January 3, 2015

Mohan Ram Paul, a co-founder of the Bhim Rao Ambedkar Sikh Foundation, noted: “There is a vast difference between private individuals peacefully peacefully proselytizing to invite others to join their religion and political officials who organize pogroms staging conversion ceremonies in which they force people to identify with a particular religion in order to receive government benefits. It is total hypocrisy for anyone who engages in acts of mass violence against minorities to pretend they are against ‘coercion’ of potential religious converts. If Mr. Modi and his party oppose coercion, they ought to first prosecute themselves for massacring so many minorities.”