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British Pakistani rapper Frenzo Harami spews venom on Hindus. Here is what we know about him

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British Pakistani rapper Frenzo Harami spews venom on Hindus. Here is what we know about him

On June 14, a British-Pakistani rapper who identifies himself as ‘Frenzo Harami’ spewed venom against Hindus on his Instagram account. The issue was highlighted by Hindusamata, an organisation that works for Hindus’ empowerment across the world. In his posts, ‘Harami’ spewed hate against Hindu minorities in his home country Pakistan.

In a post, he wrote, “Tips Industries” won’t reinstate my video on YouTube because I’m Pakistani. Even after I paid for licensing. Bollywood has also banned Pakistani actors, so I’m not surprised. These cow-dung loving, p*ss-drinking Penchudas should focus more on providing oxygen for their shit country than copyrighting my music. F#ck Bollywood. Free Kashmir. Pakistan Zindabad.”

It looks like there was a rift between Tips and ‘Harami’ as the company did not allow his video that had licensed music under Tips. The anger towards the company was lashed out in the form of anger towards the whole Hindu community.

In a follow-up story, ‘Harami’ mocked the Hindus again for getting his post removed and said, “looks like my last post upset some of you that drink piss, so u got it removed. Sorry, not sorry.”

The problem with ‘Free Kashmir’ and ‘gaumutra’ jibe

Notably, both ‘Free Kashmir’ and ‘gaumutra’ jibes are used by radical Islamists and terrorists. Free Kashmir was a war cry that was extensively used during the 1990 departure of the Kashmiri Pandits. It has been used by the terrorists, militants and Pakistan sympathisers extensively to call for war against the minority communities like Hindus, Jains and Sikhs living in the valley.

The gaumutra jibe has been used by terrorists on several occasions. One of the most notable examples was of a Pakistan-backed Jaish-e-Muhammad terrorist identified as Adil Ahmed Dar alias Waqas. He was behind the suicide attack on the CRPF company in which 40 soldiers were killed in Pulwama, Kashmir. Following the attack, a video was released in which he had admitted joining JeM. In the video, he had referred to Indians as “Gae ka Peshab Peene Wale” (People who drink cow urine).

Frenzo’s relentless bashing of Hindus

‘Harami’ did not stop at two posts. He googled and posted several screenshots of Gaumutra based products that are available in the market. He went ahead and glorified the genocide of Hindus in the past and said, “My ancestors were probably piss drinkers too, but they saw the light… Alhamdulilah.”

Hindus On Campus, a student organisation, working against Hinduphobia, published a few screenshots of his stories. Interestingly, after abusing and mocking Hindus on his social media account, Harami had the audacity to claim that he was not racist. He said, “For the record, I’m not racist. I love Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus equally, and I’m opposed to fascism and extremism in all its forms.”

When OpIndia scrolled his stories before he locked his account, we found two more problematic stories. In one of the stories, he called actor Akshay Kumar “Peshaabi” while quoting a report in which Kumar had admitted drinking Gaumutra.

Harami called Akshay Kumar Peshaabi

In another story, Harami promoted the propaganda that Alt News’ cofounder had been spreading about an incident in Ghaziabad. An old Muslim man was beaten, and his beard was cut off by miscreants. The video Zubair, the cofounder of Alt News, had uploaded was muted. Reportedly, the old man claimed he was forced to say “Jai Shri Ram” during the attack, but no one was able to explain how Muslims forced another Muslim to chant Jai Shri Ram.

Harami spreading propaganda on the lines of Alt News’s cofounder

‘Harami’ shared the same post by another Islamist Mohammed Asif Khan, who has a history of sharing misleading and fake news to claim ‘hate crimes’.

Who is ‘Harami’?

Frenzo Harami is a Pakistan-born British rapper with a controversial history. The 31-year rapper hails from Jhelum, Pakistan and currently resides in Walthamstow, London, England. As per his profile on different websites, he used to allegedly sell drugs before starting rapping in 2018.

In May 2019, he appeared on the late-night show on BBC Asian Network. His song, “Chaabian Boyz”, was aired on the radio in which he called himself a “pimp” and glamorised sexual exploitation. The song had lyrics like, “I had a white girl I used to call a cash machine, I got 20 white girls and they all trap for me,” and “I’m a pimp and my boy he’s a farmer.” He also glamourised using drugs in the said song.

