Ilhan Omar reports that death threats against her have increased a lot since Trump spread a video purporting to show her dismissive of 9/11. Trump’s tweets against Omar are called incitement to murder & we would like to ask the US Congress to explain why criminal proceedings against him have not begun?
Monthly Archives: April 2019
This video from Kashmir shows an ambulance carrying a seriously ill patient being forcibly stopped to allow a convoy of Indian military vehicles to pass by on the main highway.
Indian occupying forces assaulting the dead body of a Kashmiri militant. Under international law, desecrating a corpse is a war crime. But under Indian military law (rooted in English colonialism in India), they have complete impunity to commit any atrocity they want
Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails are on a hunger strike. Throughout the history of their freedom struggles against British & Israeli colonial rule, Palestinian & Irish political prisoners (who have also used hunger strikes) have expressed mutual solidarity with each other. ‘From Ireland to Palestine, we stand together against colonialism, racism & occupation, & for justice, freedom & liberation for all political prisoners & for all occupied peoples.’
Fact sheet about Palestinian political prisoners from Ireland Palestine Solidarity Committee:
https://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/faq-why-are-over-1500-palestinian-prisoners-on-hunger-strike?
Fact that should make Islamophobes & misogynists alike choke on their own hate: Muslims gave the concept of university to the world. An Arab Muslim woman, Fatima Al-Fihri, is credited with founding the University of al-Qarawiyyin, the first degree-granting university, in Fes, Morocco in 859 CE.
(Photo of al-Qarawiyyin mosque & university)
On the Indian Army closing down the major highway to civilian traffic in Kashmir on Sundays & Wednesdays for the movement of military convoys.
The redoubtable Gideon Levy on Ilhan Omar:
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.
Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.
Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking
Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.
Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.
Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation.
–Khalil Gibran
Don’t know why a sweet-tempered old lady like myself pisses so many people off but the rate of turnover on my wall would be alarming if I were at all disposed to kissing butt for popularity. When you reach my age, staring down the barrel of mortality, what matters is doing the right thing, speaking truth as you see it, & letting the chips fall where they may. Do you agree other seniors?
A video of the national highway in Kashmir today, shut down to civilian & commercial traffic on Sundays & Wednesdays for the movement of military vehicles. This is an exercise in power, a show of force & military muscle & nothing more.
https://www.facebook.com/MaryScullyReports/videos/10216353662947253/
(Video by Waseem Bukhari)