Why settle for supporting one Communist dictator, when you can support all of them?


	Fresh off appeasing China and Maduro's Venezuela, the Biden junta is turning its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/05/17/biden-reverses-trump-policies-on-cuba/">attention to Cuba</a>.

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		On Monday, the Biden administration announced a series of measures they believe will “increase support for the Cuban people and safeguard our national security interests.”
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	Or just the opposite. This allows moving more money into Cuba. That bails out the Communist regime. Again.

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		Within minutes of the announcement, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, a democrat, criticized the Biden administration for the changes.

	
		“I am dismayed to learn the Biden administration will begin authorizing group travel to Cuba through visits akin to tourism. To be clear, those who still believe that increasing travel will breed democracy in Cuba are simply in a state of denial,” Menendez said.

	
		“For decades, the world has been traveling to Cuba and nothing has changed. For years, the United States foolishly eased travel restrictions arguing millions of American dollars would bring about freedom and nothing changed. And as I warned then, the regime ultimately laughed off any promises of loosening its iron grip on the Cuban people and we ended up helping fund the machinery behind their continued oppression,” he added.
</blockquote>


	There's nothing foolish about it.


	The Left doesn't want Cuba to become democratic. It just pretends to use this as a rationale to justify enabling the Communist dictatorship. And restoring tourism allows its lefty base to enjoy partaking of the fruits of socialism.


	<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2019/06/bernie-women-fantasize-about-rape-sanders-backs-daniel-greenfield/">Child sex trafficking</a>.

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		Foreign tourists, especially Canadians and Spaniards, are traveling to Cuba in surprising numbers for sex – and not just with adult prostitutes. They are finding underage girls and boys, a joint investigation by The Toronto Star and El Nuevo Herald has found.

	
		Havana’s conspicuous scenes of street-level prostitution are the outward face of a hidden prostitution trade in minors, some as young as 4, some with families complicit in their exploitation, the newspapers found.
</blockquote>


	There's a reason they're grooming&nbsp;kids in this country. It's just what socialists do.


	Senate and House members, both Cuban and non-Cuban, <a href="https://mariodiazbalart.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/president-bidens-unilateral-concessions-are-betrayal-cubas-democratic">blasted Biden's move</a>.

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		WASHINGTON, D.C.–&nbsp;Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25), Michael McCaul (TX-10), Mark Green (TN-7), Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27), and Carlos A. Gimenez (FL-26), along with Senators James Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), issued the following statement on the Biden Administration's recent announcement providing concessions to the brutal Cuban dictatorship.

	
		"During Cuba’s historic anti-regime protests last year, President Biden said&nbsp;'[t]he United States stands with the brave Cubans who have taken to the streets to oppose 62 years of repression under a communist regime.' "Yet today, while hundreds of activists remain unlawfully imprisoned, the White House is resurrecting President Obama’s failed policy of unilateral concessions&nbsp;to the Castro/Díaz-Canel criminal dictatorship. Rather than supporting their pleas for freedom by expanding democracy programming, broadcasting, global diplomacy, and sanctions against their oppressors, the&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;White House is rewarding the Western Hemisphere’s longest-ruling communist dictatorship with high-level talks, easing sanctions, increased travel, and access to U.S. financial institutions. Appeasing Cuba’s murderous regime does not comply with the statutory requirements in U.S. law and undercuts America’s support for Cuba’s democratic opposition.

	
		"The Biden Administration’s repeated&nbsp;appeasement&nbsp;to&nbsp;the Cuban dictatorship is a betrayal of America’s commitment to human rights and freedom, and to the longsuffering Cuban people who are struggling for a genuine democratic transition."
</blockquote>


	That won't stop Biden, who has abandoned any hope of winning the votes of people who don't like him, and is focused on turning out the radical base.


	&nbsp;

Biden Makes It Easier to Move Money Into Communist Cuba

Why settle for supporting one Communist dictator, when you can support all of them?


	Fresh off appeasing China and Maduro's Venezuela, the Biden junta is

Biden Makes It Easier to Move Money Into Communist Cuba

If you thought bread prices were already high, they're about <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/16/us-europe-to-improve-food-chains-after-india-bans-wheat-exports.html">to go higher</a>.

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		The United States and the European Union are looking at how to improve food supply chains with export restrictions from India and other nations accentuating global problems, the EU’s trade chief told CNBC.

	
		G-7 foreign ministers warned over the weekend that the war in Ukraine is increasing the risk of a global hunger crisis. This is because Ukraine has been unable to export grains, fertilizers and vegetable oil, while the conflict is also destroying crop fields and preventing a normal planting season.

	
		This has increased the reliance on nations from other parts of the world for these products. But some of these countries, concerned about supplies for their own citizens, have imposed restrictions on exports. This is the case in India, for example, which announced Saturday a ban on wheat sales “to manage the overall food security of the country.”
</blockquote>


	When people can't get bread, then the riots begin. The Arab Spring was fueled in no small part by wheat prices. Any regime that values its own stability is going to do its best to secure a supply of wheat and gasoline for its own domestic use. Think of it as hoarding on a global scale.&nbsp;


	Countries are cutting off food exports to protect their own political survival. All of this is doing interesting things to global markets and the consequences won't be pretty.

The Wheat Crisis is Getting Worse

If you thought bread prices were already high, they're about to go higher.


	
		The United States and the European Union are looking at how to improve

The Wheat Crisis is Getting Worse

In entirely coincidental news, the FDA has reached a deal to create a pathway to reopen the baby formula plant at the center of the formula crisis just as public outrage over the shortages went viral and entered mainstream public discourse.


	Coincidence? <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fda-abbott-agree-plan-resume-production-infant-formula/story?id=84756500">I'm sure</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		In a move to ease a nationwide shortage of infant formula, the Food and Drug Administration on Monday said it has agreed with Abbott Nutrition on a plan to reopen the company’s manufacturing plant in Sturgis, Michigan, after it was shut down following the discovery of a deadly bacteria inside.
</blockquote>


	How long would the bureaucrats have dragged this out if angry parents hadn't broken through? I don't know, but I strongly suspect there wouldn't be a deal right now.


	Now the backstory is that the shutdown was not unreasonable. Babies fell sick and Abbott was accused of mishandling safety at the plant. But the FDA was also accused of ignoring the obvious.


	Both Abbott and the FDA have been arguing about guilt.

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		Abbott maintains that there is still no conclusive evidence linking its formula to four infant illnesses, which included two deaths.

	
		"The infants consumed four different types of our formula made over the course of nearly a year and the illnesses took place over several months in three different states," Abbott tweeted last week. "The formula from this plant did not cause these infant illnesses."

	
		FDA officials on Monday, however, cautioned against any conclusions in the cases and said the investigation remains ongoing. They noted in particular that genetic sequencing of bacteria was only provided in two of the four cases and that more work needs to be done to rule out the causes.
</blockquote>


	And that's after months on the job.


	Abbott is likely more worried about getting sued and reputational damage that it's willing to take the lesser financial hit on the plant. The FDA cares even less. Finally outraged parents ended the game of chicken.

<blockquote>
	
		Officials cautioned it might still take weeks before many parents see more infant formula on shelves, either from the Sturgis facility or from foreign suppliers. But the two developments were hopeful signs the crisis would resolve.
</blockquote>


	It'll take quite a while for things to return to normal, whatever that may even be in this economy.


	&nbsp;

Would the FDA be Moving to Reopen Baby Formula Plant Without Public Outrage?

In entirely coincidental news, the FDA has reached a deal to create a pathway to reopen the baby formula plant at the center of the formula crisis just as

Would the FDA be Moving to Reopen Baby Formula Plant Without Public Outrage?

I'll quote the opening premise and spare you the rest of this because in the entire Politico interview, no one seems to understand what conservative comedy is or why <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/13/liberals-should-worry-conservative-comedy-00031907">leftist comedy is failing</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		For the past three years, Matt Sienkiewicz, an associate professor of communication and international studies at Boston College, and Nick Marx, an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University, have immersed themselves in the world of conservative comedy. The findings of their inquiry, which they detail in their new book,&nbsp;That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them, might come as a surprise to devotees of the Daily Show: Conservative humorists aren’t merely catching up to their liberal counterparts in terms of reach and popularity. They’ve already caught them — and, in some cases, surpassed them, even as the liberal mainstream has continued to write conservative comedy off as a contradiction in terms.
</blockquote>


	Political comedy can be divided into establishment and anti-establishment.


	Stewart, Colbert and the rest of the gang who defined the entertainment news complex got their start during the Bush years pretending to be anti-establishment. And then they faded into boring hacks during the Obama years with a mission of being establishment comedians attacking opponents of the regime. After four years of excitement brought on by attacking Trump, the establishment is back to the usual lefty trick of trying to seem anti-establishment by wrapping itself in borrowed victimhood, abortion, BLM, illegal migrants, etc... so that they would seem like they were fighting the power rather than being the power.


	Butt his game is lame. Attacking Mitch McConnell with talking points from the DNC or ranting about the issue of the week when your guy is in power is lame.&nbsp;


	And establishment comedy is inherently lame.


	Conservative comedy became anti-establishment comedy. And while it still needs plenty of work, it gets its laughs from mocking the abuses of lefties.&nbsp;


	It's no coincidence that conservative comedy began rising even as lefty censoriousness took off. The two are closely interrelated. Most conservative comedy is only&nbsp; funny within the frame of the&nbsp;lefty speech wars.&nbsp;


	Or, simply, it's only funny to the extent that an anti-establishment is tilting at an establishment.&nbsp;


	Comedy can be innately funny regardless of politics. But political comedy does depend on a power differential. This is an area where lefty metrics of "punching up" and "punching&nbsp;down" do apply, not for ethical reasons, but because a combative&nbsp;underdog is inherently funny while combative establishment is oppressive, grotesque, and difficult to cheer for. That doesn't mean that a sizable contingent won't cheer anyway. Plenty of personality cults run that way. Clapter still fills the airwaves while lefty comedians insist that inflation is a conspiracy theory Republicans made up because they hate black people. But it doesn't win over anyone who isn't already on board.


	That's the difference between tribal signaling, which bad unfunny comedy relies on, "What's the deal with those people? Aren't they dumb?" and insurgent humor, which may not be well thought out, but succeeds by creating the comical spectacle&nbsp;of an inverted power differential.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	&nbsp;

Conservative Comedy is Funny Because Conservatives are Underdogs

I'll quote the opening premise and spare you the rest of this because in the entire Politico interview, no one seems to understand what conservative comedy is

Conservative Comedy is Funny Because Conservatives are Underdogs

Mehmet "Mohammed" Oz, a Turkish&nbsp;diet guru who supports gun control and pandemic lockdowns, is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dr-oz-says-2015-tweet-should-disqualify-barnette-from-republican-primary-reprehensible">objecting </a>to a tweet by Senate candidate Kathy Barnette.

<blockquote>
	
		Days before Tuesday's Republican primary&nbsp;election&nbsp;in&nbsp;Pennsylvania, senatorial candidate Dr. Oz said during an interview Saturday that a comment made by one of his primary opponents, Kathy Barnette, should disqualify her from contention.&nbsp;

	
		The remark concerns a tweet from 2015 when Barnette said "pedophilia" was a fundamental tenet of the Islamic religion.

	
		Oz. is hoping to become the state’s first Muslim senator and said the comment should be "disqualifying" as it attacks those who observe the&nbsp;religion.