The song was removed from BBC’s playlist. In a statement, BBC said, “A version of the track which did not meet our editorial standards was played on Asian Network produced shows, in error. The song will not be played on any future shows.” Notably, grooming gangs is a major problem in London, and when the song was played on BBC, it was seen as bragging about such gangs that too by a Pakistani Muslim.

In an interview, he tried to justify his song and said that he did not use White Girls as a derogatory term. He further added he was “simply telling stories and highlighting these common facts of everyday life.” Interestingly, the video of that particular song had depicted precisely what he denied.

Screenshot from Chaabian Boyz

In the video, a white girl was seen half-naked throwing money on the table. The lyrics on that particular scene were about him being a pimp and a drug dealer.

Gaumutra jibe used by “intellectuals” in recent past

This is not the first time so-called intellectuals have tried to mock Hindus using Gaumutra jibe. Recently, writer Ravinder Singh made the Hinduphobic “Gaumutra” jibe while mocking the coronavirus vaccine. In October 2020, Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray had made a similar jibe during a political rally. In June 2021, NDTV journalist used the jibe to mock UP CM Yogi Adityanath. In December 2020, Congress mouthpiece columnist Sanjukta Basu used it to mock the polio vaccine.  

MP: Minor girl gang-raped by 4 after she refused to convert to Islam, was befriended by a Majid Khan with a fake Hindu name

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MP: Minor girl gang-raped by 4 after she refused to convert to Islam, was befriended by a Majid Khan with a fake Hindu name

A 15-year-old girl from the Barwani district in Madhya Pradesh was reportedly gang-raped by four men after she refused to convert to Islam to solemnize marriage with the prime accused.

In yet another incident of fake identity and attempt to forceful conversion, the 15-year-old girl had come in contact with a Majid Khan (23) who introduced himself as Mohit while she was working in Maharashtra’s Malegaon as a laborer last year. Khan after befriending the minor sexually assaulted the girl after promising to marry her.

In October last year, Khan tried to forcefully change the girl’s religion to Islam. When she resisted the conversion, Khan along with his three friends gang-raped the girl.

The girl then fled to her sister’s house in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh but did not approach the police. In April this year, she complained of abdominal pain, following which she was admitted to a hospital. Her medical examination revealed that she was pregnant. 

“She had a premature delivery in the hospital, but the baby died. It was then that the girl shared her ordeal with another woman in the hospital, who then informed a Hindu organisation and the police about it,” informed Ujjain ASP Amrendra Singh.

Following this incident, a case has been registered by the police under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act. 

The state police sought the cooperation of the Maharashtra Police to arrest the accused. Early this month, with help from the minor survivor, the police called Khan to Ujjain and recorded his arrest handing him over to Malegaon police. 

Ujjain superintendent of police Satendra Shukla informed, “We are also taking legal opinion about registering a case in the girl’s home district of Barwani in Madhya Pradesh as the MP Freedom of Religion Act will not be applicable in Maharashtra.”

Last week, the body of the premature child was exhumed for conducting DNA paternity tests. 

The police is on the lookout for the other three accused who are yet to be nabbed. 

Rahul Gandhi shares fake news related to Lord Ram, twice in two days. This is what it shows

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Rahul Gandhi shares fake news related to Lord Ram, twice in two days. This is what it shows

From questioning existence of Lord Ram to sharing fake news about Lord Ram, twice in just two days, Congress and Rahul Gandhi have come a long way. On Tuesday, senior Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to share a screenshot of a news clipping which claimed that a viral video claimed an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad was beaten up and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’

The claim, which was first shared by pro-Congress ‘fact-checker’ Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair was debunked by Ghaziabad Police late last night.

The Ghaziabad Police had said that the ‘victim’ Abdul Samad Saifi was allegedly beaten up by people known to him after an occult amulet he had prepared for one of them did not work as per them. Accused Parvesh Gujjar, Adil and Kallu were arrested on Monday while efforts were on to nab Arif and Poli.

The Police had issued first clarification late night at 1:44 AM on June 15, over 12 hours prior to Rahul Gandhi’s tweet on same subject. Surely his team would have seen the update. Despite it being debunked, Rahul Gandhi chose to share a fake news in name of Lord Ram.

“I am not ready to believe that true devotees of Lord Ram would do this. This kind of cruelty is far from humanity and it is harmful to society and religion,” he tweeted.

This lie of Rahul Gandhi comes just a day after he tweeted another lie on the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya. On Monday, he had joined Aam Aadmi Party and others to claim that there is a ‘scam’ in the land deals for the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya.

Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to trend the hashtag “Ram Mandir Ghotala” and write that Lord Ram personifies justice and to perpetuate a scam in his name is ‘Adharma’.

