On September 28, new videos of the Birmingham Hindu temple attack surfaced on social media platforms where the Islamists were seen hurling abuses, including cow jibes, at the Hindus present inside the temple premises.
In the first 2-minute and 10-second video shared by Twitter user INSIGHT_UK, the person recording the video called the Hindus ‘p*ss drinking bast**ds’ and then asked them to ‘go eat some cow sh*t’. The abuses were accompanied by abusive words, including ‘motherf**ker’ and others. Towards half of the video, the Police came and started pushing the mob away from the temple wall. They started screaming ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ as the Police pushed them. At 1:34 timestamp, someone threw a bottle at female Police personnel that did not hit her.
Shocking #Hinduphobia. The shameful silence of the British Media. Assault on a Hindu temple & Hindus in #Birmingham by Muslim extremists.
– Screams of Allah Hu Akbar – Go drink some cow pi*s – Go eat cow s**t – Piss drinking b****ds – Abusing the police & throwing missiles pic.twitter.com/Vln8eSRBq9
In the second video shared by the Twitter user, the mob called Hindus racists and kept raising ‘Allahu Akbar’ slogans. The person recording the video then turned the camera towards himself and called Hindus ‘P*ss drinking motherf**kers’ again. His face was completely covered. The mob also made sexist comments toward the female Police officers present at the scene.
A dangerous plot. This is not a Hindu-Muslim clash, this is an outright attack on Hindus by #Islamists. And then they play the victim!
Their hate is clear to see. This has always been the case of Islamist hate and not being able to accept non-Muslims, particularly #Hindus. pic.twitter.com/vRDn7diCeW
In the third video, the person recording the video abused Prime Minister Narendra Modi by saying, ‘Modi di Maa di P**di’ and then called Hindus ‘p*ss drinking bast**ds’. This video was in sync with another video shared earlier where a man climbed the wall of the temple premises. That particular man can also be seen in this video at a 20-seconds timestamp. This video was an extended and clearer version of the first video.
In the past couple of months, the anti-Hindu attacks in the United Kingdom, especially in Leicester and Birmingham, increased by several folds. What appeared to be a reaction to the defeat Pakistan faced in the T20 Asia Cup match against India, it was later found that Islamists were just using the match as an excuse to attack the Hindus as they did not stop even after Pakistan defeated India in the same series a week later.
The attacks intensified to the extent that Hindu families left Leicester, and some of them reportedly have not returned so far. The houses, businesses and properties of Hindus were vandalised. Contrary to what was happening, mainstream media and Islamists tried to cover up the anti-Hindu attacks and blamed Hindus for the clashes.
In Birmingham, they used an event where Sadhvi Ritambhara was scheduled to appear as an excuse to attack a Hindu temple. The event was postponed owing to Sadhvi’s health. However, the Islamists did not back off and attacked the temple. It was evident that they were well aware of the fact that not only that particular event but the whole tour was postponed, but they moved ahead and called to circle the temple to intimidate Hindus. More such so-called “peaceful protests” at Hindu temples and establishments in the UK have been planned by the Islamists in the coming days.
Hinduphobic Gaumutra jibe is the language of terrorists
‘Cow p*ss’ or ‘cow urine’ or ‘Gaumutra’ jibe is often used by Islamist terrorists before attacking Indians, especially Hindus. In 2019, a Pakistan-backed Jaish-e-Muhammad terrorist in a suicide attack killed as many as 40 CRPF soldiers in Pulwama, Kashmir. Following the attack, a video was released in which the terrorist could be heard saying he wanted to punish and kill the ‘cow urine drinkers’ in the name of Allah. The terrorist identified as Adil Ahmed Dar alias Waqas was seen admitting that he had joined the Jaish-e-Mohammad a year ago. In the video, he referred to Indians as “Gae ka Peshab Peene Wale” (People who drink cow urine).
On September 29, the Twitter account of Popular Front of India (PFI) was withheld in India. The move came following the ban on the Islamist organisation and its sister organisations imposed by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India (GoI), on September 27 via gazette notification. The message on the account reads, “@PFIOfficial’s account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand.”
PFI Official account withheld in India. Source: Twitter
Along with Twitter account, PFI’s website, Facebook account and YouTube profile have been blocked.
PFI’s website blocked.
PFI Facebook Account blocked. Source: Facebook
PFi YouTube account blocked. Source: YouTube
However, the accounts of PFI’s state branches are still active on social media platforms, along with the sister organisations that were banned by the MHA. There have been reports that the Government has sent instructions to block the websites and social media accounts linked to the banned organisation. Hindustan Times quoted an unnamed official saying that the process of blocking the accounts was under process. Directions have already been sent to social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, for the same. Reports suggest that the WhatsApp accounts linked to the organisation are also being monitored.
PFI banned by Government of India
On September 27, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification to ban PFI and its sister organisations named Rehab India Foundation (RIF), Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala.
The move came after nationwide raids on the organisation conducted by National Investigation Agency (NIA), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and state police. Over 100 locations were raided by the security agencies, and over 150 leaders and workers linked to the organisation were detained or arrested. During raids, the manual to make bombs, Mission 2047 documents, weapons, cash and wireless communication devices were recovered.
US President Joe Biden recently asked after a recently deceased congresswoman at a hunger conference she helped organise, calling out the lawmaker as if she were still alive.
