Raqib Hameed Naik
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ED @csohate | Founder @indiahatelab & Hate Tracker @HindutvaWatchIn Alum: @BoltonUni š„ [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined February 2015
No blue eyes and blonde hair. So, no empathy and outrage.
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Not Umar but your close friend Kapil Mishra is a terrorist, who orchestrated the riots and led a mob that burned homes and killed people in Delhi.
Terrorist Umar Khalid arrested by Delhi Police under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for his involvement in Delhi Riots.
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No white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes, so no Starlink for Palestinians?.
@FedorovMykhailo Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route.
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[Imp. Thread]. Backstory behind āforeign investmentā in Kashmir. Last month, a 36-member delegation from the UAE visited Kashmir purportedly to explore investment options in the region. Out of 36, 13 were Emirati & rest were affluent Indian expats & folks with RSS links 1/11.
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Muslim protesters brutally thrashed in a police station in Uttar Pradesh state, which is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modiās BJP.
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There is no evidence of āHindu Genocideā in Kashmir & it is primarily a Hindu nationalist construct. According to the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), 219 Kashmir Pandits were killed in Kashmir between 1989-2013. 1/n. #KashmirFiles
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After putting this tweet out, theĀ Crime Investigation DepartmentĀ (CID) of Jammu & Kashmir Police (JK Police) called my family and enquiredĀ about me, my work, and my current location. This is the 8th time my family has receivedĀ such calls since I left India in 2020.
There is no evidence of āHindu Genocideā in Kashmir & it is primarily a Hindu nationalist construct. According to the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), 219 Kashmir Pandits were killed in Kashmir between 1989-2013. 1/n. #KashmirFiles
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Misbah Zafar, a journalism student in District Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh) was arrested by the local police in a mid-night raid yesterday, just because he shared a poster on WhatsApp with hashtag #RSSseAzadi
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Important thread on Anjana Om Kashyap's primetime show Halla Bol on @aajtak. In 2021, Kashyap's Halla Bol telecasted 314 shows & referred to Muslims in 18.78% of shows. More than 95% of these references were negative in nature. 1/7
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Security forces in Kashmir killed a 16 year old kid in fake encounter. Let that sink in!. #ShopianFakeEncounter
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While yāall flood social media with messages of support for Arundhati Roy (rightfully so), donāt forget to stand equally behind Kashmiri academic Dr. Sheikh Showkat Hussain, who has also been charged with terrorism. His Kashmiri identity puts him in even greater danger!
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In Madhya Pradeshās Mandla, homes of 11 Muslim men demolished after police allegedly found beef stored in refrigerators.
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Iām honored that you think I run this website documenting hateful fanatics like yourself, but unfortunately, I donāt ā I canāt take credit for someone elseās hard work. Seems like youāve used AI to alter my smiling picture to make it look sad. Hereās the original one! š
Hindutva Profile website is taken down . Hopefully twitter account will be too soon. Meet Raqib, the person behind this notorious hit list
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The title of the song being played at a Hindu festival in Jharkhand state is āMiyan Madarch**d hai (Muslims are motherfu**ers).ā.
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Over the weekend, Indian-American across 15 cities in United States organised massive protest rallies against #HijabBan in Karnataka . Location: Seattle, Washington.1/
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Suited-booted, upper-caste Hindu nationalist while snacking on almonds and cashews in a posh Delhi newsroom advocates for adopting Israel's genocidal tactics against Palestinians as a solution for Kashmir.
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Cow vigilantes are having a free run in Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier today, in District Reasi, Mohd Asger was brutalized by Sanghi thugs while he was grazing cattle.
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Last week, our team at @HindutvaWatchIn found video of a private meeting between Nitin Gadkari and far-right monk Acharya Paramhans, who has repeatedly called for mass violence against Muslims.
Welcome to @RNGawards āØ. With Union Minister @NitinGadkari, we honour journalists who set high standards in reporting. Join us #LIVE šš½.
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Typical rightwing troll using reductio ad absurdum. Dictionary dekh lena Bagga. Btw Bagga you forgot to mention 2002 Gujarat riots, kyun Saheb ko bura lage ga?.
Haina Kapil Mishra is terrorist and He orchestrated the Riots from Delhi to Bengaluru and Yes Swedan too. Even Babur and Aurangzeb came to India, Killed and Converted Millions of Hindus just to take revenge after Kapil Mishra Speech.
