A group of powerful Kuwaiti parliamentarians has demanded the govt. of Kuwait to put an immediate ban on entry of BJP of India into Kuwait.
Among the Kuwaiti parliamentarians, a Kuwaiti Member of Parliament Dr. Saleh TH Al-Mutairi submitted a letter to the Kuwaiti Parliament urging the government to ban entry to any member of the ruling BJP of India into Kuwait amidst the Hijab row in Karnataka.
The letter that is signed by several Kuwaiti parliamentarians has demanded the government to impose an instantaneous ban on the entry of any member of the ruling BJP into Kuwait, condemning the saffron party for oppressing Muslims in India. In a recent incident, a Karnataka lecturer resigns from her job after being asked to remove her Hijab.
The letter adds that the Government of Kuwait should take strict note of the happening in India and should ban members of BJP into Kuwait unless the oppression of Muslims in India ends.
The letter specifically points out the Hijab issue in Karnataka where girl students are being barred from entering colleges wearing Hijab.
Mejbel Alshrika, the Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at the Kuwait Lawyers Association, and a Member of the Training Committee of the Kuwait Institute for Protection and Legal Studies, shared the letter on on Twitter.
A group of powerful Kuwaiti parliamentarians have demanded the govt. of Kuwait to put an immediate ban on the entry of any member of the ruling BJP of India into Kuwait. We can’t sit back and watch muslim girls being publicly persecuted they said. Time for the Ummah to unite. pic.twitter.com/HbMQ3OpCyN
— المحامي⚖مجبل الشريكة (@MJALSHRIKA) February 17, 2022
“A group of powerful Kuwaiti parliamentarians have demanded the govt. of Kuwait to put an immediate ban on the entry of any member of the ruling BJP of India into Kuwait. We can’t sit back and watch Muslim girls being publicly persecuted they said. Time for the Ummah to unite.” (sic) he wrote in the tweet.
Indian National Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor also retweeted Mejbel Alshrika’s tweet and added that domestic issues have international repercussions.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweeted, “Domestic actions have international repercussions. I hear from friends across the Gulf of their dismay at rising Islamophobia in India &the PM’s unwillingness to condemn it, let alone act decisively against it. “We like India. But don’t make it so hard for us to be your friends”.
Domestic actions have international repercussions. I hear from friends across the Gulf of their dismay at rising Islamophobia in India &the PM’s unwillingness to condemn it, let alone act decisively against it. “We like India.But don’t make it so hard for us to be your friends”. https://t.co/Bj9es8fbfS
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) February 18, 2022
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