	
		"It’s reprehensible that she would tweet out something that is defamatory to an entire religion," Oz said in an interview with the Associated Press Saturday, just days before the Republican primary in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
</blockquote>


	Certainly in a Muslim country, she could be beheaded. Or, like another Christian woman in Nigeria, stoned and then burned to death.


	In Mehmet's Turkey, where he is a citizen and recently voted, blasphemy is a crime that can lead to prison time.


	But America isn't under Islamic Sharia rule. Yet.&nbsp;


	Still, let's address the question of whether pedophilia is as fundamental to Islam as it is to wokeness. Mohammed Oz fails to discuss it, simply fuming that it is "reprehensible" and "defamatory".&nbsp;


	Obviously, the best defense against such charges is truth.


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	Here's a<a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/islamic-law-girls-can-be-married-even-cradle-raymond-ibrahim/"> little contemporary background</a> on Islamic religious authorities from Raymond Ibrahim.

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		Back in 2011, for example, Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, issued a fatwa&nbsp;asserting&nbsp;that there is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”

	
		The grand point of the Saudi fatwa, however, is not that girls as young as nine can be married, based on Muhammad’s example, but rather that there is no age limit whatsoever.&nbsp; The only question open to consideration is whether the girl is physically capable of handling her “husband.”&nbsp; Fawzan documented this point by quoting&nbsp;Ibn Battal’s authoritative exegesis of&nbsp;Sahih Bukhari:

	
		The ulema [Islam’s scholars and interpreters] have agreed that it is permissible for fathers to marry off their small daughters, even if they are in the cradle.&nbsp; But it is not permissible for their husbands to have sex with them unless they are capable of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of the men.&nbsp; And their capability in this regard varies based on their nature and capacity.&nbsp; Aisha was six when she married the prophet, but he had sex with her when she was nine [that is, when she was deemed capable].
</blockquote>


	But just because Islam legalizes pedophilia, doesn't mean that it's a cornerstone or fundamental. Does it?


	Let's go back to Mohammed's original rape of Aisha.


	In,<a href="https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2010/12/islam-was-born-out-of-child-abuse-and.html"> "Islam Was Born Out of Child Abuse and Rape"</a>, I described that as the original sin that served as the power base for Islam.

<blockquote>
	
		Islam is the only major world religion where child marriage has the religious sanction of its prophet. Mohammed 'married' Aisha, his most notable wife,&nbsp;when she was six years old. The marriage was consummated when she was nine or ten at the latest. Like so many marriages, it was the product of an alliance between her father and Mohammed. Aisha's merchant father was Mohammed's first ally outside his family and went on to be Mohammed's successor. That alliance was sealed with the sexual abuse of his little girl. 
		 
		Such arrangements are still common in the Muslim world today, where little girls are treated as gifts to seal an alliance. 
		 
		Islam was born out of the brutal rape of a little girl. As the mother of the Sunni Caliphate, Aisha is not just an incidental figure. Her marriage to Mohammed lies at the heart of Islam. The alliance between her father and her abuser made Islam viable by giving its prophet his first real power base. After Mohammed's death, her father used that connection to the Chief Prophet of Islam, to gain the political upper hand over Mohammed's son-in-law in the civil war that arose afterward. And it was her father who oversaw the codification of the Koran in its written form. 
		 
		The spread of the Islamic faith and the codification of the Koran were made possible only through the rape of a little girl. And there is no way around that. This is why child abuse remains a permanent part of Islam. To disavow it, is to disavow Islam's Prophet and his successor, whom Sunni Islam associates with the codification of their religion's holiest book. Muslims cannot tolerate gently mocking cartoons of their prophet. They certainly are not about to put him aside so that no more 9-year-old girls get raped.
</blockquote>


	So yes, pedophilia is a cornerstone of Islam.&nbsp;


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Fact Check: Pedophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam

Mehmet "Mohammed" Oz, a Turkish&nbsp;diet guru who supports gun control and pandemic lockdowns, is objecting to a tweet by Senate candidate Kathy Barnette

Fact Check: Pedophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam

The world can now breathe a sigh of relief that the holy month of Ramadan is finally over. In recent years, the world has witnessed a surge in the intensity and frequency of Islamic jihad violence during this “holy month.” The pattern was no different this year; if anything, there have been more instances of recorded Islamic violence than the previous years.&nbsp;


	Ramadan started on April 2 this year, coinciding with the first day of the Hindu New Year, celebrated in India. In the Indian state of Rajasthan, Muslim crowds unleashed a planned attack on the Hindus’ procession. The procession was attacked by bikers when it passed through a “Muslim area” in Karauli. The Muslims had placed stones, brickbats, and petrol bombs on their rooftops, and began throwing them at the Hindus at first sight of their procession. What started with a hail of stones culminated in arson attacks, as well as the vandalizing of Hindu ships, and the burning of bicycles.&nbsp;


	On April 3, Ahmed Murtaza, a chemical engineer, tried to enter a Hindu temple in Gorakhnath; he screamed “Allahu akbar” while wielding a machete. Though the police arrested him before he could cause any significant harm, he succeeded in injuring two cops in the brawl. Investigations revealed that Abbasi was a terrorist-in-the-making; he was committed to the ideology of the Islamic State and had used various social media platforms to establish contacts with ISIS terrorists.&nbsp;


	After this rocking – quite literally – start to the “holy month of peace,” Muslim forces in all corners of the globe took to innovative ways of continuing their legacy of violence.&nbsp;


	On April 7, Raad Hazem, a 28-year-old Palestinian gunman, opened fire in a crowded bar in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing three and wounding ten more. The police gunned him down near a mosque on Jaffa the next day.&nbsp;


	Synchronized mobs of Muslims attacked Hindus in seven Indian states on the occasion of the Hindu Ram Navami festival on April 10. The modus operandi of these attacks was similar to the onslaught of April 2.


	The following day, Muslim youths in Spain tried to block an Easter procession, as they believed that the Holy Week procession was wrong and offensive. Some in the Muslim community seem to harbor a detestation for processions of non-Muslims anywhere, be it the Hindus in India or Christians in Spain.&nbsp;


	Another shared virtue of some Muslims worldwide is their penchant for collecting stones and hurling them at the “kaffirs.” Taking a cue from their coreligionists in India, Palestinians sheltered in the Al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem began throwing stones at Israeli forces on Friday, April 15. There was no respite for the Israeli police during this time. They had to go into action against Muslims again in less than 48 hours when Palestinians started throwing stones to block Jewish visitors from the Temple Mount on April 17.&nbsp;


	The stone-throwing in Israel took place just a day after Muslim mobs in Delhi, India, attacked Hindus again in the familiar and tested fashion when the Hindus began a procession for Hanuman Janmostav. Interestingly, reports suggest that the Muslims who attacked the Hindus in the nation’s capital were illegal Bangladeshi immigrants who entered India over the porous Indo-Bangladesh border. Right about this time, Muslims in Sweden decided to go on a rampage after hearing that so-called far-right activists were planning to burn copies of the Quran. This led to violent clashes between the Police and the mob.&nbsp;


	It’s not just the kaffirs that have to bear the brunt of Islamic jihad. This ideology is plagued with sectarianism; Muslims don’t go easy on the “other” kind of Muslims, either. Infighting is common among the different schools of Islam. On April 5, Abdullatif Moradi, a 21-year-old Muslim youth from Uzbekistan who illegally entered Iran in 2021 from the Pakistan border, reached the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, and stabbed two Shia clerics to death. His plan was to take down three, but he could only manage to injure the third one severely before being arrested along with his six other accomplices. He was identified as a “takfiri,” a Muslim who believed other Muslims were not truly Muslim, and&nbsp;who believed that Shia Muslims were heretics whose blood should be spilled.


	The blasts that rocked the Abdul Rahim Shahid High School area on the 19th, in a Shia-dominated part of Kabul, Afghanistan, were another instance of Muslim-on-Muslim violence. Afghanistan kept trembling under the absolute rule of Sharia as one bomb after another exploded through the remaining days of Ramadan. Deafening explosions ripped through the Kunduz mosque, killing over 39 and injuring 43 Muslims who had gathered to offer Friday prayers on April 22.


	Things weren’t peaceful in the neighboring country either. On April 26, a 31-year-old Muslim Balochi woman, a mother of 2, blew herself up in Karachi, Pakistani, to support the Balochi freedom movement. Three Chinese nationals became victims in the ongoing conflict between Pakistan and the Balochis. The suicide bomber, a primary school teacher by profession, was convinced that disappearing in a ball of fire was more important than educating children in a crisis-stricken country.&nbsp;


	These incidents, steeped in the blood of the innocent people, corroborate the fact that regardless of geography, languages spoken, education, and profession, the philosophy of the jihadi mind remains constant and adamant in its pursuit of the blessings of Allah.&nbsp;

The Holy Month and the Pursuit of Jihad

The world can now breathe a sigh of relief that the holy month of Ramadan is finally over. In recent years, the world has witnessed a surge in the intensity

The image is one of valor and courage, and deserves to win awards. But it does not suit the propaganda of perennial Muslim victimhood that the biggest names in global media promulgate. It also shatters the fake narrative they have peddled for years. It is an image of an Indian policeman who ran through burning buildings to rescue an infant from Islamic rage. This kind of photo makes liberal media platforms uncomfortable.


	On April 2, disputes broke out in Karauli, Rajasthan. Hindus were celebrating the Hindu New Year, and had organized a celebratory motorbike rally. While the bikers were passing through a Muslim-dominated area in Karauli, they were ambushed by rioting mobs who had prepared to display their solidarity and communal harmony by throwing stones at these Hindu motorcyclists. The mob flung rocks at these men from all directions.


	A couple of police officers were riding with the Hindus in order to provide security from known miscreants and anticipated dangers. But the Indian state of Rajasthan is ruled by the Muslim-pandering Indian National Congress, and there is only so much that security officials can do to protect the Hindus while reporting to a government that is desperate to appease the Muslim community. Often, these policemen also become victims of jihad activity.


	Around 43 people, including four police officers, reportedly <a href="https://freshgooglenews.com/internet-shutdown-in-karauli-43-injured-including-4-cops-fgn-news/">sustained</a> severe injuries after an enraged Muslim mob charged at the Hindu rally as it passed through the Muslim area. The victims were rushed to the nearest medical facility for treatment; one among these victims was Pushpendra, who was in critical condition and had to be moved to Jaipur, the state capital, for better medical attention.


	Some news reports <a href="https://www.amarujala.com/rajasthan/stone-pelting-on-bike-rally-taken-out-on-hindu-new-year-in-karauli-rajasthan?pageId=2">suggest</a> that some individuals also had knife wounds, but the administration has not confirmed these claims. The hospital staffs have also maintained a well-briefed and compliant silence on the matter.


	What started as a hail of stones quickly escalated into a massive arson attack and vandalism; dozens of shops were set ablaze, and at least three motorbikes were burned. A curfew had to be imposed in the district to bring the situation under control; mobile Internet also remains suspended.


	Police forces have been stationed in the sensitive zones surrounding the epicenter of the violence. Initially, some 600 security personnel had been deployed in Karauli, but the latest reports suggest that a force of 1,200 is now on duty in the district.


	The state chief minister took to Twitter and appealed to people to maintain peace and harmony; unfortunately, the miscreants don’t heed his pleas. These groups that were disrupting the peace have no interest in living in harmony with the “idol-worshippers.” They make deliberate attacks on their targets, and as observed in recent years, Hindu festivals top their target list — each one of them, be it Durga Puja, Ram Navami, Saraswati Puja, or a relatively less religious festival, the Hindu New Year.