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Global Hindu Heritage Foundation (GHHF), a notorious US-based Hindu supremacist group, is organizing a fundraiser in Frisco, Texas, to raise money for demolishing churches in India, among other things. THREAD 1/6
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Last month, a prominent Hindu right-wing figure in the United States sent me a legal notice over my tweets on #TheKashmirFiles, a propaganda film. Today, my attorney, John Floyd of @CAIRNational responded to the legal notice šš¾. Sum: I will not delete or retract my tweets š¤”
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Indian diaspora in Germany have shot a letter to Consul General of India at Hamburg to bar MP Tejaswi Surya Consul General of India from speaking at an upcoming startup conference. āWe cannot allow such polarizing figures to find a safe haven in Europe.ā.
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Savarkar-loving author & historian Vikram Sampath (@vikramsampath) caught in plagiarism row. He is accused of plagiarizing work of scholars in his 2017 essay for India Foundation Journal and recently published two volume biography on Hindutva ideologue Savarkar. 1/2.
This morning in Bengaluru I met the bright @vikramsampath. I am glad that he has devoted significant time and research towards studying Veer Savarkar. His book adds fresh dimensions towards understanding the life and thoughts of the great Savarkar.
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Israr, 30, a carpenter by profession was lynched by a mob in Saharanpur (UP). He is survived by 3 children & a pregnant wife. āWe havenāt told anything to the children. His body was not in such condition,ā his brother Gulfam said.
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Senior executive editor of India Today justifying blinding of young Kashmiris. Utterly despicable!.
Pellet guns have a range. Stay out of the range. Stay safe. Stone pelting is not a birth right. Nor is it an acceptable democratic form of protest. If one breaks the law, one should be ready to face the full force of law enforcement agencies.
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Sharjeel Usmaniās family is still unaware of the whereabouts of their son. His father said that local police is denying arresting him. Then who arrested Sharjeel and where is he now? . #SharjeelUsmani.
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English translation of what Ragini Tiwari said: āHindus, come out. Die or kill. Rest shall be seen later. If your blood hasn't boiled even now, it's not blood but water.ā. This she said a day before the Delhi violence. @DelhiPolice Why is her name missing from the chargesheet?.
Hello @DelhiPolice, this woman is Ragini Tiwari. She was shouting provocative slogans during Delhi Violence. There is no mention of her in charge sheet, WHY? . Or these slogans are not proactive enough because of her surname? . #DelhiPoliceFakeCase.
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Rajiv Pandit, a Texas, US-based ENT specialist who works at @methodistdallas, @MethodistSurg, endorsing calls for genocide of Kashmiri Muslims. Pandit is also a board member of Hindu American Foundation, which shares close ties with Sangh Parivar groups in the US.
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Muslim students wearing Hijab will be segregated and seated in separate classrooms. If this isnāt APARTHEID, then tell me what is?.
Karnataka: Students wearing hijab allowed entry into the campus of Government PU College, Kundapura today but they will be seated in separate classrooms. Latest visuals from the campus.
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šØ Update from Hindutva Watch. Today, our @X account was withheld in India following a legal demand from the Government of India. Three hours after the withholding of our account, we received an email from X notifying us of this action.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rhetoric against Muslims is extremely divisive and dangerous. It would only fuel more hate and violence against the already battered community.
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Anti-Muslim violence is being reported from at least 8 Indian states. The country is inching close to the trigger event that could lead to full-scale genocidal violence against Muslims. The international community must take steps to stop another Rwanda from unfolding in India.
Shops that are part of Talab Chowk Jama Masjid's structure in Khargone, MP being demolished right now!
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This is how a section of pro-government media shapes the narrative.
Update: Reports of vandalism by farmer protestors at ITO in central Delhi: buses attacked, policemen targeted. Any violence is a huge credibility loss for the farm protest organisers: will discredit their claims to keep the movement peaceful. @IndiaToday.
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Big victory against Hindu rightwing in US āļø . A federal judge in Washington DC has dismissed a frivolous lawsuit filed by rightwing group Hindu American Foundation over one of my stories published in Al Jazeera last year. HAF had sued 5 people & named me as a co-conspirator.
