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USA starts imposing visa bans on Chinese officials tied to mass detention of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang

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The Donald Trump administration has started imposing Visa ban on the Chinese officials who are involved in the mass detention and repression of Uighur Muslims and other minority Muslim groups in China and especially, in Xinjiang. This is the latest step in the string of steps being taken by the United States of America (USA) in what Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has called “the stain of the century.”

According to the USA State Department, there is a Visa ban on those government officials and members of the Communist Party of China who was directly or indirectly involved in the abuse of Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs and other minority Muslim groups in the far western region of Xinjiang.

“The Chinese government has instituted a highly repressive campaign against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other members of Muslim minority groups,” Pompeo said in a statement Tuesday. “The United States calls on the People’s Republic of China to immediately end its campaign of repression in Xinjiang.”

According to the Immigration and Nationality Act, the State Department has the authority to deny Visa to any individual, whose entry into the United States of America would have a negative impact on the foreign policy of the USA. While the list of names cannot be revealed by the authorities, they have confirmed that the names have been added.

China has not responded kindly to the USA imposing Visa restrictions. The Chinese Embassy in the United States of America took to Twitter to express its strong opposition to the steps taken by the USA.

In a series of tweets, the Chinese Embassy said that China does not have the human rights problem that the USA is claiming. In fact, it went a step further and said that the USA is making these claims up so it can use them as a pretext for justifying its interference with internal matters of China.


Interestingly, China even defended its action against Uighur Muslims. China said, “The counter-terrorism and de-radicalization measures in Xinjiang are aimed to eradicate the breeding soil of extremism and terrorism. They are in line with Chinese laws and international practices, and are supported by all 25 million people of various ethnic groups in Xinjiang”.


China has been involved in mass detention of its Uighur Muslim population. In these detention camps, Muslims are ‘de-radicalised’. They are forced to eat pork and abandon every religious symbol. The Uighur Muslims are not even allowed to keep bears or wear their skull caps.

China snubs Pakistan’s rhetoric on Kashmir, urges both countries to resolve issue bilaterally

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In a huge setback to the terror state of Pakistan, its closest ally China on Tuesday decided to snub Pakistan after it decided to drop references to the UN Charter and Security Council resolutions on Kashmir issue and stressed that India and Pakistan should take the bilateral route to resolve all disputes.

According to a Times Of India reports, in a significant departure from its earlier stand, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that China called upon both countries to enhance dialogue and consultation on issues including Kashmir. To make it worse for Pakistan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry made these comments in presence of visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

“We call on India and Pakistan to engage in dialogue and consultation on all issues, including the Kashmir issue and consolidate mutual trust. This is in line with the interest of both countries and common aspiration of the world,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said on Tuesday.

China’s statement comes ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to India, which is reportedly scheduled to take place between October 11 and 13.

Earlier, after the historic abrogation of Article 370, Beijing had insisted that Kashmir issue should be properly and peacefully resolved based on the UN charter, relevant UN Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreement. In fact, China had even supported Pakistan by maintaining such a position at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Kashmir, which ended without any outcome.

However, on Tuesday, China indicated that it was willing to engage with India on the issue of Kashmir and ready to go back to its pre-August 5 position when it had held that the Kashmir issue should be resolved bilaterally between India and Pakistan. The omission of references to the UN Charter and Security Council resolutions particularly assumes significance at a time when Imran Khan and Pakistan army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa are in Beijing to meet Xi and other Chinese leaders.

With changing its stand on Kashmir, China now officially confirms to India’s stand that there should be no third-party mediation on the Kashmir issue. “China’s position on Kashmir issue is clear and consistent,” Geng emphasized.

Meanwhile, President Xi Jinping is expected to visit India in the next week. However,  Beijing has not yet formally announced Xi’s visit to India. It has called a press conference on Wednesday to discuss the President’s “outbound tour” where the announcement might be made.

