India suspends internet and phone services to quell protests
Source: AP
By SHEIKH SAALIQ
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities have stepped up phone and mobile internet shutdowns in some parts of the country in an effort to thwart a groundswell of protests over a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims.
Student-led protests that have galvanized a large section of the Indian public have been met with communications blocks in areas of New Delhi, in the eastern state of West Bengal, the northern city of Aligarh and the entire state of Assam in the days since the contentious law was passed in Parliament.
In Aligarh, where police beat students and fired tear gas shells inside a university last week, internet services on Saturday were suspended for the sixth straight day. The services were also barred in the capital of northern Uttar Pradesh, where nine people have been killed statewide in protests since Friday.
Internet services were restored in the northeastern border state of Assam, the center of a decades-old movement against migrants from Bangladesh and where the protests began last week.
Indians shout slogans during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act after Friday prayers outside a mosque in Kolkata, India, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day Friday and cut internet services to try to stop growing protests against a new citizenship law that have left more than 10 people dead and more than 4,000 others detained. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Modi administration passed an openly bigoted citizenship law screwing over Muslims. Earlier they had revoked citizenship from Indian-born Indian citizens whose parents or grandparents were refugees from Bangladesh or other Muslim countries. Now this law openly welcoming people to immigrate of all faiths except Muslim.
During the campaign they explored screwing over other minorities like Christians but decided it would be easier and more popular to just screw Muslims this time. They'll get the others in round 2. 
And this is why it's double frustrating when racist idiots tell me to "go back" to India. India doesn't want me "back" because I'm Christian and born in the USA. I would just be a stateless person. Maybe seek refugee status in Canada if Trump throws me out.
