| Tell your elected Representative (Forward this to your elected Representatives) (a)India is a real democratic and secular country and Gujarat is not an exception. (b)Chief Ministers are elected by the people and Mr. Narendra Modi was elected twice. Under his leadership, Gujarat has emerged as one of the most progressive and peaceful states in India. In a recent country wide survey Mr. Narendra Modi was declared as the most popular Chief Minister of the country. (c)Gujarat has not witnessed any violent communal disturbances for the last eight years. It has successfully tackled the issue of radical Islamic extremists and anti-social elements who were operating under the guise of Islamic organizations. (d)Gujarat is the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi as well as Mohammad Ali Jinnah founder of Pakistan, Mahatma Gandhi studied as well as made Gujarat as his main center of freedom movement. (e)In Pakistan as far back as 1974, an act was passed so that different sects of Islam such as Shiites or Ahmeddiyas are not considered Muslims and are persecuted and systematically eliminated by orthodox Sunnis. (f)Pakistan is becoming more Islamist and anti American. Jonathan Paris who works for the Atlantic Council of the United States has produced a report for the Legatum Institute, a London based think tank. In this report he said, “U.S. and UK leverage over Pakistan is not growing, it is decreasing. Pakistani society is moving towards anti-Americanism and towards more sharia law.” (g)India is still a very tolerant democratic country where democratic values and secularism are growing. There is tolerance and respect for all the religions. People were always pro-American even when the country was more dependent on the USSR for its defense needs and other requirements. If the Gujarati Chief Minister is denied the visitor visa under the religious freedom act of 1998, in that case no politician from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE or any other Islamic country should be eligible for a USA visa. Why are there double standards and duplicity? Mr. Modi is someone who has helped to eradicate extremist Islamists from the state. Please request the state department to restore the revoked diplomatic visa of the elected Chief Minister of Gujarat who represents about 56 million people from Gujarat. |
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