	As per reports, the Muslim group known as the Popular Front of India (PFI) had <a href="https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/politics/rajasthan-police-book-cong-councilor-for-instigating-pfi-amid-communal-violence-in-karauli-articleshow.html">warned</a> the Congress government and hinted at possible violence should the procession celebrating the Hindu New Year pass through Muslim areas. On April 1, Mohammad Asif, the state president of PFI Rajasthan, wrote a letter to CM Ashok Gehlot.


	How weak and submissive must the government of this state be to take no actions against threats of violence that were made publicly, and allow 43 people to end up injured? How low does one go while groveling at the feet of a religious minority?


	If the country claims to be secular, how can Muslims claim any part of it as a Muslim-only land where non-Muslims are forbidden from entering, passing through, or celebrating their festivals? Weren’t they awarded a piece of land in 1947, where they can pulling their antics and practice their intolerance to their hearts’ content?


	Leaders of the opposition party have lambasted Rajasthan officials and slammed the Congress for its hopeless appeasement of Muslim troublemakers. However, this fails to protect the Hindus. Many Muslims continue to hound them in all states during their festivals, including even in the states that are ruled by the “pro-Hindu” BJP.


	Represented as the ever-oppressed minority, all too many Muslims in India habitually resort to unprovoked violence, create unrest, and jeopardize the lives of ordinary citizens around the year. They never run out of excuses to start a dispute. And the respective state and central governments have failed to curb this burgeoning jihad activity, or the flourishing of pro-jihad groups that are quite active despite being banned on paper.

India: Policeman Rescues Infant From Flames After Muslim Mob Attacks Hindus Celebrating Hindu New Year

The image is one of valor and courage, and deserves to win awards. But it does not suit the propaganda of perennial Muslim victimhood that the biggest names in

A Bangladeshi social media sensation in a recent&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DreamerManjuAhmed/posts/1708704762854109">interview</a>&nbsp;exposed the extent of online hate, bigotry, abuse and chilling threats from Muslims she had to endure, all because of her religious identity. Hundreds of people not only used unspeakable profanity against her and her family, but also the Gods she prayed to. Some even left threats describing how they would molest her. The virtual terror unleashed upon her not only wrecked her mental wellbeing, but made her second guess every aspect of her identity and life in Bangladesh. Is it a sin to be born as a Hindu in Bangladesh? She recounts that she couldn’t sleep for days.


	While speaking with Manju Ahmad, anchor of a Bangladeshi talk show, the celebrated TikToker Samonty Shoumi stated that she had posted a video of herself at the Durga Puja Pandal on the seventh day of Durga Puja this year. In response, Muslims, who had so far been unaware of her religious background, hurled unimaginable abuse at her, including: “You are a sub-human”; “You Hindu whore”; “F*ck you and f*ck your fake idol-worshipping religion”; “Dirty Hindu maid,” and so on. There were choicest of obscenities, very descriptive ones, for the Hindu Goddess Durga as well. While most of the expletives were beeped out on the show, we have tried to provide the closest possible translations of the Bengali slang. Apart from these, in numerous comments people said that they were unfollowing her upon learning that she was a Hindu. Muslims, irrespective of gender or age, tagged each other, directing people in their network to unfollow her because she was a Hindu. Samonty further revealed that around a thousand people unfollowed her that day.


	In response to the Islamic attack, Samonty said that she was raised in Bangladesh, but it never occurred to her that she didn’t belong there; she has, however, now been introduced to the jihadi side of the society of which she is a part. Looking into the camera, she asserted that she took extreme pride in the family she was born into and the religion she belonged to. She emphasized that it was not Hindus who carried explosives onto a plane, and pointed out that the recent attacks on the Hindus were carried out for alleged blasphemy against Islam, though everyone knows now who is the real culprit was (a Muslim man, Iqbal Hossain, placed a Quran at a Durga Puja pavilion, triggering an anti-Hindu pogrom in Bangladesh).


	Samonty is not the first Bangladeshi celebrity to be harassed for not being a Muslim. All hell broke loose when National Award-winning actor Chanchal Chowdhury posted a picture of him with his mother on Mother’s Day this year. As he has a religiously ambiguous name, most people had no idea he was a Hindu. However, the bright vermillion on his mother’s hair partition (a sign of matrimony worn by Hindu women) gave away his religious affiliation. Rabid religious fanatics&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tbsnews.net/feature/panorama/why-chanchal-chowdhurys-comment-box-needs-our-attention-244456">came out of the virtual</a>&nbsp;woodwork to spew vitriol against him and hurl revolting epithets at his mother. Some suggested that he must convert to Islam, while others explained how every human being is born a Muslim, but goes astray after he starts worshipping idols.


	Things are not very different either for Hindu sportsmen in Bangladesh. A couple of years ago, Hindu cricketer Liton Das&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailystar.net/sports/cricketer-liton-das%E2%80%99-puja-greetings-draw-hate-comments-160513">drew massive hate</a>&nbsp;for being a Hindu after he shared good wishes for Durga Puja on social media. Some Bangladeshi Muslims can get remarkably creative with their slurs. One Md Metun stated that the status of the Hindu goddess Durga was lower than that of a strand of a fur on a dog’s paw in a Muslim’s home (domesticating dogs is&nbsp;haram&nbsp;in Islam). Liton was compelled to concede and take down the picture featuring good wishes for Durga Puja.


	Interestingly, in portraying itself as a sad, hapless, underprivileged South Asian country struggling with lack of educational and medical infrastructure, Bangladesh has received&nbsp;<a href="https://bangladesh.un.org/">massive grants</a>&nbsp;from international welfare bodies. But beyond that pity-arousing surface, Bangladesh is home to hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have no interest in the growth of their country. Their efforts are all directed toward hating non-Muslims, forming massive mobs and ransacking Hindu villages, putting up fake stories of blasphemy by Hindus, and then attacking them. If they are not able to attack anyone physically, these religious zealots quench their fanaticism by hounding non-Muslims online. It is funny because just a couple of forefathers ago, this entire demography was a Hindu civilization converted to Islam through the application of force or fear, by some Muslim invader or the other from across Asia.

A Sin to be Born Hindu in Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi social media sensation in a recent&nbsp;interview&nbsp;exposed the extent of online hate, bigotry, abuse and chilling threats from Muslims she

A man and a woman in Indonesia’s Banda Aceh city, on Wednesday, November 10, were <a href="https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/world/woman-partner-caned-over-extramarital-affair-in-indonesia-1636633839">given</a> 17 lashes publicly for having an extramarital affair, which is a moral offense as per Sharia, which is enforced in the city. The man and the woman were individually brought into the area, which is features a gallery with rows of seats arranged to accommodate an audience that can witness this punishment. The accused were made to bow and then taken to a red carpet for the execution of the punishment. The Algojo, a Sharia police officer designated to carry out corporal punishments, dressed from head to toe in a brown robe with a white stripe running across it, with just two holes for his eyes, chose from three canes provided to strike the offenders.


	The audience in the gallery was recording the punishment session. The woman was covered in a while burqa and wore a face mask for Covid-19 protocols. However, she dropped on the floor after being struck a few times, and was attended by the policemen and women standing nearby. The man, on the other hand, stood straight looking at the audience during his turn.


	Though flogging is not an accepted means of punishment in Indonesia, it is still practiced widely and routinely in the ultra-conservative province Aceh; Banda Aceh is the capital city of Aceh. The province had been suffering from a separatist insurgency for many years. To quell the political unrest, the central government of Indonesia in 2001 granted Aceh provincial status. It was during this time that Aceh adopted the Islamic law of Sharia as the governing law of the province. Sharia would be implemented for any “crime” for which there was no provision in the secular penal code, for actions that went against the rules of Islam.


	Any moral offense, such as like homosexuality, gambling, drinking alcohol, closeness between people of the opposite gender if not related or married, or public display of affection is eligible to be tried under Sharia.


	Though in 2018, the Aceh Provincial Government in Indonesia <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-23/resistance-to-aceh-decision-to-make-flogging-less-public/9688120">decided</a> to cease public flogging and both men and women sentenced to flogging would receive their punishment within the four walls of a prison, flogging in full public view continues to be practiced, and people gather to witness this brutality with great enthusiasm as well.


	One may or may not be guilty of the “crime” of which one is accused; if the Sharia police decide that one has crossed the line, one has done so. Unfortunately, this is applied even to the non-Muslims in the state. Regardless of how much religious independence Muslims in Christian, Buddhist or secular countries enjoy, and how many special privileges they demand in non-Islamic lands, if a non-Muslim is in an Islamic land, he must abide by Islamic ways.


	And that is why two Christian men were <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9236113/Two-Christians-publicly-flogged-Indonesia-drinking-gambling.html">publicly flogged</a> 40 times each for flouting the Sharia by consuming alcohol in February 2021. In fact, Aceh has publicly canned several “defaulters” in 2021, despite the government’s resolution against this act. In January, two gay men, aged 27 and 29, were given 77 lashes each after being caught indulging in homosexual activities. This was a rather lenient penalty, as a gay couple had been sentenced to 83 lashes each in May 2018, and another couple had endured 87 lashes individually just a couple of months later. Same-sex couples may be punished with up to 100 lashes each, as per the law of this land.


	What else can award you lashed? Hugging. Two teens caught <a href="https://www.siasat.com/indonesia-teens-publicly-caned-hugging-each-other-public-1463093/#:~:text=Aceh%3A%20A%20girl%20and%20her,strict%20interpretation%20of%20Sharia%20law.">hugging</a> in public were given 17 lashes each for this “offense,” right outside a mosque, with a hundred-strong audience enjoying the spectacle.


	The Aceh administration has zero tolerance for “inappropriate behavior.” Hence, the province administration in August 2018 issued a circular informing its residents that unmarried men and women who are not close relatives will be prohibited from sitting at the same table at restaurants, cafes, and other public dining facilities, as that is “<a href="https://apnews.com/article/b1c5c9089bf14099b47bfcde32a90e0c">sinful according to Shariah law.</a>” Facility owners were also apprised of the new law.


	This law came into effect months after a young woman and her boyfriend were found to be too close in public, which according to Sharia, is a sign of premarital sex. Both were caned 20 times in front of a cheering audience. Such canings are very common in Aceh, as one can never know exactly how close is too close and comparable to sex.


	Also, an unfounded allegation of being involved in prostitution can land a woman in front of a sadistic audience cheering as she gets whipped. Men can be subjected to public lashes for reasons as trivial as missing the special Islamic prayers on Friday.


	To a reader reading outside Aceh, this may appear inhumane, something from the Middle Ages. Indonesia’s President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has also called for outlawing the practice of caning. However, this is what the people of Aceh like to be see, so this practice is here to stay.


	<a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/11/indonesia-couple-flogged-publicly-for-extramarital-affair-in-sharia-compliant-aceh-province">Originally published at Jihad Watch.</a>

Couple Flogged Publicly for Extramarital Affair in Sharia-Compliant Indonesia

A man and a woman in Indonesia’s Banda Aceh city, on Wednesday, November 10, were given 17 lashes publicly for having an extramarital affair, which is a moral

A 17-year-old Hindu girl, Dipti Rani Das, a resident of Dinajpur’s Parbatipur Upazila, has been in a jail in Bangladesh for over a year for <a href="https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/dsa-case-over-facebook-post-price-too-steep-minor-girl-2208806">allegedly</a> insulting the Quran in a Facebook post. She has been denied bail 4 times.


