Recently, Indian Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi visited the USA and raised concerns about the treatment of minorities in India.
Yesterday, the US State Department’s USCIRF (United States Commission on International Religious Freedom) published a special report on India titled “Increasing Abuses Against Minorities in India.”
We aim to expose the claims made in this report.
USCIRF is a body under the US State Department that monitors the situation of minorities in all countries. Every year, they publish an annual report, but this is not their annual report— it was already released in May. This is a special report focused exclusively on India.
What does the report say?
The report claims that abuses against religious minorities in India are continuously increasing, providing the following reasons:
- CAA Notification: While the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is intended to help religious minorities from neighboring countries, according to USCIRF, it is discriminatory against Muslims in India.
- NRC: USCIRF argues that if the government implements the National Register of Citizens (NRC), it would disproportionately affect minorities in India, even though it is aimed at addressing illegal immigration.
- Ram Temple Inauguration: According to USCIRF, this event was also cited as an instance of abuse against minorities.
Other cited reasons include:
- The Waqf Amendment Bill,
- Bulldozer action on Muslim properties,
- Right-wing demands to repeal the Places of Worship Act,
- The push for a Uniform Civil Code,
- Anti-conversion laws,
- Anti-cow slaughter laws (according to USCIRF, even the protection of cows is seen as an abuse against minorities),
- The cancellation of FCRA licenses for Christian NGOs.
According to this seven-page report, Christian missionaries should be allowed to convert Hindus, and stopping them is considered abuse against minorities. Similarly, if a Muslim is accused of stone-pelting, encroaching on government property, killing cows, engaging in “love jihad,” or settling in India with fake documents, the report suggests that preventing them from doing so would be seen as an abuse against minorities.
The word “BJP” appears seven times in this report, “Christian” nine times, and “Muslim” 72 times.
If you read this report, it might feel as if it was written by Zubair or a member of Jamat-e-Islami, and you might be right.
Let’s tell you about the key figures behind this report:
- Stephen Schneck (Chairman of USCIRF)
- Former Director of the Franciscan Action Network
- Former Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America
- Former Director of the Catholic University’s Institute for Catholic Studies
- Mohamed Elsanousi
- Pakistani and a Sharia practitioner
- Member of Jamat-e-Islami, Pakistan
- Former Interfaith and Government Relations Director at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which is affiliated with Jamat-e-Islami
Yes, a Jamat-e-Islami member prepared this report.
- Maureen Ferguson
- A Catholic missionary
- Senior Fellow at The Catholic Association
- Board of Directors, National Catholic Prayer Breakfast
- Susie Gelman
- Former President of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
- Board member at Hebrew University
- Despite her Jewish background, she is highly anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian. Her daughter, Rachel Gelman, is a significant sponsor of pro-Palestinian and Hamas groups.
- Vicky Hartzler
- An Evangelical Christian from Missouri
- Founder of “Voice of Martyrs” and a proponent of Christian conversion
- Asif Mahmood
- Pakistani origin
- Highly anti-India and anti-Hindu
- Active on X (formerly Twitter) and frequently posts against India. Feel free to check his posts on India.
- He supports the idea of Kashmir belonging to Pakistan and is close to the US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti.
Now, let’s talk about the mastermind behind this report: IAMC (Indian American Muslim Council).
We have exposed IAMC many times here. It is a US-based NGO linked to Jamat-e-Islami, also connected with Sunita Vishwanath’s HfHR and BS Bhinder’s OFMI, which are also linked to Rahul Gandhi.
Stephen Schneck and David Curry are often seen at events hosted by Islamist fronts.
Here you can see USCIRF Commissioner Stephen Schneck speaking at an IAMC event on Muslims in India and the Gujarat riots.
USCIRF Commissioner David Curry also attended a congressional briefing with IAMC’s Ajit Sahi to discuss why India should be blacklisted.
We have already exposed Ajit Sahi and his links with Rahul Gandhi.
Stephen Schneck’s comments on the 2002 Gujarat riots have also been exposed.
We have previously uncovered Angana Chatterji’s ties to the Congress ecosystem.
And now, here’s the full team:
- David Curry (USCIRF)
- Sunita Vishwanath (HfHR)
- Rasheed Ahmed (IAMC, ICNA)
In our Article titled “The Pandora Box,“ we exposed how these US-based NGOs linked with Rahul Gandhi are running a huge anti-India propaganda campaign.
After reading this, you should now understand that the entire team behind this USCIRF report is biased against India and working with an agenda. Rahul Gandhi’s statement in the USA was far from accidental.
Hello @USCIRF,
The minorities of Bangladesh say, “Hi.”
