A Brief List of the Destruction of Temples in Ancient India

The Arabs, Turks and Mongols, too, have a horrifying record regarding human rights. The number of victims killed also goes into many millions, and many of them were Indians. The Muslims invaded India already over thousand years ago and were as brutal as ISIS in our times. Unspeakable torture and beheadings were done on massive scale.

Even the supposedly benign “Akbar the Great” slaughtered Hindus in huge numbers. The collective sacred threads of the Brahmins massacred by him is said to have weighed 200 kilogram. Can one even imagine such incredible injustice and brutality to civilians and priests? Thousands of temples were destroyed. Hindu women were sold into sex slavery. Hindus even had to open their mouth and receive gratefully the spittle by Muslims sitting on horses, and slaughtering cows was seen as “noblest deed” because it was so painful for Hindus, is recounted in “Legacy of Jihad” by Andrew Bostom.

The brutality experienced by Hindus was so horrendous that, even in independent India, they hardly dare to complain when they are subjected to cruel discrimination. It is painful to read comments whenever Hindus are killed or raped by Muslims: “This won’t make news, as the victim is only a Hindu”. It is so sad, but understandable after what they have gone through for over thousand years. They had no way to get justice; had to bear their suffering silently. Guru Nanak cried out to the Supreme, and it is part of the Grant Sahib, “Having lifted Islam to its head, You have engulfed Hindustan in dread… Such cruelties they have inflicted and yet Your mercy remains unmoved….Oh Lord, these dogs have destroyed the diamond-like Hindustan.”

The British colonial masters were not less brutal. Their disdain for the natives was incredible. Winston Churchill is on record saying that he “hated Indians” and considered them a “beastly people with a beastly religion”. Celebrities like Charles Dickens wanted the Indian race ‘exterminated’ and considered them vile savages and Max Mueller wanted them all converted to Christianity. Britain looted and reduced the formerly wealthiest country of the world to painful poverty, where during their rule over 25 million people starved to death, 3 million as late as in 1943 in Bengal. The crimes of the British colonialists are, like those of the Muslim invaders, too numerous to list.

Dr Shashi Tharoor's latest book is Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, a blistering post-colonial reassessment, exposing the sins of an empire. It tracks the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj. They should return the Kohinoor Diamond mounted on the bloody Queen's crown. All the Indian stuff (Loot) looted from India kept in brit museums. The wealth, property businesses of all the descendants of current day brits who were in the English East India Company. That would be atonement. Churchill's statue should be removed, for being the bloody monster he was.

Today's British generation need to be taught about their great grandfather's looting history. British museums are full of artifacts looted from India. UK is still living on the loots from India. India built its own space, Nuclear and IT without British. Please STOP Saying Great Britain! What's great about them, a bunch of thieves.

He has this feeling that only he alone can be PM for the country. DAP and Amanah should wake up from their stupor and not be so gullible.

XoXo: Thanks and no thanks, Mahathir. If you are not going to support Anwar as PM, then it is definitely more palatable to the voters and supporters of Harapan in GE14 for Anwar to give his support to Muhyiddin and he, Anwar, to be the deputy prime minister. This should be the next best alternative, now that Umno and PAS are contemplating to dump Muhyiddin.

Anwar and PKR, together with DAP and Amanah, should give Muhyiddin support on two conditions; 1) Muhyiddin must commit to the reformasi agenda of Harapan, and 2) Muhyiddin must get rid of Azmin Ali's faction of PKR traitors.

Otak-Otak: If he is not eccentric, what is? He resigned, which means he doesn't want to be PM anymore, and all this while he made it 'clear' that he would never allow Anwar to be PM, and now he cannot accept Muhyiddin as PM too. If he thinks only he can be PM as long as he is living, then why on earth did he resign in the first place?

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(Disclosure: Gerakbudaya has published a couple of volumes of my articles and I consider its founder, Pak Chong, a friend.)

COMMENT | I am not surprised that the political establishment, while beset by problems, has decided to retreat to "patriotism" as a means to radicalise a certain section of the population. This idea that "altering" a national symbol means a lack of patriotism or the publication of a book with such art is somehow anathema to national unity is a continuing narrative meant to divide Malaysians further.