	It is the same old story that has been done to death in the South Asian Islamic nation: a rumor begins spreading about a Hindu committing “blasphemy” and “hurting the Muslim feelings,” and the Hindu quickly finds himself or herself in hot water. The story of Dipti Rani Das is just one among hundreds of such cases, but it needs to be told and widely known, because a minor girl’s future is at stake. What’s worse? No one is talking about this.


	About a year ago, Dipti, a 10th grader, informed her father that her Facebook account had been hacked. Shortly after that, a rumor began circulating that she had posted some objectionable posts concerning the Quran. Furious Muslims gathered at her house. Dipti’s father, Dilip Das, a hardware trader, reprimanded his daughter in front of the crowd and apologized to the Muslims. Muslim mobs also gathered around his hardware shop, intending to destroy it, but local traders stood up in Das’s defence and convinced the mob that Das was born and brought up in the area and had been respectful of the Muslims and Islam all his life.


	Through the crowd dispersed without causing any harm to the family or the shop, Dipti’s father sensed that things did not augur well for the teenager, and that it was only a matter of time before his daughter would be severely threatened. He attempted to send her to his sister’s home, but some local youths noticed her in the train. They stopped the train, dragged Dipti off it, and took her to the Parbatipur police station, where a formal complaint was lodged against the minor.


	The First Information Report registered against Dipti read that she had committed “the crime of deteriorating the law and order situation by hurting religious sentiments using electronic means.” She was booked under the Digital Security Act 2018 and has been in the juvenile correction centre since, without her crime being proven in a court of law.


	During this year, Dipti’s bail plea has been rejected four times; the fourth rejection was given by the highest court of Bangladesh. She was almost released from the detention centre in May, as the High Court had approved her bail on May 11. But the District Deputy Commissioner raised objections and submitted an appeal to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, pursuing a stay on the bail.


	“The interim order of bail granted by the High Court Division in a pending appeal clearly shows non-application of judicial mind having failed to appreciate that the accused respondent is named in the FIR having strong prima-facie and specific over an act of committing a heinous offence under section 25, section 28, section 31 of the DSA,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/dsa-case-over-facebook-post-price-too-steep-minor-girl-2208806">read</a> his appeal, emphasizing that the case is still under investigation and an interim bail granted to the accused may affect the prosecution’s case or influence the course of the investigation.


	Section 25 <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Opinion/Legislation/OL-BGD-4-2018.pdf">criminalizes</a> publishing information that is “aggressive or frightening.” Section 28 criminalizes speech that “injures religious feelings,” and section 31 criminalizes posting information online which “ruins communal harmony or creates instability or disorder or disturbs or is about to disturb the law and order situation” and speech that “creates animosity, hatred or antipathy among the various classes and communities.” These are non-bailable sections and are applicable on a minor as well. These provisions may allow for broad and irregular interpretations that may criminalize almost all forms of legitimate communication and threaten an individual’s freedom of expression — something that has happened routinely with Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan.


	The “heinous crime” highlighted in the FIR, which led to the Hindu minor’s imprisonment, was an image of the Quran placed on a woman’s thighs which was allegedly posted by her on Facebook. This image of the Quran hurt that the religious sentiments of the Muslims and apparently justified her prison time.


	Dipti was about to start eleventh grade when arrested. His mother, eyes brimming with tears, recounted how her ambitious daughter was looking forward to pursuing university education and becoming a software engineer. But the family will have to arrange for her marriage as soon as she gets out of jail (if she does at all) and send her away, as staying in the area would only make things difficult for her.


	There are no schooling facilities in the detention centre. The quality of food is poor; Dipti’s father often sends her money for snacks. The detention centre is two hours away from her home. It has been two months since her father has visited her.


	Their livelihood has suffered as well, as Muslims of the area are avoiding doing business with them after this incident. It’s just another day in the life of a hapless family from the minority community in an Islamic country, and the world doesn’t care.


	<a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/11/bangladesh-17-year-old-hindu-girl-in-jail-for-over-a-year-for-allegedly-hurting-muslim-sentiments">Originally posted at Jihad Watch</a>

Bangladesh: 17-year-old Hindu Girl in Jail for Over a Year for Allegedly Hurting Muslim Sentiments

A 17-year-old Hindu girl, Dipti Rani Das, a resident of Dinajpur’s Parbatipur Upazila, has been in a jail in Bangladesh for over a year for allegedly insulting

India’s special National Investigation Agency (NIA) has pronounced the death sentence for four jihad terrorists, Numan Ansari, Haider Ali, Imtiyaz Ansari, and Mojibullah Ansari, who belong to the Islamic jihad terror outfit SIMI and were convicted in the 2013 Patna serial bombings. The October 2013 bombings targeted an election rally of the then-candidate and present Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. Among the other convicts, Umer Siddiqui and Azharuddin have been sentenced to life imprisonment; Ahmad Hussain and Firoj Aslam to ten years imprisonment, and Ifteqaar Alam to seven years.


	Lalan Kumar Sinha, the special public prosecutor who represented the NIA in the court, disclosed that nine of the total ten accused were found guilty under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including 302 for murder. Also, sections of the Explosives Act, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, and the Railways Act were brought against the defendants. Sinha affirmed that all the convicts were members of the banned Islamic jihad outfit, Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Gurwinder Singh Malhotra, an additional district and session’s judge of the special NIA court, found the nine guilty, but had to let off a tenth suspect, Fakruddin, for lack of evidence.


	Sinha confirmed that five of these convicts had already been found guilty in the 2013 Bodh Gaya bombing case. He stated that he had demanded death sentences for all accused.


	On April 24, 2014, a combined charge sheet was submitted against one of the accused, and a supplementary charge sheet was presented against ten individuals on August 22, 2014, including minors. The Patna Juvenile Justice Board convicted one of the minor accused, while allegations against a now-deceased accused were abated.


	In its charge sheet, the NIA highlighted the fact that the suspects had developed the idea of the Patna blasts after failing to get closer to Modi during his previous rallies held in other major Indian cities and states, including New Delhi, Chhattisgarh and parts of Uttar Pradesh.


	A series of eight bomb explosions rocked Patna, the capital city of India’s eastern state of Bihar, on October 27, 2013. The areas that were the direct target of the SIMI terrorists included the Gandhi Maidan, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was holding its election rally with an estimated 300,000 participants, and the Patna Railway Junction.


	The NIA discovered that the attackers had detonated a suicide vest and tied it to a palm tree in the Ranchi’s Sithiyo area while preparing for the serial blasts. The arrest of Imtiaz, who was injured in an accidental blast at the Patna railway junction on the day of Modi’s Hunkaar rally, blew the lid off the plans. Tariq Ajam Ansari was another suspected SIMI terrorist who also died accidentally while placing a pencil battery into an IED inside a public toilet on platform at the railway station. At least three IEDs were successfully defused at the scene of the convention later.


	There were more than 89 casualties in these terror attacks, and six civilians were reported dead.


	“The original plan was to assassinate Modi through suicide bombing, but the terrorists gave up that plan after a recce showed that his fortress-like security cover would be hard to penetrate,” the special public prosecutor revealed. Narendra Modi was then the Chief Minister of Gujarat, and that he was widely detested by Islamists had long been established.


	Cases were lodged on November 1, 2013. Though no one had claimed responsibility for the jihad terror attack, investigations suggested that the Indian Mujahideen was culpable. The Indian Mujahideen is an Islamic terrorist group helmed by Abdul Subhan Qureshi, who is now under arrest by the Delhi police. It was declared a terrorist organization and banned by the Indian government in June 2010. In October 2010, New Zealand also recognized it a terrorist group, and in September 2011, the United States placed the Indian Mujahideen on its list of foreign terrorist organizations, acknowledging that it had launched multiple terrorist attacks with the ultimate aim of establishing an Islamic caliphate across South Asia. The outfit was subsequently banned by the United Kingdom for trying to create an Islamic state and implementing Sharia law in India by means of indiscriminate violence.


	Investigators believe that the Indian Mujahideen is a subsidiary of SIMI, formed by lower-tier members of SIMI. The Indian Intelligence Bureau suggests that SIMI began adopting new names after its top leaders were detained and made available for interrogation.

India: Convictions for Jihad Bombings at Modi Rally

India’s special National Investigation Agency (NIA) has pronounced the death sentence for four jihad terrorists, Numan Ansari, Haider Ali, Imtiyaz Ansari, and

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		A Muslim school principal in Lahore, Salma Tanveer, has become the latest victim of the dreaded and stringent blasphemy laws of Pakistan, and has been given the death sentence after a long trial,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1648827">reports</a>&nbsp;the Pakistani daily Dawn.

	
		Salma is not only the principal, but also the owner of a private school in Lahore. She was booked under the Pakistan Penal Code’s Section 295C in September 2013, on a complaint by Qari Iftikhar Raza, a local prayer leader, also referred to as a&nbsp;Khateeb.&nbsp;Raza, in his complaint, alleged that Tanveer had published and distributed pamphlets of her writings in the Lahore area of her residence. In the pamphlets, Salma had allegedly “denied&nbsp;khatam-e-nubuwat” (the finality of Muhammad’s prophethood), had used disparaging remarks, and also “claimed her own&nbsp;nubuwat,” that is, claimed that she herself was a prophet.

	
		Reportedly, the woman’s counsel, Mian Muhammad Ramzan, had emphasized that the magistrate concerned had ordered an examination of the accused: the main argument presented by Tanveer’s advocate was that she was of unsound mental state at the time of the incident, and pleaded with the court not to prosecute her. The defense further argued that the comparison of content from the photocopies of her pamphlets was impossible, alluding to possible alterations in the content of the alleged documents.

	
		The state prosecutors, Sadia Arif and Advocate Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, however, held that Salma’s defense had been unsuccessful in establishing his client’s inability to understand the nature of her actions at the time she wrote, printed and handed out the “blasphemous” material, and claimed before the court that the accusations against Salma has been corroborated with oral and documentary evidence.

	
		The judge observed that a report provided by the Punjab Institute of Mental Health had confirmed that the accused was fit to stand trial. After considering the statements made by the witnesses, the judge sentenced Tanveer to the death penalty, along with a fine of 50,000 Pakistani rupees ($292 US).

	
		“It is proved beyond reasonable doubt that accused Salma Tanveer wrote and distributed the writings which are derogatory in respect of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and she failed to prove that her case falls in exception provided by section 84 of PPC,” the verdict stated. Section 84, dealing with the accusation on people of unsound mind, states, “nothing is an offense which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he is doing what is either wrong or contrary to law.”

	
		“The convict Salma Tanveer is sentenced to death and fined Rs 50,000 u/s 295-C of PPC,” reads the verdict. However, it also held that capital punishment cannot be executed without the Lahore High Court’s confirmation.

	
		Though both India and Pakistan inherited Section 295A that criminalized deliberate attacks on religious sentiments from the British rule in undivided India, Pakistan added 295B and 295C to it during 1980. 295B holds defiling the Qur’an to be punishable by life imprisonment, and Section 295C advocates death penalty for defiling the name of the Prophet of Islam in any way.

	
		Section 295C has a vast capacity for misuse and exploitation, and has been regularly abused to target members of religious minorities, gain the upper hand in personal rivalries, and/or seize land or property. These laws are not dependent on solid witnesses or proof; accusations are more than enough.