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Few weeks back, I posted a thread on Global Hindu Heritage Foundation (GHHF), a Texas-based supremacist group fundraising for demolishing churches in India. Today, I'll unpack GHHF's anti-minority operations in India & its connections with Hindu nationalist groups in US. š§µ1/13.
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Today, Uttar Pradesh Police (@Uppolice) illegally arrested activist Afreen Fatima's parents & now at 4 AM they are forcefully evicting her sisters out of their house to demolish it. This is the deadliest state-sponsored terrorism anyone could see anywhere in the world.
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Some Hindu right-wing orgs in the US are using my name by projecting me as a potential threat to their interests & raising money from their gullible Hindu nationalist donors. I call upon those groups to either stop using my name or sign a deal to share 15% in Royalty š¤”.
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THIS IS A FALSE CLAIM!. I reached out to Rep.Brian Kennedy who told me that citation was given to simply recognize the premiere of movie at Rhode Island College & not "Hindu Genocide in Kashmir". It isn't either a resolution approved by the state or members of House. Statement šš½.
HISTORIC:.First time in 32 years, any state in the world, the democratic & liberal state of USA -Rhode Island, has officially recognised Kashmir Genocide due to a very small film. Pl read this and decide who is the persecutor and who should get the punishment. This is #NewIndia
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Indian-Americans protest against āHowdy Yogiā car rally in Houston, Texas
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Interesting stuff from @TOIIndiaNews archives. On Oct 26, 1992, two Kashmiri pandits tried to place a time bomb in SRML School Jammu to target Muslim students from the valley who were brought there to write exams. The bomb accidentally exploded killing one & injuring the other
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āReal Hindus Donāt Lynchā. Sunita Viswanath, co-founder of US based advocacy group, Hindus for Human Rights protests infront of the United Nations in New York to seek an immediate end to lynching of minorities in India.
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Quite appalling to see @Byoussefās participation in a conclave organized by a media group whose anchors have been disseminating hate & misinformation against Muslims. Fighting hate in one part of the world while sharing stage with hatemongers in the other reeks of hypocrisy.
"I used to be a doctor that makes me practically an Indian": Satirist @Byoussef . #IndiaTodayConclave24 #BassemYoussef @ShivAroor (@Geeta_Mohan)
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Excited to share that Hindutva Watch has been selected as this yearās recipient of Eva Lassman Take Action Against Hate Award. Grateful to everyone who has stood by us, especially in the face of unjust govt ban on our work in India. We remain committed ā strong & unfettered.
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Hindu American Foundation spent more than $200,000+ (1.64 crore+) on the now-dismissed lawsuit by a federal court in Washington, DC. How much did the five defendants & nonparties spend?. A BIG ZERO!. We all had pro bono representation from one of the best law firms in the US.
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Hindu American Foundation, the advocacy group that filed a lawsuit over my @AJEnglish story last year is having a major meltdown & giving legal threats to @calstate for its system wide ban on caste based discrimination.
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A prominent Hindu rightwing figure in the United States & the board member of Hindu American Foundation has sent me a legal notice for a tweet calling him out for supporting call for mass retribution in response to the propaganda film #TheKashmirFiles 1/3
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A Hindu nationalist group in US applied for COVID relief funds claiming they donāt have money to pay their employees. But now, all of a sudden, they have money to hire a law firm that represented Trump, to threaten me with lawsuit over my AlJazeera piece on Hindu RW in the US.
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Even Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS) survey put the number of those killed between 1990- 2011 to 399. Details: MHA response šš½ 2/n
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While their children play, our children watch the demolition of their houses.
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A few months ago, News 18 reached out to me to participate in a debate hosted by one of the anchors blacklisted by the INDIA alliance. This was my two line response:
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Happy to see mainstream media covering this story that we at @HindutvaWatchIn reported 3 days ago. Interestingly, this incident was brought to our attention on June 10 by a member of local Hindu community who was disgusted by this blatant support for anti-Muslim discrimination.
When a 44-year-old Muslim woman who is employed with an arm of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Skill Development was allotted a dwelling unit in the Vadodara Municipal Corporationās (VMC) low-income group housing complex at Harni under the Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana in 2017,
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In Sept. 1990, a group of 23 prominent Kashmiri Pandits wrote an open letter, saying that the community was made āa scapegoatā by the then J&K governor Jagmohan, and BJP, RSS, and Shiv Sena also had a role in it. 4/n
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Gangsters enjoying liquor & snacks in the very same jails where Fr. Stan Swamy was made to beg for weeks to get access to a straw and sipper.