I have never understood (and I say this as someone who served in the state security apparatus) how anyone could enforce love of a country or reverence for "national symbols". Most times, the people who are most vocal about respecting these symbols have never served the country in any capacity, beyond serving political parties or their various proxies.

On Wednesday, Mr Morrison announced a $270 billion boost to defence while he offered a grim outlook on what he described as a "poorer, more dangerous" post-coronavirus world. The Prime Minister outlined a 10-year funding model as part the government's 2020 National Defence Strategy, committing to defence funding that would go beyond two per cent of GDP.

The strategy centred around a three-objective approach to shape the region, deter foreign powers and respond to impending threats. Mr Bolt said the communist regime under Xi Jinping is getting “too carried away with their nationalism”.

Ruined Church in Turkey by the Turks

“Turkish authorities have started to simply assign land owned by a community or a private person to other owners, in effect expropriating it from the Christians. During the armed confrontation with the Kurds, churches in this part of the country have also been destroyed.”

Since 2016 and before that, Jihad Watch has been reporting about how rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey was escalating the persecution of Christians, some of whom even live in fear of their own neighbors killing them. Attacks on Christian cemeteries in Turkey have also increased. In March, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” disrupted a Christian funeral.

Scholar Alexander Görlach also noted that the Turkish government was taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic and recession to pressure and scapegoat Christians. And while the West welcomes Muslim migrants, “In the wake of the recent Turkish military offensive in northern Syria, some 200,000 people, many of them Christians, have been forced to flee their homes.

The persecution of Christians in Turkey continues. While the world is busy fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, dealing with mass unemployment and a global recession, the Turkish government is taking advantage of the situation to further pressure minorities. The marginalization of Turkey’s Christians isn’t new for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: He’s been busy reorganizing his secular republic into a mixture of Ottomanism and Islam for some time now.

Recently, the Syriac-Aramaic Christians in the country’s southeast, in particular, had to fear for their rights and property. This religious community is one of the world’s oldest churches. Aramaic, the language the community uses in worship, is thought to have been spoken by Jesus Christ himself.

Voice of Europe

That’s precisely why Google, Facebook, and Twitter targeted it for destruction. And they won’t stop with Voice of Europe. They’re determined to silence all of us, and their endeavor is well on its way to success, with virtually no pushback from anyone. The freedom of speech and free society as a whole is on the brink, but the people being targeted and destroyed have already been smeared to the degree that no one wants to spring to their defense and get tarred in the same way. “Farewell,” by Arthur Lyons, Voice of Europe, June 22, 2020:

Dear Followers,

The editorial staff at Voice of Europe’s regrets to inform you, our readers, that we will be ceasing our news publishing operations indefinitely. Our decision, of course, comes with the heaviest of hearts and follows months of increased censorship from Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

The Victims of the Reading stabbings

The penalty for homosexual acts in Islamic law is death. “While the police declared it as a terror incident, it was not clear if it was a homophobic attack or a hate crime, as many users on social media claimed it was.” It may have been both a terror attack and one targeting homosexuals.

The Reading attack has been a case where media and authorities have bent over backwards to conceal important information. But when added up, the available evidence strong suggests that the government is downplaying yet another jihad attack. Forbury Gardens, where the “frenzied attack” took place, was also the venue for a Black Lives Matter protest earlier that day.

More details about the Reading terror attack can be found HERE. “Three Gay Friends Killed in U.K. Terror Attack,” by Daniel Reynolds, Advocate, June 24, 2020:

Glasgow Knife Attack

Jihad Watch : Jihad? Maybe. If it is, will authorities ever acknowledge that? Probably not.  “Knifeman ‘stabs three victims dead in Glasgow hotel before being shot by armed police’ as major incident is declared,” by Martin Robinson, Mailonline, June 26, 2020:

Glasgow is on lockdown today amid unconfirmed reports that three people have been stabbed to death in a hotel stairwell by an attacker who knifed a policeman before being shot dead by armed officers. The Scottish city centre is on lockdown after Police Scotland declared a ‘major incident’ at around 1pm before officers with automatic weapons stormed the Park Inn hotel in West George Street.

Traditionally, India has been controlling Fingers 1 to 4. There is even an Indian post near Finger 4. The area between Finger 4 and 8 has been a matter of dispute and it is called as a grey area. But this year in 2020, the Chinese troops have built a camp on finger 4.

