What about anti-Hindu, anti-Sikh phobias, asks India at UN meet on Islamophobia
Date
3/17/2022 2:01:23 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution to
declare March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia, with
India expressing concern at the elevation of the phobia against one
religion to such a level while excluding others.
The resolution was adopted by consensus. It was backed by 57
members of OIC and eight other countries, including China and
Russia.
Explaining India's position on the resolution, TS Tirumurti, the
country's permanent representative to the UN, expressed deep
concern at the rise in instances of discrimination, intolerance and
violence against members of many religious communities in different
parts of the world.
“Let me also state that we condemn all acts motivated by
anti-Semitism, Christianophobia or Islamophobia. However, such
phobias are not restricted to Abrahamic religions only,” he
said.
Tirumurti noted that Hinduism has more than 1.2 billion
followers, Buddhism more than 535 million and Sikhism more than 30
million, and said the time had come to acknowledge the“prevalence
of religiophobia, rather than single out just one”.
He added,“It is in this context that we are concerned about
elevating the phobia against one religion to the level of an
international day, to the exclusion of all the others. Celebration
of a religion is one thing but to commemorate the combating of
hatred against one religion is quite another.”
Tirumurti also argued the resolution“may well end up
downplaying the seriousness of phobias against all other
religions”.
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