The historic coastal town of Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu is expected to be the venue for the second India-China informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Last year in April, Prime Minister Modi had visited Wuhan in the first informal summit to strengthen bilateral ties.

Ever since India repealed Article 370, stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its separate status, the Pakistan establishment has been running from pillar to post to garner support to internationalise Kashmir issue. However, major powers of the world have stood by India in declaring that abrogation of special status is an internal issue and urged both countries to resolve the issue bilaterally while rejecting Pakistan’s assertions.

Balrampur, UP: Stone pelting at Durga Puja Visarjan procession as music was not stopped while crossing mosque, 8 arrested

As Navratri and Durga Puja comes to an end, a shocking video has emerged on social media. In a viral video from Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, that has sparked outrage, a procession for Durga Puja Visarjan can be seen getting attacked by heavy stone-pelting. The police have responded to the video and confirmed that 8 people have been arrested in the incident so far.


The Balrampur police responded on social media website Twitter and confirmed that 8 people have been arrested in connection with the attack and stone-pelting on the Durga Puja Visarjan procession and that the police is taking adequate measures to nab the rest of the individuals involved.


In the video itself, one can see even elderly Muslim men pelting stones at the Visarjan procession and in the distance, one can hear scared screams of individuals as the enraged stone-pelting carried on. One also gets a glimpse of an individual trying to hide in the truck and protect himself as the stone pelting carried on unabated.

What led to the stone-pelting

The Additional Superintendent of Police from Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh told OpIndia that the Durga puja Visarjan procession came under attack as it was passing in front of a mosque. Just before the mosque, there is a right turn. The procession that generally has a DJ and plays loud music passes through the mosque.

However, generally, the music is expected to be switched off while the Durga Puja procession passes through the mosque. The music, however, was not stopped and thus, an enraged Muslim community started pelting stones at the procession.

The Additional Superintendent said that the attack on the Visarjan procession might not have been spontaneous and the Muslim community may have been prepared with stones from before, in wait of the procession.

Law and Order in Balrampur after stone-pelting on Durga Visarjan procession

The Additional SP has confirmed that the law and order situation is under control in the area. He has asserted that currently, there is no communal tension in the area after 8 arrests were made in connection with the attack. After swift action by the police, the Durga Visarjan was also completed in peace by the Hindus of the area.

The Balrampur police has also released a press statement now.

Press note by Balrampur police

The press release says that a complaint has been filed against 24 named and several other unnamed individuals under sections 147, 148, 149, 153a, 295a, 336 and 323. The press release also says that other than the 8 people already arrested, 4 teams are on the lookout for the rest of the perpatrators. There is heavy police deployment in the area as well.

 

Rohit Sharma – Is he the right choice as a Test opener?

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Twin Hundreds in his first test as an opener. Yes, Rohit Sharma became the first batsman in history to hit twin hundreds in the very first test as an opener. The fans went berserk with the success of Rohit Sharma, while the critics have some doubt about his fortune overseas.

The trend of making a middle-order batsman as an opener is mostly in the sub-continent. The trend started in the 90s, and the first of them was Ravi Shastri, followed by Sanath Jayasuriya, VVS Laxman (for a little time), Shahid Afridi, Virender Sehwag, and Tillakaratne Dilshan to name a few.

All the batsmen in the world like the ball to come on to bat, and most of these makeshift openers were quite successful in Australia, where the ball comes on bat nicely for the strokeplay. But the concept of seeing off the new ball and making it easier for the middle order has started to vanish since 2000. The hard-hitting openers generally look for a quick start rather than seeing off the new ball. They have been successful in doing that in the sub-continent and to some extent, in Australia. Most of them have increased their overall average because of opening, but that’s where they rely on their stroke play against pace and bounce.

The game has changed over the years, but the conditions haven’t, especially in England, New Zealand, and South Africa. Except for one of the odd series, most of them failed in England, New Zealand, and South Africa. The red ball moves a lot in overcast conditions, which ain’t a rare sight in these three countries. The new ball makes life difficult for any batsman at the top. None of them has excelled in these conditions, so does it make it more straightforward for the teams to look for regular openers rather than makeshift ones in these conditions? At least 15 off 45 against the new ball and giving a chance to middle order is better than scoring 15 off seven balls and putting the team into trouble.