Biden appeared to ask if the late congresswoman Jackie Walorski was in attendance for a speech he delivered in Washington on Wednesday. During his remarks at the White House conference on hunger, nutrition and health, Biden mistakenly asked after congresswoman Jackie Walorski, who died in a car accident in August.
“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? I think she was going to be here,” Biden said.
Walorski died in a car crash on August 3, 2022. Two of her associates were also killed in the accident that took place in her Indiana district. The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office later found that Walorski’s car was at fault in the crash.
It is worth noting that Biden had issued a statement at the time of her death, saying that he and the First Lady were “shocked and saddened” by the news of Walorski’s demise. Biden had also said that while he did not see Walorski eye to eye on various issues, “she was respected by members of both parties for her work on the House Ways and Means Committee on which she served.”
Joe Biden issues statement on the death of US Congresswoman Jackie Walorski
Walorski, along with three other lawmakers, had introduced legislation last year to convene a hunger conference. The US President, during the conference, laid out a plan to deal with high obesity rates and put an end to chronic hunger by the year 2030.
Days after conducting raids and arrests of Popular Front of India (PFI) leaders, the central government on Wednesday, 28th September 2022, banned the Islamist organization and its associates for 5 years. PFI finds its roots in the infamous Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). SIMI was responsible for several bomb blasts in various cities in India in the first decade of this century. After the organization was banned in 2001 and its network was busted in 2010, the persons involved in the Islamist organization rebranded it as the Popular Front of India.
From SIMI to PFI
The Popular front of India calls itself a neo-social movement allegedly committed to empowering people belonging to minority communities, Dalits, and other weaker sections of the society. However, it finds its roots in the banned terrorist organization SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India). Many Islamic outfits emerged in 1992 after the disputed structure on the site of the Shri Ram Janam Bhoomi was demolished. These organizations were focused on exploiting the sentiments of the Muslims in India and mobilizing them to strengthen their organizational structure. One such organization Islamic Seva Sangh (ISS) was founded by cleric Abdul Nasser Madani. He was arrested and jailed in the Coimbatore bomb blasts case and ISS was banned by the Indian government.
Most leaders of ISS then moved to the Islamist organization SIMI which was later banned as well in 2001 for terror activities. After SIMI was banned, these leaders formed another organization named National Development Front. In 2006, this organization merged with two other organizations to form the Popular Front of India. Many of its frontline leaders are from Kerala and have been a part of SIMI in the past.
Ahamadullah Siddique – the mastermind behind SIMI
SIMI was founded by Dr. Mohammad Ahamadullah Siddiqi. However, after SIMI was banned in India in 2001 for its involvement in terrorist activities, he claimed that it was not the same organization anymore. SIMI has a history of even aiding ISI against India. Though Dr. Mohammad Ahamadullah Siddiqi stopped working for SIMI long ago, he then moved to the US and continued anti-India activities from there. Open Source Intelligence Analysis has published a detailed thread of tweets putting all the information about those activities together and explaining how the US-based anti-India nexus of Islamists used to support the banned Islamist outfit PFI.
Ahmadullah Siddiqi is synonymous to the group he found – ????. Yes, a banned radical group with intense history of anti-India activities & terror links & even aiding ISI operations against India.
Siddiqi relocated to the US in order to undertake anti-India activities on a larger scale from outside. There, he has created a complex network of anti-India fronts that directly work at the behest of Pakistan. ‘Justice for All’ is the name of the platform coordinating the activities and the names of its members are undisclosed. Siddiqi was also leading the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a group that promotes terrorism & extremism. He was accompanied by his Pak-Jamaat accomplice Abdul Malik Mujahid in this organization.
Siddiqi soon became an important figure in the US-Jamaat circles backed by Pakistan. The Institute of Communication Studies at Pakistan’s University of Punjab invited him as a keynote person and intellectual speaker in 2015. He was invited to do what he is infamous for – giving an Islamic perspective to the intellectual event.
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A prestigious figure among the Pak-backed, US-Jamaat circuit, Siddiqi visited #Pakistan in 2015 as a keynote & intellectual speaker at the Institute of Communication Studies (University of Punjab).
Siddiqi is also an associate of Ghulam Nabi Fai, a former ISI agent who was convicted in the USA for receiving funds from ISI by violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Both studied together in India and the United States and have known each other for over 50 years. Fai leads Pakistan’s propaganda against India about Kashmir, while Siddiqi openly supports his goals. Siddiqi has said in one of his addresses that the US should put efforts into making Kashmir an autonomous independent nation.
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Siddiqi is also an accomplice of convicted ISI agent Ghulam Nabi Fai. Both studied together (in India & the US) have known each other for 50 years!
Fai runs Pak’s propaganda on Kashmir against India & Siddiqi publicly echoes his agenda.
Dr. Mohammad Ahamdullah Siddiqi currently lives in Chicago. In the last many years, Chicago has become a safe haven for outfits controlling and carrying out anti-India activities in the US. These outfits include the Islamic Circles of North America, Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), the Islamic Medical Association of North America, Justice for All (JFA), and Sound Vision.
Siddiqi currently resides in #Chicago, which has developed into a haven for organizations that carry out anti-India campaigns in the US.
Orgs such as IAMC, IMANA, JFA, Sound Vision, & ICNA, all these groups have been exposed earlier are based/have offices in Chicago.
