it's like that. just make the same silly. so they would also support donald trump. so it's, it's the same kind of system they belong, they're protected, and there is no justice. if a person happens to be muslim, you will have driven us cases against you. there is a journalist who with sits and jane of these section yes, sunday is right,

and i respect a very, very much and he knows the law perfectly is very right. that's very hard to prosecute it crime, but it has been done. and the point is, it's the process that is the punishment in the way indian laws are used against those who was seemed to be against the government. one minority figures who the government wishes to will if i it's not about what is the judgment at the end of the process. the process is the, the punishment. one of those gentlemen who made it be to quote for genocide, genocide, muslims, ah, was there recently he did, he did some. he did this so few months ago in new denny, which is the national capital of this great democracy, which is actually being completely vilified, of which is being destroyed. the soul of india is being utterly destroyed by the government or allowing these people to get up, even called for genocide,

did get away with calls for oh, you know, killing a community. and let me also mention then to mentioned, was made out of lynching incidence that happened in the states have been dumb, bitch in water, the holy shines of the sea community. this has nothing to do with the larger picture of a majority community, hammering down on minorities. but job is a state where seek make up 58 percent of the population. it's an entirely different landscape. so let's not up baltic, valencia. let's be very clear what. okay, hang out beyond king at the world, 3rd largest muslim population, which happens live in india, being used as proxies for people who should be hated or against whom you can give calls for genocide. and nobody is doing very much about it. there will be action taken because people are moving the court. all right. i should've taken yes. professor la, moving the court. you said this is purely isolated events that should not be really taken out of the context. but when you have the lynching of moslems persecution of

the christians who are not able to say the prayers or to join the congregations during them, as this is cheryl sentiment that the hinders widening. the wave of populism are adamant about the need to turn the nation into a hinder nation, and this explains the sentiments which you are seeing not now. and i have a few points to me. one summer says that there is a person who is it who was involved in that congregation who was, who has feeder partridge in at the party, which is early, but it's strong, mr. acknowledged or should you was a member of the bc. he's no longer no 2nd point. they say that the punjab was a separate issue not what do you see about this havoc this kind of paranoid about the hindus in india when we had instance of the muslim leader, a certain date,

lacy and his younger brother. but of the new busy seeing on it that form that v. 15 curse of muslims in this country are enough. good. take your of 100 roars of hindus or what action do you think should have been taken against him? now you have multiple instances in an emily on the, on a new id in daily. his name is miss sherman of to look hon. he said that the man, the service, what are the, the saint, who was a part of the parents, and so his neck should you see beer and his tongue and should pick up not what kind of speech do you think do you think it is not a huge speech. now my point is that any hate speed is condemn unable, nobody supporting the mens which for me in her door. but there are similar comments which go unnoticed by these left papers. there are much worse incidents like

lynchings happen on which they don't like every single word. so where is that conscious is indeed their bias. when you say, and i tell you i would say in support of majority, him lose it. when the seed is the mission happening and then the social media, when they see that people are getting a bit murders and people are seeing anything they want, the calls for the head of the indian prime minister has been made from multiple parts of this country. then the field that be being discriminated against whatever they do have elected on a point where as the people who actually come to mergers and who are boss, must commit on a lot and gets caught. nobody speaks what all can it. let's move forward. sunjay, the narrow was widely respected for his bravery when his stood out against those willing to introduce the converse laws back in the thirties and that the multicultural foundations of the republic have to stay. now,

are you concerned that those foundations are likely to further be undermined under modi rather, it is more the on any other government. what seems to have happened is that found a tional principles have been forgotten after a couple of generations and get off the magnificent constitution towards the end of the 1914. it did it against a backdrop of great violence of the previous decade. the founding fathers of the indian republic remembered the horrors of the late law, the jewish holocaust, the partition violence which cost over a $1000000.00 lives on the continent, and also the murder of b. my, the father of the nation, my dandy. so they deliberately wrote the constitution, which was designed to protect every in, get it respective of whether he was in the majority community or the minority