Children were a means to an end for the IS: Young boys - condemned to kill and die for the caliphate. Teenage girls, kidnapped, raped and enslaved. But not all children were abducted by the IS warriors. Hundreds of them were brought to Syria by European parents to serve the caliphate.

All these children are victims of a reign of terror, but they can become perpetrators at any time - even in their countries of origin in Europe. The so-called Islamic State is considered defeated. Former fighters are returning to their homelands - including Germany. But what does it mean for these IS returnees when they have to realize that their dream of the "Islamic world revolution", for which they left their homeland, has shattered?

What does it mean for society and the security authorities to accept the former fighters back into European countries? Are they an uncontrollable terrorist potential? And what is happening to the European citizens who are currently still in Iraq and Syria - men, women and children who are now in camps and prisons there?

Steve Green

As the city of Minneapolis moves to dismantle its police force, Minnesota state Rep. Steve Green on Tuesday stated the obvious that virtually everyone else has been tiptoeing around and pretending isn’t there: “What you’re looking at, in my humble opinion, is communism moving into Minneapolis and St. Paul.” And not just Communism, but the Leftist/Islamic alliance. Green asserted that Antifa and Muslim organizations plan to “police Minneapolis under Muslim rule.” Those who scoff at such a notion simply aren’t paying attention to recent developments.

The Minneapolis City Council voted two weeks ago to abolish the city’s police force. Its plans beyond that have so far been sketchy, but something is going to have to be put in place as an alternative to the police. The New York Times noted that “many have called for relying more on self-policing by the community, in the way attendees often do at events like music festivals, with the police stepping in only when a true emergency arises. Some cited as an example how, in the days after the killing of Mr. Floyd, teams made up of dozens of members of the American Indian Movement patrolled streets and directed traffic in the Little Earth housing community in Minneapolis.”

If members of the local community end up policing Minneapolis, what might that look like? Back in 2016, a series of Minneapolis Muslims in man-on-the-street interviews stated matter-of-factly that they preferred Islamic law over American law. We have seen Sharia patrols in Germany, Britain, and even New York City, where the Muslim Community Patrol (MCP) is decked out in uniforms that strong resemble New York Police Department uniforms, and drives cars carefully designed to look like NYPD cars, to enforce “fundamentals of the Sharia.”

Muslim leader Siraj Wahhaj explained what that meant: “The mosques need protection and the MCP cars can help stop people who were not following the rules and regulations of the sharia, doing what they’re not supposed to be doing, but still doing it.” According to a Muslim involved with the MCP, this would involve stopping “Muslim women being out after dark, Muslim men hanging out in the corners doing dope, Muslims drinking liquor,” and enforcing, “basically, the fundamentals of the Sharia.”

If such a community patrol is launched in Minneapolis, it is likely to focus on the same things, but not do anything about the fact that the 5^th Congressional District in Minneapolis, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district, is the jihad terror recruitment capital of the United States. Stopping young Muslims from engaging in jihad activity is unlikely to be a high priority for a group that is dedicated to enforcing Sharia, since Sharia calls upon Muslims to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers.

The Sharia enforcers’ hard-Left allies in Antifa would have no problem with this. Islam historically has never had any difficulty coexisting with authoritarian governments; in fact, it is free republics that have never proved to be compatible with Islamic law. Consequently, Steve Green’s words don’t appear farfetched at all. The unholy alliance of Leftists and Islamic supremacists sees that its moment is now, and is grabbing all it can. How likely is it that Minneapolis really could end up under Islamic rule, with the blessing and cooperation of the hard-Left?

According to the Minnesota Reformer, another Minnesota state Representative, Mohamud Noor of Minneapolis, did not deny the truth of Green’s statements. Instead, when asked about them, he “said rather than talk about things that inflame people and create division, Minnesota needs to address the challenge before it.” And of course, talk of Antifa/Islamic rule in Minneapolis might “inflame people,” so keep quiet. Keep quiet, that is, if you oppose such an eventuality, not if you favor it. Said Noor: “Minnesota is awake. They understand the challenges; they have been hearing the challenges for far too long. And we can’t wait any longer.” Steve Green may turn out to have been a prophetic voice far sooner than anyone expects.