	
		In cases of unproven allegations of someone having affronted Islam, a violent and bloodthirsty mob often takes charge of delivering “justice.” Back in 2020, 57-year-old Tahir Ahmad Naseem, an American citizen accused of blasphemy, was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/world/asia/pakistan-blasphemy-killing-american.html">shot dead</a>&nbsp;while he was on trial inside a courtroom. That Naseem was shot six times by a 19-year-old young man who had dodged the security system and entered the court to kill the accused even before judgement could be pronounced exposed the extent of jihadist sentiments in Pakistan’s fanatically “religious” society.

	
		Lawyers taking up the cases of the accused have also been attacked and murdered by vigilantes, thereby discouraging advocates from even attempting to defend the suspects of blasphemy. In 2014, Rashid Rehman, a prominent human rights advocate defending a professor accused of blasphemy,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-blasphemy-idUSBREA4709N20140508">was killed</a>&nbsp;in Multan by gunmen posing as prospective clients. As per&nbsp;<a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pakistan-lawyer-asia-bibi-threat-life-acquits-christian-couple-1817855-2021-06-22">reports</a>, Saif ul Mulook, the Pakistani lawyer who had helped Asia Bibi in her infamous case of blasphemy, fled Pakistan fearing a murderous attack after several posts on social media called for his execution in 2018.

	
		One cannot rule out the chances of judges being under pressure or threat, and feeling the need to award the death sentence to such suspects just to save themselves from the ire of the jihadi elements they are surrounded with.

	
		According to a 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/Pakistan.pdf">report</a>&nbsp;released by the US Commission for International Religious Freedom, there are 80 convicts charged under the blasphemy law now on death row in Pakistan.
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Pakistan: Lahore School Principal Becomes Latest Victim of Blasphemy Laws, Given Death Sentence

A Muslim school principal in Lahore, Salma Tanveer, has become the latest victim of the dreaded and stringent blasphemy laws of Pakistan, and has been given

A story of horror that should have made headlines on news portals across the world has been masterfully swept under the rug. Is this how media outlets deal from Islamic barbarity?


	The incident has been reported from Pakistan’s Sindh province. A young Hindu girl named Tamana Meghwad was allegedly abducted by a group of armed Muslims in the province and was gang-raped for over three months. They also forced Tamana to convert to Islam. There are no records of Pakistan’s administration making any arrangement to rescue this girl or extend any kind of assistance to her family to locate her. After months of assault and molestation, the girl somehow managed to escape and return to her parents.


	While the shocking incident was astutely kept quiet by Pakistan’s domestic media, Rahat Austin shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/johnaustin47/status/1437648905240412161?">video</a> of Tamana Meghwad on Twitter and presented her story to the world at large. Austin, a Christian born in Pakistan, is a human rights activist who had to flee his home country and has been staying in South Korea with his family.


	In the video, Tamana seems to be naming her perpetrators as Ghulam Rasool, Allah Baig, and Rasool Baig. She accuses them of kidnapping her, forcing themselves on her, and holding her captive for over three months. Now that she has escaped the captivity, they continue to intimidate her.


	Returning home doesn’t guarantee safety for Tamana, as now “she is a Muslim” and she must live like one, and with her kind. Muslims are constantly threatening Tamana and her family.


	Apostasy from Islam is not permissible, as per the Sharia law. Islamic law prescribes the death penalty for the crime of apostasy. Though Pakistan claims to be a republic, faith in the supremacy of the Sharia wields an enormous influence on the country’s judicial system. Hence, the toothless administration that showed itself incapable of rescuing an abducted girl continues to demonstrate its powerlessness and stands as a silent spectator while the Muslim hoodlums torment the beleaguered family from the minority community.


	Tamana was captured from the Kunri area, which is located in the Umerkot district of the Sindh province. More than 90% of Pakistan’s total Hindu demography, comprising 2-4% of Pakistan’s total population, lives in Sindh. They are mostly scattered across border districts including Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Tharparkar, Sanghar, and, Ghotki.


	Thousands of Hindu girls have been abducted from these regions; these girls either end up as sex slaves or are pushed into forced marriages after religious conversions. Hindu families in this region are economically backward, and hail from the marginalized Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe. It is easy to exploit them, and that is exactly what Pakistan is doing as a country. Bonded labor is still a thing in Pakistan, and in most cases, it is the subjugated Hindus from Sindh who are taken in as bonded laborers by feudal landlords. Shamefully, its government has not introduced any reforms to protect these families. The administration has essentially thrown them to the mercy of feudal landlords and hardline Muslims.

Pakistan: Armed Muslims Abduct, Forcibly Convert, Rape Hindu Girl for Three Months

A story of horror that should have made headlines on news portals across the world has been masterfully swept under the rug. Is this how media outlets deal

Despite their negative image in popular news platforms, the Taliban is winning support from some Muslims of India. Some are wishing for the Taliban to knock on India’s doors and establish their Islamic caliphate in India as well.


	The Indian Muslims who have openly declared their support for the Taliban are not a poor, uneducated bunch of hoodlums who can be dismissed as exceptional cases. Several Indian politicians, eminent citizens, government officials and teachers from the community have been found to be supporting the Taliban, with even more fervor recently than they had shown before, as they celebrate the group’s recent victory. Some social media accounts belonging to reputedly moderate Indian Muslims couldn’t contain their exhilaration following the return of Islamic rule in India’s northwestern neighborhood.


	In a first, the Secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), Maulana Umrain Mahfuz Rahmani, took the nation by surprise by taking to his official Twitter account to shower praises on the terror outfit for their “extraordinary success” in Afghanistan. In a tweet written in Urdu, he also <a href="https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/aimplbs-gen-secy-calls-taliban-capturing-afghan-extraordinary-success-clarifies-later.html">claimed</a> that this victory had come with the help of Allah, and that such powerful decisions are “made in Heaven and not on Earth.”


	Just days after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan; an Indian MP, Shafiqur Rahman Barq, tried to legitimize the jihadist outfit by likening them to the Indian freedom fighters who fought the British. “When India was under British rule, our country fought for freedom. Now the Taliban wants to free their country &amp; run it,” asserted the people’s representative from a local leftist political party in India. He further justified the actions of the Taliban by <a href="https://twitter.com/ANINewsUP/status/1427509501783986177">claiming</a> that the “Taliban is a force that did not allow even strong countries like Russia and America to settle in their country.”


	A Mufti of Darul-Uloom Deoband, Maulana Mufti Arshad Farooqi, who is also the chairman of Online Fatwa Department, was seen glorifying the Taliban in a now-viral video. He hailed the Taliban for ousting the “superpower” from Afghanistan and forcing Afghan forces to concede. The Maulana of Deoband also stated that there is something special about the Taliban. He may feel elated; after all, it is from this Deobandi movement that the Taliban originally drew inspiration.


	It appears as if the Taliban’s defeat of the Afghan government has sparked new hope among Islamic clerics across India. Tamil Nadu-based Maulana Shamsudeen Qasimi congratulated the outfit for their exemplary feat and <a href="https://thecommunemag.com/allah-has-given-us-this-victory-muslims-should-celebrate-talibans-rise-tn-moulana/amp/#.YR8pYizXSaI.twitter">asserted</a>, “Allah has given us this huge victory to us through the victory of Taliban. The Muslim world should celebrate this victory.” He also encouraged the Muslim brethren not to be afraid to show support to the Taliban just because some “media prostitutes” have falsely portrayed them as terrorists.


	An Islamic organization, the Popular Front of India (PFI), has <a href="https://www.reportwire.in/pfi-praises-taliban-asks-indian-government-to-start-diplomatic-relations-with-them/">hailed</a> the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, expressed confidence in their “administration,” and demanded that the Indian government initiate diplomatic ties with the jihadis. Parroting the words of Maulana Shamsudeen Qasimi, the PFI chief claims that there is a conspiracy involved in how the media depicts the Afghan jihad terror outfit.


	In addition to these eminent Muslim Indians and Islamic organizations that vocally endorsed the Taliban, pro-Taliban voices have surfaced from the state of Assam as well. On August 22, the state police <a href="https://www.insidene.com/assam-police-arrest-14-persons-pro-taliban-posts/amp/">detained</a> fourteen civilians who were mostly in their 20s for making social media posts allegedly backing the Taliban. The accused include a medical student from Tezpur Medical College, Islamic clerics, teachers, and reporters associated with reputed media groups, among others. Shockingly, a police constable, Md Fazlul Karim Qashimi, was also among these fourteen. He also served as a leader in the local Islamic political party, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF). All of them will be charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and anti-terror laws. Various other sections of the Indian penal code will also be applied.


	Some social media accounts with massive numbers of followers have also been sympathetic towards the Taliban and pounced on non-Muslims for “vilifying” the jihad group. One Instagram handle, muslim_students_of_delhi, with thousands of followers, published a string of provocative stories inciting his followers to defend the Taliban, wishing more power for the Taliban, and calling for the implementation of the Sharia across geographical boundaries, bringing about the humiliation of the non-believers. The account has since been taken down.


	A Member of India’s Parliament (MP), Rakesh Sinha has expressed his concern on the matter, stating, “There is a big chunk in India which is endorsing the activities of the militant group, whether silently or vocally.”

India: Many ‘Moderate’ Muslims Increasingly Open About Their Support For the Taliban

Despite their negative image in popular news platforms, the Taliban is winning support from some Muslims of India. Some are wishing for the Taliban to knock on

Conventional media have put all their resources into whitewashing the brutalities of the Taliban and giving them an image makeover, so as to make them acceptable to the modern world and perhaps win these mountain savages a seat at the United Nations. They tell us that Taliban 2.0 is a whole different entity and is not comparable to the Taliban that had wreaked havoc in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. After all, the Muslim group has promised to honor women rights and allow them to continue to work as usual. Little girls could receive education as well.


	We are a little confused by the Taliban’s commitment to permitting girls to go to school, because quite recently, Taliban jihadis were going door-to-door hunting down girls&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/taliban-pick-up-the-girl-you-want-over-12-years" rel="noopener" target="_blank">as young as twelve years old</a>, to take them as sex slaves. We have learned of a woman being&nbsp;<a href="https://inshorts.com/en/news/girls-lashed-by-taliban-militants-for-wearing-revealing-sandals-afghan-families-1628936117810">lashed for wearing revealing slippers</a>&nbsp;and another burka-clad woman being&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/17/taliban-kill-woman-not-wearing-burqa-after-vowing-to-honor-womens-rights/">shot dead</a>&nbsp;for not covering her face enough. And these atrocities have happened under the rule of the moderate, women’s-rights-acknowledging Taliban 2.0.


	Leaders of the Muslim outfit have clarified their views on women’s rights in the country: “The rights of women will be under the Sharia law,”&nbsp;<a href="https://in.news.yahoo.com/live-pm-modi-chairs-high-level-meeting-to-discuss-afghanistan-crisis-135445390.html">affirmed</a>&nbsp;Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, during their first press conference since conquering Kabul.


	And what are the rights granted to women by this esteemed Islamic law? Let’s look at the “rights” Afghan women enjoyed during Taliban 1.0 from 1996 to 2001; or shall we call them impositions?


	Women were not allowed to walk out of their homes without a burqa covering every inch of their skin, including their feet, hands and face. Most women during that period opted for the shuttlecock burqa that covered them from head to toe; there was a little gap for the eyes, but with a net or mesh covering the gap so that their eyes couldn’t be seen. It was mandatory for every woman to be accompanied by a male family member – a blood relative – while she was out on the street.


	No man should be able to hear the footsteps of a woman, hence, high heels or any kind of footwear that produced a sound while walking were banned from use by women.


