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India seems to be going after a lot of political opposition opponents these days to its main BJP party:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/31/india-opposition-pr...

It seems there might be a misunderstanding of the situation. The judiciary in India operates independently from the current government, led by the BJP, ensuring a separation of powers. Additionally, it's important to note that Al Jazeera has been criticized for its coverage, which some perceive as biased against India. I encourage a deeper examination of the corruption case at hand before forming a conclusion.

Investigation agencies like ED and IT have only gone after the opposition parties.

There is no misunderstanding of the situation. ED, CID and SBI (One of the biggest banks in India) turned into the most corrupt organization in the history of India.

BJP and Modi government openly destroyed all the government agencies and made them corrupt.

Yes, what can you do if they are corrupt? Give them a free pass JUST because they are opposition? Were ED, CID and SBI non-existent before the current BJP party?? Why then did the former congress govts not make them independent - after all they were in power for almost 70 years since independence??

But as soon as they join BJP they are not corrupt and their cases are dropped.

That's nothing but extortion

They were corrupt during Congress too.

They were corrupt during Congress but as soon as they join BJP and the cases against them are dropped

What you said is true. But I was talking about this line in particular

> There is no misunderstanding of the situation. ED, CID and SBI (One of the biggest banks in India) turned into the most corrupt organization in the history of India.

So your argument against their argument is that you don't like their coverage. Ok, thanks for explaining that.

No, my argument is that they do not like India / Indians. Show me something positive they have covered about India. I wouldnt care about them otherwise.

I can extend your line of argument to say that the reason maybe that you don't like them because of qatar connection and they are Muslim majority country. And in india there is a lot of nationalists that are Islamphopics and that ruling party is oppressing Muslim minority in india. But you would say that this is wrong and no evidence of that and I can say that you don't cover any Muslim minority oppression and that is why you are anti-muslim. This is how the argument you are presenting is flawed.

So how do you define a minority? Muslims are the second largest majority in India and also the world. Also, if as you say muslims are oppressed in India, how and why is it that most muslims from Pakistan and Bangladesh want to enter India and none of the existing muslims within India want to leave.

One only has to follow the population trends of muslims inside India, and that of non-muslims (especially Hindus) in Pakistan / Bangladesh / Afghanistan to understand the truth. Please do not go about spreading falsehoods when the things I have mentioned above can be checked independently. Please.

I didn't say that you are Islamphopic. My point is that your argument is bad and if someone else used it they can reach to the conclusion that you are Islamphopic (as an example).

I don't also want to go into discussion about this particular problem with India because it will be off topic. But I will just answer that

> So how do you define a minority?

You define that with respect to the demographic of the country/place we are talking about. Tech workers in the US are minority among population, it doesn't matter that they probably not a minority in Silicon Valley.

> You define that with respect to the demographic of the country/place we are talking about. Tech workers in the US are minority among population, it doesn't matter that they probably not a minority in Silicon Valley

Ok, if that is your definition of a minority, please elaborate how you are making the leap to call Muslims in India a minority?

It doesn't matter whether a source likes you or not. It matters if what they are reporting is factual and verifiable. If you only go with sources that say nice things about you, then you're biased and are living in a bubble of your own narcissism.

That's my point. I was trying to be nuanced. Hatred has led AJ to frequently report baseless news about India / Indians / Hindus. India is a large, complex country despite extreme diversity and hostile neighbors peddling terrorism every single day. Hindus are largely peaceful and law abiding - not only within India but abroad too. But if you read AJ, you'd come to the totally opposite conclusions.

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