This after it was very categorically specified there is no scam as you can read here.

What does Rahul Gandhi’s lies on Lord Ram say

Congress has historically denied the existence of Lord Ram.

In September 2007, the Central government run by Congress-led UPA1 had said that there is no historical proof of Lord Ram’s existence.

No historical proof of Ram, UPA 1

In 2007, an affidavit filed by the Congress-led government read “Valmiki Ramayana and Ramcharitmanas admittedly form an important part of ancient Indian literature, but these cannot be said to be historical records to incontrovertibly prove the existence of the characters and occurrences of events depicted therein.” The affidavit was filed to register the UPA government’s opposition to the demand to scrap the Setusamudram project as it would damage the Ram Setu.

Did you know Rahul Gandhi’s close aide and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal fought the Ram Janmabhoomi case for the Sunni Waqf Board opposing the building of a Bhavya Ram Mandir at Ayodhya? And that he also employed dilatory tactics and asked the apex court to delay the decision in the Ram Janmabhoomi case till 2019 elections?  

So when Sibal claimed he advocated against Ram Mandir in his ‘personal capacity’ and not as Congress leader, only someone with an IQ lower than that of Rahul Gandhi fans would believe that.

Not just that, another Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had claimed that no ‘good Hindu’ would want a Ram Mandir at the erstwhile disputed site where a structure often known as Babri masjid stood. Tharoor urged that one should have the Ram Mandir in one’s heart.

So despite this deep rooted hatred for all things Hindu, Rahul Gandhi has suddenly woken up from slumber to speak about Lord Ram.

But here is where it gets interesting.

Rahul Gandhi does this and gets away with it because he knows he will not be fact-checked. Know why? Because his favourite ‘fact-checkers’ were the ones to actually spread the fake news. Alt News cofounder laid the ground so that big boss Rahul Gandhi can come and obfuscate.

After all, that is exactly what the toolkit talked about.

In May this year, a leaked document from Congress’ internal ‘research’ department showed how the party wanted to defame Kumbh Mela to criticise Modi government over the Chinese coronavirus handling. What makes things all the more murky is that after the toolkit was released, it was none other than Alt News which came to Congress’ rescue to ‘declare’ it ‘morphed’.

The defamation of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chant is just one more way to perpetuate Hinduphobia. Every random crime gets converted into a ‘hate crime’ where ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants are drawn into. This just helps spread the ‘Dara Hua Musalman’ narrative that has been in the offing ever since PM Modi returned to power in 2014. This urge comes from the fact that the pious Islamic chant Allahu Akbar has become so dreaded and that they can’t do much about it as Islamic terrorists continue to stab, behead and blow up (themselves and others) chanting it. Which is why Rahul Gandhi, along with others have now resorted to defaming Jai Shri Ram.

Note: Later reports suggests the main accused’s name is Parvez Gujjar and not Parvesh Gujjar.

Big Liberals, small hearts: By donating 80 vials of vaccine, America has proved to be the poorest country in the world

Abhishek Banerjee
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Big Liberals, small hearts: By donating 80 vials of vaccine, America has proved to be the poorest country in the world

Do you remember when Western media and their native sepoys flew drones over cremation grounds in India? The images of funeral pyres were then lapped up by Western liberal newspapers, flashed on their front pages for the world to see. On the internet, the pictures were selling for Rs 23,000 per piece. For that kind of money, you could easily feed a poor family for a month. But feeding the addiction for third world misery was more important.

What was their excuse? Western liberals insist they are not enjoying our misery for free. They always leave behind generous tips for the less fortunate. The media coverage creates awareness. And after Western liberals have had their fill, they make (tax deductible) contributions to charity. After subtracting overhead, the “non-profits” donate the rest. There might be some “non-profit” intermediaries in the third world as well.

Anyway, where there are rich people, there are generally leftovers. This arrangement is insulting enough, but what do you make of this?

That’s the Embassy of the United States, boasting about donating 80 vials of vaccines to Trinidad and Tobago, a country of nearly 14 lakh people. Yes, 80 vials of vaccine. And they put it on Twitter so that the world would know.

Once upon a time, America freed the whole of Western Europe from Nazism. Some decades later, America freed the whole of Eastern Europe from Communism. Today, America has donated 80 vials of vaccine. Oh America, what a fall!

Read the language in that tweet carefully. It ends by saying, “We believe that every vaccine counts.” Yes, they not only made it a point to mention the tiny figure of 80 vials, but they also rubbed in how valuable this gift would be for a poor country like Trinidad & Tobago. Every vaccine counts. Yeah, the people of the poor country better cherish this gift.

