“American Evangelicals are spinning Bharat’s border fence with Myanmar as anti-Christian”, Eestieest, April 29, 2024:
“Late American Evangelical leader Billy Graham’s “Christianity Today” published a piece last week about how “India Says It Has a Border Crisis. Christians Say the Solution Will Divide Them.” The article spins India’s planned border fence with war-torn Myanmar as anti-Christian by exaggerating the impact on this cross-border religious community that was divided by the British. Speculative religious, humanitarian, and economic consequences are taken for granted while expected security benefits are questioned.
This analysis here from last year links to several related pieces about Manipur, which briefly slipped into unrest almost exactly 12 months ago, while this one here does the same with respect to Myanmar. Readers that are unaware of the connection between these two, which was also briefly covered here, should at least skim through them to better understand the background required for proceeding further. Basically, arms and illegal immigrants spilled into Manipur from Myanmar, thus leading to ethnic killings.
The Western media and their political allies in the Indian opposition exploited last year’s unrest in an attempt to discredit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP ahead of the ongoing six-week-long elections. Their weaponized information warfare narrative was that his party’s so-called “Hindu nationalism” was responsible for the violence. That claim never gained traction because it’s patently false, however, which is why the latest one spinning India’s border security policies is now emerging…..”
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