	A woman’s voice must not reach the ears of a man who is not related to her. Hence she must watch the level of sound she was producing while talking. Would it be “Islamophobia” if we said that the Taliban had perfected the textbook version of silencing a woman?


	Again, as women were prohibited from being viewed by men who were not related to her by blood, it was mandatory that the windows of all ground floors be painted in a dark tint, covered, or shut at all times, just in case a woman passed by and became visible to a man in the ground floor.


	Also, women were barred from standing at the balconies of their houses, as that could allow men on the streets or male neighbors to catch a glimpse of them.


	The word “woman” was removed from all public places or names of public places.


	Women were precluded from having their pictures taken or being filmed. No images of women could be printed on the pages of books or newspapers, or kept at stores or in homes.


	It goes without saying that women were not allowed to be in movies or on television, or to work at radio stations. They were forbidden from forming groups outdoors or holding public gatherings.


	Women have never been allowed to work in offices under the Taliban. They cannot work as journalists, bankers, teachers, nurses, doctors or hold administrative positions, as these jobs would land them amidst male colleagues who are not related to them. Office jobs held by women were subsequently passed on to their male family members.


	Little girls were banned from going to school. Numerous schools imparting education to girls have been&nbsp;<a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/300-afghan-schools-destroyed-weeks-taliban-attack-education">bombed or burned down</a>&nbsp;by the Taliban, not only in Afghanistan, but in several countries where they have gained the slightest foothold.


	No woman under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan ever enjoyed the basic human right of speaking her mind or dressing as she liked. Women who flouted any of the above commandments were subjected to harsh, undreamed-of and ruthless punishments by the religious police. They could be stoned to death, mutilated, or given hundreds of lashes with a meter-long metal lash. Many of these women perished in the midst of receiving their penalty.


	Afghanistan in 1996 witnessed a young woman’s finger being chopped off by the Taliban; she had dared to paint her nails. A woman named Bibi Aisha was forced into a nightmarish marriage as a trade-off to settle a family dispute. When she tried to escape the violent and abusive marriage, the Taliban, to shame her for her act of disobedience and to set a warning example for the other young women in the community, severed her nose and ears.


	One must be an absolute ignoramus living in denial to even begin to trust that the Taliban will leave the Afghan women alone this time.

Taliban’s Regulations For Women

Conventional media have put all their resources into whitewashing the brutalities of the Taliban and giving them an image makeover, so as to make them

Muslim men initiating romantic associations with Hindu women, marrying them, converting them to Islam, putting them through endless agonies and finally killing them has become an everyday occurrence in India. The horror of these stories remains constant; what changes is the intensity of violence these women are made to endure during their partnership with these men.


	Yet another shocking case of this has been reported from Kota in the western state of Rajasthan, India; a 26-year-old mother of three, Rizwana, was attacked and killed by her husband Imran in the middle of the street in broad daylight, because she had been staying away from him and seeking a divorce.


	The deceased was originally a Hindu girl named Antima. She was a 15-year-old minor when she met and fell in love with welding worker Imran, and did a “love marriage” with him. Shortly after the marriage, she converted to Islam and adopted the name Rizwana. This marriage was never a smooth and loving one. But Antima, the ninth of ten siblings, held on to the marriage, hoping for things would improve gradually. The couple also had three children, but the arrival of their children didn’t change things for the better, either. In fact, as children were added to his family, Imran picked up the habit of whipping the children as well.


	Imran, as reported by Antima’s sister Anita, was a drunkard who would physically assault his wife regularly, in fits of rage. Anita further notes that Imran would often burn Antima with cigarettes.


	The sister of the deceased also told the media that Imran had once taken Antima to the popular Indian tourist destination Goa, and sold her off to the skin trade. With a great deal of effort, Antima somehow rescued herself. She then, however, made a disastrous decision: she chose to stay with Imran and give him another chance.


	Her living conditions kept deteriorating, and the beating and battering only grew more frequent. Antima finally decided to walk away from this toxic marriage, and moved in with her elder sister. But Imran would call her and threaten her with dire consequences; her mother-in-law (Imran’s mother) would also harass her every day, according to Anita.


	“A couple of months ago, Imran had ferociously attacked her with a cricket bat. The wounds Antima received from that beating were so critical that she had to be given 17 stitches,” adds Anita.


	Antima stayed away from Imran for two years, but Imran continued to threaten her, and one day forcefully took her to his dwelling. This time he was more ferocious in his tortures of the hapless woman.


	For the previous two months, Antima had been staying with her elder sister. On Wednesday, August 18, Antima was on her way to perform her regular chores when Imran ambushed her and repeatedly struck her with a sharp knife; he then fled the scene. Antima’s niece, who was accompanying Antima on her way, also sustained knife injuries in the mayhem. Locals rushed Antima to a local hospital. She was bleeding profusely from the multiple injuries she had received; her throat was slit as well. Doctors at the local hospital referred her to the New Medical College. Unfortunately, she was pronounced dead on arrival at the medical college. Antima met the same fate as hundreds of thousands of Hindu girls who are trapped in Love Jihad in India. The three children she has left behind are now orphaned.


	This is the second known case of Hindu women being killed by Muslim partners in India this week. The first one was Diksha Mishra, who was <a href="https://english.newstracklive.com/news/noida-love-jihad-imran-killed-diksha-mishra-in-hotel-sc103-nu764-ta322-1177326-1.html">killed by her lover</a>, also named Imran, although he was pretending to be a Hindu, Rishabh Tiwari.

India: Another Hindu Woman Converted to Islam, Sold Off, Slaughtered by Muslim Husband

Muslim men initiating romantic associations with Hindu women, marrying them, converting them to Islam, putting them through endless agonies and finally killing

As India’s Independence Day nears, jihad terrorist attacks have started to shake India’s union territory of Jammu &amp; Kashmir, which shares a border with Pakistan. The former Indian state has suffered decades of insurgency and terrorism owing to India’s Western neighbor, and this attack was nothing new or surprising.


	On Thursday, August 12, a powerful bomb was hurled at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jasbir Singh’s residence in the Rajouri district of Jammu &amp; Kashmir by jihad terrorists from a newly formed local jihadist outfit. Images from the scene show extensive damage caused to the building due to the explosion. Security personnel are still probing the attack, and investigations are underway.


	Veer, the four-year-old nephew of the BJP leader, was killed as the strong explosion ripped through the house; seven other family members, including another minor who is seven years old, have sustained severe injuries in the attack. Though the little one was rushed to the government medical college and hospital in Rajouri almost immediately, he succumbed to his injuries at midnight. His body was handed over to his family for the last rituals.


	A massive contingent of security forces has been deployed in the district following the attack at the politician’s residence. While other politicians have strongly condemned the terror attack, we must highlight that this was the third one in the series of jihad attacks right before the Independence Day celebrations.


	On August 9, BJP leader Sarpanch Ghulam Rasool and his wife, who was also a Panchayat member, were shot dead by jihad terrorists in the Anantnag district. This attack was followed by a grenade attack at the Hari Singh High Street, Srinagar on August 10 that left three civilians gravely injured.


	Though security officials initially failed to identify the entities that executed the grenade attack at Jasbir Singh’s house, and reported the incident as an attack by unknown assailants, the People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) soon claimed responsibility for the attack.


	This is not the first time the newly-formed jihadist outfit has carried out an act of terror in Jammu &amp; Kashmir. Back in June of this year, a BJP leader who was serving as the Municipal Councillor of Pulwama’s Tral, Rakesh Pandita, was gunned down by three unidentified terrorists. The sole breadwinner of his family, Pandita was visiting his friend at Tral Payeen and was unarmed at the time of the slaughter. Eventually the People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) claimed responsibility for the assassination.


	In December 2020, PAFF declared that they “won’t allow Israeli-type settler colonies in Kashmir.” They had also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.news18.com/news/india/wont-allow-israeli-type-settlement-militant-body-warns-rss-agents-against-usurping-jk-land-3195239.html">released</a>&nbsp;videos threatening to kill agents of the RSS (a Hindu welfare and nationalist organization) if they were “planning to settle down in Jammu and Kashmir” in the guise of non-political citizens. This came as a response to people from other parts of the country showing interest in settling in Kashmir, and Kashmiri Pandits who were chased away from the valley during the 1990’s exodus considering a return to their homeland with government support after the abrogation of article 370 and 35A in August 2019.


	PAFF, through its various public statements, has repeatedly revealed its intense hatred for Hindus by slandering Hindutva. It had also claimed responsibility for a jihad attack on officials of the Sashastra Seema Bal (border guard force ) and the police at Nowgam, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, ahead of Independence Day last year. Two policemen were martyred in the said attack. Inspector-General of Police Vijay Kumar&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/two-policemen-killed-in-jk-militant-attack/article32351698.ece">revealed</a>&nbsp;to the media that, “PAFF is an offshoot of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM).”


	While the Indian security establishment&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/jk-terror-outfit-people-s-anti-fascist-front-claims-responsibility-for-bjp-leader-rakesh-pandita-s-murder/765496">alleges</a>&nbsp;that PAFF is a shadow of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the motive behind forming this new group of jihad terrorists is not limited to creating chaos in the Jammu &amp; Kashmir valley. The jihadist outfit has been assigned to carry out jihad terror activities across Jammu &amp; Kashmir under the pretense of being a band of liberal, indigenous and, most significantly, non-Islamic rebels. The world has learnt how Islamic jihadis or pro-Pakistan Muslim secessionists were behind all the destabilization the state-turned-union territory endured in the past few decades.


	To increase their support from various international Leftist entities, the jihadis are now projecting themselves as a non-Islamic “liberal” undertaking, and trying to sell the insurgency in Jammu &amp; Kashmir as an indigenous effort. This would also help whitewash the tarnished reputation of Islam, given that it has gained a tarnished reputation due to Islamic jihad activity in the region since the mid-1980s.

India: New Jihad Group Courts Leftist Support

As India’s Independence Day nears, jihad terrorist attacks have started to shake India’s union territory of Jammu &amp; Kashmir, which shares a border with

More on <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/bangladesh-muslims-attack-over-50-hindu-homes-vandalize-at-least-four-hindu-temples" rel="noopener" target="_blank">this story</a>: days after a Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu deity Ganesh was vandalized and burned down in Bhong city, Pakistan, another South Asian Islamic country, the erstwhile East Pakistan, has followed the same line of bigotry. We must give credit to Bangladesh for outdoing its former masters and taking down not just one Hindu temple, but four.


	On Friday night, a group of Hindu women in the Shiali village of Rupsha Upazila in Khulna took out a religious procession from the local Purba Para temple and were headed for the Shiali crematorium. They had to pass by a local mosque to reach their destination, and crossed paths with an Islamic cleric, who registered his objections to the procession. This spiraled into a heated altercation between the Hindu devotees and the Muslim cleric. As it was already past 9PM, both parties decided to take the matter up with the police the following day.


	However, on Saturday, August 7 between 3 and 6PM, a mob of <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/world/religious-bigots-attack-hindu-temples-in-bangladesh-7446134/">Muslims launched</a> an ambush attack on the Hindus of Shiali village. Hundreds of Muslims joined this frantic mob and entered the village armed with locally-made makeshift weapons including cleavers, hatchets, and axes. Their first target was the four major Hindu temples in the village; they were desecrated and torn down in minutes by the mob. Six smaller temples in the proximity became the next targets, and were razed to the ground as well. Idols of Hindu deities at the Govinda Temple, Shiyali Purbpara Durga Temple, Shiyali Purbapara Hari Temple, and Shiyali Mahasmashan temple were crushed to bits.


