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Today's Topics:
1. Read: "USCIRF Urges Sanctions on RSS, RAW; Congress Says
Report Vindicates Its Concerns" (Vivek Pinto)
2. Listen to: Ghazala Wahab, Editor, FORCE Magazine - "India?s
Mystifying Special Strategic Relationship With Israel" (Vivek Pinto)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:47:40 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "USCIRF Urges Sanctions on RSS, RAW; Congress
Says Report Vindicates Its Concerns"
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By: The Wire Staff
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: March 16, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/rights/uscirf-urges-sanctions-on-rss-raw-congress-says-report-vindicates-its-concerns
*Note:* Please access the source if you wish to read the entire article.
"Pointing to the USCIRF?s [The United States Commission on International
Religious Freedom] recommendation, the opposition party wrote on X that the
commission, 'an official US government body,' had warned that the RSS
[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] 'poses a threat to people's religious
freedom.'"
"'The update described the RSS as a 'Hindu nationalist group' whose
'primary mission is to build a ?Hindu Rastra,? or Hindu state,' and said it
'promotes the notion that India is a Hindu nation, excluding Muslims,
Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Parsis, and other religious minorities.' While
the RSS does not field political candidates directly, the update noted, it
provides volunteers to campaign for the BJP, including Prime Minister Modi
himself, who was an RSS pracharak before serving as chief minister of
Gujarat from 2001 to 2014.
In a statement issued on February 6 this year
<https://thewire.in/world/uscirf-renews-call-to-designate-india-country-of-particular-concern-over-increasing-attack-on-christians>,
the commission flagged 'violent attacks by Hindu nationalist mobs targeting
Christians' and said that such attacks further justify its calls for India
to be designated as a Country of Particular Concern.
According to the latest annual report of USCIRF, 'religious freedom
conditions in India continued to deteriorate' in 2025 as authorities
introduced and enforced legislation targeting minority communities and
their houses of worship."
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:00:50 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Listen to: Ghazala Wahab, Editor, FORCE Magazine -
"India?s Mystifying Special Strategic Relationship With Israel"
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By: Ghazala Wahab - Editor, FORCE Magazine
Published in: FORCE Magazine
Date: March 17, 2026
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ejBAhzLE8
*Note:* This video is in English and the transcript is embedded in the
source.
End of Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 144
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