Harris Sultan

“Muslim ‘blogger’ threatens to murder ex-Muslim’s pet dog and slaughter him and his family live on TV for ‘criticizing Islam,’” OpIndia, June 20, 2020 An Ex-Muslim atheist has urged people on social media to help authorities trace a Muslim blogger in the United Kingdom after the latter threatened him and his family in one of his blogs. The blogger took offence at Harris Sultan for allegedly criticising Islam. Harris Sultan has authored a book, ‘The Curse of God: Why I left Islam’.

In the video shared by Sultan, the Muslim blogger says, “So, Harris, tell me, you are speaking about women’s rights, basically you want them to run around naked, sure that’s your opinion but when you target Islam, it becomes personal for us and we have to reply to you. Get it?” He continued, “To us, they are our family, they live in our hearts. Anyone who targets my prophet or Allah, I will go after his family.”

The blogger then went on to say that he has stalked Sultan’s family on Instagram and Facebook. He says that he has stalked the Facebook profiles of Sultan’s mother, his sister and his ‘white’ wife. The blogger says that all the information has been downloaded and everything is on file. The blogger further says, “Now I will slaughter them live on TV, in front of everyone.” The blogger also speaks of killing Sultan’s pet dog….

Stuttgart Riots

With a seemingly strange proposal, German authorities now want to prevent the devastation of the weekend from being repeated: a ban on alcohol in downtown Stuttgart is to fix it. Up to 500 people recently rioted in Stuttgart, numerous videos show both the extent and the fact that mainly immigrants took part. Later, the police even admitted that out of 24 people arrested – eight are in custody – the majority were from a migrant background and a “colorful mix across the globe” was responsible for the riots. “Party scene” as an eye opener for alcohol bans.

Obviously you don’t want to separate yourself completely from the original and much-criticized narrative of the “party scene”. Because in Baden-Württemberg, which is governed by black and green, they now want to develop a ten-point concept. According to Krone, this includes the usual control measures and video surveillance, as well as alcohol and residence bans in the catalog.

CDU State Minister of the Interior Thomas Strobl also wants to help the city of Stuttgart with the creation of its own security concept. He justified his push for the restricted zones as follows: “I hope that the night from Saturday to Sunday opened some eyes.” The inclined observer may assess whether he is among the sighted now … Effectiveness of a ban on alcohol is doubtful.

In fact, there was significant intoxication among those arrested. A 23-year-old had about 2.23 per thousand alcohol in the blood. In view of documented “Allahu Akbar” calls, the question also arises whether such a ban really applies.

Attack in Reading

The Telegraph understands the incident is being treated as terror-related. A source told the Telegraph there were three individuals declared dead at the scene and two transferred to the emergency department of Royal Berkshire Hospital, where they are receiving resuscitation. Thames Valley Police said: “A number of people sustained injuries and were taken to hospital. A police cordon is in place in Forbury Gardens as officers investigate. We are asking the public to avoid the area at this time.”

Eye-witness accounts on social media have reported paramedics and police tending to wounded people in the park. PA: Suspect is Libyan A security source has told the Press Association that the man who has been arrested is Libyan.

10:43PM

‘He stabbed people in the neck’

An eyewitness has described how the attacker stabbed people in the neck and set upon a group of 10 people. Lawrence Wort, 20, a personal trainer from Chippenham, told the Press Association: “So the park was pretty full, a lot of people sat around drinking with friends when one lone person walked through, suddenly shouted some unintelligible words and went around a large group of around 10, trying to stab them.

“He stabbed three of them, severely in the neck, and under the arms, and then turned and started running towards me, and we turned and started running. “When he realised that he couldn’t catch us, he tried to stab another group sat down, he got one person in the back of the neck and then when he realised everyone was starting to run, he ran out the park.”

10:37PM

Incident ‘terror-related’

Only when he is sure that no storm is brewing, he starts to prepare the children for the trip over the river. It is a route that is so notorious, that it even has a name: Chadar- the path over the cloak of ice. One last time, his ten year old son Motup, plays in front of their hut. Motup is one of the few kids who regularly leave the village in order to attend one of the the better schools in town. Then the family gets ready for the long trip.

The mother has sewn thick wool socks for the father and the children, and Tebean prayers and mantras are recited for protection along the way. Then the trip begins, where the children muss trust completely the experience and skill of their father. The first steps, only a few kilometres until the frozen river, seem easy for the family. But father Latak recognizes immediately that the spring has come early this year and the sun has already began to compromise the ice. This is not a good sign, since the thinner the ice the more dangerous the trip becomes.

