US report on religious intolerance in India fails the test

For the third consecutive year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has designated India as a “Country of Particular Concern”. It is listed along with 14 dysfunctional states including China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The panel believes that the Indian government has “increasingly emboldened Hindu-nationalist groups … enforced sectarian policies” with the presumed aim of establishing an “overtly Hindu state”. Like in the past the government is likely to call out USCIRF’s “tendentious” reportage and this reiteration won’t be too off the mark.

Failing the simplest fact-check