South Asia

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• India: Jeet Vashisth, the Bajrang Dal and the Hindutva Hate Machine
  26 November 2021, by siawi3

  Hate crimes like the desecration of religious spaces and the economic harassment of Muslims via intimidation are not simply activities that end after they have happened. The value they offer to the Hindutva ecosystem is in the vast digital reach they provide as propaganda units, by which thousands of people are invited to be inspired by and replicate this violence.

• India: Statement on Repeal of Farm Laws – The battle has been won, but the war is still on
  28 November 2021, by siawi3

  It is time for the Left to rethink and rebuild. Radical Socialist joins the great multitude of peasants and concerned citizens in celebrating what has been a clear step back for the authoritarian BJP government.

• Letter of Congratulations from Bangladesh -the peasants’ movement of India great victory!
  28 November 2021, by siawi3

  The withdrawal of three Farm Bills (black laws) against the interests of Indian farmers by the government has once again increased the significance and importance of the peasants’ movement in the subcontinent and proved that struggle is a powerful tool for realizing demands.

• I travelled around Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. This is what I saw
  26 November 2021, by siawi3

  “I’m going to say to the world’s leaders, shame on you for what you did to Afghanistan. Why did you have to do what you did? And why are you doing this to this part of the world?”

• Afghanistan: On the brink of catastrophe
  26 November 2021, by siawi3

  A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Afghanistan that is bound to have far-reaching implications that will not be limited to the war-ravaged country. According to a recent UN report, around 60 per cent of Afghanistan’s 38 million people will be affected by the impending food crisis. Only 5pc of the population has enough to eat. The situation will worsen as emergency humanitarian aid is delayed.

• India: Secular Muslims oppose the demand for an anti-blasphemy law
  27 November 2021, by siawi3

  We condemn the constant attempts by certain hate factories of Hindutva which are working overtime to demonise Islam and Muslims. However, IMSD fully supports the principle that in a secular state there can be no place for a law criminalising blasphemy. Muslims demanding such a law should instead take recourse of the already existing law against hate speech in our country.

• India: Woman’s Question in Communal Ideologies in India: A Study into the Ideologies of RSS and Jamat-e-Islami
  28 November 2021, by siawi3

  Attack on women’s fundamental right to equality has been the common, continuing feature of the communal forces in India, of all hues irrespective of the religion from the particularly motivated interpretation of which they derive their ideological base and political support. Rape and gang rape have historically been integral part of communal pogroms. The ideological texts of the RSS and the Jamat reveals many similarities and congruence.

• India: Power of a peaceful movement
  28 November 2021, by siawi3

  It was not easy for the farmers, and it must be a record of sorts for them to run an as yet unending campaign for 13 months without losing the hunger to defeat adversity. It is a tribute to the sagacious leadership of the farmers, predominantly Sikh, who pitched their tents on the borders of Delhi over a year ago. They endured Delhi’s bitter cold, blistering heat and weltering rain to thwart the laws they saw as an assault on their livelihood.

• Inde : Les musulmans laïques s’opposent à la demande de lois anti-blasphème
  27 novembre 2021, par siawi3

  Les Musulmans Indiens Pour Une Démocratie Laïque (IMSD) s’opposent vigoureusement à la demande inconstitutionnelle faite par le Bureau Musulman Indien de la Loi sur le Statut Personnel (All India Muslim Personal Law Board -AIMPLB) et quelques autres organisations qui réclament l’adoption d’une loi contre le blasphème en Inde. La déclaration de l’IMSD a été approuvée par presque 400 indiens laïques. Une large majorité des signataires sont des musulmans.

• Pakistan: Remembering Ardeshir Cowasjee
  29 November 2021, by siawi3

  His criticism of the powerful was fearless and irreverent, and his readers loved it. Zulfiqar Bhutto was “megalomaniac”, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif “corrupt to the core” and Altaf Hussain “the Pir of Edgware”. And these are only a sample of the words he used to describe them. On camera, he would go even further in ridiculing those who ruled Pakistan. He offered a very different take on the rulers compared to the biographers and other commentators.

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