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Delhi: ‘Hinduon se Azadi’ slogans raised at Jamia Nagar where anti-CAB protesters set buses on fire

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Delhi: ‘Hinduon se Azadi’ slogans raised at Jamia Nagar where anti-CAB protesters set buses on fire

Violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act which continued across the country Sunday have now reached the national capital, Delhi. Jamia Millia Islamia University, which had already seen violent protests earlier, found itself in thick of violence once again. At Jamia Nagar in Delhi where the university is located, Jihadist slogans were raised.

The so-called ‘protesters’ raised slogans of ‘Hinduon se Azadi’ and ‘Chheen ke lengey Azadi’ and ‘Ladh ke lengey Azadi’. The slogans translate to ‘Freedom from Hindus’, ‘We will fight for freedom’. Given the violence that was witnessed, the ‘fight’ cannot be interpreted as a non-violent ‘fight’ alone.
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Three buses have reportedly been torched and firefighters were also attacked by the ‘protesters’. The visuals coming in from the ‘protests’ are extremely distressing. It’s not clear whether the Jamia students were directly involved in the violence or the violence was perpetrated by some other groups who were part of it. The ‘protests’ also pelted stones at the Police and the Police have responded with lathi-charge.


The violence occurred at Delhi’s New Friends colony, not far from the Jamia Milia University. Plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the buses that were torched.


Concerned individuals are extremely distressed at the turn of events. The videos of the buses being burnt are highly disturbing.


Two buses were also burnt near Mata Mandir in Delhi.


Meanwhile, the students of Jamia Millia have disassociated themselves from the protests. In a statement, they said, “We have time and again maintained that our protests are peaceful and non-violent. We stand by this approach and condemn any party involved in the violence.” They called the violence an attempt to “vilify and discredit genuine protests”.

Jamia Millia Islamia students disassociated themselves from the violent protests in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar

Meanwhile, Amanatullah Khan, leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, was reportedly spotted leading the protests that turned violent. Minutes after it was reported that Khan was present at the protest site which turned violent, AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted an appeal for peace.

Bengali actor spotted at Santragachi during Muslim mob violence, Leftist actor claims he was on way to DYFI conference

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Bengali actor spotted at Santragachi during Muslim mob violence, Leftist actor claims he was on way to DYFI conference

Popular Actor in the West Bengal Movie Industry, Badsha Maitra, was spotted at Santragachi where Muslim mobs were on a rampage after the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act. Santragachi is a locality in Howrah City of Howrah district that has its own railway station.

Someone captured pictures of him at the spot and those pictures bean to be circulated with the allegation that he was leading the violence. He can be seen in the pictures wearing a Muslim skull cap.

Source: @vickyagarwall on Twitter

In one picture that was being circulated on social media, smoke can be seen in the background. The actor is on the phone seen talking to someone.

Source: @vickyagarwall on Twitter

Now, the actor has issued a clarification on social media. He said that he was attending a conference organized by DYFI (Democratic Youth Federation of India) in the area. DYFI is an independent organisation but quite a few communist leaders have been associated with DYFI. While he was traveling there, Badsha says he got stuck in the road and was talking to the organizers on the phone. He said that it was reflective of the state of the politics in the country that the images were being used to spread rumours on social media.

Badsha Maitra Facebook post

However, as one person pointed out in a comment in his post, it does not appear necessary to attend a DYFI conference wearing a skull cap. Badsha Maitra has long been associated with the Left. Ahead of the Assembly elections in the state in 2011, he had appealed to people to vote the Left government to power for the eighth time.

AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan spotted leading the protests which turned violent in Delhi: Reports

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AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan spotted leading the protests which turned violent in Delhi: Reports

Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan was earlier spotted at the venue where the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act turned violent in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar.


As reported by ANI, the police is investigating elements who instigated and caused violence. The protests in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar had turned violent and chants of ‘Azaadi’ from Hindus were heard.

Buses were also set on fire in Delhi.

Protests in Jamia Nagar, Delhi, turn violent.

Minutes after it was reported that Khan was present at the protest site which turned violent, AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted an appeal for peace.


“No one shud (sic) indulge in violence. Any kind of violence is unacceptable. Protests shud (sic) remain peaceful,” he tweeted.


According to India Today journalist, Khan was leading the protests which turned violent. However, Khan has denied having been part of it. He said that he was at a different protest venue.


He has even accused the BJP of trying to defame him and his party for partaking in the protests that reportedly turned violent.