The JFA is the hub where all the violent extremists from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh come together in the US and conspire to execute anti-India activities from outside India. For this purpose, they locate various fault lines in Indian society and use them to plan their activities for targeting India.
??? is the epicentre where all radical extremists from Pakistan, Bangladesh & collaborators from India join hands in the US to bleed India out through a thousand cuts.
JFA with its allies such as ???? target India through its various fault lines.
These Islamist outfits targeted India on various international fronts and also executed various activities responsible for creating unrest inside the country. India has been attacked by JFA and IAMC on multiple occasions in an effort to have it banned in reports from the USCIRF (United States Commission on International Religious Freedom). In 2013–14, IAMC persuaded USCIRF to focus on India, while in 2018–20, JFA’s Burma Task Force campaigned by spending USD 267K in 2018–20.
Both ??? & ???? have targeted India to get it blacklisted in the ?????? (religious freedom commission) reports on several instances. IAMC lobbied USCIRF to target India in 2013-14, & JFA’s Burma Task Force lobbied in 2018-20 by spending USD 267K b/w 2018-20.
In addition, JFA and its partners IAMC and HFHR (Hindus for Human Rights) are harboring lies and distortions of minority discrimination in India in side events at UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Council) in Geneva. The same platform that Pakistan utilizes to support its propaganda against India about Kashmir by utilizing agents of the ISI like Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur.
The ban of ??? & its offshoots seems to have rattled this Chicago-based eco-system.
Perhaps, many Indian enablers flocking to the US, especially ??????? these days also insinuates how this cabal is attempting to mobilize its resources from India at one place.
Therefore, the recent ban on the PFI and its allied organizations operating in India is a major blow to the Chicago-based eco-system peddling anti-India activities on a global level and supporting Islamists in India.
In a major development, the Central Government on Wednesday banned the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associate organizations for 5 years. The government maintained that the organizations operated as unlawful associations under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
The affiliations banned along with the PFI include All India Imams Council, Campus Front of India (CFI), Rehab India Foundation, National Conf of Human Rights Org, National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation, and Rehab Foundation, Kerala. According to the notification from the MHA, Rehab India Foundation received money from PFI members who, in addition to being members of the terror organization, were also members of the many affiliates that were coordinated by PFI members.
The PFI has a ‘Hub and Spoke’ connection with the partners or affiliates. The banned outfit served as the hub, using its members’ mass outreach and fund-raising abilities to improve its capability for illegal actions, while the fronts served as “roots and capillaries” via which the PFI was fed. The MHA also stated that PFI and its affiliates had the potential to disturb the public peace and communal harmony of the country.
This is after the NIA in the two rounds of raids recovered several incriminating documents and materials from PFI organizations settled in almost 17 Indian states. The documents included a training module to make IEDs and bombs from available domestic material and also the ‘Mission 2047’ document underlining the PFI goal in the Indian subcontinent for the years to come ahead. The officials also recovered a Mission 2047 CD containing material for converting India into an Islamic State.
PE education guide recovered from PFI office
These specific recoveries were made by the officers from the possession of the vice president of PFI Maharashtra. Several digital devices and pen drives were also recovered from the PFI hubs to reveal their connection with ISIS leading to Gajwa-e-Hind. A similar document named ‘India Vision 2047’ was recovered by the administration in July this year when the PFI had planned to launch an attack on PM Modi during his visit to Patna.
‘Mission 2047’ aiming at ‘Gajwa-e-Hind’
The document ‘India Vision 2047’ or ‘Mission 2047’ aims at destabilizing the well-developed infrastructure of the Indian sub-continent and establishing Islamic dominance over the ‘coward Hindus’ and subjugating them. It underlines the goal of the organization to establish the ‘Rule of Islam in India’ and to bring the Indian State and the majority of Hindus ‘to their knees’ when the country would complete its 100 years of Independence.
It aims at targeting Hindus and Hindu leaders to gain control over the country belonging to Hindus, popularly known as Gajwa-e-Hind. Gajwa-e-Hind refers to launching an attack on Hindustan and winning over non-Muslims by killing them or forcing them to convert to Islam. Such a war is executed to win over the ‘infidels’ and is called Gajwa.
The document which was shared by the PFI leaders with each and every member of the now banned organization feared the current status of Muslims in India and aimed at spreading the PFI roots to every household by 2047. The PFI paper showcased Islamists in India as victims and instigated their co-coreligionists to pick up arms for their ‘rights’ against Hindus. The eight-page document which was accessed by OpIndia claimed that the ruling community of India was Muslims and that they had now become second-class citizens in the country.
The ‘Mission 2047’ document states that the Islamists have been denied privileges, government jobs, and trade facilities since India’s independence and that the country has deliberately adopted discriminatory policies against Muslims, further favoring Hindus. It blatantly blames the Hindutva forces and alleges that they aggravated the socio-economic and political conditions of Muslims. “Muslim community is divided by silly differences and therefore it was difficult to fight Hindutva forces”, the PFI leaders add in the document playing the victim card on behalf of Muslims in India.
Page from India Vision 2047 PFI document (Source- Twitter @Starboy2079)
Instigating Islamists to arm weapons against Hindus in India
The recovered incriminating paper also says that it was Britishers who denied rights to Muslims and favored ‘Hindus’ in government jobs and trades. It blames the Britishers to have given power to the Hindus during India’s Independence in 1947. “We dream 2047 where the political power has returned to the Muslim community from whom it was unjustly taken away by the British Raj”, the document quotes.