This is the great humanitarian Big Liberal administration of President Biden. Remember that our Indian media paraded our dead bodies and burning funeral pyres in front of liberals like these.

You want to see some real show of class? You can find it in the official response from the Government of Trinidad & Tobago, which read thus:

“Trinidad and Tobago received a gift of Pfizer vaccines from the United States on Saturday. .. We have been very fortunate to have received gifts of vaccines from different countries such as St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, Bermuda, the Republic of India, the People’s Republic of China and now the United States.”

Notice that the Trinidad & Tobago government did not wish to embarrass the United States by mentioning the ridiculously small number of 80 vials. A gift is a gift, no matter how much it is worth.

However, the Big Liberals who run the US Government weren’t looking to save face. They were looking to rub the third world status of Trinidad & Tobago in the faces of their people. It was the US Government that tweeted mentioning the 80 vials and reminding that “every vaccine counts.”

Notice how the statement from the Government of Trinidad & Tobago mentions India. Yes, we donated too, not some measly 80 vials like the richest country on earth did. India donated 40,000 doses. But then, India is run by the dreaded Hindu nationalists. Our backward pagan minds cannot grasp the nuances of Abrahamic notions of charity, I guess.

The idea of charity is a complicated one. Sometime last year, the WHO created a Covax fund from which poor countries could draw money and vaccines for their people. Canada donated to this fund, and then a few months later, took half of it back. So if America’s liberal president made it a point to rudely toss a rupee coin at the face of a homeless person, Canada’s liberal Prime Minister put money in the bowl and grabbed half of it back. Incidentally, the other rich country to draw from the Covax pool was New Zealand, another model of Indian liberalism.

After Canada and New Zealand raided the pool, it seems the Covax fund came up with strict new eligibility requirements on which countries can draw from it. Because, apparently, the honor system does not work with Big Liberals.

Speaking of Indian liberals, the other day they were busy making fun of India for accepting a small gift from Kenya, delivered through the Red Cross. I should mention it was 12 tonnes of food, which is a lot more than the richest country in the world with its 80 vials of vaccine. But Indian liberals who take after their American and Canadian bosses did not see it that way. India has taken food from an African country! They said it was Modi’s great shame.

Kenya is in Africa and Africans are supposed to be poor. And if you are poor, everyone knows that you cannot have a big heart. And if a friend who happens to be poor gives you a gift, you have fundamentally two options. Either you toss the gift into the trash and humiliate your friend for being poor. Or you accept the gift and live with the shame. That is Big Liberalism today.

When Sudama arrived with a gift of a few handfuls of rice for Shri Krishna, the king of Dwarka welcomed him by washing his feet with milk. It’s the Indian way. It’s the way our pagan minds work. I guess this is why India’s Hindu nationalists are so misunderstood in the world today. Our paradigm is just different.

By the way, dear Trinidad and Tobago, let me tell you about a small Indian tradition that may be of use to you. In India, when a neighbour sends over food, it is a tradition never to send back an empty bowl. So when you get those 80 vials, fill that box up with some gifts and send it back. Be generous, because you should know that you are donating to the poorest country in the world.

Flouting Covid protocols, thousand of SAD supporters protest outside Punjab CM’s house, SAD chief detained: Details

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Flouting Covid protocols, thousand of SAD supporters protest outside Punjab CM’s house, SAD chief detained: Details

Despite strict COVID protocols being in place due to the resurgence of the pandemic, hundreds and thousands of Shiromani Akali Dal supporters gathered to protest outside Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh’s residence in Siswan, on the outskirts of Chandigarh, Punjab Tuesday.

Punjab police resorted to using water cannons to disperse the protesting crowd gathered amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. They also detained Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was leading the protest.

In a video shared by news agency ANI, a huge crowd of Akali supporters can be seen gathered outside the CM’s residence flouting social distancing norms. Most are not wearing face masks either. SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal is also present at the spot.

Shiromani Akali Dal supporters had gathered outside the Punjab CM’s house residence with a long list of demands. Firstly, alleging several anomalies in the selling of vaccinations and the procurement of medical supplies for Covid-19 patients midst the pandemic, the protesting Akalis are demanding a CBI investigation into the issue. Secondly, they are demanding the dismissal of the state health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu.

State Congress govt profiting from the sufferings of the people of the state: SAD

The opposition party is also demanding that land acquisition for national highways be done at market rates and displacement compensation be offered to the affected landowners.

