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Indian minister hits back at Obama over Muslim appeal
The Independent
|June 27, 2023
An Indian minister has hit back at Barack Obama after the former US president called on Narendra Modi to do more to protect India's Muslim minority community.
“Perhaps six Muslim-dominated countries were bombed due to [Mr Obama]. More than 26,000 bombs were dropped – from Syria and Yemen to Saudi [Arabia] and Iraq,” finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a press conference in New Delhi. “Why would anyone listen to any allegations from such people?”
Sitharaman, from Modi’s ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), added: “It was surprising that when the PM [Modi] was visiting the US, a former US president was making a statement on Indian Muslims.”
“I am speaking with caution, we want a good friendship with the US. But comments keep coming from there on India’s religious tolerance,” she said.
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