Latak goes before the children and tests with a stick before each step on the ice. Often the ice cracks a bit, but the ice remains whole. Latak knows that no one should travel the Chadar without a good reason. But the education of the children is a good enough reason to take on the risks involved. He knows that if he goes first and the ice carries his weight, that it will also carry the weight of the children. If it does not, it will be he that will fall in the icy water and not his two children.

At the same time, Latak, Motup and the other members of the crew must keep a close eye on the mountains. The massive mountain ranges on both sides of them seem to be a scene form a picture book, peaceful and lordly. But there is danger lurking. At any given time, an avalanche can break out. Many times before people have been caught by avalanches here. In the mean time the sun has already thawed the middle of the river. But since there are steep rocks right and left, Latak must now search for a new path for them to continue on.

He leaves Motup behind him and luckily finds a way. It is a 20 cm wide path on the rocks at the edge of the river, and up to ten meters high. They need almost an hour, skipping from rock to rock until they finally reach an area where the river is again covered with ice. Now they must find a place to set up camp as soon as possible before it becomes dark and the temperatures sink to as low as -30 degrees Celsius. Latak knows a cave where they will be protected and finally be able to get some rest.

They must gather their strength because the most dangerous part of the Chadar still lies before them. The ice is almost completely melted. Only a 50 cm wide strip borders right and left the ice-cold water, making the river absolutely impassible. Rocky overhangs above the ice block the way. Father and son must now crawl its way to school. Father Latak tests his way over the ice on his belly. After any progress made, he pulls his son by their hands to him.

Legend says the Kalash are descendants of Greek troops who settled here during the campaigns of Alexander the Great. But the tale is debatable. DNA researchers suspect they originated in Afghanistan, but the Kalash cling to the story, saying they are of western and European appearance.

Over the course of history, most of them were forcibly converted to Islam or killed. A small part of the community, however, survived in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They are polytheists and live in a very traditional way, far from the modern, big cities. The younger generation often has to decide whether to stick to tradition or pursue a modern life.

Many are engaged in a balancing act between the desire to maintain their culture and religion and the opportunity to move beyond the limited opportunities of their home villages. This film asks the Kalash how they see the future of their traditions.

Even though their comrades died. It's the highest standard of discipline as per their rules of engagement. Not any Military does that. This is a first.

From my friend from many years ago, 1994 from the Jammu Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment (JAKLI) aka Sherwani Regiment. Met him in Xuddur near the Ethiopian Border during my World food Program Runs. Whilst in Somalia from December 1993 until July of 1994. I knew this Officer very well and stayed in touch with him for all these years. Gave him my Malaysian Army raincoat and shotgun rounds which were from the Norwegian Army, I got that from the Norcoy (Norwegian Company).

He has retired a long time ago from the Indian Military. He got this from his former subordinates. This is not the official version. Yesterday afternoon there was a disengagement meeting. It went well. In the evening 2 patrols went to verify that the disengagement had in fact been carried out. Note this does not reflect LAC claims - each was meant to withdraw 2-3 kilometres back to their permanent outposts.

The first smaller patrol did in fact as speculated in the quoted tweets, come across the Chinese staying put. A fight broke out, at the edge of a narrow mountain path on the side of a steep feature. The initial Chinese patrol was much bigger and some of our soldiers had been taken. Within minutes the Indian second patrol joined in to help. Then within 15-20 mins the second Chinese patrol also joined in. Remember this is a precarious trail and  by the time both patrols of both countries joined in there was a virtual melee.

This was compounded by the fact the initial deaths meant there was absolutely no backing down for either side. In the end reinforcements were called up. The fight blew up to about 200-300 men. the bad news is several of our men did fall into the ravine. Having happened at night and with chest deep water recovery operations have been hampered. Also due to their sheer superiority of numbers, part of the ridge collapse under the weight of the Chinese.

Total casualties on the Chinese side are expected to be around 40-50, significant fatalities given the sheer drop and jagged rocks. Indian fatalities also resulted from pushing off the ridge as indicated earlier in the quoted tweet, our fatality numbers will rise. Efforts on to ascertain if the missing are apprehended or fell into the ravine. It’s probably better news if they are in fact hostages, the Chinese CO is also among the Chinese dead.

