Most of us are not in the mood to tolerate Hindutva trolling on our posts. My policy is to delete & block after their few seconds of shame. But sometimes I think it would be educational to compile their droppings & contrast them to those of Zionists, anti-Semites, white supremacists, xenophobes, Islamophobes, Assadists, fascists, Stalinists to document that all their ideologies are based on nothing but deranged hatred for the oppressed. When you see how intellectually impoverished they are, you marvel at their delusions of supremacy.
Arundhati Roy elaborates the fascist political character & genocidal history of Indian prime minister Modi, now orchestrating the genocidal siege of Kashmir.
Who is #Modi? #NarendraModi belongs to a #fascist group #RSS!Modi allowed the killings of thousands of Muslims in #Gujarat. #India #Delhi #Mumbai #Gujarat #BJP #Congress #ShivSena #HinduNationalists
Posted by Abul Monsur on Wednesday, August 14, 2019
A quite moving account by Irfan Rashid living in Delhi about communicating with his mother & family in Kashmir:
A Kashmiri father talks about his two teenage boys who were arrested during this siege by Indian occupying forces as stone pelters–though their dad says they were not. He is unable to get information on their whereabouts, safety, conditions of confinement.
fresh visuals coming out in valley
Posted by BAGH AJK on Wednesday, August 21, 2019
It’s not a coincidence that those children on the front lines of oppression–war, occupation, pogroms, persecution, genocide–are Muslim. This collage doesn’t even include all of them. Syrians are not specifically identified (Shaam includes them), Bahrainis, Muslims in the Central African Republic, Somalis, Libyans, Muslims in India, the Moro in the Philippines, Muslims in Sri Lanka, Kurds, & several other countries of the former Soviet Union. That’s what the excessive vilification of Islam, Muslim-hating & ‘jihadi’ propaganda is all about in media, movies, popular culture.
The reason is not that Islam teaches hate but that hate is taught against Islam because Muslims are not taking war, occupation, genocide lying down, beginning with the magnificent, even if eventually set back, Arab Spring uprisings. We say ‘set back’ rather than defeated because they will rise again after presenting some of the most advanced political ideas of our times & they will win if we can forge an uncompromising, consistent movement to stand with them. In the process, we will learn how to fight the same malignant forces in our own countries where nationalism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, white supremacy, xenophobia, racism, misogyny are gaining the upper hand.
“I will mix poison in the food. I will kill myself, my children, my entire family if I am forced to leave.”
–Fatima Noor, a Rohingya refugee on the list of 3,500 cleared by Bangladesh & Burma for ‘repatriation’ to Arakan state
In a stunt probably to placate the UN, Bangladesh & Burma have cleared 3,500 Rohingya refugees to return to Arakan state not even two years since they fled a genocidal onslaught. The two governments repeatedly claim the ‘repatriation’ is voluntary but cannot find any Rohingya willing to return to live in concentration camp conditions without any assurances of safety from Suu Kyi & the generals completing the ‘final solution’. The Rohingya want to return to their homeland but will not until their full democratic, human, & civil rights are guaranteed.
https://www.dw.com/en/repatriation-plans-stir-fear-among-rohingya-refugees-in-bangladesh/a-50112512?
“A brother went home after spending a day with his sick sister with the promise to come back early morning. For four days he struggled to reach SKIMS {the hospital} & finally made it to the hospital only to know the lady died three days ago. #Kashmir”
–a vignette from the siege of Kashmir by Aabid Ibn Bashir Dhar
Social media is becoming a place to overcome news blackouts about human rights struggles against occupation & genocide, struggles that most of us knew nothing about. For so long, people have been asking ‘what about the genocide in West Papua’, why doesn’t someone write about it? In fact, we paid little attention, overwhelmed by so many other struggles. Now, there are the beginnings of reporting about the genocidal role of the Indonesian military against the people of West Papua. Without international support, they stood alone. With knowledge & understanding, we can stand with them & give their freedom struggle the respect & support it demands.
(Photo via Nes Lowe)
By Abdul Jabbar Chand, South Africa solidarity activist