{"id":176197,"date":"2022-03-26T20:20:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=176197"},"modified":"2022-03-26T20:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T14:50:37","slug":"indias-complex-position-on-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-complex-position-on-islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s complex position on Islamophobia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News:<\/span><\/b> The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted\u202fa consensus resolution declaring March 15 to be celebrated as \u201cInternational Day to Combat Islamophobia\u201d annually.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Islamophobia<\/span><\/b>?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

It refers to the fear of and prejudice, discrimination and hate speech against Islam. For example<\/strong>, Muslims claims the face negative stereotyping in Western countries has exacerbated since 9\/11 terrorist attacks. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who Introduced the resolution and for what purpose?<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/h5>\n

It was sponsored by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

OIC wanted \u201chigh-visibility events\u201d for curbing Islamophobia by the member states of UN. But, OIC had to withdraw this demand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, it was decided to observe March 15 as \u201cInternational Day to combat Islamophobia\u201d in \u201can appropriate manner\u201d.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What was the stand by various countries and organizations?<\/span><\/b><\/h5>\n

India and the European Union (EU) had major difficulties with the very basis of the proposal.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

India
\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

–<\/strong> India wanted that the prevalence of religiophobia should be acknowledged instead of focussing on just one religion. The prevalence of \u2018phobias\u2019 are just not against Abrahamic faiths. <\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/strong> These are found against non-Abrahamic faiths also like Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists. For example, India has given refuge to the prosecuted members of Zoroastrians, Jews and Buddhists (Dalai Lama and his followers)<\/em>. India did \u201ccondemn\u201d Islamophobia along with all other religiophobia. <\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/strong> India formally accepted the resolution and allowed the resolution to pass without breaking the consensus.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

EU<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike India, the EU\u2019s opposition was based on different philosophical underpinnings. The EU placed its focus on individual rights and freedoms. It did not focus on protection of religions per se. Thus, its emphasis was on the rights of non-believers.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

China<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

China sponsored the resolution. This was despite China\u2019s abysmal record of treating the Uighurs (its Muslims). However, the China\u2019s approach to the Resolution perhaps may be a result of a quid pro quo<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the way forward?<\/span><\/b><\/h5>\n

Focus on a single religion may lead to divisiveness based on \u201creligious camps\u201d in UN.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/span><\/b>: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia\u2019s complex position on Islamophobia\u201d<\/strong> published in The Hindu<\/strong> on 26<\/strong><\/span>th<\/strong> Mar 22<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted\u202fa consensus resolution declaring March 15 to be celebrated as \u201cInternational Day to Combat Islamophobia\u201d annually.\u00a0\u00a0 What is Islamophobia?\u00a0 It refers to the fear of and prejudice, discrimination and hate speech against Islam. For example, Muslims claims the face negative stereotyping in Western countries has exacerbated since 9\/11… Continue reading India\u2019s complex position on Islamophobia\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-176197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}