Rohit has not been successful outside the sub-continent as a middle-order batsman, but he is carrying the form of his life this year. Scoring runs at will, which makes a sense to try him as an opener. He is class and looks most elegant when he plays shots at the top in limited-overs.  But he is 32, and he will be playing a maximum of 4 to 5 more years. Prithvi Shaw will be knocking the doors again in November and he is young too. Will the selectors make him sit outside or will they give him a chance who could be India’s permanent opener for the next 10-12 years.

India’s next overseas tour is in February 2020 against New Zealand in their den. Probably Rohit’s biggest test of all. The good thing about the journey is India playing 5 T20I and 3 ODIs before playing 2 Tests, which will help Rohit to settle and adapt the conditions well.

China calls the video of shackled and blindfolded Uighur Muslims ‘normal’, defends repression of its Muslim population

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Reacting to a shocking video of shackled and blindfolded Chinese Uighur Muslim population being transferred to ‘re-education centres’, the Chinese authorities seemed to normalise the atrocities meted out to Uighur Muslims by claiming that they were carrying out ‘normal’ judicial activities. A video from Xinjiang province of China purportedly shot from a drone has come to fore which shows the detainees being led from trains with their heads shaven, eyes covered and hands tied.

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The video of shackled and blindfolded Uighur Muslims emerged online even as the United States mounts pressure on China for its inhuman treatment of the Muslim population of the Xinjiang province. The United States has recently blacklisted 28 Chinese companies and government agencies over Uighur repression.

The alleged prisoners seen in the video are sitting in rows outside what appears a train station eyeballed by a phalanx of SWAT officers. The detainees, many of whom are believed to be minority Uighur Muslims are seen wearing purple vests with ‘Kashgar Detention Center’ written on their backs. According to some reports, China is shifting some of the Uighur Muslims from detention centres to actual prisons.

China has been facing the flak from many countries in the world for its unprecedented crackdown against the ethnic minority-Uighur Muslim population in Xinjiang. Incriminating reports blaming Beijing of interning members of its Muslim population – by “re-educating” them away from their faith have emerged.

It is believed that China has resorted to this measure as a response to riots and violent attacks that the government has endured recently at the hands of Muslim separatists in the Xinjiang province. In these detention centres, Muslims are allegedly compelled to unlearn their traditions, pan their Islamic practices and extend their loyalty to Xi Jinping’s Communist Party. They are railroaded into eating pork. If recent evidence is to be believed, China has separated the Uighur Muslim children from their parents before indoctrinating them in camps disguised as schools and orphanages.

In 2015, China had banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open. In a policy paper released by Beijing, it has justified its decision of detaining Uighur Muslims claiming that it has been taken in response to riots and violent attacks that the government has suffered at the hands of Muslim separatists in the Xinjiang province. In these detention centres, Muslims are allegedly compelled to unlearn their cultures, criticise their Islamic practices and extend their loyalty to Xi Jinping’s Communist Party.

TMC MP Nusrat Jahan gets death threats and a fatwa for celebrating Durga Puja, Rajdeep Sardesai rues hidden ‘Islamophobia’

The TMC MP Nusrat Jahan drew the ire of a Muslim cleric for offering Ashtami prayers and partaking in the traditional Dhaak at Kolkata’s prominent Suruchi Sangha Durga Puja in New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal on Sunday. The cleric Mufti Azad Wasmi of the prominent Darul Uloom Deoband slammed the TMC MP for embracing Hindu traditions and grimly suggested her to change her religion instead of bringing disrepute to Islam. Soon after, he issued a fatwa against the newly elected TMC MP Nusrat Jahan for marrying outside her religion and wearing the Hindu adornments of a married woman like Sindoor and Mangalsutra. In fact, Congress supporter from Assam wanted Nusrat killed for being a “bad Muslim”.

