hate crime

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• India: Intimidation Nation – You Cannot Play Cricket Here
  25 March 2019, by siawi3

  Where to play, or not to play cricket, has become a life-and-death question for Muslims in India. The men appeared on bikes and objected to Muslim boys playing cricket in the open. The boys were told to go play in Pakistan. Soon, around 25 men, armed with sticks and rods, arrived and chased the boys into their house. The politicisation of religious identity is a majoritarian ploy to commit unanswerable and unlimited violence on minorities. When such politicisation becomes part of a fascist project, the mere presence of minorities becomes impermissible. You don’t have the right to play cricket here, because you don’t have the right to live here. It is a fascist line of argument that seeks to create a new dictum of belonging.

• USA: Mississippi Church Torched and Vandalized With Pro-Trump Slogan
  3 November 2016, by siawi3

  The mayor of a Mississippi town where a black church was torched and vandalized with the words “Vote Trump” said Wednesday that the incident is being “investigated as a hate crime.” “It appears to be a race crime. It happened in the ’50s. It happened in the ’60s. It shouldn’t happen in 2016.” “The black church has always been a symbol of the black community,”

• Au Sri Lanka, les violences communautaires contre les musulmans se propagent
  30 avril 2019, par siawi3

  District après district, les violences communautaires contre les musulmans se propagent au Sri Lanka. Les violences « semblent systémiques et organisées » « Plusieurs bouddhistes extrémistes connus pour leurs violences étaient présents sur les lieux pour se rendre aux funérailles de la première victime. Ils ont même appelé sur les réseaux sociaux leurs sympathisants de tout le pays à les rejoindre. » « La situation est extrêmement dangereuse. Si les musulmans décident de répondre aux émeutes, alors les violences pourraient se répandre dans tout le pays. »

• Attentats de Christchurch : Abdul Aziz, l’homme qui a stoppé la tuerie dans la seconde mosquée
  19 mars 2019, par siawi3

  Ce réfugié afghan priait dans sa mosquée, comme chaque vendredi, quand le terroriste d’extrême droite est arrivé. Sept personnes ont été tuées vendredi dans l’attaque de la mosquée de Linwood à Christchurch par un suprémaciste blanc. Mais le bilan aurait sans doute été plus lourd sans l’action héroïque d’Abdul Aziz, un homme de 48 ans ayant acquis la nationalité australienne, qui s’est efforcé de faire fuir le tireur.

• Australia: Judge sentences two men to 20 years over Sydney terrorism plot
  28 December 2016, by siawi3

  Two men who planned to bomb a Sydney Shia prayer hall and vowed to stab people in the kidneys to impress an Islamic State recruiter have been jailed for at least 15 years.

• France : Paris - peur des migrants
  18 octobre 2016, par siawi3

  La façade du futur centre d’hébergement d’urgence pour SDF ( et migratns !) situé dans le 16^e arrondissement de Paris et qui devait ouvrir ses portes à la fin octobre a été incendiée.

• India: Deep misogyny and hate drives the daily matrix of social power in India
  18 April 2018, by siawi3

  a compilation of selected commentary & URLS on the sexual brutality and rapes in Kathua and in Unnao

• Sri Lanka’s Christians were left unprotected for far too long
  22 April 2019, by siawi3

  Why do we have to wait for a tragedy of this magnitude to occur for those in power to wake up and listen to the people of Sri Lanka? The signs have been there. Now we are faced with an atrocity that the whole Sri Lankan and international community must come to terms with. Last year, a state of emergency was declared after Muslim-owned shops and homes were burned down. And there has been a significant increase in attacks against Christians according to the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka.

• India: The Rohingya are facing genocide. We cannot be bystanders
  12 November 2017, by siawi3

  We cannot allow people to be slaughtered and burnt out of their homes, while the world watches, write Salman Rushdie and dozens of others in this open letter

• India: ’Unspeakable horror of the Kathua and the Unnao incidents’ - Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India by former state officials
  16 April 2018, by siawi3

  The communal cauldron is forever kept boiling by forces nested within the Sangh Parivar.

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