Apparently during the “landslide” or whatever it was,  resulted in most of the Chinese casualties.

At an AF Base certain. There are small nimble aircrafts indigenous to India with a significant air to air capability. IAF has deployed units closer to LAC. ChiComs are not expecting small nimble fast aircraft carrying a big stick

Q & A on Three former Indian Prime Ministers.

Q1: Who is the lady by name Thussu Rahman Bai?
A: Mother of former Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

Q2: Who is the father of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru?
A: Mr. Mubarak Ali.

Q3: What is the relationship between Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru?
A: Motilal Nehru is second husband of Thussu Rahman Bai, after the death of Mubarak Ali. Motilal was working as employee of Mubarak Ali and she is the second wife for him. So Motilal Nehru is step father of Jawaharlal.

Q4. Is Jawaharlal Nehru Kashmir Pandit by birth?
A: No. Both father and mother are muslims.

Q5. Did Jawaharlal Nehru's name got because of his step father?.
A. May be. I don't know. But Motilal himself is not Kashmir Pandit.

Q6. Who is the father of Motilal and how did Pandit got annexed with his name?
A: Motilal's father is Ghiyasuddin Ghazi's of Jamuna canal (Naher) who fled Delhi after Mutiny of 1857 and went to Kashmir.  There he decided to change his name to Gangadhar Nehru ('Nehri' became 'Nehru') and put Pandit in front of the name to give people no chance to even ask his caste. With a cap (topi) on his head Pandit Gangadhar Nehru moved to Allahabad.  His son Motilal completed a degree in Law and started working for a Law firm.

Q7: Who are the Parents of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi?
A: Jawaharlal Nehru, a Muslim and  Kamla Kaul Nehru, a Kashmiri Pandit.

Q8: Who are the parents of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi?
A:  Jehangir Feroz Khan (Persian Muslims) and Indira Priyadarshini Nehru alias Mamuna Begum Khan.

Indira Priyadarshini Nehru alias Mamuna Begum Khan-w/o Jehangir Feroz Khan (Persian Muslims), who later changed his name to Gandhi on advice of Mohandas K.  Gandhi.

They had Two sons Rajiv Khan (father Feroze Jehangir Khan) and Sanjeev Khan (name later changed to Sanjay Gandhi).

Q9. Are Jawaharlal Nehru (Former Prime Minister of India), Muhammed Ali Jinnaa (Former Prime Minister of Pakistan) and Sheikh Abdullah (Former Kashmir Chief Minister) interrelated to each other?

A: YES.
Mothers of the Three people mentioned above had same husband Motilal Nehru.
Jinnaa's mother is Motilal's 4th wife.
Abdulla is through Motilal's 5th wife.
So both had common father while their father Motilal is step father to Jawaharlal.

Q10. Where did you get all these answers, while I do not find any such info in History Books I studied?

Ignatius Joseph III Younan

And so his primary concern is not stopping the persecution of Christians, but stopping Donald Trump. In contrast, Ignace Joseph III Younan, Matthew Hassan Kukah, and Yousif Habash are Christians who live in areas where Christians have suffered severe persecution by Muslims.

Thus they have a more realistic view. “Bishops in Middle East and Nigeria Applaud Trump’s Religious-Liberty Executive Order,” by Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, June 10, 2020:

Official Statement-
During the de-escalation process underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place yesterday night with casualties. The loss of lives on the Indian side includes an officer and two soldiers.@indiatvnews @adgpi

— Manish Prasad (@manishindiatv) June 16, 2020

Top officers of India Army were at the valley to take stock of the situation. This is for the first time in 40 years that such a deadly clash has taken place at the LAC. One Indian Army colonel, two jawans have been martyred in clash with Chinese troops at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Galwan Valley in the Eastern Ladakh region.

Top officers of India Army were at the valley to take stock of the situation. This is for the first time in 40 years that such a deadly clash has taken place at the LAC. According to India Army Official Statement, "During the de-escalation process underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place yesterday night with casualties. The loss of lives on the Indian side includes an officer and two soldiers."