As the Darul Uloom Deoband cleric issued a fatwa against the MP, various news channels started broadcasting the hatred directed at Nusrat Jahan for celebrating Durga Puja. However, this didn’t sit well with the controversial journalist Rajdeep Sardesai who proceeded to trivialise the hostility shown towards Nusrat by alleging that the underlying agenda of news channels debating over an ‘unknown’ Maulana’s comments against the TMC MP is nothing but Islamophobia.


Rajdeep alleged that the perpetual agenda of news channels showing an ‘unknown’ Maulana’s remarks on TMC MP Nusrat Jahan dancing at Pujo is Islamophobia while the real issues, according to him, such as economy, environment were ignored by such channels.  It is interesting to note that Rajdeep likens expose of the Muslim cleric for his supremacist and bigoted opinions by various news channels to hidden Islamaphobia.

Darul Uloom Deoband is a prominent Islamic university in India which enjoys considerable sway over the Sunni Muslim population residing in the country. However, Rajdeep attempted to whitewash the bigotry displayed by one of the official clerics of the Darul Uloom Deoband by calling him an ‘unknown’ Maulana and thereby condoning his rants against the TMC MP. Instead of calling out the cleric for his fundamentalist and intolerant views, Rajdeep placed greater emphasis on his propaganda to disparage the news channels who had the temerity of exposing the cleric for his deeply problematic views.

Nusrat Jahan has found herself in the firing line of the Muslim fundamentalists ever since she got married to a Hindu Jain man. She was first targeted when Nusrat walked into the Parliament to take oath as an MP while wearing sindoor and bangles, traditionally worn by Hindu married women. Chauvinistic Muslims resorted to insulting her with bigoted comments online for apparently marrying outside her community. They also seemed unhappy about her embracing her husband’s culture in the Indian Parliament.

Dismissing a Muslim cleric as ‘unknown’ does not take away the fact that his opinions were soaked in bigotry against a Member of Parliament of the country for embracing and following Hindu traditions that millions in the country associate themselves with. It is also noteworthy that while the opinions of every Modi-supporter is considered the bane of Modi himself, a Congress supporter issuing death threats to Nusrat has been summarily ignored by the secular crowd. Exposing a bigot for his bigotry is not Islamophobia but it is an attempt to keep the cultural and pluralistic fabric of the country intact and untorn.

UK Labour MP Barry Gardiner who had taken NDTV’s Nidhi Razdan to task over her Modi-hate comes out in support of revocation of Article 370

The Labour Party in the UK has been facing severe backlash for taking a pro-Pakistan, appeasement-centric stand over the Jammu and Kashmir issue. Not only several Labour leaders have been actively involved in the anti-India protests in the UK after the abrogation of Article 370, but the party was also condemned and slammed by the Indian consulate for its open endorsement of Pakistan’s views in the recently passed resolution.

However, Labour MP Barry Gardiner has come out openly supporting India’s decision regarding Article 370. In a recently published op-ed, the Brent North MP has slammed UK politicians trying to interfere in Indian government’s policy and administrative decisions. He has slammed the UK politicians who are using the issue to divide communities in the UK.

Gardiner has discussed the complex history of Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan’s attempts to create unrest and violence in the region. Further, supporting the central government’s move, he has stated that Article 370 was discriminatory towards women, gay persons and minorities in Jammu and Kashmir, kept them deprived of the rights that are granted by the Indian constitution and has deprived the region of economic development.

Barry Gardiner’s op-ed on easterneye.biz

It is notable here that Barry Gardiner is the same MP who had taken NDTV’s Nidhi Razdan to task when she had asked him a blatant politically motivated question exposing her and NDTV’s inherent bias against the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in 2013.