	But the ire of the Muslim mob was not placated by the desecration of these Hindu temples alone. They shifted their ire to human beings and their livelihood. Dozens of shops belonging to the Hindus, including Ganesh Mallick’s drug store, Sourav Mallick’s tea and grocery store, Srivastava Mallick’s grocery store, Anirban Hira’s tea shop and his father Majumdar’s shop situated in the local marketplace, were plundered; over fifty-five Hindu houses were ransacked and emptied of valuables. The jihadi crowd also looted milching cows and other cattle belonging to the Hindus, which provided a source of nutrition as well as income to the hapless people from the marginalized community. Numerous unarmed Hindu villagers were assaulted and suffered severe injuries in this clash; many were brutally beaten when they tried to defend their shops from the jihadist plunderers.


	The mayhem lasted for hours. Once the thirst for Hindu misery was satiated, the mob decided to disperse. By this time, some Hindus had informed the local police, and some had formed groups to confront the jihadis. However, Shaktipada Basu, the president of the Rupsha Thana Puja Celebration Parishad, accuses the police of chasing away the Hindus when they first went to complain to the Shiali Camp police station. “Police of the Shiali camp resisted the Hindu villagers when they wanted to chase the attackers during the attack,” alleges Basu.


	Khulna Superintendent of Police Mahbub Hasan informed the media that a heavy police contingent had been deployed in the area of clash and claimed that the unrest had been brought under control. “We are working with local people,” Hasan briefed the press.


	Attacks on the minorities have become a routine recourse for the jihadis of Bangladesh. On the occasion of Eid al-Adha last month, Kotalipara Upazila of Gopalganj district in Bangladesh <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/bangladesh-will-slaughter-and-sacrifice-hindus-say-muslims-during-clashes-on-eid-al-adha">carried out</a> a similar orchestrated attack on the local Hindus, raiding Hindu houses and Hindu-owned businesses, and assaulting Hindus. No part of the plan for destruction was omitted in that act of mob violence, either.


	Back in March 2021, triggered by a social media post allegedly made by a Hindu youth named Jhumon Das, a series of planned attacks was carried out on Hindu homes in the area of Das’s residence in Sunamganj. Das’s immediate arrest by the police couldn’t pacify the fuming mob, which <a href="https://www.thedailystar.net/country/news/what-happened-shalla-first-hand-account-2065625">targeted</a> other Hindus who had no relation to the alleged offense, just for the fun of it. Economically deprived Hindus struggling to make ends meet were stripped of their last resources in the mob violence in Shalla Upazila.


	The media’s colossal indifference to all this, and the inaction of the police in the face of these repeated acts of terrorizing the minority emboldens the mobs’ bloodlust and thirst for destruction and loot. They act upon these desires with unmatched impunity. They know for a fact that they have been made into a global victim by the Leftist platforms that shape the popular narrative; hence they have neither the fear of repercussions nor any reputation to salvage.

Bangladesh: Muslim Mob Vandalizes and Loots Hindu Temples, Shops, Homes

More on this story: days after a Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu deity Ganesh was vandalized and burned down in Bhong city, Pakistan, another South Asian

Having captured key districts and border posts with Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Taliban are now <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/taliban-asks-for-list-of-girls-widows-to-be-married-to-their-fighters-reports-101626413987086.html#:~:text=%22All%20imams%20and%20mullahs%20in,said%2C%20according%20to%20the%20Sun." rel="noopener" target="_blank">hunting for women</a> in these areas. “All imams and mullahs in captured areas should provide the Taliban with a list of girls above 15 and widows under 45 to be married to Taliban fighters,” read a letter issued in the name of the Taliban’s Cultural Commission for Islamic preachers in the region. The Taliban has promised to marry these women to their fighters and take them to Pakistan’s Waziristan. There, these women will be converted to Islam and reintegrated.


	Is anyone talking about the consent of the women involved? No. They are just getting a list of women who belong to the preferred age bracket – the reproductive age bracket, to be precise – and will take them as “wives,” or so they say.


	The marriage is eyewash. The Islamic jihadis are only claiming women as war booty from their captured regions. These women will then be treated as sex slaves to satiate the Taliban men and reproduce a fresh crop of Islamic jihadis. It is concerning that despite the demand of the Taliban being published by newspapers all over the world, no feminist pop culture figure or woke society icon has taken to social media to condemn this demand for women in the captured and controlled areas poised by the Islamic group. Do they not see pernicious patriarchy in this monstrous ritual of taking clusters of women as war booty? This debauched act, continuing for the past 1400 years, is making inroads in the modern and woke 2021. Congratulations.


	During the Taliban rule in Afghanistan before 2002, girls were banned from going to school, women were barred from working outside, and were not allowed to step out of the home without a male relative. Violators were penalized publicly and often lashed by their religious police.


	Elderly Afghanis fear that the Taliban will again take away their daughters and turn them into slaves. “Since the Taliban took over, we feel depressed. At home, we can’t speak loudly, can’t listen to music and can’t send women to the Friday market. They are asking about family members. The [Taliban] sub-commander said you should not keep girls over the age of 18; it’s sinful, they must get married,” <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4e8a7a6d-6228-43ca-bf63-16d3371ff897">cries</a>&nbsp;Haji Rozi Baig, fearing that her daughters, aged 23 and 24, will be the next victims of the Taliban.


	It is customary for Islamic jihadis to hoard sex slaves, and the Taliban are not doing anything contradictory to the ideology they follow and are striving to globalize. Child brides and windows trapped as sex slaves are common in their world. Half of all girls in these regions are married by the age of 15, many are sold to the Taliban by their parents to make a quick buck. Taliban have also routinely <a href="https://feminist.org/news/women-used-as-sex-slaves-for-taliban-al-qaeda/">abducted</a> women from Uzbek, Tajik, Hazara and other ethnic minorities, to be traded and taken as sex slaves. Some women are also sold to wealthy clients in or outside Afghanistan, some are sent to Pakistan to be sold to brothels, and others are kept at al Qaeda training camps. There’s another section of women who are married off to Taliban fighters, but the pseudo-marriage does not negate their status of being sex slaves; they are left entirely helpless to be dishonored and then discarded.


	It gets worse for these young brides after their jihadi husbands are killed in terrorist activities or clashes with the forces. Abandoned by society, these widows are forced to marry the next Taliban fighter in line, or just left to be raped regularly and repeatedly by the cousins, brothers or companions of the dead husband.


	The children from the previous marriage are not spared, either. The girls, as young as four years old, are sold off to other jihadis to carry the legacy of her sex slave mother. Young boys are trained in operating weapons, taking off heads, and grow up as they succeed this generation of jihadis.


	Speaking to Reuters, a 26-year-old widowed sex slave&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-rights-women-idUSKCN1B31PL">said</a>, “They (Taliban) plan to send both of my sons to Pakistan to participate in jihad… They take my elder son for religious indoctrination and training to become a militant like his father.” The local government extends no help to rescue these sex slaves caught in a precarious position and compelled to spend their lives as sex slaves. Their children have no way out of this vicious trap, either. And that’s how jihad begets jihad.

Taliban Demands War Booty, Women Aged 15-45, as Sex Slaves in Captured Afghanistan

Having captured key districts and border posts with Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Taliban are now hunting for women in these areas. “All imams

Adding to his party’s list of bizarre demands, Syed Asim Waqar, leader of the Islamic political party All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen, has asked all states to appoint Muslims as Deputy Chief Ministers (CM). The Muslim leader has skillfully made this demand just before the Uttar Pradesh State elections, to polarize the electorate.


	Waqar asserts that other political parties, such as the secular Congress and the socialist Samajwadi Party, must put forward their views on this issue. Waqar has expressed disappointment in politicians who approach the Muslims for votes but grow apprehensive when Muslims demand a Muslim Deputy CM. He&nbsp;<a href="https://hindi.oneindia.com/news/uttar-pradesh/owaisi-s-aimim-party-said-akhilesh-yadav-should-write-that-if-the-government-is-formed-he-will-mak-626390.html">complained</a>&nbsp;that the Muslims were not given the promised 12% representation in 2012, and proclaimed, “We will definitely snatch away the Deputy CM post from them. You will have to make a Muslim the deputy CM of the state.” He also claimed that it’s only a matter of time before political parties agree to give the Deputy CM position to the Muslims. That this democratic post should be reserved for Muslims only is a fanciful idea that abolishes the very principles of democracy and secularism on which India is predicated.


	Anyhow, what we must ponder is this: why is it that after 70 years of independence, a Muslim politician wants a special privilege for Muslims in a democratic state? It is not because India has denied them participation in the federal structure.


	The Islamic rule in India that lasted for several centuries was marked by large-scale religious conversions and orchestrated mass massacres. When the British decided to leave, the man who became the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, demanded an Islamic country for his people, and his demand was met. Unlike the Hindus, who were forced to leave the Islamic provinces of Pakistan and East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), a large number of Muslims chose not to relocate to Pakistan, and stayed back in India with assurances of safety and equality extended by the leaders who were leading the country at that time.


	Muslims in India, from the genesis of its democracy, were appointed to key positions in the government. India’s first-ever Education Minister was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who was born in Makkah. He was home-schooled and self-taught. The Indian education system doesn’t recognize these concepts, but cordially extended the education ministry to a Maulana whose proficiency was in Islamic studies, the Quran, the Hadith, and Sharia. He had also learned other contemporary subjects from tutors hired by his parents. This should explain why the Islamic invasion in India has been glorified in school textbooks and invaders been introduced as great emperors.


	Eminent Muslim personalities have been voted into the highest office of India, that is, the President’s office, multiple times; Zakir Hussain, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam have served as President, and Mohammad Hidayatullah served as acting President for a limited time as well.


	Despite Muslims being honored with the title of the First Citizen of India, several political leaders from the community have repeatedly played the victim card. After enjoying two consecutive terms in the capacity of India’s Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari went on&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/iMac_too/status/1355500960672452613">record</a>&nbsp;lamenting that Muslims were being victimized in the country, and that there was a feeling of unease and a sense of insecurity growing among them. When challenged on a televised interview and requested to substantiate his claim, Hamid Ansari grew angry.


	Muslims have had ample representation in state-level politics in India as well. Firhad Hakim, despite receiving a great deal of criticism for allegedly referring to a Muslim-dominated area in Kolkata as “<a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1255178">Mini Pakistan,”</a>&nbsp;became mayor of that city in West Bengal. In March 2021, this title was passed on to Khaled Ahmed. After the minority-pandering All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) won the recent elections, several Muslims were included in the cabinet. There are 32 Muslim Members of the Legislative Assembly in Communist-ruled Kerala, and the newly-elected Tamil Nadu government has adequate representation from the Muslim community as well.


	Then what is it that triggers Syed Asim Waqar to demand a default Muslim in the significant position of Deputy CM? Is he trying to work toward Islamic rule in India indirectly by seating Muslims in key positions regardless of their fitness? Is it a jihad through the ranks? A “Ghazwa-e-Hind” of sorts? Waqar hails from the Islamic political party whose leader, Akbaruddin Owaisi, made this communally-charged and highly-condemned statement: “If police are removed for 15 minutes, we (Muslims) will finish 100 crore Hindus,” not once but&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dnaindia.com/india/photo-gallery-they-are-still-scared-of-my-remove-police-for-15-minutes-comment-from-2013-akbaruddin-owaisi-chides-rss-2775378">twice</a>.


