India just passed a law that will effectively ban Muslims from becoming citizens and rounding them up. China is rounding them up and trying to "reeducate" them away from Islam.
This isn't about race, this is about religion and how, after all these centuries, it can divide a nation.
What is the solution?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2...ional-registerAt first glance, the bill may seem like a laudable effort to protect persecuted minorities. It says Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians who came to India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan won’t be treated as illegal. They’ll have a clear path to citizenship.
But one major group has been left out: Muslims.
And -- they're rounding them up and putting them in detention camps.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2...etention-campsThis is the situation nearly 2 million people — most of them Muslims, some of them Hindus of Bengali origin — now find themselves in, because their names do not appear on India’s National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Meanwhile, China has been doing something similar. Is this a red flag of human rights violations to come? Is it just growing pangs in a global society?
https://apnews.com/62097e9dd2844aab8d64a2be2ebaa972After bloody race riots rocked China’s far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim minority.
Now, newly revealed, confidential documents show that the official, Zhu Hailun, played a key role in planning and executing a campaign that has swept up a million or more Uighurs into detention camps.