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Two more Mus­lim or­gan­i­sa­tions have raised con­cerns about Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di’s of­fi­cial vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In a state­ment is­sued by its pres­i­dent, Mirza Ali-Mo­hammed, the Is­lam­ic Da’wah Move­ment yes­ter­day called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to raise the is­sue of Mus­lim dis­crim­i­na­tion in In­dia when she meets with Mo­di, who ar­rives in this coun­try to­day.

The group ref­er­enced a se­ries of poli­cies in­tro­duced un­der Mo­di’s Bharatiya Jana­ta Par­ty (BJP) gov­ern­ment, which have drawn in­ter­na­tion­al crit­i­cism, in­clud­ing the 2019 Cit­i­zen­ship Amend­ment Act. The Unit­ed Na­tions Of­fice of the High Com­mis­sion­er for Hu­man Rights pre­vi­ous­ly de­scribed the law as “fun­da­men­tal­ly dis­crim­i­na­to­ry” be­cause it fast-tracks cit­i­zen­ship for non-Mus­lim im­mi­grants from neigh­bour­ing coun­tries. The Is­lam­ic Da’wah Move­ment al­so cit­ed state­ments by the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Is­lam­ic Co­op­er­a­tion (OIC), which ac­cused In­dia of en­gag­ing in “sys­tem­at­ic prac­tices against In­di­an Mus­lims” and fos­ter­ing “a grow­ing spate of ha­tred and defama­tion of Is­lam.”