A powerful response to claims that war between India & Pakistan would somehow strengthen the Kashmiri struggle against Indian colonialism. Researchers estimate that up to 125 million people in the region would die “followed by global mass starvation as the planet enters a new period of cooling, with temperatures not seen since the last Ice Age.”
Most human beings will be aghast at the psychotic pathology of Hindutva nationalists who mock the unimaginable grief & suffering of Kashmiris with this kind of amorality & hatred. This is one fascist’s version of the ’72 virgins’ crap that is ubiquitous in Muslim-hating propaganda & is on a continuum with Assadist claims that White Helmet rescue workers traffic human organs. This Hindutva fascist also posted a photo of a weeping Kashmiri man with the comment “…he’s crying because his 6 yr old wife refused to have sex with him.” Kashmiris weep because of 72 years of colonial savagery; because they have seen thousands of their beloved raped, beaten, disappeared, tortured, jailed, blinded & incapacitated with pellet guns, shot down in the streets, dumped in mass graves, their children suffering a hell on earth.
There are those who do not believe that Muslims have become scapegoats, who deny genocide & persecution, who invent & propagate slanders to justify war, occupation, genocide. Assadists, Stalinists, & fascists have made the Syrian Arab Spring their pièce de résistance in fostering hatred of Muslims & of Jews. Because of the monumental importance of the Kashmiri struggle in rebutting all that & the solidarity they have always shown with the oppressed, the same kind of hatred will be directed at them & will escalate, particularly attempts to associate them with ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ Kashmiris, like Palestinians & Syrians, fight as they weep & strengthened in their struggle by an international solidarity movement & a boycott of India can send these Muslim-hating fascists back under their rocks, decisively defeat the scapegoating of Muslims, & lead the way in the struggles of the oppressed for freedom.
After four days of being locked out of Twitter, unable to access it in any way, was I wrong to assume Indian censorship had prevailed? Or did assuming that make an ass of you & me? Just now when I gave it one last try, Twitter magically opened before my very eyes & I can again watch the three-ring circus that debate on war & genocide in Syria has been reduced to.
“The Indian State puts the lives of Indian citizens in extreme danger, right up to the possibility of being nuked, by continuing the occupation of Kashmir. Save Indians from India.”
#StandWithKashmir
–Indian activist Satyadeep Satya before being locked out of Facebook until October 29th.
Trump really did propose shooting refugees in the legs as Israeli snipers do unarmed Palestinian protesters. Why shouldn’t he be charged & prosecuted for inciting violence against unarmed men, women, & children?
“Zionism uses “antisemitism” as a smokescreen. We fight Zionism AND antisemitism.”
–Henry Lowi
This is the Washington Post video interview with Kashmiri Muzaffar Nabi, a 24-year-old carpenter who was tortured by Indian forces. It’s chilling to hear him recount his ordeal.
Thousands of mothers in Kashmir suffer the loss of their sons to mass arrests, accused of stone pelting & rioting just because they are young males.
https://caravanmagazine.in/conflict/kashmir-mothers-detentions-sons?
Does the NY Times speak with a forked tongue? On the same day publishing an oped piece of rubbish by Modi about Gandhi & then this oped piece criticizing the Modi regime & the UN.
Brutalization is in fact ‘normalcy’ in occupied Kashmir. What else do you call pellet guns against unarmed protesters, mass arrests, thousands forcibly disappeared, mass rapes, torture, mass graves going on for decades? But ‘normalcy’ has now crossed the line into outright fascism.
Demand the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all Indian troops & the immediate release of all political prisoners.
#StandWithKashmir
(Photo via Ashraf Bhat)