{"id":41900,"date":"2019-12-12T00:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41900"},"modified":"2019-12-12T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:22:19","slug":"india-could-pass-controversial-citizenship-bill-that-excludes-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41900","title":{"rendered":"India could pass controversial citizenship bill that excludes Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/india\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a>&#8216;s parliament has passed a bill that would give<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/07\/31\/asia\/assam-india-citizenship-debate-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Indian citizenship<\/a> to immigrants from three neighboring countries &#8212; but not if they are Muslim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) would fast-track citizenship for religious minorities, including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Opposition parties say the proposed law is unconstitutional as it bases citizenship on a person&#8217;s religion and<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/11\/19\/asia\/india-muslim-modi-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> would further marginalize<\/a> India&#8217;s 200-million strong Muslim community. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)India&#8217;s parliament has passed a bill that would give Indian citizenship to immigrants from three neighboring countries &#8212; but not if they are Muslim.The controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) would fast-track citizenship for religious minorities, including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.Opposition parties say the proposed law is unconstitutional&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}