Gardiner had in 2013 invited the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi to address the UK house of commons. Nidhi had questioned him, “But you know he is also an extremely controversial figure here in India, and around the world. There has been so much controversy over him even in the UK, where there was a boycott of him in a sense until last year. He’s still not been given a visa to the United States. He is a controversial figure. You realise this would create controversy.”

To this Gardiner had slammed Nidhi’s biased views and had called out her questionable journalistic behaviour. He had even asked her why she is ignoring the Supreme Court verdict and the fact that Modi has been re-elected by the people of Gujarat again and again.

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It is notable here that the Indian government had reacted strongly to the Labour Party’s resolution and had slammed the move terming it ‘unfounded and uninformed’. The Indian High Commission in London had cancelled the annual Labour Friends of India dinner event on the same day the resolution was tabled at the Labour party’s conference.

India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar had stated that there is no question of engaging any Labour party members on this issue and has added that the Labour party is just pandering its vote bank interests.

The dangers of random ‘bigot-baby-secular-baby’ Goebbels propaganda being peddled by the ‘Liberals’

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over” – Joseph Goebbels

The rise of Greta Thunberg into global prominence with her melodramatic ‘how dare you!’ speech on climate change has sparked an interesting and important discussion in several quarters of the society. The Left has often used children to further their propaganda since it serves multiple purposes. Firstly, the criticism of the cause suddenly becomes the targeting of a child by vicious adults, as it happened with Greta. Secondly, when children are involved, the argument tends to appeal to the most basic parently emotions that one would assume majority adults have.

Something similar has been happening in India all along – a dastardly attempt to anecdotally use children to further a dangerous Goebbels propaganda not just against political opponents but Hindus at large.

It first started with anecdotes about nieces and nephews talking politics and condemning the Modi government for something or the other.

In 2017, journalist Faye D Souza spoke of her 5-year-old niece and how she allegedly condemned the Yogi government in Uttar Pradesh after the child died in a government hospital in Gorakhpur.

Then, in 2017 itself, Atishi Marlen, the AAP leader spoke of her 9-year-old niece talk about BJP objecting to paper ballot elections.

While using children to further a political agenda is despicable, it is far less dangerous than using children to demonise an entire community.

In 2017, Saba Naqvi claimed that her 8-year-old nephew was asked by a classmate if he is Pakistani because ‘they say’ he is tall and fair. She then asked whether this was an insult or idiocy.

The insinuation of this tweet is rather strange. Firstly, Saba tries to insinuate that Hindu children assume that all Muslims are by default Pakistanis. She then asserts that Muslims are all tall and fair, as are all Pakistanis, reiterating the dangerous narrative that Muslims are somehow the ‘superior race’. After peddling anecdotal ‘secular-baby-bigot-baby’ story, Saba Naqvi asks whether what her nephew was asked was ‘insult or idiocy’, essentially claiming the Muslim victimhood card.

The ‘secular-baby-bigot-baby’ argument has now made a comeback. Fake news peddler and propagandist who masquerades as a journalist, Rohini Singh, tweeted an entire thread where apparently, at a 5-year-old’s birthday party, some ‘little Zoya’ was asked to ‘go back to her country’ to which she said she ‘is not Pakistani’.


This ‘secular-baby-bigot-baby’ was then converted into an article, akin to atrocity literature, in the leftist propaganda portal, The Wire.

Rohini Singh in the article claimed that several other people had messaged her after her thread and narrated several other such stories.

She writes, “One person told me that his nephew had become withdrawn after a kid in class informed others to not be friends with him because he eats beef”.

In another story, she said a mother told her that her ‘little girl’ was told that she would be locked in a room forever. According to Rohini, that was an “obvious reference” to NRC.

She, of course, goes further. She also claims that a secular baby was asked by a bigot baby to go to Pakistan. These kids were evidently in Kindergarten.

It is interesting that the ‘Liberals’ think it is believable that KG children would be discussing India and Pakistan or that toddlers would be discussing NRC.