Journalist explains how the Bengali elite justified Muslim mob violence and paved the way for downfall of Bengal

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Journalist explains how the Bengali elite justified Muslim mob violence and paved the way for downfall of Bengal

Soumyadipta, a journalist who has reported from West Bengal in the past, shared his experience on social media and the manner in which editors of newspapers deliberately whitewashed the communal crimes committed by Muslims to maintain the charade of secularism.

He said that there has been a continuous migration of Hindus from the villages of Bengal leading to the situation that we see today. Soumyadipta said that his friend from school called him saying that Muslim mobs were burning buses merely a couple of kilometers away.


The former journalist also said that it was important to understand that the Muslim mobs were not protesting over the CAB but that a law has been implemented that facilitates the entry of ‘Kaafirs’ (non-believers). He said that CAB might arrest the flow of demographic change and the ‘protesters’ are vehemently against it.


Soumyadipta said that he has seen this demoraphic shift ever since he joined journalism in 1999. But Bengali editors ‘intellectualized’ the issue in the name of communism and secularism. He said that he was never allowed to write about how Hindus were being attacked by Muslim fundamentalists. Instead of the identity of the perpetrators, it was always written that ‘locals’ were involved in the crimes.


Soumyadipta also recounted an incident of a riot in Park Circus, an area in Kolkata heavily dominated by Muslims. It is the same area in Kolkata where protests were witnessed followin the passage of the Act. He had done his due diligence and reported the names of the perpetrators involved along with the madarsa that was involved. However, in the published copy, the names were removed and the crimes were whitewashed by terming it as one committed by ‘locals’. He also received lectures on ‘secularism’ from his editor and the language in the report was ‘not how truth was supposed to be presented in the media’.


In the end, the accused were released on bail after minor charges were slapped on them as a consequence of the involvement of ‘local political party dadas’. A few years later, there was another major incident of riot where innocents wre killed and it was the same madarsa boys that were involved. Soumyadipta ended his thread with a damning indictment of the Bengali elite. He said, “The intellectuals of Bengal (authors, senior journalists, filmmakers, poets) have consistently overlooked the religious violence in their own backyard. They have justified and intellectualised the violence. They have acted as catalysts to the downfall of Bengal”.

Women pretending to be a Hindustan Times journalist wishes death for PM Modi, hopes Prime Minister’s boat sinks in ‘River Tsunami’

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Women pretending to be a Hindustan Times journalist wishes death for PM Modi, hopes Prime Minister’s boat sinks in ‘River Tsunami’

People associated with left-liberal media do not even try to hide their hatred for PM Modi anymore under creative euphemism. Gone are the days ‘journalists’ would express glee at him catching swine flu.

Nupur Kashyap, who pretended to work as a copy editor at Hindustan Times, on Sunday asked a social media user to pray for the death of PM Modi. In the screenshots shared by social media user Ankur Singh, one can see Kashyap praying for ‘river tsunami’. Replying to a Facebook post, which had reported that PM Modi was to accompany Chief Ministers of Bihar, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh on a cruise to attend the first meeting of National Ganga council, Kashyap hoped that the boat which carried PM Modi went down.

However, it was later revealed that Nupur Kashyap was only pretending to work for Hindustan Times and was not actually involved with the news channel.

 

ThePrint article shared on Facebook

A social media user named Mum Tamut responding to ThePrint report had criticised PM Modi. Referring to him as ‘Feku’, she said how river cruises were more important than lives of people in Assam. People in Assam are protesting against implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act as they do not wish to allow immigrants from neighbouring countries to settle, irrespective of religion. To this, Nupur reacted and asked Mum to pray that the boat which is carrying PM Modi sank.

 

Nupur Kashyap comment on Facebook. (image: @iankursingh on Twitter)

However, Nupur Kashyap did not stop at urging someone to pray for PM Modi’s death. Instead, she herself took the responsibility to pray for Prime Minister’s death and wished that the boat in which PM Modi was travelling goes down. She also hoped that PM Modi met with some sort of ‘river Tsunamis’.

Hindustan Times journalist praying for River Tsunami (image: @iankursingh on Twitter)

Hindustan Times had filed a complaint against Kashyap for pretending to be an HT journalist.

You can read the details here.

‘Those who are committing violence can be identified by their clothes itself,’ PM Modi says in Jharkhand

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‘Those who are committing violence can be identified by their clothes itself,’ PM Modi says in Jharkhand

Narendra Modi addressed a rally today in Dumka, Jharkhand as part of the BJP’s campaign in the ongoing Assembly elections in the state. During his address, the Prime Minister referred to the Muslim mob violence that has ensued across the country in wake of the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act. He said that those who are fuelling fire across the country can be identified by their clothes itself.