While launching the protest, SAD spokesperson Daljit Singh Cheema had lambasted the Congress government in the state for profiting from the sufferings of the people of the state during the pandemic. The vaccine and Fateh kit fraud have shaken the conscience of Punjabis, said Cheema while objurgating the Congress government led by Capt Amarinder Singh for committing so many frauds.

The SAD chief also said that the state government has engaged in various scams from vaccinations to scholarships and farmer lands being acquired.

“If a storm rises, Captain won’t be able to stop it, even if he uses all his force. There is a scam in vaccination, there is a scam in Fateh Kit, there is a scam in schedule castes’ scholarship, farmers’ land is being acquired,” Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal said before getting detained.

Congress Government in Punjab accused of ‘vaccine profiteering’

The Congress government in Punjab has been facing flak over allegation of ‘vaccine profiteering’. On June 3, Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal first brought the matter to the fore. In a Tweet, Badal alleged that “vaccines procured at Rs 400 per dose (are being) sold to private hospitals for RS 1,060” – a “hefty margin” of Rs 660 per dose.

The Akali Dal leader had questioned Rahul Gandhi, who had batted for free vaccines for all. He asked the Congress leader to answer why a common man is being forced to pay Rs 6,000 to Rs 9,000 for a single vaccine dose for his family in his party ruled state. “He should tell if he supports Punjab govt decision to force ppl to get vaccine doses for Rs 1560”, Tweeted Sukhbir Singh Badal.

For the uninitiated, the Punjab Congress administration has been accused of profiting Rs 660 per dosage by selling government-supplied vaccinations to private clinics in the state under the guise of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In addition, because the consumer pays Rs 1,560 for each jab, the private hospital makes a profit of Rs 500 for every injection.

After the big political uproar the Punjab government’s order that attracted allegations of profiteering from “one-time limited vaccine doses to 18-44 age group population through private hospitals”, was withdrawn. The order for withdrawal of the stock was given on June 4 (Friday).

Sultan Ansari, from whom Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra bought land rubbishes claims of ‘scam’, says he supports Trust: Read details

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Sultan Ansari, from whom Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra bought land rubbishes claims of ‘scam’, says he supports Trust: Read details

Putting all the allegations of a ‘land scam’ by the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust to rest, Sultan Ansari, a party to the final deal of the land has rubbished all the claims made by the Aam Aadmi Party and its leaders.

Ansari who used to be associated with Samajwadi Party (SP) but no longer is, in an exclusive interview with India TV confessed that the entire land agreement with the Ram Janmbhoomi Trust was transparent and that the financial dealings were closed using banking methods.

Rubbishing the claims of the land price jumping from Rs 2 crores to Rs 18.5 crores in a few minutes, Ansari explained that he had first gotten into a registered agreement in 2011 which was renewed in 2014 and then 2019. In line with Ram Janmbhoomi Trust’s clarification, Ansari revealed that the first purchase of the land was made in 2011 from a Firoze Alam at Rs 1 crore.

He then added that in 2019 an “agreement to sell” was made between him and Kusum Pathak where the price decided was Rs 2 crore and Rs 50 lakh was given in advance when the prices of the land had not shot up.

Ansari revealed that the prices of the land in the city hiked exponentially after the Ram Mandir verdict, however, the Trust managed to procure the land at a rate lower than the market price. The current price of the land he said is Rs 24-25 crores. 

When asked why the land was sold at a lower price, Ansari said, “We stay very close to the Ram Janmbhoomi and because this matter is related to faith, we decided to sell the land at a lower cost.”

“We want the grand temple to be constructed at the earliest and are ready to offer full support to the Trust and construction in whichever way possible,” added Ansari.

The deal, Ansari informed was done in the presence of the General Secretary of the Trust Champat Rai and a few other members. 

On the allegations 

When probed about the allegations of a supposed ‘scam’, Ansari informed that it was a deliberate attempt to mislead the public. The politicians decisively presented just two papers and based their allegations on half-baked information.

Ansari demanded that the politicians must reveal their agenda behind it. He also claimed that him knowing the politicians has nothing to do with the deal.

Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust issues clarifications

After AAP and other political parties created an unwarranted ruckus, the Ram Janmbhoomi Trust issued a detailed clarification describing the nature of the land and details of the agreement.

Sanjay Singh alleges attack

Meanwhile, AAP leader Sanjay Singh has alleged that he was attacked by BJP goons on Tuesday morning for voicing his opinion against the (falsely made-up) “scam”.