Pertinently, it states that Muslims were and are a minority in the country and that they need not be in majority to win the war against Hindus. “If we look into the history of Islam, Muslims were always in minority and for victory, we do not need to have a majority. Popular Front of India (PFI) is confident that even if 10% of the total Muslim population rally behind it, PFI would subjugate the coward majority community to their knees and bring back the glory of Islam in India”, it added.
The PFI document also reiterated that Muslims on Earth were born only to establish the law of Allah and asked its cadres to keep in mind that the rule of Islam has to be established. It outlined 4 stages of progression towards establishing an Islamic rule in India. It asked all the Islamists-
first, to unite (under the banner of PFI) and establish Muslim identity beyond just being Indian, second, to terrorize opponents (Hindus) and call for use of violence against Hindus thrid, infiltrate the Judiciary, liaison with foreign Islamic nations for funding, stockpile weapons and fourth, to grab power at the national level
“When we have enough trained cadres and stockpiling of arms, we would declare a new Constitution based on Islamic principles. External forces would also come for help at this stage. There would be systematic and widespread elimination of our opponents and return of Islamic glory”, the document read.
Creating rift between RSS and SCs/STs/OBCs
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its member have always been the fresh targets of PFI. We can’t forget how the PFI goons brutally murdered several RSS workers from the state of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka in past few years. Sanjith, an RSS worker in Kerala, was murdered by PFI cadres in November 2021. In Tamil Nadu, Hindu leader V Ramalingam was murdered for challenging Islamic Dawah activities in 2019. Other prominent cases of murder of Hindu leaders by the cadres of the outfit include Nandu (Kerala, 2021), Abhimanyu (Kerala, 2018), Bibin (Kerala, 2017), Sharath (Karnataka, 2017), R Rudresh (Karnataka, 2016), Praveen Poojari (Karnataka, 2016) and Sasi Kumar (Tamil Nadu, 2016).
Recently, amid the two NIA rounds of raids on PFI, the terrorist organization happened to hurl petrol bombs RSS office in Mattannur. Also, the Maharashtra ATS on September 26 confirmed that the RSS headquarters in Nagpur and several top BJP leaders were on the radar of the PFI. It had plans to collect information about the movement of RSS leaders during the annual Dussehra event organized by the Hindu outfit and then launch an attack on the RSS leaders.
This comes as no surprise as the ‘Mission 2047’ document recovered by the state administration from the Maharashtra PFI vice president reveals its strategy to project RSS as ‘casteist’ and form close alliances with the SC/ST/OBC community. The organization talks about creating a divide between RSS and SC/ST/OBCs. “We need to create a split between RSS and SCs/STs/OBCs by projecting that RSS is an organization interested only in the welfare of upper caste Hindus”, the document says.
Paragraph from India Vision 2047 PFI document (Source- Twitter @Starboy2079)
It also directed its cadres to gain the trust of 50% of SCs/STs/OBCs and emerge as their representative to ultimately grab power at the national level. According to the PFI paper, increasing Hindutva and the RSS-backed administration have given Muslims enough reasons to feel that this government is working against Islam’s interests and that the trust deficit between the government and the Muslim community has become substantial enough.
The now-banned organization through its document asked its cadres to use available community platforms to instigate Muslims against Hindus. It also asked its members to keep handy information about Hindus and their leaders before the ‘showdown’, essentially meaning, that they should be ready with the information to murder the Hindus and Hindu leaders.
The PFI concludes their vision paper by stating that in the event of a full-fledged battle with the Indian state, they might want assistance from ‘friendly Islamic states’ like Turkey, a flag-bearer of Islam. While they claim to have forged close connections with Turkey, “other Islamic states must also be contacted”, the document concluded.
PFI linked to terrorist organisation, says MHA
The MHA in the notice issued on September 28 stated that some PFI activists had joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and taken part in terrorist acts in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Some of these PFI cadres affiliated with ISIS have been executed in these conflict zones, while others have been apprehended by state police and central authorities. According to the government, PFI has ties to Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a banned terrorist organization, and some of its founding members are leaders of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), another banned organization.
The Home Ministry went on to say that the PFI’s office-bearers and cadres, along with others, were scheming and soliciting cash from within and beyond India via banking channels, ‘hawala’, and contributions as part of a “well-crafted criminal conspiracy.” According to the report, after collecting the finances, cadres moved, stacked, and integrated them through many accounts to present them as legal, and then utilized them to carry out various criminal, unlawful, and terrorist acts in India.
Other crucial recoveries from the PFI hideouts
Law enforcement agencies have recovered hundreds of incriminating materials from the hideouts of the accused organization. Prominent amongst them include a brochure and CD related to ‘Mission 2047’. The document has been recovered from the possession of the vice president of PFI Maharashtra and PE training material from Irfan Milli’s house, State President PFI Maharashtra.
Cash recovered from the residence of Shahid Khan, PFI leader Bangalore
A huge amount of undocumented cash has also been recovered from the PFI leaders of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and also document in a ‘short course on how to make IEDs using easily available materials’. Meanwhile, pen drives containing videos related to ISIS, and Gajwa-e-Hind have been found from the Uttar Pradesh PFI leadership and Marine radio sets from Tamil Nadu PFI leadership. Many such other materials have been taken into custody by the official.