The Prime Minister said that the Congress party and its allies were creating ruckus across the country. He said that they may turn a blind eye to the mob violence that has ensued but the country is watching the events unfold and people are firmly behind the decision taken by the government and the Indian Parliament on the matter of the CAA.

Read: India’s Hindus are not ‘majority with a minority complex’, they are like a ship caught in a storm on the high seas

Narendra Modi also slammed the Congress party for its decision to protest outside Indian Embassies abroad. The Indian Overseas Congress, which was until now largely dormant, had announced that it will stage demonstrations outside the Indian embassies across the globe to protest against the Modi government’s handling of the Indian economy and “India’s deteriorating condition”.

Taking the Congress party head-on, the Prime Minister said that the work that used to be done by Pakistanis earlier will now be done by the Congress party. Calling it shameful, he said, “Does any Indian organize any demonstration in front of Indian Embassies around the world?”


Muslim mobs have unleashed violence across the country as a form of protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act. These protests have spread to educational institutions like Jamia Millia Islamia University, where ‘students’ have resorted to the extreme violence of stone-pelting against police officials.

UN Commission slams Imran Khan government over persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan

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UN Commission slams Imran Khan government over persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan

In yet embarrassment for the terror state of Pakistan, the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has slammed Imran Khan government stating that their discriminatory legislation has empowered people with “extremist mindsets” to carry out attacks on religious minorities.

According to ANI report, the United Nations CSW in its 47-page report titled, ”Pakistan-Religious freedom under attack”, has expressed concerns over the increasing weaponisation and politicisation of the blasphemy laws and the anti-Ahmadiyya legislation which are being used not only to persecute religious minorities but also to gain political ground.

The CSW, a commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, said that Christian and Hindu communities, especially women and girls in Pakistan are “particularly vulnerable”.

“Each year hundreds are abducted and forced to convert and marry Muslim men. Victims have little or no hope of being returned to their families due to the serious threats and intimidation from abductors against the girls and their families. This is compounded by the lack of police will to take action, weaknesses in the judicial process and discrimination from both police and judiciary towards religious minority victims,” the report read.

Read: Religious persecution: Pakistan’s Sikh ex-lawmaker seeks asylum in India, says Army and ISI dictate Imran Khan

The commission also cited several prominent examples to substantiate that minorities in the country are portrayed as second class citizens.

In May 2019, Ramesh Kumar Malhi, a Hindu veterinary surgeon from Mirpurkhas in Sindh, was accused of blasphemy after he had accidentally wrapped medicines in pages containing verses from the Quran. Later, the Islamists and protestors had burned down his clinic and other shops belonging to the Hindu community.

The CSW also stated that blasphemy laws in Pakistan, which criminalise anyone who insults Islam, are being misused to register false cases against the religious minorities and are a “source of controversy and suffering”.

“The prolonged misuse of the blasphemy laws over the last three decades, combined with the rise of extremism, has had a damaging normative impact on social harmony. The sensitive nature of blasphemy cases serves to heighten religious fervour and has created an environment of mob violence in which people take matters into their own hands, often with fatal consequences,” the report read.

Read: EU parliament threatens to cut subsidies and trade preferences to Pakistan, warns against persecution of religious minorities

The CSW also recognised that cases of forced marriages and forced conversions are common among Christian and Hindu girls and women, particularly in the Punjab and Sindh provinces. The Hindu girls and women are being systematically targeted as they come from lower economic backgrounds in rural areas, who are generally under-educated.

In its report, the CSW further stated that it had surveyed children from religious minorities, who admitted that they were subjected to severe physical and psychological ill-treatment, including being segregated, bullied, teased, insulted and beaten on multiple occasions, by both teachers and classmates. The commission also said that human rights activists in Pakistan also face constant threats and intimidation from multiple sources, including the state and non-state actors.

“HRDs are subject to harassment, targeted attacks and enforced disappearance, with little protection provided by the government,” it read.

Pakistan is notoriously known for its persecution of not only religious minorities but also ethnic minorities within their own country. The forceful conversion programmes have often been unleashed against the minorities especially Christians, Sikhs and Hindus living in Pakistan with utmost brutality.

