KARACHI: The Indian government on Monday sought to calm wrathfulness at home and abroad following depreciatory reflections by BJP members about the Holy Prophet( peace be upon him), as Pakistan and other Islamic countries continued to put pressure on New Delhi to apologise for hurting the sentiments of millions of Muslims around the world.
According to Reuters, at least 38 people were arrested for rioting in Kanpur while another kick was held in Mumbai.
Top Indian officers remained engaged with managing the politic fallout as further Muslim nations, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Maldives, Jordan, Afghanistan and Iran as well as the influential Al- Azhar University in Cairo demanded an reason from the government in Delhi for allowing the depreciatory reflections, an Indian foreign ministry functionary said.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation( OIC), in a statement, said “ These cuts come in the environment of the adding intensity in abomination of and cuts to Islam in India and the methodical importunity of Muslims. ”
The 57- member body cited the rearmost decision to ban the hijab at educational institutions in several Indian countries and the destruction of Muslim property to punctuate what it said was the Indian government’s bias.
Indian diplomats posted in the Gulf and neighbouring Islamic countries like Iran and Pakistan were summoned by officers in those countries to protest against the commentary by BJP officers.
Its external affairs ministry said in a statement the obnoxious tweets and commentary did not, in any way, reflect the views of the government.
“ Strong action has formerly been taken against these individualities by applicable bodies, ” said Arindam Bagchi, a government prophet.
The BJP said on Sunday it had suspended a prophet and expelled another functionary for hurting the religious sentiments of a nonage community.
Saudi Arabia ate the action taken by the BJP to suspend the spokesman, while a elderly functionary at the Qatar Embassy in New Delhi said Modi’s government must intimately part itself from the commentary.
“ Hurting our religious sentiments can directly impact profitable ties, ” the functionary said, adding they were checking reports about boycott of Indian goods by some supermarket possessors in Qatar.
also, Reuters reported that a Kuwaiti supermarket had also pulled Indian products from its shelves.
At the supermarket just outside Kuwait City, sacks of rice and shelves of spices and chilies were covered with plastic wastes. published signs in Arabic read “ We’ve removed Indian products ”.
Iran followed Qatar and Kuwait by summoning the Indian minister to protest in the name of “ the government and the people ”, state news agency IRNA said late on Sunday.
Excoriations from congress, military
In Islamabad, both houses of congress unanimously passed judgments condemning the BJP leaders ’ remarks about the Holy Prophet( PBUH).
In the Senate, the president remarked that the resolution would be transferred to the UN clerk general and a kick would be registered with him over the matter.
The resolution passed in the National Assembly demanded the Indian government take strict action against the offending BJP leaders and insure that similar reflections shouldn’t be repeated. It also prompted the transnational community to take notice of Indiasanti-Muslim policy.
According to the Foreign Office, the Indian Charge d Affaires was summoned and conveyed the government of Pakistan’s “ categorical rejection and strong commination ” of the reflections made by two elderly officers of India’s ruling BJP).
APP reported that the Indian diplomat was told that these reflections were “ completely inferior and hadn’t only deeply hurt the sentiments of the people of Pakistan, but also Muslims across the world ”.
The army’s hype sect,Inter-Services Public Relations, also condemned the reflections, saying this was an suggestion of the extreme abomination the government held towards Muslims and other persuasions in India.
Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman nominated the statements “ shocking and instigative ”, while Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb nominated the incident “ another incarnation of its revolutionist and seditionist mindset. ”
Independently, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom( USCIRF) has recommended India and four other countries for designation as ‘ countries of particular concern ’ in its 2022 report.
The 2022 USCIRF report, released last week, covers the events that happed in 2021. It notes that “ religious freedom conditions in India significantly worsened ” last time.
During the time, “ the Indian government escalated its creation and enforcement of programs– including those promoting a Hindu-nationalist docket– that negatively affect Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Dalits, ” and other religious nonages.
According to the report, the Indian government continued to “ systemize its ideological vision of a Hindu state at both the public and state situations ” through the use of both being and new laws and structural changes hostile to the country’s religious nonages.
