Seattle Defeats RSS: City Adopts US’s First Anti-CAA/NRC Resolution

The RSS wants to turn India into a religious apartheid state

Pieter Friedrich
2 min readFeb 4, 2020

On 3 February 2020, the City of Seattle became the first in the U.S. to adopt a resolution denouncing India’s new Citizenship Amendment Act and proposed National Register of Citizens.

After the city passed Resolution 31926, I spoke to supporters about how the day represented a great defeat for the RSS:

Today was a great defeat for the RSS.

The RSS is the group that is behind the CAA and the NRC. The RSS is literally inspired by the Nazis. The RSS wants to turn India into a religious apartheid state.

The RSS rules India through people like Prime Minister Modi, Amit Shah, and 75 percent of the cabinet ministers of the country. They are RSS members. The RSS is responsible for every major anti-minority pogrom in India since 1947.

The RSS has blood on its hands, but the bad news is that the RSS is not confined to India. The RSS has an international wing that is hard at work here in America.

We saw today how they mobilize. We’ve seen before how the RSS mobilizes people to organize Modi’s political rallies—like at “Howdy Modi” in Houston. We’ve seen how the RSS mobilized thousands of people to go from America to India to campaign for Modi and the BJP to get them elected.

The RSS in America provides money and people power to Modi, the BJP, and the RSS in India.

So today — what happened today—represents a major defeat for the RSS everywhere it is found in the world.

And lastly, I just want to say how ecstatic I am that, as the City of Seattle had two choices before them—either knuckle under to the foreign interference of the RSS and its fascist vision or do the right thing and make history by being the first city in America to pass an anti-CAA, anti-NRC resolution to denounce the new Nuremberg Laws of India—Seattle did the right thing.

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Pieter Friedrich

Friedrich is a freelance journalist and analyst of South Asian affairs. Learn more about him at www.PieterFriedrich.com.