Read: Majnu Ka Tila: Hindu refugee family from Pakistan name their daughter ‘Nagrikta (Citizenship)’, father says she is ‘India’s daughter’

This violence against Hindus in Pakistan is now a common affair. A series of abductions and forceful conversions of minority Hindu and Sikh girls had recently rocked the country. In March, two underage Hindu girls Raveena (13) and Reena (15) were abducted from the Ghotki in Pakistan’s Sindh on the eve of Holi. The girls were later forcefully converted and married off to older Muslim men.

Earlier, Jagjit Kaur, a Sikh girl was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Nankana Sahib which had caused a huge uproar. In another horrific incident, a 13-year-old Pooja Sotahar Kumari, daughter of Fatan Rathore, resident of village Bakhsho Laghari in Hyderabad district’s Hosri Taluka, was kidnapped, forcefully converted and subsequently married off to a man identified as Syed Irshad Shah.

In another attack on Hindus, a medical student was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside her hostel room at a college in Larkana area. The Hindu student Namrita Chandani, a final year BDS student in the Bibi Asifa Dental College of Larkana, Pakistan was found dead in her room on Monday. Namrita Chandani was found lying down with a rope tied around her neck under suspicious circumstances.

The Owaisi Factor: Why Mamata Banerjee went soft on the raging Muslim mobs in Bengal risking Hindu consolidation for the BJP

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The Owaisi Factor: Why Mamata Banerjee went soft on the raging Muslim mobs in Bengal risking Hindu consolidation for the BJP

The violence that has ensued across West Bengal following the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act has shocked the entire nation. Trains are being burnt, public property is being damaged and the state administration appears utterly unwilling to control the raging Muslim mobs. Why is Mamata Banerjee not taking strict measures against the violent Muslim mobs?

One could blame it on Mamata Banerjee’s history of Muslim appeasement but there could be more to the story than that. With the rampant display of violence, Muslim mobs have ensured a massive Hindu consolidation in BJP’s favour. Surely, Mamata Banerjee was aware of the consequence of the overt display of Islamic fundamentalism. Why, then, did she allow it to happen?

The answer, of course, could be the Owaisi factor. In July, it was reported that the AIMIM had announced their decision to contest the Assembly Elections in the state scheduled to be held in 2021. “It is true that we are fewer in number, but do not dare touch us. We are atom bombs. Didi, we welcome your friendship and enmity as well. You have to decide whether you consider us friends or foes,” AIMIM national spokesperson and Bengal observer, Asim Waqar, had stated sometime back.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill debate: Opposition speaking the same language as Pakistan, says PM Modi

The AIMIM had also organized a meeting at Dharmatala in Kolkata where the former MLA from Maharashtra Waris Pathan was also present. Consequently, in November, the Chief Minister of Bengal had warned the citizenry about the radicalism of the Owaisis. She did not name them but it was quite obvious who her comments were directed at. “I am watching that there are some extremists among minorities,” she told her party workers in Coochbehar, “They have their base in Hyderabad. Don’t listen to them.”

A week ago, on the 8th of December, AIMIM leader Zameerul Hasan accused the Mamata Government of targeting his party. “Across the state, police officers are abusing our leaders, threatening them not to take up political programmes. This has happened after the Chief Minister indicated to the police to ensure that we don’t hold meetings and processions,” he told IANS. Hasan also announced that the party will organize a mega rally in Kolkata where Asaduddin Owaisi will be the main speaker.

Thus, things are not looking very good for Mamata Banerjee. She has spent too much of her political capital on her Muslim vote bank to be able to win without complete Muslim consolidation in her favour. In the course of the said appeasement, she has alienated significant sections of the Hindu community which have then consolidated in favour of the BJP. This is what we saw happen in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections where the saffron party massively increased its seat tally.

Mamata Banerjee faces a situation where Asaduddin Owaisi is threatening to capture her Muslim vote bank while the Hindus have consolidated behind the BJP due to her continuous Muslim appeasement. Ahead of the enactment of the CAA, there were two choices before the Bengal Chief Minister. The first was to support the Bill which would have resulted in her losing grip on her Muslim vote bank and the second was to oppose it in the belief that her Muslim vote bank will not desert her.

Read: Do not dare to touch us Didi, we are atom bombs: AIMIM warns Mamata and TMC as Owaisi’s party hints entry into Bengal assembly elections

There was no guarantee that Mamata Banerjee would make any political gains by making the first choice. For one, the General Elections results proved that Hindus had already consolidated behind the BJP. And secondly, it was the BJP that had brought the Bill, therefore, the saffron party was the one most likely to make gains.