PFI has a long history of claiming victimization on behalf of Muslims in India everywhere at times. However, the violence engineered by its leaders and cadres following the arrest of its leaders exposed the organization’s violent inclinations and demonstrated to the public that the arrests were conducted in the right direction.
The ban on the PFI comes following two rounds of searches by the NIA in a multi-agency investigation against the organisation for allegedly sponsoring terror operations in the nation. The initial series of raids occurred on September 22, with a follow-up on Tuesday, September 27 in multiple states, resulting in the arrest of at least 250 persons associated with PFI.
On 28th September 2022, Hindus in the United Kingdom gathered in front of the Guardian News office in London to protest against their biased reporting of the Leicester violence that painted the Hindu community in a bad light despite it being the victim of the incident in which a Hindu temple was vandalized. The biased reporting in The Guardian causing the outrage of the Hindu community is credited to journalists Jessica Murray, Aina J Khan, and Rajeev Syal. It is notable that, Aina J Khan had previously invoked RSS in the Leicester violence in which Islamists attacked Hindus.
After the protest, the protestors handed over a memorandum addressed to Katharine Viner, the editor of the Guardian, to the Chief of Security of the media house. One of the protestors said that they are very concerned about the very anti-Hindu bias and anti-India bias that Guardian has, and the media house is publishing articles daily condemning Hindus for various acts. He said that the Guardian articles are creating hate for Hindus in the country, and therefore the Hindu community is asking the Guardian to tone down their anti-India rhetoric. The person added that the anti-Hindu hate triggered by the newspaper can lead to conflicts and Hindus may be hurt in the process.
The Hindu community leader said that most of the articles are written by people in India with half-truths to further their anti-Hindu agenda, deliberately written to create an impression that Hindus are demonic people. “There is no standard of professional journalism in Guardian coming from Delhi,” he added. He called the protest today a warning to the Guardian, that they will keep coming there again and again if they don’t stop publishing anti-Hindu and anti-India content.
Before handing over the memorandum to the chief of security, he further asked Guardian to reconsider their agenda and said that they expect a response from the media house as soon as possible.
Several photos and videos of the protest in front of the Guardian office were posted on Twitter. The protesters were seen holding placards saying ‘Hindu Lives Matter’, ‘ Stop putting lives at risk’, ‘Guardian stop false narrative’, ‘Stop spreading fake news’, ‘Stop demonising Hindus’, ‘Hindu is peace’ etc.
Poonam Joshi is an Indian women’s rights activist in the UK. She tweeted, “We are not nazis, we are not fascists. Angry Hindus protesting outside the office of Guardian newspaper protesting against an article published branding them as extremists.”
“We are not nazis, we are not fascists” Angry Hindus protesting outside the office of Guardian newspaper protesting against an article published branding them as extremists.. pic.twitter.com/IqKx7ErAq1
Another protester said, “It’s turning here a protest against biased journalism of UK newspapers and media houses like Guardian and BBC. They call us the Hindu extremists while we are the most peace-loving people on earth. Here we have gathered to show our displeasure and condemnation of this biased journalism against Hindus. Hindus are victims of terrorism. Hindus are victims of attacks.”
It is notable that, when the violence broke out in Leicester, a journalist associated with UK-based leftist media outlet The Guardian, Aina Khan, tweeted about her ‘tense day’ while covering the Leicester violence. She claimed to have interviewed one Hindu man who was wearing a motorbike helmet and holding an Indian flag. Khan then claimed that the man in the helmet claimed he was an RSS supporter. She then added one disclaimer that the RSS was inspired by Italian dictator Mussolini.
Even in the second article that she wrote along with two co-writers, Hindus are painted in bad colours. The title of the article reads, ‘It feels like people want to fight’: how communal unrest flared in Leicester. In the body of the article, a Muslim councilor Ruma Ali is quoted to be saying “It’s been going on for months. It is calm for now but there will be reprisals. It feels like people want to fight.” Here, she is referring to Hindus in the locality. By giving such titles to the articles, Guardian and Aina J Khan tried to propagate that it is Hindus who actually want to fight, whereas Hindus are the victims of the Leicester violence. Hindus in London have therefore protested in front of the Guardian News office against such biased journalism against Hindus.
On September 27, the internet was buzzed with reports that the famous YouTube channel ‘The Try Guys’ parted ways with one of its members Ned Fulmer. The reason behind the move was the revelation that Fulmer cheated on his wife. Notably, Fulmer had stopped appearing on the channel’s videos for the last couple of weeks. The whole fiasco revolving around ‘The Try Guys’ prompted discussion over the toxic work culture among former Buzzfeed employees.
The toxic work culture at the Buzzfeed
Before we move on to Ned Fulmer’s story, let’s have a look at what Buzzfeed’s former employees are talking about about the work culture at the company.
Sam Stryker, who worked at Buzzfeed between 2014 and 2017 and appeared in The Try Guys series as well, said, “You have to understand working at BuzzFeed from 2014-2017 was like being a part of the suicide squad.”
if you had 5 free minutes you would get pulled into a video to try deer penis for the first time. hilary duff glitterbombing you in the office. going undercover to nail a hollywood predator bc you were the only twink in the office
He mentioned how the employees were not let be free even for a short break. He wrote, “If you had 5 free minutes, you would get pulled into a video to try deer penis for the first time. Hilary duff glitter bombing you in the office. Going undercover to nail a Hollywood predator bc you were the only twink in the office.”
