Stand with Kashmiris against the brutal occupation. Let the world know what India is doing to those fighting for freedom. If we stand with them, they can win against military might & all of suffering humanity will be strengthened in struggles against war, persecution, occupation, genocide.
Album of the funerals/protests after Indian army hunt to kill operation in Shopian district:
https://www.facebook.com/basit.zargar.92/posts/893350230869922
(Album by Basit Zargar)
Photos of the Shopian hunt to kill operation:
(Album by Basit Zargar)
In one of their now almost nightly hunt to kill operations, the Indian army in the Shopian district of Kashmir killed 17 people & injured more than a hundred, including in two other hunt to kill operations in other areas. An ambulance carrying some of the injured to hospital in Srinagar was stopped & not allowed to move forward. Attacks on ambulances & medical facilities are human rights crimes under international law. But since the US coalition in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, & Afghanistan, & Syrian & Russian bombers in Syria do it routinely, India knows full well there will be no consequences like an international war crimes tribunal.
End the occupation. Self-determination for Kashmir. May the deceased martyrs Rest In Peace.
Facts you won’t know if don’t watch Fox news: Christians worldwide are enduring the greatest genocide of all peoples since the French Revolution in 1799. This genocide is not reported in the news (except by Assadists on Syria) but Fox got it on the word of a Lebanese priest named Andre Mahanna who grew up near the Syrian border. He claims his family escaped religious persecution (under Hafez, father of Bashar) by living in caves. That’s probably why he doesn’t know about the persecution of Jews under Hafez Assad. He emerged from the caves at the age of 12 to enter a monastery in France, & then moved to the US in 1999 at the age of 23 to sound the alarm of the Christian genocide in the Middle East. No need to ask who the bad guys are in his scenario: Muslims, of course. He now preaches from a pulpit in the mountains of Colorado where he probably still lives in a cave like the wild boy of Greeley yodeling to the mountain goats. Until a Fox News affiliate picked up his yodeling against Muslims on a talk show by the local Catholic bishop.
During the election campaign, Mahanna became associated with Trump & Pence because he’s convinced “Trump can be a voice for Christians being persecuted.” Maybe he designated Trump’s apostolic mission as preaching the gospel to porn stars & strippers, to convert & bring them to Jesus. That must be why the good padre directs every one of his apostolic tweets to Trump. But it could be he’s just a suck-up or tired of yodeling to the goats.
Lest you think him a deranged voice crying in the wilderness, it was only a few years ago that Pope Francis claimed there are more Christian martyrs in the 21st century than were killed under Roman emperor Nero 950 years ago. After Nero set Rome on fire in 64 AD he blamed it on Christians & apparently arrested & executed some but historians don’t report how many. Nero died in 68 Anno Domini, only 35 years after Jesus died, so there probably weren’t that many Christians & most of them lived in the Middle East, not in Rome. Do the math, Pope Francis.
The Vatican claims 70 million Christians have been killed due to their faith since the time of Jesus & are being killed now at the rate of 90,000 to 100,000 every year “partly by other believers.” “Other believers” must be code for Muslims & Jews but with that ecumenism thing it wouldn’t be diplomatic to spell that out although the pope does locate it in the Middle East. Could it also be ‘partly’ by women exercising their reproductive rights & using birth control or abortion? Come clean here, Vatican. Do you include birth control & abortion statistics in your crazy-assed statistics? If in fact, Christians were subject to widespread genocide, that would be a matter of concern. But even if it were 70 million since the time of Jesus, that is dwarfed by the colonial slaughter of millions of non-Christians just in the past 600 years which is well over 100 million people. It is political derangement to claim Christian genocide today when it is overwhelmingly Muslims who face persecution, war, occupation, genocide. After Pope Francis went to Burma during the genocide of the Rohingya people, banqueted with the genocidaires, & didn’t utter a peep of moral or political outrage, his judgement about what is & is not genocide might not be of any value whatsoever.
Photo is Fr. Andre Mahanna with Fr. Trump, missionary to the godless strippers.