By going with the second option, she gambled on the one vote bank that had stood by her in 2019 elections and hoped that enough Hindus will stick by her even after her opposition to CAA to ensure her return to power in 2021. She must have taken into consideration the fact that she would have lost a great many Hindu votes but she probably figured it was worth it anyway. She probably also knew that there was no guarantee the Muslim vote bank was going to stick with her but she decided that she had to try. Given the visuals of the Muslim mobs, her political position is in serious jeopardy ahead of the Assembly Elections in the State.

Mamata Banerjee was forced to go soft on the raging Muslim mobs in Bengal following the enactment of the CAA precisely because Owaisi is a massive threat to her Muslim vote bank. To be sure, Owaisi does not need to swing too many votes to cause massive damage to the Trinamool Congress. A vote share of even 3% or 4% is enough to swing the elections decisively in favour of the BJP.

Although it’s still too early to say, the visuals of the Muslim mobs raging across Bengal is likely to consolidate Hindus behind the BJP even more. Mamata’s gamble may well have cost her the 2021 Assembly Elections. Now, she is at a precarious situation where she has massively risked alienating her Hindu vote base but there’s no guarantee that the Muslims are even going to stick with her party.

Internet helps Sachin Tendulkar find the fan who motivated him to redesign his elbow guard for better performance

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Internet helps Sachin Tendulkar find the fan who motivated him to redesign his elbow guard for better performance

Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar recently took to Twitter to request netizens to help him find a person who had helped him improve his batting. He said that there was one staffer at a Chennai hotel who had spotted the fact that the flawed design in his elbow guard was hampering his batting. Sachin Tendulkar redesigned his elbow guard soon after. On Twitter, he asked people whether they could help him find him as wished to catch up with him.


It appears that the Internet has helped the great cricketer find the fan he was looking for. Twitter user ‘Moon’ with the username @Wxntr_br said on the social media platform that it was her uncle who had the discussion about the elbow guard with the cricketing legend during the India-Australia series in 2001. India won that test match to win the series 2-1 and Sachin Tendulkar had scored a century in the first innings of the said match.


Moon revealed that the name of her uncle is Guruprasad Subramanian. In the video Sachin shared as part of his appeal, he is heard saying it was something he hadn’t told anyone else. Sachin said that Guruprasad told him that he was a huge fan of his and watched his shots over and over again. Guruprasad told him that his elbow guard was hindering his wrist movement.

The manner in which the Internet helped Sachin find the fan he was looking for reveals how Social Media can be a great force for good. In an era where social media has often helped in destroying lives, it is one of the happy stories that restores one’s faith that goodness can still be achieved through these networks.

Mesut Ozil, suffering horrible form at Arsenal, rakes up controversy with comments on China and ‘East Turkestan’

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Mesut Ozil, suffering horrible form at Arsenal, rakes up controversy with comments on China and ‘East Turkestan’

Mesut Ozil, a German footballer playing for the Arsenal football club, is not having a good time on the field. And off it, he appears to have developed a penchant for controversies. On Thursday, he issued a statement on social media denouncing the Muslim world for remaining silent on the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China.

Ozil wrote in Turkish, “East Turkestan, the bleeding wound of the Ummah [community], resisting the persecutors trying to separate them from their religion… They burn their Korans. They shut down their mosques. They ban their schools. They kill their holy men. The men are forced into camps and their families are forced to live with Chinese men. The women are forced to marry Chinese men.. But Muslims are silent. They won’t make a noise. They have abandoned them. Don’t they know that giving consent for persecution is persecution itself?”

The message was written in a background of blue with a white crescent moon, the colours of Uyghur Separatists who call the region ‘East Turkestan’. Interestingly, Ozil calls Xinjiang the same in his statement.


Following his statement, Ozil has faced massive backlash in China. Arsenal Football Club was forced to issue a statement disassociating themselves from the statement. “Regarding the comments made by Mesut Özil on social media, Arsenal must make a clear statement,” its statement on Weibo, the most popular social media website in China, said. “The content published is Özil’s personal opinion. As a football club, Arsenal has always adhered to the principle of not involving itself in politics.”

Ozil, who is going through a torrid time at Arsenal as is his club, has always been vocal about his political inclinations. He had caused outrage after posing for a photograph with Turkish Dictator Erdogan ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup at a time when tensions were prevalent between the two countries. Ozil, himself, is of Turkish origin. Erdogan was the best man at his wedding.

Ozil’s dalliance with Erdogan had reignited the debate regarding dual citizenship and dual loyalties. Following the incident, the German football associating issued a statement that made it clear that the gesture was not appreciated. Ozil, afterwards, quit the national team accusing the authorities of ‘racism’.

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