Some netizens discussed that Ned, who was a manager at Buzzfeed, was allegedly a very toxic person himself in the office. Many people that he had hired left the company allegedly because of him.
Heard he was actually also toxic during the Buzzfeed days, he was a manager and hired lots of the employees and they left because of him. Wow, the actual personality behind a family man.
So how toxic is the work culture at BuzzFeed? Well, imagine you are an intern at a company that makes videos, and they tell you to drink your own urine as a part of an experiment and that was just only one example.
The people who appeared on videos were made to eat weird stuff including, well, the genitals of different animals.
Buzzfeed India was accused of perpetuating similar toxic work culture
Buzzfeed India, which had shut shop, was no different. In September 2018, a then-employee of BuzzFeed India Pranav Dixit bullied a woman on Twitter, stalked her on the professional networking site LinkedIn, and reached out to her employers just because she countered him on his views.
It happened when filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri prepared a list of “urban Naxals”. Dixit did not agree with the list and when a woman named Seema Trivedi disagreed with Dixit, at one point he snapped. He went out against Trivedi on social media platforms and reached out to her employers for an ‘official statement’ on her contrary views.
He even wanted to use BuzzFeed as a platform to bully Trivedi, in an attempt to intimidate her from expressing her views. While BuzzFeed as a platform has always tried to portray itself as a champion of freedom of speech. Because, how dare you ‘troll the press’?
Ironically, Dixit has written on online bullying and how Twitter needs to ‘step it up’ after talking to ‘survivors of harassment, journalists and cops’.
Later, after many netizens stood against him and threatened to file a formal police complaint, Dixit apologised.
Who are ‘The Try Guys’
Those who are not aware of the YouTube channel The Try Guys, it is a company formed by four former Buzzfeed employees, Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, Zach Kornfield and Eugene Lee Yang. Before starting their own venture, they had a very successful series by the same name on Buzzfeed.
In 2018, they left Buzzfeed and started their own venture, and millions of fans who had followed their videos on Buzzfeed followed them on their new channel. At present, they have around 7.5 million subscribers on YouTube. The whole concept of the channel revolves around trying new things. They have shared many personal experiences since the beginning under the concept of “trying new things”.
Ned Fulmer, the “Wife Guy”
Ned Fulmer was known as someone who loved his wife Ariel dearly from the beginning. The couple got married back in 2012 after living together for over a year. In 2014, after the group started working on the ‘The Try Guys’ series on Buzzfeed, Ariel appeared on several videos in and out of the series.
When the group separated from Buzzfeed, the couple was expecting their first child, and the whole experience was covered in multiple videos as well. Ariel has also appeared in the podcast ‘You Can Sit With Us’ by The Try Guys productions. However, she has been missing from the recent episodes as well.
Ned Fulmer admitted cheating on his wife
Fulmer confirmed on September 27 that he had cheated on his wife. As per some reports, it was The Try Guys producer Alex Herring (Alexandria Herring) with whom he was involved in an extramarital affair. Herring appears in the series “The Food Babies”.
In a social media post, Ned wrote, “Family should have always been my priority, but I lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship. I’m sorry for any pain that my actions may have caused to the guys and the fans, but most of all to Ariel. The only thing that matters right now is my marriage and my children, and that’s where I am going to focus my attention.”
A few days before the revelation, there were some rumours that Ned and Alex were caught kissing at a New York City bar, following which the group announced that he was fired from the group. The post read, “Ned Fulmer is no longer working with The Try Guys. As a result of a thorough internal review, we do not see a path forward together. We thank you for your support as we navigate this change.”
Following the controversy, Ariel also published a post on Instagram and urged everyone to respect her family’s privacy. She wrote, “Thanks to everyone who has reached out to me – it means a lot. Nothing is more important to me and Ned than our family, and all we request right now is that you respect our privacy for the sake of our kids.”
Ned’s wife Ariel released a statement at the same time. “Thanks to everyone who has reached out to me—it means a lot,” she said. “Nothing is more important to me and Ned than our family, and all we request right now is that you respect our privacy for the sake of our kids.”
The Reddit user who exposed Ned’s extramarital affair
According to Twitter user Camitwomeyy, a Reddit user Hamilton390 claimed he got a blurry video of Ned kissing Alex in the bar from an unknown user. He further claimed that he talked to Ariel about the issue as well.
7) A Reddit user (hamilton390) claims they caught Ned doing something bad. When another user asked for proof this is what they sent: pic.twitter.com/bpNkYGgeuM
Following the expose, Will Thayer, Alex’s fiancé, removed all her photographs from his account and made his account private.
9) Will Thayer who is Alex from the Food Babies fiancée removed all his photos with her and does not follow her anymore. (his account is now back to private)
Furthermore, YB, another Buzzfeed employee who edited The Try Guys videos and appeared in the series The Food Babies, unfollowed Ned and Alex. YB is one of the most famous former Buzzfeed employees who rose to fame with her content on YouTube.
10) YB who is close friends with Alex and is the other of the Food Babies is no longer following both Alex and Ned.
