Communalism

Articles

• Israel: An unsatisfactory answer
  9 February, by siawi3

  When accused of Imposing a policy Of apartheidThe PrimeMinister And the Foreign Minister Shriek:“Antisemitism! Antisemitism!”

• India: Reassert secularism on Martyrs’ Day: Activists
  9 February, by siawi3

  Call for nationwide show of communal unity amidst growing environment of communal hate: To address the growing communal disharmony, a people’s initiative has called upon all Indians to mark Mahatma Gandhi’s martyrdom on January 30, 2022 though meetings and “Sarva Dharam Sansad” across India.

• Idi Amin’s Expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972
  10 February, by siawi3

  In 1972 Ugandan Dictator, General Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of Uganda’s Asian community.

• Israel, an Apartheid Nation? Of Course!
  13 February, by siawi3

  Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and B’Tselem believe the “bar for labeling the Israeli regime as apartheid has been met.” I certainly agree. But the Wall Street Journal and CNN treat these charges as excessively critical of Israel.

• India: In Malerkotla, One Can Find the Vestiges of India’s Forgotten History of Tolerance
  13 February, by siawi3

  The senseless and relentless march of violence has made us forget who we are and how we have lived, worked and prayed together for centuries.

• India: Mangalore: Why was the 40-year-old St. Antony Holy Cross prayer hall demolished?
  13 February, by siawi3

  According to a report in the Daijiworld portal, members of the Shri Satya Korddabbu Seva Samithi, allegedly violated the stay order from the court, entered the compound of the prayer centre, and demolished the building, compound wall, and trees.

• Former Yugoslavia: RED EMBROIDERY // Queer Archive
  13 February, by siawi3

  Red Embroidery documentary movie is about the intersection of gender, sexuality, war and security in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during and after the collapse of Yugoslavia through storytelling. This documentary movie presents a collection of personal testimonials and political accounts of 12 feminist, anti-war and LGBTI*QA pioneer activists, who have shared their stories on solidarity and their contribution to feminist, anti-war and LGBT*IQA movement in these countries.

• India: Sadhvi Vibhanand’s Call to ’Rape’ Muslim Women With Impunity Shows Hindutva’s Politics of Fear
  14 February, by siawi3

  In the Indian context, we have had plenty of cases where rape is an expression of caste, community or religious domination in normal times as well as times of general lawlessness, such as riots.

• India: ’My Mother, Gail Omvedt, Was a Romantic and Humanist’
  19 February, by siawi3

  Her writings and her social movement work were grounded in her understanding of the double oppression of caste and patriarchy faced by Dalit women. She was a sharp analyst of society; of its oppressors and its rebels.

• India: A Bindi, a Hijab and the Inequality in What Is Proclaimed to Be Indian
  19 February, by siawi3

  The visuals of a Hindu teacher, bindi on her forehead, sindur proudly displayed, disrobing her Muslim, hijab-wearing colleague has proven, if anyone had an iota of doubt, that the so-called anti-hijab row in Karnataka is not about the hijab. It is a painful video to watch – a teacher being humiliated in full public view by her colleague, her supposed equal. What’s next? Will Hindu male teachers chop the beards of their Muslim colleagues before they enter the temples of education?

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