Video | Gangsters are seen enjoying liquor, snacks inside police lock-up in Delhi
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Two RSS affiliates (HSS & VHPA) in United States have invited Sadhvi Ritambharaāa violent Hindu extremist known for her anti-Muslim hate & bigotryāto deliver a religious sermon. Sadhvi played an imp. role in demolition of Babri Masjid, which followed with killing of 2,000 people
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Yesterday, a few hours before starting the demolition, the Uttar Pradesh police dropped Afreen Fatimaās mother & sister (who were illegally detained) right infront of their house to witness the bulldozing. A morally dead, vengeful, apartheid state!. #StandWithAfreenFatima.
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#KashmirFiles has been explicitly made to vilify Muslims in general & Kashmiri Muslims in particular. The hate being sowed by this film could potentially result in targeted violence against Kashmiris living across the country. Authorities must ensure their safety & security. 8/n.
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The Washington Postās editorial calls on the US President Joe Biden to address Indiaās rising Islamophobia.
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Today in Houston, Texas I was honored to receive Aminah Assilmi Award in Media Excellence - 2021 from the Sound Vision Foundation US, for my reporting on Kashmir, Indian minorities & Hindu nationalism.
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Thread on @IndiaToday's Primetime show Newstrack hosted by @rahulkanwal. In 2021, Kanwal telecasted 230 shows and referred to Muslims in 35 (15.21%). More than 91 percent of these references were negative in nature. 1/6
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In India, the ground is being prepared for using rape as a weapon of genocide.
ājiski g** mein dum ho rok le. mulle ki bahu beti ka sangat mein le jaakar balaatkaar karwaunga.".-Bajrang Muni. Women and children clap as he says this.
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Another NHRC report published in 2000 found that between 1990-2000, 157 leaders were killed, out of which 120 were Muslims and 37 were Hindus. 3/n. Details here:
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Arundhati Roy has rightly said that they (writers like Tavleen Singh) are spine-less pets, on a saffron leash, drawing massive corporate salaries and destroying the lives of people.
India has a jihadist threat that is organised and dangerous. It must be fought.| The Indian Express
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PS: In its PowerPoint presentation to the UAE delegation, the JK administration projected Kashmir as the safest place to do business & cited its lowest share in crime rates. BJP ruled Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Gujarat topped the crime chart. 11/11
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Hundreds of Hindu women take an oath to economically boycott the Muslims.
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UAPA, NSA, PSA, Sedition is reserved for Muslims only.
Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar says that UAPA wasnāt invoked in the Haridwar hate video Case as the event did not lead to violence! Then why was UAPA invoked on Siddique kappan who was reporting on Hathras?Did his reporting lead to violence -The answer is āNOā! #HaridwarHateAssembly.
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Sopore killing: Family alleges CRPF personnel of dragging the man out of his car and shooting him dead.
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Over the past 24 hours, the online rightwing mob mobilized by Hindu American Foundation has sent 100s of messages & emails with Islamophobic hate & threats of violence against me & my family. HAF targets me because I report on Hindu nationalism, the hateful ideology they adore.
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And they thought jails would scare and silence them.
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A retired Muslim police officer in Madhya Pradesh details how his Hindu neighbors tried to set his house on fire during Ram Navami. This is exactly what Hindutva hate has done to India ā pitted a Hindu against Muslim, a neighbor against neighbor.
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My latest film: . Dams in Kashmir are destroying families. A decade after being displaced by the Baglihar Dam, locals are caught in a web of poverty & debt with some experiencing mental health issues as a result of losing everything. Full film here :
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This was also close to the same gate.
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Former United States education secretary John B. King Jr., who is running for the governor office of Maryland rejects Hindutva money donated to his campaign. King Jr. called Hindutva a fascist movement & gave the donated amount to Muslim Advocates to fight anti-Muslim bigotry.
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Just days after Hindu extremists attacked Muslims in atleast 8 Indian states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing what he does bestā stoking anti-Muslim sentiment.
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I deny families their dead, my name is India and I am a ādemocracyā. MY FOOT!.
