Q&A: ‘Religious freedom conditions in India greatly concerning’
Al Jazeera speaks to US Commission on International Religious Freedom chair Nadine Maenza on deteriorating religious freedom in India and how Biden administration should address it. The current USCIRF chair Nadine Maenza, who earlier served as a commissioner and vice-chair of the commission and has been vocal against the deteriorating religious freedom situation in India, spoke to Al Jazeera about the attacks on minorities, the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, the National Register of Citizens, the jailing of activists and protesters, and steps President Joe Biden should take to address these concerns. Al Jazeera: In recent years, the Indian government has been dismissive of USCIRF’s reports and its recommendations to place India on a religious freedom blacklist. Maenza: USCIRF has repeatedly recommended that the US government make religious freedom an important part of US-India bilateral relationship and advance human rights of all religious communities in India and promote religious freedom and dignity and interfaith dialogue through bilateral and multilateral forums and agreements, such as the ministerial of the Quadrilateral.
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