community. those lessons, those foundational principles fame, be father and find that a bank. and i really fear for what is coming because i just like to tell my friend who supports to be just be he's do not fit this fellow said that. and that fellow says that you are the government to other government elected by a massive majority of indians. if you allow this, then i do really fear that we are in for much more spence, especially in my children's dang. saba, on one hand, you have those are persecuted, who feel like the, there's impunity in the country. and there's absolutely nothing to do to reign in the fanatics her adamant about the need to, to, to, to spread the hindu ideology across the nation. what happens next to india? i think there isn't a very dark bought ah,

we are very clearly acting against all minority the you have the situation in, gosh me, you, there frankly, the ruling party in new delhi doesn't get about what's happening to people over there. you have now an attack on christians. oh, you have of to go such as mother to the saw who we all, all of us indians grew up all it every single her introduction to missionaries of charity has been denied up a mission to receive foreign funds. this christmas eve, images of santa claus will bond. i mean, i didn't know whether to laugh or to start crying. a judge was attacked. so once you have, oh, you know, this is all saying the game for you and, you know, i did not speak out to once it's, of course, the muslim is the main figure. yeah. because muslims have been participant, you know, have participated in that have been visiting. they are large minority in certain places the lives that there is mobilization against them. it is a lot to focus on was carved out as a muslim nation. all out of those sort of back to the legacy of partition that

people live it. the constitution that sunday just spoke, all was designed to fight to the kind of people who murdered mac, my gandhi. now don't that ideological string is now in follow. sold the constitution. it's just lift. so this because ok, a noise only as good as when it is implemented and that is a tiny discriminate g and use it all. and then as long as the damned, any pathetic attempt to create body d. so if you want to talk about violence, there is constant violence, but didn't induces id that has nothing to do with muslim. i did get lean. no, you know all of this goes on, don't you want to talk about, didn't you? let's talk about ok every day, just the other day. there was a case bed of people in a business in the state read the dis dot, i'm gathering, but it, dr. given their cost of people of the higher cost refused to eat food made by particular woman who has not been old. let me somebody has offered that. can she

moved to delhi? lemme just violence. the didn't know society. all right, multiple levels. let me go to washington. this is really creating a sentiment globally that india's reputation as a voice of tolerance is normal and to the point where the recent decision against the missionaries of charity. why would you targeted, targeted the has for the last 60 years been building hospitals, community kitchens schools, dealing with leper colony is providing shelter for abandoned children and you say, southerly finally does not me the local a prerequisites for oh, oh hesitate. i think i think about this charity a lot of detail is missing in what you perceive it to be are. there has been foreign exchange of medic mentor relation and really major relations. and the

charity was taken into confidence by the government. and they were told that this is out of state, and that's why this is being done against you that the foreign funding, in fact, the charity itself has requested that the warrant when the usual must be handled differently in case it as, as a voyager. so don't see everything from it you just by not gonna. i think it is not fear people make mistakes. people do crimes, they must be punished when you link everything. when you dig everything back to the center as a problem. if something happens in a truck on a men the lawyer be having to spend and he knows it very well. the line order is a state of the if it happens in canada, happens those state domains. india is a federal country, the states and have the responsibility of looking after law and order you the moment when you create this right nation of picking everything back to the center and against windows. or i see if i have all that and as it has because we're

running short of time just want to i i think the missed is in flames. the issue rather than pass at it and i got your point. i get just sunjay for a few seconds before we run the conversation please sunjay. i see that it is the b g, b which is in body. no track on that. i did last time still bliss the b j. b. as in paul a in the st. that as well, if that be a ruling party wants to do something about the e problem, it has all the power to do it. you or you can be disingenuous like that. thank his ellen sunjay. haggerty shook law and a sub. and i really appreciate you and i thank you and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion, got our facebook page, thus facebook dot com forward slash ha, inside slow. you can also join the conversation on twitter. our hands, it is at a jane size 40 for me, hash about about on the entire team here in doha. my phone. ah,

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