Chester Arthur

Today [June 10] is the renowned bluesman Howlin’ Wolf’s birthday, offering us a reminder that even through times of segregation and genuine “systemic racism,” race relations in America were not always as overheated and tense as they are today. When Wolf was born on this day in 1910, he was named Chester Arthur Burnett, after the twenty-first president of the United States, Chester Arthur. This was because Arthur, who was president from September 1881 to March 1885, was a champion of civil rights in an age when very few were. Although Arthur is forgotten today, a quarter-century after his death, Wolf’s parents demonstrated that they remembered his efforts for black Americans.

As explained in Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster, when Arthur was twenty-five in 1854, he joined the law firm of Erastus D. Culver, at which he formed part of a legal team that argued successfully for the freedom of any slaves that their owners brought to New York.

Arthur also led the defense team for a black woman, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, who was not allowed to ride a New York City streetcar. The future president won the case, and New York City streetcars were desegregated, one hundred years before Rosa Parks, courtesy of Chester Arthur.

When the Republican Arthur became president after the assassination of James A. Garfield, the Democratic Party was in firm control of the “solid South,” and systematically denied black Americans their rights. But Arthur continued to stand for the equality of rights of all people before the law. He deplored the Democratic takeover of the South and worked with third parties in the South to try to build a coalition that would dislodge the Democrats from power and end the denial of civil rights to black Americans. There is much more.

Maulana Sayyid Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad, he was the First Minister of Education for INDIA after Independence. Azad was born on 11 November 1888 in Makkah, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. His real name was Sayyid Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al Hussaini, but he eventually became known as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. Azad's father was a Bengali Muslim scholar of Afghan ancestry, who lived in Delhi with his maternal grandfather, as his father had died at a very young age. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, he left India and settled in Mecca.

His father Maulana Sayyid Muhammad Khairuddin bin Ahmed Al Hussaini wrote twelve books, had thousands of disciples, and claimed noble ancestry, while his mother was Sheikha Alia bint Mohammad, the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad bin Zaher AlWatri, himself a reputed scholar from Medina who had a reputation that extended even outside of Arabia. 

The Guardian : Sir Vidia, born in Trinidad of Indian parentage, who travelled extensively in the Muslim world for his books Among the Believers and Beyond Belief, launched his attack after a reading of his new book, Half a Life, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Islam, he claimed, had both enslaved and attempted to wipe out other cultures."It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'." Sign up for Bookmarks: discover new books in our weekly email Read more Sir Vidia claimed what he called "this abolition of the self demanded by Muslims was worse than the similar colonial abolition of identity. It is much, much worse in fact... You cannot just say you came out of nothing." He argued that Pakistan was the living proof of the damage Islam could wreak.

"The story of Pakistan is a terror story actually. It started with a poet who thought that Muslims were so highly evolved that they should have a special place in India for themselves. "This wish to sift countries of unnecessary and irrelevant populations is terrible and this is exactly what happened in Pakistan."

Marwan Tabbara

As Marwan Tabbara sat in jail on Easter weekend after his arrest on allegations he broke into a home he had stalked for months and assaulted a man and woman inside, the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament may have thought his world was about to explode. Instead, he slipped out the next day, after a bail hearing held via video with a court official 120 kilometres away from his Ontario riding, and with local police not saying a word.

As Ontario MP Marwan Tabbara sat in jail over Easter, there was no backlash because nobody knew The Prime Minister’s Office didn’t crash down on him, TV cameras weren't at his home, there were no embarrassing headlines Marwan Tabbara, 35, is charged with two counts of assault, one count of break and enter and commit an indictable offence and one count of criminal harassment. As Marwan Tabbara sat in jail on Easter weekend after his arrest on allegations he broke into a home he had stalked for months and assaulted a man and woman inside, the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament may have thought his world was about to explode.

Instead, he slipped out the next day, after a bail hearing held via video with a court official 120 kilometres away from his Ontario riding, and with local police not saying a word. The Prime Minister’s Office didn’t crash down on him, TV cameras weren’t parked outside his home, there were no embarrassing headlines.

Rather than fielding calls from concerned constituents, Tabbara sent out a Facebook message. “Thank you, Frontline workers and your families in Kitchener. We are thinking of you and thank you for keeping us healthy,” it said, above a video of local paramedics and police officers driving past a Kitchener hospital to honour medical workers in the COVID-19 fight. There was no backlash: because nobody knew.