By Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — A number of religious organizations are urging a congressman who oversees a subcommittee on Asia affairs not to participate in a rally that will honor India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Texas next week. …
Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR-LA, an organization that includes Muslims across Southern California, thinks appearing at the rally would instead serve to endorse the prime minister’s Kashmir policy.
“By associating with despots like Prime Minister Modi, Rep. Sherman and other members of Congress who attend this rally would legitimize his atrocities against Muslims and Kashmiris in India and disenfranchise local Kashmiri families,” Ayloush said in a statement.