Muslims in India say they have been fired from their jobs and face the closure of their businesses after two states brought in a “discriminatory” policy making it mandatory for restaurants to publicly display the names of all their employees.
The policy was first introduced by Yogi Adityanath, the hardline Hindu monk who is the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Last month the state of Himachal Pradesh, governed by the opposition Congress party, announced it would also make it compulsory for all names of workers and employees to be put on display.
Both state governments have said it is to ensure compliance with health and safety rules and vending regulations in the north Indian states. However, locals and activists have alleged that the new rules are instead a thinly veiled attack on Muslim workers and establishments.
So “Yogi Adityanath, the hardline Hindu monk who is the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh” wants to enact racist policies in UP, but can’t seem to find his way to force men to stop raping/murdering women and children.
Hindu monk my ass.
“hardline Hindu monk”
What does he practice, full contact yoga? Mahabharata style asceticism?
Thank goodness for religion though, right? Just think where we would be without it!
Don’t you mean public health officials? You know, the ones wielding the power to actually make this bullshit rule?
Honestly, the Hindu nationalists are pretty crazy. Dare I say, roughly as crazy as the nationalist Christians we have in the states.
If you mix nationalism with religion, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Sheesh, you know your society has some rather deeply rooted issues when knowing someone’s name is enough to cause major problems like this. Not saying name discrimination is a rare thing, here in Finland it’s common knowledge having a Romani/Gypsy name makes finding a job a lot harder, but enough to cause major issues to the restaurant simply if your customers know the names of the employees?
