Pakistan, on Wednesday, reiterated its condemnation of the construction of a Hindu temple on the site of the 16th-century Babri Mosque in neighboring India, following a controversial judgment given by the Indian Supreme Court last November.
“Blot on the face of Indian democracy”
Pakistan’s strong condemnation came hours after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid a 40-kilogram silver brick, marking the beginning of construction for a grand Ram temple at the site of Babri Mosque in India’s northern city of Ayodhya, according to Indian media.
Later, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry released a statement stating, “The flawed judgment of the Indian Supreme Court paving the way for construction of the temple reflected not only the preponderance of faith over justice but also the growing majoritarianism in today’s India, where minorities, particularly Muslims and their places of worship, are increasingly under attack.”
A temple built on the site of a historic mosque, it observed, would remain a “blot on the face of the so-called Indian democracy” for the times to come. “The painful scenes of the demolition of Babri Masjid by Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) and its extremist Hindu affiliates in 1992 remain fresh in the minds of Muslims across the globe”,it added
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The extreme haste in starting construction of a temple at the Babri Mosque site amid the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, the anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act, the looming National Register of Citizens to disenfranchise Muslims, the targeted killings of Muslims in Delhi with state collaboration early this year, and numerous other anti-Muslim measures point to the fact how Muslims in India are being demonized, dispossessed, marginalized, and subjected to targeted violence.
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