A political artist makes the connection between the December 1992 razing of Babri Masjid & the February 2020 vandalizing of the Delhi mosque.

In answer to the question, ‘which side are they on?’, Delhi police are witnessed here destroying CCTV cameras.

This is a photo of Ahmad Yassin Leila with his infant daughter Iman who froze to death earlier this month as he carried her to a field hospital to get medical care. They are part of the flight of nearly a million Syrians from Syrian & Russian scorched earth bombing in Idlib & Aleppo. It is one of the worst humanitarian crises of our times, described by some as ‘like the end of the world’.

The Assadist & Stalinist cult that usurped the antiwar movement met this past weekend in NYC to chart a course opposing US war with Iran. They support the carnage in Syria, calling it a liberation from US imperialism. Those who tail after a regime involved in the Syrian counterrevolution stand as a parody & mockery of antiwar principles & make asses of themselves by not understanding the character of extensive US air & ground intervention in Syria. They are so lost that today they are unable to mobilize more than a few hundred people (their last national demonstration in DC drew only 100 people) when the US is involved in at least six wars as well as genocide in Gaza. As the anti-Assad movement calling for US ‘humanitarian bombing’ in Syria learned the hard way, it is impossible to mobilize men & women of good will to support bombing. That is Antiwar Principles 101.

NY Times article titled “Children freeze to death as attack prompts largest exodus of Syrian war”:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/world/middleeast/syria-idlib-refugees.html?

Poster by Shahid Jeelani

It staggers the mind that Trump is in India making a $3-billion military defense deal with Modi whilst Hindutva mobs are prowling the streets hunting down Muslims. Those who call for US humanitarian intervention in Syria to save the Arab Spring really have to wrap their heads around that reality which exposes the character of the US Pentagon. Although actually, the US has always been militarily involved in Syria. Not to bounce the Assad regime but to undermine & destroy the Syrian Arab Spring.

In reporting on the Hindutva pogrom against Muslims in Delhi, the National Herald of India reports: “The cause of the violence is believed to be a clash between pro and anti-CAA protesters.” The Gujarat pogrom against Muslims in 2002, when Modi was Chief Minister of the state, was reported in media & went down in history as the ‘Gujarat riots’ & was described as ‘communal conflict’. But in the age of social media, characterizing the pogrom against Muslims in Delhi as riots, communal violence, or a story with two sides won’t be so easy to pull off. Social media makes millions of people witness to events through photos, videos, & on the scene reports. As so many Kashmiris, Indians, & others have pointed out, there is no equality between Hindutva mobs & Muslims who are being hunted, assaulted, killed, torched in their homes & shops, their mosques vandalized.

Hindutva mobs torching homes & shops burned an 85-year-old woman to death in her home. Could Trump & Modi tell us again about those ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ causing such problems in India & Kashmir?

https://scroll.in/article/954422/an-85-year-old-woman-was-burnt-to-death-in-her-home-in-delhis-gamri-extension?f

This piece is about Mohammad Zubair, the Muslim man being assaulted by a Hindutva mob in Delhi. The photo, likely to become one of the iconic images of this pogrom, was taken by Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui who the article only identifies as a Reuters photographer.

Siddiqui has won several photojournalism awards, including the Pulitzer with Indian photojournalist Adnan Abidi for their extraordinary coverage of the Rohingya flight from genocide in 2017. Their images from that desperate flight capture the terror & humanity of the refugees without dehumanizing them & are among the most iconic images. Siddiqui, along with Zeba Siddiqui (another award-winning Indian journalist for Reuters), also has extensive coverage of the occupation & lockdown of Kashmir which can be considered sympathetic with the Kashmiri struggle. He has covered the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq, the Nepal earthquake, the plight of asylum seekers, poverty in India.

Mohammad Zubair said he ‘can’t bear’ to look at this photo of himself being assaulted. In “No Friend But the Mountains”, Behrouz Boochani complained of the intrusions of photojournalists taking photos of refugees in their most vulnerable moments. That is not an uncommon complaint from the subjects of photojournalism, especially those in crisis situations where their vulnerability is witnessed. But others welcome it as a way to take war & genocide out of the realm of power politics to tell the story & humanize those suffering from war & genocide. This image of Mohammad Zubair is worth a thousand Hindutva lies.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/cant-bear-to-look-at-my-photograph-man-at-centre-of-vicious-assault-caught-on-camera-6286904/lite/?