“Every single thing that most of us in Kashmir said will happen, is happening one by one- but the alacrity with which it’s transpiring is surprising even to us. Anyway, as I said years ago to our students: Stay Local or Go International. There’s no safe 3rd option.”
–Kashmiri Mehboob Makhdoomi
“As the hatred and antagonism against Muslims have been completely mainstreamed in India, the lives of our political prisoners, who have been detained in jails in Delhi and all across India, are in peril. They are surrounded by inmates and police personnel who are violent nationalists. We do not know what lies ahead. Our prayers are with Indian Muslims too.”
–Kashmiri Ahmed Bin Qasim who mother & father are both political prisoners
This article includes videos & photos of the Hindutva pogrom against Muslims in Delhi that are absolutely terrifying.
Photos and videos of the violence, which left 5 people dead, showed just how tense and serious the situation is.
“If our solidarity is not with the people being attacked in Delhi, then the principles of our Azadi are flawed. This is not the time for whataboutery, whatever is happening in Delhi is sad. Kashmiris have always stood up for justice and equality but don’t let few Kashmiri idiots define the principles of Kashmiri resistance. Every person fighting for justice is one of our own. There is no difference. We stand with the people of Delhi. May you be safe.”
–Kashmiri Zachriah Sulayman
The Gujarat model of pogroms against Muslims has reached Delhi. That eventuality was made certain with the occupation & lockdown of Kashmir where the Gujarat model prevails.
Notice how this Guardian article frames the Hindutva pogroms against Muslims. The Hindutva mobs attacked peaceful protesters who then ‘responded with violence’. Muslim self-defense is framed as aggression. When Hindutva mobs burned down the mosques, was the mosque somehow implicated? Soon the Modi gang will be talking about terrorist infiltration of the protesters against the CAA/NCR.
‘Delhi is burning’.
Hindutva extremist mob attacking a mosque in #Delhi. They climbed the minaret and raised the saffron flag.#India #DelhiPolice #DelhiRiots #DelhiCAAClashes #DelhiIsBurning #DelhiBurning
Posted by Documenting Oppression Against Muslims – DOAM on Tuesday, February 25, 2020
New Delhi in an ‘apocalyptic state’ of Hindutva attacks on Muslims & mosques.
Apparently there is growing concern about the lack of support for Assange in the US government’s case against him for violating espionage laws. Liberal civil libertarians make up the majority of those who bankroll & promote his kind of defense case. A large part of their reluctance to support him is certainly the creep factor, the ick factor that is his persona. Another part of it is his stinking rotten politics which make him such a cause célèbre to Assadists & Stalinists who are glib about Assad’s assassination of journalist Marie Colvin in 2012. His sleaziness, libertarian politics, & whole reckless way of operating make civil libertarians uncomfortable with Assange as the tribune of free speech. There’s no reason to tiptop around those realities, especially when there are so many journalists of outstanding repute being held in detention, like Kashmiri Aasif Sultan.
Like him or not, detest him or not, Wikileaks under Assange exposed US criminal misconduct in Iraq & that is primarily why he is being prosecuted. The character of the charges & the prosecution are a direct assault on the US Bill of Rights, a direct challenge to the First Amendment which protects freedom of speech & freedom to express ones views without fear of government censorship. Invoking espionage laws against journalists threatens the entirety of the First Amendment & is not something to be taken lightly. The purpose of defending Assange is defending the Bill of Rights for all of us & in that regard it is a principle whether we like him or not. This would not be the time for extracting vengeance for his political affinities with rightwing forces.