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View From Abroad | Another index gone wrong: How Pew’s Religious Freedom Rankings misrepresent India
FirstpostIs India really the worst country in the world for ‘social hostility to religion’? Or more accurately: it’s based primarily on complaints made by activists to the US State Department, and summarised in the State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom reports. This, despite the fact that Pew’s own survey research found that 89 per cent of India’s Muslims say they are “very free” to practice their own religion, and 24 percent believe they face “a lot of” discrimination in Indian society. So if Pew’s rock-solid survey data show that India has a tolerant society where the overwhelming majority of Muslims feel free to practice their religion, why does it continue to rate India the worst country in the world for ‘social hostility to religion’? Circumstantial evidence suggests that an ‘unholy alliance’ of international Islamists and Christian missionaries have weaponised the American international religious freedom reporting system against India.
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Environment to religious freedom, how India has fared in prominent global indices in 2022
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India decries ‘biased’ US report on religious freedom
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The Pew study’s glazed picture of our religious tolerance
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