	Given that the Indian police bows to the respective state governments, how sensible would it be to have a constitutional office reserved solely for a Muslim, with the merit of the minister in question notwithstanding? The unreasonable demands of politicians such as Waqar never end; the more you serve them, the more they crave. This is not unique to the Indian polity. This is a universal trait. Unfortunately, no first-world country is intellectually equipped to put an end to these perpetual demands.

India: Muslim Politician Demands All Deputy Chief Minister’s Offices Be Reserved For Muslims

Adding to his party’s list of bizarre demands, Syed Asim Waqar, leader of the Islamic political party All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen, has asked all

A shocking and communally charged invitation put out by a Moradabad school has come under scrutiny and led to tremendous public fury in India, except, of course, among the Muslims. The Delhi Public Global School had set up a summer camp for students aged 8-15, intending to impart Islamic education online. The school also created a website to further this purpose. The colorful pamphlet posted on the school’s official site featured the image of the Ka’ba, along with a green structure resembling a mosque, accompanied by the text, “How to Adopt Islamic Values in Personal Life.” The subjects listed on the agenda to be discussed in the summer camp were, among others, “What is Islam?,” “How to understand Qura’an,” and “Responsibility of a Muslim.” It was supposed to be a two-day schedule with the sessions lasting three hours each.


	The poster triggered massive outrage on social media. We must emphasize that the Delhi Public Global School is not a madrassa running on Islamic principles. It is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, which is a national level board of education under the purview of the Union government of India. Various Hindu groups have alleged that the school is attempting to change the mindset of pupils from non-Muslim families, so that they will embrace Islam. The fact that the Moradabad school is focusing on students in the developing years of their lives, a time when they have malleable minds and are easily indoctrinated, supports the allegations brought by the Hindu groups.


	The Hindu groups, led by Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council, VHP) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (All Indian Student Council, ABVP) have strenuously objected to the “attempts at Islamization” of the English medium school. “This type of religious education for kids coming from other faiths is targeted towards changing their beliefs and converting them to Islam,” said ABVP representative Sachin Singh. The VHP, on the other hand, has warned the management that it would launch a social media campaign against the school.


	Responding to the massive indignation, School Manager Mansoor Siddiqui (a Muslim) explained, “We had picked up these subjects to draw in Muslim students for the summer camp and inculcate nationalistic values in them. We had no intention of hurting anyone’s religious sentiments or promoting religious conversion.” The school management supported its decision to consider these religiously motivated topics by noting that over 90% of students in their school hailed from Muslim families.


	While Mr. Siddiqui may defend his tone-deaf decision to set up a summer camp to encourage commitment to Islam among his students because the majority of them are from Muslim families, we wonder what his plans were for the 10% of students in his school who are non-Muslim. Did he leave them out of consideration because they belonged to the wrong religion, or was he trying to cast an Islamic influence on them as well?


	If he zeroed in on Islam as the topic of summer camp because most students of the school were Muslim, then one must note that the Delhi Public Global School in Moradabad is a textbook example of what Muslims do when they gain a majority in any demography – they write off the minority without any second thoughts. This is how Islamic countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh are created, and this is exactly how the minorities in these counties are made invisible. It is the basic principle on which Islam functions, expands and dominates.


	In the face of forceful criticism, the school has cancelled the two-day program for now.


	Promoting Islam through school textbooks has become a matter of grave concern in recent times. It appears to be a deliberate and planned retaliation by the Muslims and communists holding positions throughout India’s education system. This is their way to retaliate against the nationalist Modi government. In the southern state of Kerala, which is governed by a pro-Islamic communist party, school textbooks for primary school classes feature caricatures with Hindu names, who are used to represent&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/mvmeet/status/1379473274292211715">bad habits and lack of personal hygiene</a>. Caricatures with Muslim names are used as the epitome of cleanliness. Young students are being conditioned to view Hindu&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/mvmeet/status/1379473274292211715">shopkeepers as unclean</a>&nbsp;and are discouraged to buy from them, while promoting shopkeepers with Muslim names. The truth, however, lies outside the crisp pages of these books, because there have been multiple and frequent&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opindia.com/2021/02/meerut-spitting-tandoori-roti-cook-jail-islamophobia-bigotry-twitter-police-secular/">reports</a>&nbsp;of Muslim workers spitting into food made for public consumption.


	Infesting the education system and adulterating the syllabi is the most convenient way of brainwashing an entire generation in one of the world’s most populous nations. “Oh! If only all infidel kids of India could be brought into the fold of the world’s one true religion by making them hate their kind and admire us!” smiles the jihadi, visualizing the long-awaited Ghazwa-e-Hind.

India: Public School Organizes Summer Camp to Promote Islamic Values Among Children

A shocking and communally charged invitation put out by a Moradabad school has come under scrutiny and led to tremendous public fury in India, except, of

We received an interesting reply to one of our articles yesterday. When <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/india-muslim-conversion-factory-that-operated-for-over-a-decade-in-delhi-linked-to-high-level-politicians" rel="noopener" target="_blank">we reported about the Muslim preacher Mohammad Umar Gautam</a>, who has been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad for running a religious conversion outlet, one Twitter user claimed, “They are already lynching Muslims on streets with impunity, don’t make their situation worse.”&nbsp;


	We found it incongruous that in a country where a Muslim preacher, supported by politicians and industrialists, openly holds congregations to convert non-Muslims to Islam, Muslims are being lynched on the streets, and that, too, with impunity. But we believe in giving a fair chance to all claims and so did some research, and this is what we found.


	In 2017, a Muslim man, Pehlu Khan, was attacked under the suspicion of cow theft, and succumbed to his injuries. The incident got immediate judicial attention; the accused were detained by the police and then-Home Minister Rajnath Singh assured justice. Crimes cannot be obliterated from a country of over 1.3 billion. But to contend that the crime against the Muslim was committed with impunity is a shameless stretch of the truth in order to claim eternal victimhood.


	This is the dear and treasured victimhood status that many Muslims have been unremittingly exploiting throughout Narendra Modi’s tenure as Prime Minister. Nurturing their deep-seated hatred for Hindus, they have now prefixed their favorite hyperbolic claim, “lynched for being a Muslim” with “forced to chant Jai Shree Ram,” in order to satiate their occasional cravings for affronting Hindu sentiments.


	We have previously <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/india-muslims-assault-muslim-muslim-journalists-accuse-hindus-twitter-fuels-anti-hindu-hatred">detailed</a> how, earlier this month, the Muslim intelligentsia, comprising Muslim media personalities, politicians and political influencers, distorted the Muslim-on-Muslim violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad into an assault on a Muslim by Hindu extremists. This venomous cabal has mastered the art of coming up with false and deceptive claims of “hate crimes” every time a Muslim is victimized, regardless of the faith of his offender or the cause of the attack. Hinduphobic media houses and assorted websites have repeatedly latched onto such stories, ensuring they reach every corner of the world, but have done nothing to negate the impact of the misinformation after investigations revealed these to be warped narratives and that no hate crime was involved.


	Thief dies of cardiac arrest in police custody, Hindus blamed&nbsp;


	Back in June 2019, Tabrez Ansari, a 22-year-old thief from the Muslim community, was caught by the locals of Dhatkidih village in Jharkhand when he was out engaging in his “business.” He was tied up by the villagers and beaten before being handed over to the police alive. Ansari confessed to the police that he had indeed scaled up walls of the village houses in order to steal what he could. The police provided him with first aid, took him for a medical check-up, and submitted reports at the court. Tabrez Ansari was then taken to jail and spent three days in custody before succumbing to cardiac arrest. While Islamic apologists accused Hindus of causing Ansari to suffer a brain hemorrhage, the autopsy confirmed that the reason for his death was cardiac arrest, and that the hemorrhage was not fatal. Pro-Muslim woke activists may assert that it was a stress-induced heart attack, but that stress was not gratuitously inflicted; one must not embark upon adventurous career choices that land one in prison.


	While Tabrez Ansari did not die of lynching, his father <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/father-of-jharkhand-man-killed-by-mob-was-also-lynched/articleshow/69950657.cms">did</a>. Back in November 2004, when the secular and Muslim-pandering Congress Party was governing India, Tabrez’s father Maskoor Ansari was caught by a crowd in Bagbera, Jharkhand while allegedly committing theft, and lynched to death. There is no justification for illegal activity or vigilantism. Also, however, the villagers had not been exposed to modern-day wokeism. They didn’t realize that if they didn’t ceremonially offer tea and midnight snacks to robbers belonging to a certain group when they caught one in their backyard, it would be a “hate crime.”


	Muslim youth self-immolates, Hindus accused of murder&nbsp;&nbsp;


	Also in 2019, a 17-year-old, Khalid Ansari from Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh, succumbed to burn injuries. The known peddlers of fake news published conspiracy theories suggesting that the Muslim youth was set ablaze for refusing to chant “Jai Shree Ram.” Multiple CCTV cameras in the area were examined by police, and none produced any footage of him being chased or indicating that he had been murdered. On the contrary, a newspaper vendor informed the police that he had witnessed the youth setting himself <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/police-disregard-religious-angle-in-chandauli-case/article28752542.ece">on fire</a>&nbsp;at 4:25 AM.


	Godhara hate crime hoax


	In August 2019, Godhara resident Siddiq Abdul Salam complained at the local police station that six unknown miscreants had assaulted his 17-year-old son and forced him to chant “Jai Shree Ram.” The media had a field day with the story, but the police soon accessed the available CCTV footage from the site and <a href="https://www.deshgujarat.com/2019/08/02/3-muslim-youths-in-godhara-not-beaten-up-for-not-chanting-jai-shri-ram-sp-leena-patil/">confirmed</a> that the clash had nothing to do with any religious slogans.


	Sheikh Aamer filed false complaint to get social media applause


	In retaliation for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landslide 2019 victory, fake hate crime stories filled media headlines that year. Shiekh Aamer of Aurangabad, Maharashtra in July 2019 fabricated a story of being forced to chant “Jai Shree Ram” by four men. It turned out that Sheikh Aamer and his friend Shaikh Nasir had brushed past a car in traffic, leading to a brawl between the parties. They then filed a police complaint that gave the roadside altercation a communal twist. When the police began investigating, a nervous Aamer admitted that the scuffle had no communal aspect. He had <a href="https://facthunt.in/posts/590/Vicitm-invented-a-fake-story-of-being-forced-to-chant-'Jai-Shri-Ram'-in-Aurangabad">filed the false complaint</a> to teach a lesson to those who challenge people from his community, and to win a grand ovation from his people.


	Political murder given communal angle in Haryana&nbsp;


	Earlier this year, a Muslim youth, Asif Khan, was murdered while returning from his sister’s home in Mewat. The news of the attack included the popular “forced to chant Jai Shree Ram” claim, and was ritualistically labelled a hate crime by Muslim-friendly Indian media outlets. Police, following due investigation, declared the crime to be a political murder, and <a href="https://nationworldnews.com/no-communal-angle-old-political-enmity-in-asifs-murder-of-mewat-haryana-police/">ruled out a communal angle</a>. Asif led a caste-based group that had beaten up members of a rival caste-based group a few days before the murder. He was ambushed and killed in a reprisal triggered by the violence that his group initiated.


	There are scores of such cases that have no communal aspect or intention, but have been attributed to the Hindus anyway. This is because the victims were Muslims, and this presented an opportunity to the pro-Muslim lobby to communalize their deaths, so as to advance their political agenda. Consequently, keyboard warriors of the Twitterverse make their empty claim that “They are already lynching Muslims on streets with impunity, don’t make their situation worse.”

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