Indian minister: Obama’s comment on protecting Muslims in India, shocking

RELIGIOUS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – India’s finance minister has derided comments by former US President Barack Obama on India’s treatment of its Muslim population.

Reuters reported during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the United States last week, Obama told CNN that the issue of the “protection of the Muslim minority in a majority-Hindu India” would be worth raising in Modi’s meeting with President Biden.

India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a press conference that she was shocked at the remarks.

She said: “He was commenting on Indian Muslims … having bombed Muslim-majority countries from Syria to Yemen … during his presidency. Why would anyone listen to any allegations from such people?”