Please note that all the reports about an affair between Alex and Ned are just speculations. The names have been confirmed by the persons involved or The Try Guys.
On Tuesday, United States of America officials issued a stern warning to its citizens residing in Russia, as a dreaded military draft sparked widespread concern across the country. The official asked those with dual US-Russian citizenship to leave immediately if they did not want to be forced into Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
“Russia may refuse to acknowledge dual nationals’ U.S. citizenship, deny their access to U.S. consular assistance, prevent their departure from Russia, and conscript dual nationals for military service”, the official statement issued by the US Embassy in Moscow said. This is after the Russian government announced on September 21 the mobilization of its citizens to the armed forces in support of its invasion of Ukraine.
The embassy also asked the citizens to make independent travel arrangements as it stated that the commercial flight options were extremely limited and were often unavailable on short notice. “Overland routes by car and bus are still open. If you wish to depart Russia, you should make independent arrangements as soon as possible”, it added.
The notice also stated that the US Embassy’s capacity to help US nationals was severely constrained, and conditions, particularly transportation alternatives, might suddenly become much more limited. The warning further restricted US citizens from travelling to Russia and said that those who are residing or travelling in the country at present should exit Russia quickly while limited commercial travel choices exist.
The embassy meanwhile also warned the US citizens against staging protests and exercising their right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression. “The right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression are not guaranteed in Russia. Avoid all political or social protests and do not photograph security personnel at these events. Russian authorities have arrested US citizens who have participated in demonstrations”, the statement noted.
The advisory further asked the US citizens in Russia to carry proper identification documents including their passports with their current Russian visas and advised them to have a contingency plan that does not rely on US government assistance. The US citizens are asked to follow the Department’s Travel Advisory for Russia, issued on August 15, which is ‘Do Not Travel and Leave Immediately’. It is a level 4 advisory, the highest level.
The travel advisory had said that there was potential for harassment against U.S. citizens by Russian government security officials, and U.S. citizens in Russia may be singled out by Russian government security officials for detention and other actions, and that Embassy’s ability to assist U.S. citizens in Russia was limited. The embassy had also cited other issues like limited flights in and out of Russia, COVID-19-related restrictions, and terrorism. The embassy had also noted that U.S. credit and debit cards no longer work in Russia after the US-based major card companies withdrew from Russia in protest against the invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the country’s first military mobilization since World War II on September 21. According to Russian officials, the draft would focus on reservists and will add 300,000 troops to the war effort. However, Russian media has reported that the true aim is one million additional troops. Reports mention that the recruitment of men having combat training and are above the draft age has sparked condemnation even from pro-Kremlin voices.
The Islamist organisation, Popular Front of India (PFI), was banned on September 28 by the Ministry of Home Affairs via a gazetted notification. Several revelations have been made by the investigation agencies as reasons behind the ban. The involvement of its members in anti-India, anti-social and terrorist activities is among the top reasons.
One such member who has been linked to terrorist organisations and anti-India activities is the founder member of the PFI, Prof P Koya. The National Executive Council member of PFI is a former member of the banned Islamist organisation Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and an Ansar during 1978-79. An Ansar, according to Islam, was the helper of Prophet Mohammed and his followers who provided the required support to bring “victory” during several wars. P Koya also played a role in creating a divide among the Mali and Gujjar communities in Rajasthan.
PFI’s links to IHH
In November 2020, it was reported by a Swedish research organisation named Nordic Monitor that PFI leaders had met Turkic extremist group İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı (IHH). The meeting took place on October 20, 2018, seven months before the Lok Sabha elections of 2019.
S Koya and E.M. Abdul Rahiman of PFI meeting with IHH members. Source: Nordic Monitor
The meeting, clouded in secrecy, was apparently part of Erdogan’s outreach toward Muslims in Southeast Asia. The two key PFI leaders who attended the meeting were E.M. Abdul Rahiman and Prof. P. Koya, members of the National Executive Council of the PFI, the report claims. It was attended by IHH Secretary-General Durmuş Aydın and IHH Vice President Hüseyin Oruç as well, and partnerships in various fields were discussed.
S Koya and E.M. Abdul Rahiman of PFI meeting with IHH members. Source: Nordic Monitor
The Nordic Monitor says that IHH works with Turkish intelligence service MIT, led by Erdogan loyalist Hakan Fidan, an Islamist as well. It also said that the PFI was promoted by Turkic state-run media Anadolu as a civic and social group, the members of which were abused by Indian police. The IHH was accused of having smuggled arms to Al-Qaeda-affiliated Jihadists in Syria in January 2014.
Presence of Taslim Rehmani in the meeting
Interestingly, during that meeting, Taslim Ahmed Rehmani, President of the Muslim Political Council of India and former member of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), was also present. SDPI is the political front of PFI.
PFI members including Taslim Rehmani (then-SDPI leader) meeting IHH. Source: Nordic Monitor
The presence of Rehmani in the meeting is also notable because he was the person who allegedly instigated former spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nupur Sharma during a debate on Times Now by speaking ill of Shivalinga. Following his remarks, Nupur Sharma countered him, which was later published by Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair as an “insult to Islam and Prophet Mohammed”. Sharma was suspended from the party, and the matter resulted in the murder of several Hindus, including Kanhaiya Lal from Rajasthan and Umesh Kohle from Maharashtra.