In a rather transparent move, Rohini Singh, in the conclusion to her article goes on to chastise ‘Hindu parents’ specifically. She writes, “But parents like me – and yes, I mean Hindu parents in particular – need to be aware of the fact that young children are picking up the ignorance, prejudice and hatred they see in society, on television – and, regrettably in many homes – and are carrying this virus into our schools and classrooms. The kids are not at fault. But we can’t absolve ourselves of the blame”.

While we might laugh off these asinine anecdotes, considering the source of it and the obvious yarn-spinning that is being done here merely to settle political animosity against Narendra Modi and insinuate that India has become some sort of a militantly theological state, the ramifications of such ‘anecdotes’ are serious.. and dangerous.

What needs to be kept in mind is the fact that there is no proof of babies being radicalised out of the blue moon in Modi’s India. Interestingly, these stories seem to happen only with the ‘Liberal’ congregation that have rued the demise of the mysterious ‘idea of India’ after the rise of Narendra Modi. Modi, on his part, managed to unite Hindus largely to vote for him, and the ‘Liberals’ on their part began to blur the line between demonising Modi and demonising Hindus altogether.

Joseph Goebbels was Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany. He was one of Adolf Hitler’s closest and most devoted associates and was known for his deep antisemitism. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust.

Goebbels propaganda was one of the large contributing factors to the genocide of Jews in Nazi Germany and also, the main reason why the Genocide ended up resonating with so many people converting them, essentially, into Nazis and racist genocidal maniacs.

Goebbels constantly vilified and demonised the Jews and actively propagated for their genocide. In fact, he attributed the decay of Germany and the ethos it apparently stood for large, and mainly to the Jews.

One notices the similarities in the manner in which Jews were vilified by Goebbels and what the ‘Liberals’ are doing today to Hindus, and it is difficult to escape a distinct chill that runs down one’s spine.

The Liberals not only are using children to further their propaganda against Hindus, but they also seem to be, knowingly or just by virtue of natural hate, following the Goebbels principles of propaganda to the letter.

Goebbels principles say that ‘Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion’. The ‘Liberals’ had that in abundance for decades and hence we saw the constant, subliminal vilification of India. However, after PM Modi took over, the “access” dried up as did the avenues to manipulate data. In such a scenario, the “liberals” seem to have taken to creating or faking their “access” to intelligence concerning public opinion. They fake ‘Hate Crime trackers’ that are then considered the gospel truth to prove that Hindus are becoming terrorists and torturing Muslims.

Another interesting principle of Goebbels was that “propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium”. In modern-day, Twitter and Leftist portals like The Wire are probably the best ‘attention-getting communications medium’ and stories that use children as tools to further their hate against Hindus is bound to evoke not only interest but outrage. Who would want a child being victimised, after all?

Here is what Goebbels said further:

Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.

  • They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
  • They must be capable of being easily learned
  • They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
  • They must be boomerang-proof

The ‘bigot-baby-secular-baby’ story seems to follow all of the propaganda tenets that Goebbels used to demonise the Jews. Hindus are essentially non-confrontational and would naturally express disgust at children being targeted for their religion without tearing through the veil of propaganda. The underlying message of these stories are rather simple – Hindu children are learning to demonise Muslim children. The words used in these stories are simple and easy to relate to. While the media goes on and on about ‘Beef politics’ and ‘NRC’, the stories peddle the same narrative and label all Hindus anti-Muslims and soon, the mere support for the Hindu core cause of cow-protection or the national interest cause for deporting illegal Muslim immigrants labels one ‘anti-Muslim’ without the merits of the cause being discussed at all. And, of course, the bigot-baby-secular-baby stories are repeated in various forms as is evidenced.

The most dangerous Goebbels propaganda principle that these stories seem to follow, however, is the following:

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

This principle essentially says that the propaganda must be crafted as such, that the aggression among the people must be directed to specific targets for hatred. What the ‘bigot-baby-secular-baby’ story does, is just that. it gives the Muslim population of the country, which has been fed the false victimhood pill a target to displace their hatred – the Hindus.

