The government denies any religious bias and says Muslims are not covered
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they will be "overrun" by illegal non-Muslim migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.
They argue that outsiders will take over their land
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The protests in Assam have little to
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do with concerns about the exclusionary nature of the law and the threat to secularism.
They have more to do with indigenous fears about being demographically and culturally swamped by "outsiders".