In October this month, The Bridge Initiative below Georgetown College in the United States revealed a document claiming that Muslims are within the eighth degree of genocide in India. Echoing the claims of Islamists and left-liberals alleging persecution of Muslims in India, the document titled “Is a Genocide of Muslims underway in India?” concludes that “the method of genocide of Muslims is underway in India”.
“Islamophobia is central to this procedure, which is happening at each a top-down and bottom-up degree, as Hindu nationalists around the nation had been emboldened via the right-wing BJP-led executive— each percentage the similar targets of remaking India as a place of birth completely for Hindus,” the document claims.
The 40-page document alleges that India has skilled a deadly upward push in Islamophobia over the last decade. “The upward thrust on this bigotry has in large part come into being with the election of High Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP), a right-wing Hindu nationalist birthday party,” it says.
The document says that it has tested the location in India the use of “Gregory Stanton’s 10 phases of genocide, and reveals that examples of the primary 8 phases of genocide are found in India.” It claims that the primary 8 phases are prevalent, and the 9th degree has began to emerge.
All the document is in accordance with such baseless and frivolous arguments to say that India is seeing severe genocide of Muslims, which is allegedly at the eighth degree in a 10-stage scale. In line with Gregory Stanton’s 10 phases of genocide, the 8th degree contains expropriation, compelled displacement, ghettos, and focus camps. The ninth degree is mass killing, so the document claims India is coming into the degree of mass killing of Muslims, which is a deadly lie designed to cause anti-India emotions amongst Muslims internationally.
Initiative run via Islamists
Whilst anti-India experiences focused on the Modi executive revealed via left-liberal assume tanks within the west is not anything new, this document via the Georgetown College teams has a selected facet, an instantaneous hyperlink with Pakistan and Islamists. This document appears to be authored via Pakistani and Islamist components, now not via standard left-liberals.
The Bridge Initiative is described as a “multi-year analysis mission on Islamophobia”, and it purposes below the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Middle for Muslim-Christian Figuring out (ACMCU) at Georgetown College in Washington DC. The ACMCU was once arrange with a donation of $20 million via Saudi Arabian billionaire businessman Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud in 2005.
Alwaleed has been a debatable businessman and was once arrested on corruption fees.
The Bridge Initiative focuses completely on alleged Islamophobia and has revealed experiences alleging that anti-Muslim hatred is on the upward thrust in more than a few nations. After Donald Trump become the United States president, the gang revealed a number of equivalent experiences, alleging that anti-Muslim perspectives have been mainstreamed via the Trump marketing campaign and management. The Initiative had additionally hosted a panel dialogue about “Islamophobia” within the Trump technology.
Now coming to the document on India, the lead researcher discussed within the document is Mobashra Tazamal, a Pakistan-origin researcher who has accomplished her Grasp’s stage in Islamic Societies & Cultures. Her profile at the Georgetown College website online states that “her present analysis facilities on world Islamophobia with a selected focal point on China’s marketing campaign focused on Uighur Muslims and its use of surveillance era, the upward thrust of ethno-nationalism, and the monetary and trans-Atlantic connections of the Islamophobia ‘business’.” She is the affiliate director on the Initiative.
Different distinguished contributors of The Bridge Initiative come with Arsalan Iftikhar, some other Pakistan-origin researcher. Arsalan Iftikhar is notorious for his racist feedback in opposition to American flesh presser Bobby Jindal, when Jindal was once Louisiana’s governor. Showing on MSNBC, Iftikhar had stated about Jindal, “He could be seeking to, , scrub one of the most brown off his pores and skin as he runs to the correct in a Republican presidential exploratory bid.” This observation had caused huge outrage, and MSNBC had introduced that Iftikhar received’t be showing at the channel once more.
Every other member of the Initiative is Farid Hafez, who was once investigated via Austria for suspected terror investment and affiliation with Muslim Brotherhood. The Austrian government raided his Vienna area in 2020 and wondered him after tracking him for years below Operation Luxor.
John L. Esposito, the director of Bridge Start up, even though a Christian, has written widely on Islam. In his books and articles, he assists in keeping claiming that anti-Islam sentiment is emerging on the planet.
Every other member of the gang, Susan L. Douglass, is an American Muslim, who did MA in Arab Research. Jordan Denari Duffner is the opposite member of the Initiative, who’s “a number one Catholic voice on Muslim-Christian family members.”
The Bridge Initiative of Georgetown College isn’t a impartial crew, this is a crew of Islamists who accuse the arena of Islamophobia. A few of the 6 contributors of the initiative together with the director, 4 are Muslims, two of them from Pakistan.
Subsequently, there’s no marvel that they have got authored a fully Hinduphobic document accusing Hindus in India of being Islamophobic.
Baseless allegations
Additionally, the document is stuffed with baseless allegations in opposition to India, repeating the acquainted false arguments already made via Islamists and left-liberals in opposition to the Modi executive. It cites the CAA as an anti-Muslim coverage of the Modi executive, the place the truth is that the CAA simplest speeds up granting citizenship to persecuted minorities in neighbouring nations. CAA does now not deny citizenship to Muslims, it simply does now not boost up the method for them, however international Muslims can turn out to be Indian voters below commonplace process.
The document additionally cites NRC in Assam as some other anti-Muslim step, while the truth is that each nation has correct to spot and deport unlawful immigrants. In reality, the NRC of 1951 was once up to date in Assam at the orders of the Superb Courtroom.
The use of some other acquainted anti-Hindu and anti-BJP argument, the document says the ban on hijab in faculties in Karnataka is anti-Muslim. The federal government’s choice has been authorized via the Top Courtroom, and neither the federal government nor the court docket bans Muslim ladies from dressed in hijabs and even Burkha. The rule of thumb is simplest appropriate to varsities the place uniforms are necessary. Just a handful of Muslim ladies are combating to wreck the Uniform rule, and the Georgetown College crew thinks implementing uniforms in faculties, a globally authorized apply, is Islamophobic.
The document cites the Ram Janmabhoomi judgement, the continuing case over Gyanvyapi, and different such circumstances as anti-Muslim. They fail to say that it’s widely known that those Islamic constructions have been built after demolishing historical Hindu temples, and Hindus are combating to revive the ones heritage temples.