What Muslim parent would not be enraged by these stories? What Muslim mother would not want retribution from Hindus for their children, evidently being demonised for their faith? Even if this has not happened to their own children, would Muslims not feel further victimised by these false stories? And given how sections of the Muslim community have often “expressed” their hatred, how does one think the Muslim community would react? By writing op-eds? Or by indulging in senseless violence?

Essentially, these stories paint a target on the back of Hindus and more dangerously, Hindus children, much like Goebbels painted a target on the back of Jews right before the Holocaust that resulted in the mindless and systematic murder of Jews in Nazi Germany. The only difference here is probably that in Germany, it was the then government that sanctioned the genocide, while here, it is the Liberal establishment that is baying for blood and playing the role of Goebbels in the Nazi-esque Liberal ecosystem that rather see Hindus murdered and maimed than see power slip away from their hands as Modi continues to reign.

Honour killing in UP: Brother Sannawar kills his 20-year old sister Shabina for marrying against her family’s wishes

A 20-year-old girl, who came to meet her family members for the first time after eloping with her lover, was shot dead by her brother for marrying against the wishes of her family. According to the reports, the family was quietly preparing for the girl’s funeral when the police caught wind of the incident.

The case pertains to the Kawal village in Muzaffarnagar district where Shabina, who married Shahvaz against the wishes of her family three months ago and was living with him in Sujru village had come to visit her family first time since her marriage. The family had severed their ties with Shabina after she went ahead to marry a person despite their stern opposition.

After 3 months Shabina returned to her family in an attempt to placate them. However, still smarting from his sister’s audacity, Shabina’s brother Sannawar got indulged in an ugly spat with her. The altercation climaxed with Sannawar killing his sister Shabina by shooting her dead.

Following the incident, the police, as a precautionary measure, tightened the security of the village. A case has been filed against suspect Sanawwar, who is currently on the lam while the girl’s body has been sent for post-mortem.

A year after the Amritsar train tragedy, family members of victims stage protest, demand justice from Punjab government

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A year since the horrific train tragedy in Amritsar on the occasion of Dussehra, the family members of the victims perished and injured in the incident carried out a protest march to mark the first anniversary of the dreadful incident which had left 60 dead and scores of others injured.


The protest saw participation from hundreds of demonstrators who demanded justice and raised slogans against Captain Amarinder Singh-led Congress government in Punjab. Slogans were raised against Navjot Sishu and his wife Navjot Kaur too.

One of the protestors, Deepak Kumar told ANI that even after a year since the tragedy, justice remains elusive. He said, “We are going to sit on protest on the railway tracks. We had traversed several offices the entire year demanding justice but justice is still pending.”

Another protesting individual said, “Nobody is listening to our demands so we are going towards the railway station. That tragedy took away our brothers and sisters and so we are going where they lost their lives. We will leave no stone unturned to attract the attention of this government towards us. We will also spill the milk if it will be needed.”

Dussehra last year was marred by a tragic accident in Amritsar where dozens of people were mowed down while they were watching the Ravan Dahan. As people were glued to the Dussehra celebrations, a speeding Jalandhar-Amritsar DMU ran over hundreds of people standing on the railway tracks who had gathered to watch the Ravan Dahan near the Jora Phatak area in Amritsar.

Navjot Kaur, the wife of Congress politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, was the chief guest at the event, and it was alleged that she escaped from the scene just after the incident. Moreover, the organiser of the event was Saurabh Madaan Mitthu, son of local congress councillor Vijay Madaan who reportedly belongs to the Sidhu camp and the organisers of the events were heard boasting about people standing on the railway tracks to watch the celebrations.

Soon after the incident, Navjot Singh Sidhu came out in defence of his wife, pinning the entire blame of the tragedy on the railways. Many media persons and portals had also tried to blame the railways for the tragedy, but The railways had stated that it was not responsible. The railway authorities had clarified that trespassing on train tracks is not allowed and the driver could not have applied brakes within such a short distance.