Kashmiri children’s art from the period after the 2016 uprising where under Mehbooba Mufti’s tenure as J&K chief minister, thousands of Kashmiris, including small children, were blinded, disabled, disfigured, demoralized, & killed by pellet guns which India continues to use against unarmed protesters.
#StandWithKashmir protest in Berlin, August 10th, 2019:”
#India and #Israel, two sides of the same coin.
#FreePalestine, #FreeKashmir”
(Photo & text by Mohammed Matter)
Indian nationalist Jooth Pal Malik, who I’ve since blocked, threatened “I will tell police about you.” Although the Minneapolis police did not take kindly to my article on the war against Black youth under the guise of the ‘war on drugs’, the McAllen police aren’t likely to be interested & the FBI already has a 53-year dossier on my activities, not a one of which has ever been illegal or could get me arrested. Poor guy probably thinks we all live under BJP fascism or that Trump has overturned the Bill of Rights in the US.
Some may think this schmaltzy but I love it because it captures the spirit of Kashmiris as we have come to know them, especially that they always stand with the oppressed.
Why we are proud Kashmiris
Posted by Gyawun on Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Journalist of sorts but mostly Assad apologist Peter Hitchens tweeted that marijuana use was behind the Dayton & other mass shooters. Not white nationalism, racism, or misogyny but smoking joints. He’s been Tariq Ali’s go-to authority for denying Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria. He must have been dropped on his head as often as his brother Christopher who supported the Iraq War.
The political affinities between the Kashmiri & Palestinian struggles are inescapable & profound & demand a coordinated, united movement to oppose. That was near impossible with a news blackout about the Kashmiri struggle. But the emerging #StandWithKashmir movement is changing all that overnight & the comparisons are being made right & left by political commentators. The Kashmiris knew this a long time ago & frequently discussed it, including calling their youth contingents the Kashmiri Intifada in respect for Palestinian Intifada.
Kashmiri wedding cancellation announcements as a result of India’s barbarous onslaught.
According to this report in India Today, the Indian Home Ministry has contacted Twitter “to suspend eight Kashmir-based accounts for spreading rumours,” including my Twitter account: https://twitter.com/mscully94. I have never been more honored than to be declared an enemy of the Modi government & a supporter of the Kashmiri freedom struggle.
San Francisco #StandWithKashmir rally coming up August 17th.