Minneapolis/St. Paul Has Busybody City Council Members

Dear Minneapolis/St. Paul City Council Member _____________

Sub: Resolution 20–712 — which has been brought to the City Council by Council members Jane Prince, Dai Thao, Nelsie Yang: “Reaffirming Saint Paul as a welcoming city, expressing solidarity with Saint Paul’s South Asian community regardless of religion and caste by rejecting the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Islamophobic ideology, and opposing India’s National Registry of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act.”

It is with concern and trepidation that I write you about Resolution 20–712 sought to be passed by the Minneapolis-St. Paul City Council. I do not know if the esteemed members of the city council have sought to pass such a resolution against any other country about its internal affairs, and wonder why this resolution is before you, city council members and not the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. I wonder why that in this time of the coronavirus pandemic you are seeking to intervene in the affairs of the world’s largest democracy, and do so provocatively? India, which is seeking to maintain its sovereignty and its security against threats both internal and external, has enough important matters to deal with in this time of pandemic lockdowns to ask its diplomats in the US to come talk to you. India has fought four wars with its Muslim-majority neighbor — Pakistan; it has Muslim and Christian proselytizers pouring hundreds of millions of dollars each year to convert Hindus and “plant churches” and build mosques; it has…