PFI, IHH and Majid Freeman
Majid Freeman is a local Leicester Muslim “activist” who is known to harbour problematic and extremist Islamic views. Throughout the Leicester violence, Majid was at the forefront of spreading fake news that instigated violence against Hindus.
On August 30, after the Leicester police got influenced by the Muslim organisations and lied about “death to Muslims” being chanted by Hindus (they later clarified their investigation found no such chants were heard), Majid took to Twitter to rabble-rouse against Hindus. Despite being debunked several times, Majid continued to instigate Muslims against Hindus in the UK.
Who is Majid Freeman
To understand who Majid Freeman is, we must travel back to 2013 when ISIS activity was at its peak in Syria. In 2013, BBC aired a documentary about the “Aid for Syria” convoy, which had “humanitarian organisations” and “activists” travelling to Syria to help those affected by ISIS atrocities. BBC, at the time, hid the names of the charities involved in the convoy – it was later revealed by analyst and scholar Sam Westrop that those charities were One Nation, Al Fatiha Global and Aid4Syria.
In 2013, when the Aid For Syria charity was being exposed as Islamist by several scholars, Majid Freeman was in Syria under this banner, with another “aid worker”, Alan Henning, who was later abducted and beheaded by ISIS. He was with Henning when he was abducted by ISIS, indicates reports.
Freeman spoke at the memorial service for Henning, calling him a beautiful man who helped when the international community looked away, however, according to a Telegraph report, only two weeks after the beheading, he started posting messages supporting ISIS. In his Facebook post, he asked for “dua” for a British ISIS terrorist, Ifthekar Jaman, who was charged with a Syrian terror plot. He also posted a video that essentially said that ISIS was a reasonable response to Western policy and said, “This brother hit the nail on the head”.
Majid Freeman, according to the Telegraph report, has expressed support for Al Qaeda terrorists calling them Shaheed, said that Al Aqsa will be conquered by Jihad and expressed sympathy and support to Al Qaeda clerics who incited terrorist attacks against non-Muslims.
Majid has, essentially, encouraged European Muslims to “do jihad in Syria” and has promoted “tributes” to the late Al Qaeda terrorist Anwar Al-Awlaki on his Twitter and Facebook accounts – this screenshot was posted by Sam Westrop in his expose.
Not only this, Majid Freeman has expressed his support for Pakistani terrorist Aafia Siddique.
Majid Freeman and his links with organisations connected to Al Qaeda, IHH – Is there a PFI connection?
At the heart of this question are three so-called charities that were ‘working’ in Syria – Aid4Syria, Al Fatiha Global (Aid4Syria’s parent organisation), IHH and Children in Deen and One Nation.
It is pertinent to note that Majid Freeman was travelling in the humanitarian convoy to Syria along with these organisations and is personally involved with others like One Nation and Aid4Syria.
Given the involvement of Majid Freeman in the violence against Hindus in Leicester, the misinformation he spread to instigate Muslims to target Hindus and his terror sympathising views and associations, one has to wonder if there is more to the violence than meets the eye. The fact that IHH was involved in the Syrian convoy, of which Freeman was a part, and that IHH has forged an alliance with radical Islamist PFI in India, which works explicitly against Hindus (read this vision document to know about their plans to turn India Islamic and subjugate Hindus) raises far more questions than it answers.
Pakistani officials have openly come ahead to support the banned Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI). Rattled by the ban imposed on PFI and its allied organizations, Pakistan tried to gather international support for the Islamist organization. Pakistan’s Consulate General Vancouver tagged the Twitter handles of various organizations affiliated with the United Nations and European Union in its response to the tweet by the official handle of the PFI.
PFI tweeted, “Massive arrests are going on in the BJP-ruled states in the name of Preventive Custody. This is nothing but Prevention of d Right to democratic protests against d Central government’s witch-hunt targeting PFI is Quite natural & expected under this autocratic system.”
Massive arrests are going on in d BJP ruled states in d name of Preventive Custody. This is nothing but Prevention of d Right to democratic protests against d Central govt’s witch-hunt targeting PFI is Quite natural & expected under this autocratic system.#StandWithPopularFront
Replying to this tweet, Pakistan Consulate General Vancouver tagged the former executive director of the Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth, United Nations Human Rights Commission, United Nations Geneva, United Nations Human Rights Asia, United Nations Human Rights Council Secretariat, United Nations, European Commission, European Union at the United Nations, European Union Council, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the spokesperson of Pakistan’s ministry of foreign affairs. The sole purpose of this was to gather international support to back the Islamist organization banned in India.
It is notable that the same prominent international Twitter handles were tagged by the same Pakistan embassy’s Twitter handle while replying to a tweet blaming the Indian government for a so-called economic crisis in Jammu and Kashmir.
— Pakistan Consulate General Vancouver (@PakinVancouver) September 28, 2022
It is notable that, on September 27, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India banned the Islamist organization Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associated or affiliated fronts with immediate effect for a period of five years by exercising its powers under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA).
It is noteworthy that PFI and its sister organizations have a presence in over 17 states in the country. Police and NIA had registered over 1,300 criminal cases against the cadres of PFI and its front organizations in different states. Some of these cases were also registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act/UAPA, the Explosive Substances Act, the Arms Act, and other heinous sections of IPC.
In a gazetted notification, the GoI named its associates as Rehab India Foundation (RIF), Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala.