Singh has been giving interviews to the media since morning that his fight to bring out the truth of the land deal will continue till his last breath.

IT Dept cancels PFI’s 80G registration, says the Islamist org is destroying ‘goodwill’ and ‘brotherhood’ among communities

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IT Dept cancels PFI’s 80G registration, says the Islamist org is destroying ‘goodwill’ and ‘brotherhood’ among communities

The IT Department has canceled the 80G benefit enjoyed by the Popular Front of India citing violation of Income Tax rules, an order dated 22nd of March, 2021, says. The order says that PFI violated section 13(1)(b) of the IT Act, and thereby, attracted section 12AA(4)(a) of the said Act.

The former section says that exemptions to charitable institutions shall not apply “in the case of a trust for charitable purposes or a charitable institution created or established after the commencement of this Act, any income thereof if the trust or institution is created or established for the benefit of any particular religious community or caste.”

The latter section provides provisions for the cancellation of the registration of such a charitable organisation. The order noted that PFI was engaged in destroying goodwill and brotherhood among communities.

Section 80G of the Income Tax Act provides incentive for people to participate in philanthropic activities. Individuals can claim tax deduction upon donation to certain trust or charities.

Last year in January, the Yogi Adityanath U.P. Government had asked for a ban on PFI because of the violence caused by PFI members during the anti-CAA riots. PFI members have been frequently found to be indulging in criminal activities, including murder with communal motives.

In February, during a rally to mark the Moplah Massacre of Hindus, PFI had paraded men dressed in RSS uniforms in Kerala. A video from the rally confirmed a lot of Islamic chanting, including Allahu Akbar, la ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah, and others chanted during the procession.

‘Even North Korea is not this crazy’: Defector rails against woke US universities for encouraging cancel culture and intolerance to dissent

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‘Even North Korea is not this crazy’: Defector rails against woke US universities for encouraging cancel culture and intolerance to dissent

Yeonmi Park, a defector from North Korea held the United States’s commitment to free speech and free thought in high regard until she went to Columbia University, where she was immediately taken aback by what she perceived as an anti-western view and an unhealthy obsession with being “politically correct”, a report published in the NY Post said.

Disillusioned by the woke culture perpetuated at the American schools, Park pondered: “Even North Korea isn’t this nuts”.

“I assumed all the sacrifices I made, time and energy spent would be utilised in developing and honing critical thinking ability. But here, they are railroading you to think the way they want you to think,” Park said in an interview to Fox News.

The North Korean defector was aghast to find the eerie similarity between the United States and her home country. “I thought America was different but then I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.”

Speaking to The Post, the 27-year-old said she could not believe she would be asked to do “this much of self censoring” at a university in the United States.

“I literally crossed the Gobi Desert to be free. But now I realise America is not free,” Park asserted.

Park fled the repressive regime in North Korea when she was 13. Her family went to China and South Korea before ending up in the United States for their pursuit of a free, just and equitable society.

In 2016, Park joined a school in New York. She says she was baffled to find her professors issuing “trigger warnings” to students on contentious topics so that they can opt out of reading or sitting in the classroom during the discussions.

Talking about the prejudice at the Columbia University, Park said they were taught to link every problem to white men. She said some of the discussions pertaining to white privilege reminded her of the caste system prevalent in her native country, where people were segregated based on their ancestral lineage.

In one of the classes she attended, most students objected to the topic when their teacher asked them if any of them had a problem discussing western civilisation. Park said some of the students who raised objection highlighted the colonial slant of the discussion.

Classes, Park recalled, often started with professors asking students for their preferred pronouns, with the use of “they” becoming increasingly prevalent as she feared being socially punished for not being inclusive in her vocabulary.

Park said English was her third language and it was incredibly difficult for her to use pronouns correctly. “I sometimes interchangeably used he and she pronouns,” she said.

Cancel culture and shouting down on opposing voices have become a norm in the United States: Yeonmi Park

The North Korean defector said she was chastised for saying she enjoyed the writings of Jane Austen. Apparently, Park was told at the college that authors like Austen were racist and bigoted and had a colonial mindset.

“When I told them I loved those books, they tried to dissuade me from reading them. I was told these authors had a colonial mindset. They told me these authors were racist and bigots and were subconsciously brainwashing me,” she said.

The 27-year-old said she was constantly reminded of ‘American Bastards’. “I thought only people in North Korea hated Americans. But as it turns out, there are lots of people already here who hate this country,” she added.