Parents of Ather Mushtaq who was killed in an alleged fake encounter demand body to be handed over to them
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The people who lived with us for years were the ones who were leading Hindutva goons in pointing to our houses, Ahmed a resident of Dorona, Madhya Pradesh told @Musheera1501 .
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In the 1990s, there were hundreds of targeted killings of people (both Muslims & Hindus) who were accused of being sympathizers of the Indian state in Kashmir. Even my uncle was one among the victims. Hence most of these killings were not motivated by their faith. 5/n.
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Infact, many Emiratis were perturbed by the massive presence of security forces. Some were extremely pissed that their international sim cards were not working in Kashmir. 10/11.
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Thousands of other Kashmiri Pandits didnāt leave, stayed back and continue to live alongside their Muslim brethren. 7/n.
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Pramod Muthalik, the chief of Hindu extremist group Sri Ram Sene gave open calls for abducting & using sexual violence against Muslim women. Just last week in UP, Hindu monk Bajrang Muni declared on loudspeaker that he would publicly rape Muslim women.
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While shocking, it's not surprising, considering Prime Minister Modi regime's history of suppressing free press & critical voices. This won't deter us! . We remain committed!. The suppression of our account in India only fuels our determination to continue our work undeterred.
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Twitter has received a request from Mumbai Police to take down my two tweets. Both the tweets contain videos of demolition of Afreen Fatimaās house. (š§µ). Also curious, why would Mumbai police report these tweets and not the UP Police?
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Stop using your festivals to unleash violence on Muslims, their homes, businesses & places of worship. Stop making us your target of convenience. We no longer need your sympathetic tweets. Go & work on fixing rot within your community. Deradicalise!. #IndianMuslimGenocideAlert.
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Ankur Dattaās book āOn Uncertain Groundā makes it very clear that āthe overall deterioration in law and order, alongside selective assassinations and the content of demonstrationsā made Kashmiri pandits leave Kashmir. 6/n. Details here:
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Yesterday, an officer from the CID wing of Jammu & Kashmir Police contacted my parents, seeking information about me, my address in US & other personal details. He then took contact numbers of all my family members. This is outright harassment. Why target my family for my work?.
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@KanganaTeam Exactly! Muslims in Delhi felt the same way when their houses were reduced to ashes by the Hindutva mob. Now you know how it feels to lose your house!.
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āThese are some of the darkest days in the history of India. We need to archive these visuals closely,ā I tell @kunalpurohit in this report on why weāre documenting/archiving hate crimes and hate speeches.
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After the UAE delegation visit last month, JKās Lt. Gov. Manoj Sinha claimed that investment in J&K will cross ā¹70,000 crores in the next 6 months. But did any Emirati sign MoU to invest in Kashmir? . NO! . 9/.
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Bal Krishen Rathore, a Dubai-based Jammu origin businessman, the man behind the whole show, who put the entire delegation together and, in fact, paid for the charter plane from his pocket, has long been a target of different Indian agencies. 2/11
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Bal Krishenās story is a clear example of how Indian authorities use arm-twisting to force affluent Indian expats to bring investment and promote their sense of "normalcy" in Kashmir. But is it really working out? . 8/11.
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This threat of legal action is part of a dangerous campaign in the US to silence and intimidate journalists who report on Hindu nationalism. Journalists in the US: Donāt let the Hindu right-wing bully you. Fight them backā legally.
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Twitter has unfairly suspended the account of Hindutva Watch (@HindutvaWatchIn), a US-based research and news org reporting on Indian minorities. This ban must be revoked immediately! . Please look into it: @elonmusk @ellagirwin @TwitterSupport @verified @TwitterSafety.
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JK Police under the direct command of Home Minister Amit Shah at your service šš½ 9/n
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Received this text on my cell asking me to āSTOPā and that Iām being tracked and will be prosecuted. Is the Indian government planning to kidnap critics from abroad and prosecute them in India? . Just wanted to share this text for the record! @uspresstracker
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Statement given to me by Brian Patrick Kennedy, State Representative, Rhode Island, US
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These pictures are from Houston, Texas . Today, hundreds of Indian Americans organized a protest against the Hijab ban on campuses by Prime Minister Narendra Modiās party in Karnataka state. āHijab ban in India is apartheid,āread one placard. #HijabRow
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