September 2 was the second anniversary of the tragic and terrifying drowning of Alan Kurdi , the two-year-old Kurdish boy whose family’s desperate flight to Greece in 2015 to escape the depredations of ISIS in Kobani , near the Syrian-Turkish border was cut short by disaster in the Mediterranean Sea.The global outrage over his death sparked a frenzied attempt to improve the plight of Middle-eastern and North African refugees pouring into Europe with German chancellor Angela Merkel vowing to provide unrestricted access to refugees to wanting to enter Germany. Some other European governments followed suit but it became quickly clear that the cure being attempted by European governments was worse than the disease.Unused to such a flood of refugees, sections of the European population responded in anger. Rising crime, the transformation of large sections of towns and cities and countrysides by the refugee influx and the daily battle with boatloads of people crossing the Mediterranean has created deep fissures not only within countries but also within the European Union struggling to still come to terms with Brexit Two years later, why are we discussing Alan Kurdi? What is the connection between his death and India which is not anywhere near the centre of the European refugee crisis? Look closely and a connection exists and it has everything to do with the enormous tide of public opinion created by Kurdi’s death and which is now being used by liberal activists and opportunistic politicians everywhere to coerce governments to adhere to what is called a ‘refugee-first policy’, irrespective of its impact on national security and communal peace and harmony.The latest example is India which has woken up to the threat posed by 40,000 illegal Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and wants to deport them. Opposition politicians and liberal activists many of whom are virulent haters of PM Narendra Modi accuse India of denying help to the refugees because of their religion. “Shocked by govt’s decision to deport Rohingya refugees. Ancient humanitarian tradition being sacrificed purely because Rohingyas are Muslim?” Shashi Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram queried on Twitter on August 29. Others have responded similarly with some calling for the Nobel peace prize to be stripped off Aung San Suu Kyi, the charismatic Burmese leader.The problem with this line of argument is that it ignores basic and important issues concerning national security, the role of the state in protecting its borders and citizens and the responsibility of governments, individuals and organisations behind the current crisis. India is already a victim of a dangerous campaign to change the demographics of its north-eastern states and one of its biggest states West Bengal through an insidious infiltration programme.It should resist all attempts to take in large numbers of Rohingya refugees given the security threat and the possibility of demographic change creating more communal trouble. No country can survive with porous borders. No country can build a stable, prosperous society if its efforts are continuously thwarted by rapid illegal influx of foreign nationals. Yet, this is precisely the problem India has been facing especially on its eastern borders.Mr Tharoor’s eloquence about the centre’s so-called nefarious designs on a particular community are a laugh. Can Mr Tharoor deny the attempts by the Left parties and his own Congress government in Assam to create communal divide by open encouragement of illegal refugee influx from Bangladesh? Why is he talking about the Muslim community here? His own party and its ally, the Left, have let down both the Muslim and Hindu communities by opportunistic politics. He is no position to preach.Liberal hysteria is laughable for another reason. Nobody knows for what is happening in Rakhine, Myanmar, the epicentre of all the problems. A September 6 BBC Myanmar report showed heightened passions in Yangon and other places against the so-called Rohingyas. Local Myanmarese call them Bengalis and not as Rohingyas. While the group does not figure in the official list of ethnic groups, the latest violence appears to be the result of a militant attack on police check posts and citizens in Rakhine.So, is the Myanmarese military just responding to unprovoked militant attacks? It is difficult to say for sure but the confusion is all the more reason for India to keep Rohingyas out. What if they are militants looking for a safe haven. Sure, we can provide humanitarian services. A small number of refugees can be taken in after careful and probably extreme vetting. But the broader policy should be clear.India should practice hard-state politics and nip any attempt to violate its communal harmony and increase its national security vulnerabilities by stealth demographic change. Bangladesh is also not helping the Rohingyas. In fact, they want to conduct joint military operations with Myanmar to root out militant activity.Mr Tharoor would do well to look at what Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan is doing. He has called upon Muslim countries to help the refugees and has promised assistance to help them in Bangladesh. Mr Tharoor should be lauding such efforts and urging all other Muslim countries to do likewise. The problem of course would be that such a move would not help in creating trouble in domestic politics which seems to be main Congress plan.(Views expressed here are the author's own, and not EconomicTimes.com's)