Park also spoke about the cancel culture becoming norm in the university. She said shouting down on dissenting voices and forcing them to censor contradictory viewpoints is increasingly being practiced in campuses around the United States.

She also expressed concern at the readiness of American people to give away their rights. She says American people have not fathomed yet the perils of shunning their rights, not realising they may never come back.

“These people are voluntarily silencing each other, forcing each other into acquiescence,” said Park, who had chronicled her escape from North Korea in a memoir released in 2015. “In other times, there’s coup d’etat when the rights are taken away and people are silenced. But this country is voluntarily choosing to be silenced, choosing to relinquish their rights away.”

People in the United States behave as if they are brainwashed: Defector from North Korea

For Park, this perverse behaviour of giving up one’s rights and forcing others to conform to one’s worldview is starkly similar to the North Korean society, where rights are curtailed and individual freedom is nonexistent.

“North Korea was pretty insane country. My mother taught me very early in my childhood to not even whisper, the birds and mice could hear me,” Park said while describing the repressive regime in North Korea.

Park believes Americans are obsessed with oppression even though there is not much oppression they have witnessed firsthand. “This is completely nuts. I don’t know why people are collectively going crazy like this here in America,” she said.

Park is still bewildered as to why Americans behave the way they do despite having such a vibrant democracy and seemingly just society. She said people in North Korea lived a cloistered life as they don’t have access to outside world, but here in America people have access to information and yet they behaved in an inexplicable manner.

Speaking about the people in the United States, Park says they are brainwashed to a certain extent to behave contrary to what the evidence suggests. “In some ways, they (in the US) are brainwashed. Even though there’s evidence so clearly in front of their eyes they can’t see it,” she lamented.

Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Kshetra Trust issues comprehensive clarification on land deals: Here are the details

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After AAP leader Sanjay Singh, supported by top Congress leaders such as Rahul Gandhi, peddled fake news alleging a ‘land scam’ by Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, the Trust has issued a clarification on the entire land deal.

Sanjay Singh claimed that Ram Janmbhoomi Trust paid Rs 18 crore for a piece of land that costed Rs 2 crore in 2019.

Singh and other party members presented ‘Agreement of Sale’ as ‘Sale Deed’ to propagate their theory further. 

Ram Janmbhoomi Trust issues clarification

Brushing off the baseless allegations, the Trust has shared details on the land and the deal through its social media handles.

Facts about land:

The Trust has informed that the land in question is adjacent to a road which in the near future will be constructed in a 4-lane way approaching the Ram Janmbhoomi Temple, making it a prime land.

The land parcel of 1.2080 hectares has been purchased at a rate of Rs 1423 per square feet, which the Trust says is far less than the market price.

Clarification issued by Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. Image Source: Twitter

A report from 2020 suggested that a land that was available for Rs 400-500 per square feet in 2019 on the outskirts of the Ayodhya city, now fetches Rs 1,000-1,500. Similarly, land that was available at Rs 1,000 per sq ft in the heart of the city before the Ram Mandir verdict, now costs anywhere between Rs 2,000 and Rs 3,000 per square feet.

Additionally, agreements were made between several parties since 2011 for the same piece of land, however, the agreement could never mature due to several reasons. 

Details of the land:

The Trust in its clarification informed that Nyas was interested in purchasing the land, therefore, it insisted on clearing all the previous agreements before getting to the final deal.

The deal involves nine individuals out of which three are said to be Muslims. All the nine individuals who were involved in the deal since the past 10 years were contacted.

Clarification issued by Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. Image Source: Twitter

Upon receiving their consent, the Trust decided to sit together with the parties involved and made the agreement with the final owners. 

The Trust clarified that all the financial dealings are done through banking channels with no cash involved. The Trust has also purchased three to four plots from temples and ashrams which will be compensated with another land of their choice for rehabilitation and sufficient funds. 

Details of the agreement:

  1. On 04/03/2011 Mehfooz Alam, Javed Alam, Noor Alam, Firoz Alam: S/o Muhammad Alam resident of Barwari Tola Ayodhya , entered into an agreement with Kusum Pathak, Harish Pathak and Mohd lrfan (urf Nanhe Miyan) to sell gata number 242,243,244 and 246. Consideration amount agreed was Rs. 1 crore. Agreement was valid for 3 years. This agreement dated 04.03.2011 was cancelled on 04.03.2014.
  2. On 20/ 11/2017 Mehfooz Alam and three others above mentioned parties, registered a sale deed to Kusum Pathak and her Husband Harish Pathak (same 4 gata numbers, total land 2.334 hectare). Consideration amount was Rs 2 crores.
Clarification issued by Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. Image Source: Twitter
  1. On 21/11/2017 Kusum Pathak and Harish Pathak entered into an agreement to sell above 4 gatas to lchchha Ram Singh, Jitendra Kumar Singh and Rakesh Kumar Singh. Consideration amount was Rs 2.16 crores.
  2. (This agreement was registered to be cancelled on 17/09/2019)
  3. On 17/09/2019 Another agreement was entered upon by Kusum Pathak and Harish Pathak to sell above mentioned land to lchchha Ram Singh, Vishwa Pratap Upadhyay, Manish Kumar, Subedar, Bairam Yadav,  Ravindra  Kumar  Dubey, Sultan  Ansari   and   Rashid Hussain. Amount of consideration was Rs 2 crores and validity of agreement was 3 years.
  4. (This agreement was registered to be cancelled on 18/03/2021)
  5. On 18/03/2021 Kusum Pathak and Harish Pathak sold land gata number 243, 244 and 246 area 1.2080 hectares by sale deed to Ravi Mohan Tiwari and Sultan Ansari S/o lrfan (urf Nanhe Miyan). Consideration amount was Rs 2 crores, valuation at circle rate Rs 5.80 crores, stamp paid for 5.80 crores Valuation.
  6. On the same day, above Ravi Mohan Tiwari and Sultan Ansari entered into an agreement to sell this land to RJB Trust. Consideration amount agreed was Rs 18.50 crores. Payment of Rs. 17 crores was made as advance by online transaction.

We had also reported earlier on how the opposition was trying to rake up a non-existent issue just before the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections. 

The ‘strategy’ adopted by several political parties to create roadblocks in the construction of the Ram Mandir, that Hindus have waited for over 5 centuries might in fact have adverse effects. 

Sanjay Singh claims attack

Seeing the alleged scam theory fail, AAP leader Sanjay Singh has now claimed that he was attacked by alleged BJP goons on Tuesday morning for unraveling the discrepancies in the land deal.

Not sure if his allegations of the ‘scam’ were directed at the Bhartiya Janta Party or the Ram Janmobhoomi Trust, Singh claimed that he will continue this fight till his last breath.

Ghaziabad Police takes cognisance of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair fanning communal tension

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Ghaziabad Police takes cognisance of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair fanning communal tension

Note: Later reports suggests the main accused’s name is Parvez Gujjar and not Parvesh Gujjar.

Ghaziabad Police has acknowledged a tweet by Shalabh Mani Tripathi, information adviser to Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath, where he alerted the police to fake news spread by Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair. Ghaziabad Police has said that investigations are underway as per law.

Shalabh Mani Tripathi had said in his tweet, “He was beaten for destroying the life of a pregnant woman through quackery. Aadil, Aarif and Mushahid were involved in the beating but to slander the name of Ram and incite riots in Uttar Pradesh, rioters created an alternate story altogether.” He tagged the official account of Ghaziabad Police and urged them to take action.

Zubair had tweeted, “An elderly man, Sufi Abdul Samad Saifi was attacked by five goons in Loni, Ghaziabad. He was threatened at the gunpoint, beaten, assaulted, and they forcefully chopped off his beard.” In a video shared by the ‘fact-checker’, the victim could be seen being thrashed with sticks by the culprit. His beard was also cut forcibly using a scissor.

While speaking about the matter, Abdul Samad Saifi claimed that he was about to board an autorickshaw but was stopped by the accused. He said that his face was covered with a handkerchief and taken to an undisclosed location. Saifi alleged that he was locked inside a room and brutally thrashed. He also claimed that the miscreants had forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at gunpoint. “They told me that they have killed several Muslims in the past and will do the same to me,” Saifi further alleged.

In a tweet, Ghaziabad police informed that three accused had been arrested in the case. According to the police, the incident took place about 10 days ago on June 5, 2021. The victim Abdul Samad Saifi had travelled to the Loni border from Bulandshahr, where he was escorted to the house of accused Parvesh Gujjar in Banthala in Loni. After some time, the co-accused, namely, Kallu, Poli, Arif, Adil aka Mushahid arrived at Parvesh’s house and began thrashing the victim.

The victim Saifi sold amulets for a living. According to the police, the accused were miffed after the amulet proved harmful to them. Unlike what the victim had alleged, the police said that he knew the culprits for a long time. ‘Liberals’ had also spread fake news that the victim was forced the chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Considering the religion of the accused, it is safe to conclude that was blatant fake news.

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