India’s CAA stripped citizenship from millions of predominantly Muslim residents

Evidence

In the nearby eastern Indian state of Assam, Modi’s right-wing government separately launched an anti-Muslim disenfranchisement campaign and stripped citizenship rights from nearly four million predominantly Muslim residents with a blatantly discriminatory law called the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the summer of 2018. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 188

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 188
• XREF: connects to: The CAA redefined Indian citizenship to exclude Muslims in favor of Hindus; The Citizenship Amendment Act ties Indian citizenship to Hindu identity — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 418; India’s Citizenship Amendment Act functioned as its own Muslim travel and citizenship ban (+3 more)

Related

• The Citizenship Amendment Act ties Indian citizenship to Hindu identity (similarity 0.90)
• The CAA redefined Indian citizenship to exclude Muslims in favor of Hindus (similarity 0.89)
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act mirrors the US Muslim Ban’s restricted logic (similarity 0.85)
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act functioned as its own Muslim travel and citizenship ban (similarity 0.84)
• The CAA aims to redefine Indian citizenship, not immigration (similarity 0.83)
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 exceeded Trump’s Muslim Ban in restrictiveness (similarity 0.83)
• Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India (similarity 0.82)
• The CAA redefined Indian citizenship to institutionalize religious hierarchy. (similarity 0.82)
• India’s CAA citizenship law restricted Muslim immigrants from neighboring countries (similarity 0.82)
• India’s NRC parallels both Trump’s Muslim Registry and Nuremberg laws (similarity 0.80)
• Modern India’s republic was founded on equal plural belonging (similarity 0.79)
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act exceeded Trump’s travel ban in severity. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The CAA redefined Indian citizenship to exclude Muslims in favor of Hindus #corroborates (0.85)
• The Citizenship Amendment Act ties Indian citizenship to Hindu identity #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 418
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act functioned as its own Muslim travel and citizenship ban #expands (0.75)
• India’s citizenship laws make Indian nationality synonymous with Hindu identity #corroborates (0.75)
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 exceeded Trump’s Muslim Ban in restrictiveness #responds-to (0.60)