US must set its house in order before accusing India of violating religious freedom
India's unity in diversity
The US must first get its own house in order before it gets 'particularly concerned' about India. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report is soaked in hypocrisy. It's holier than thou attitude goes missing when it comes its own country.
A Washington Post report says how African Americans are dying at higher rates due to the coronavirus as they have been left at the mercy of America's health-care system which has long been shaped by racism. There's a disparity in the way they are being treated in comparison to their fellow Americans. They're working jobs that don't pay them if they don't physically show up.
There's an assumption that African Americans are immune to the flu and have been left to fend for themselves. They are also being forced to work to keep the business going. The result is these most mass-transit workerswho are sick by the hundreds in new york are African-Americans.
When they show up at hospitals with signs of infections, they have to deal with biased 'white doctors'.Ethnic discrimination is being experienced by a large proportion of non-white surgical residents. Medical school graduates who are being discriminated against in surgical training. The north-western university in Chicago conducted a survey and its findings were published just yesterday. 23.7% of the respondents complained of discrimination based on race and religion.The rates were highest among African Americans at 70.7%, Asian -- 45.9%, and Hispanic 25.3%.
The discriminatory behaviours included biased evaluation of their work, being mistaken for another person of the same race and hurtful comments from patients and their families.
Is this not particularly concerning? Doesn't this violateUSCIRF standards on identity-based discrimination?
Would the USCIRF dare to put its own country on such watch lists? If the answer is no then this body's campaign for international religious freedom is bogus. It has no right to give lessons in secularism to anybody -- certainly not to India.