While the MEA, India has rejected USCIRF locus standi, no one realized that the Report was a result of a planned lobbying effort to influence USCIRF by US Islamic Circle of North America & its fronts. ICNA has links with Jamaat-e-Islami & terror grps like, HM, LeT & SIMI.(2/n)
The ICNA fronts operate in various names (Justice for All; Save India; Free Kashmir) to hide their affiliations but are run by the same set of people. Two key people are Shaik Ubaid and Abdul Mujahid who were associated with ICNA having close links with Jamaat-e-Islami. (3/n)
The grps founded by Ubaid & Mujahid have hired US Lobby firm Fidelis Govt Relations (FGR) since 2013-14. FGR is led by Terry Allen who is associated wid USCIRF Commissioner Maenza since 2012; had joined ‘Patriotic Voices’ in 2015 as Senior Advisor where Maenza ws President.(4/n)
These Fronts collect Zakaat in the name of Rohingiyas and Uyghurs and use the money to lobby against India. E.g. the Umbrella front ‘Justice for All’ spent US$50,000 on Facebook ads in the US to collect fund. Similar expenses are done in other areas - Canada, Europe and Asia.5/n
In addition, they also run ads on Google and YouTube. They have paid $ 3,22,000 (INR 2,41,00,000) to FGR between 2013-2020 for the purpose. (6/n)
These lobbying efforts are very effective. In 2014 Report USCIRF changed India’s map, removing J&K, Ladakh and Arunanchal from India. In 2020 Report they had removed the map, but in 2021 Report, the disputed map is introduced again! (7/n)
Thanks to lobbying, by 2018 key USCIRF functionaries - Nadine Maenza, Anurima Bhargava, and Harrison Akins - start appearing in several events hosted by Justice for All, Sound Vision and IAMC - the fronts that spend money to lobby USCIRF against India! (8/n)
By 2020 the Fronts managed to influence USCIRF sufficient to get India designated as CPC,& in 2021. Shaik Ubaid & Co were not only instrumental in managing Report, but also in amplifying. As graph below shows, all mentions of USCIRF on Twitter are led by these fronts alone. (9/n)
The grp also deploys fake handles fr amplification. A total of 1748 fake handles wr created between Jan to Apr 2020; of which about 750 handles wr created in month of Apr- the same month the report was published. The handles dominated all the discourse on the USCIRF report.(10/n)
And then there are more ‘concerned individuals’ like Ajit Sahi who put in so much effort to amplify the Report. Sahi is both in Quill Foundation and also in IAMC Advocacy group and have been previously known for publishing series of articles defending SIMI. (11/n)
Old wine in new bottle:
The IAMC has recently created a new front IACSJ ostensibly to work for social justice, but with the real motive of maligning the image of India. Surprisingly the first follower of IACSJ on Twitter was USCIRF Commissioner Nadine Maenza (12/n)
Likewise, another Front ‘Save India’ is also IAMC Front which was being run earlier as ImanNet, a Muslim Network site launched by Shaik Ubaid. The Burma Task Force, founded by Shaik Ubaid, was earlier known as Burma Muslims on Facebook (between 2012-17). (13/n)
Terror Links of These Fronts:
The 2 key players Abdul Malik Mujahid and Shaik Ubaid were the Head (Ameer) and Secretary of the ICNA respectively in 1996 and since then have been operating various fronts under the umbrella of ICNA. (14/n)
Sound Vision & SIMI:
SIMI, founded by Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi was banned in 2001 for terror links & later it was declared a terrorist organization. This Ahmadullah Siddiqi is now serving as the Executive Director of Sound Vision which is powering Justice For All front.(15/n)
ICNA claims to be advocacy forum, but its sister NGO, HHRD has ties with global terror groups - JeI, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul. HHRD has also been providing funds to Al-Khidmat. ICNA Magazine “The Messenger” had celebrated Jihad in Kashmir in which “Hindu Soldiers” died. (16/n)
ICNA & Jamaat: ICNA felicitated Nizami of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami & Al-Badr, who was responsible for genocide of Bengali intellectuals during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. ICNA honored him posthumously for his “Outstanding Contribution” to Islam. (17/n)
Apart from this several of the president of ICNA have been from Jamaat-e-Islami like- Dr. Mohsin Ansari, Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, who is also the convict in the Genocide of Bengali intellectuals in 1971. (18/n)
India Connect:
The IAMC fronts - IACSJ and Save India - hype the narrative of rising Islamophobia in India. Both the fronts use a database to justify this - DOTO db, which is highly inflated and in part fabricated (67% of the 22,919 cases is wrong). (18/n)
The same was used to spread the fake narrative of Islamophobia in India in 2020, which was later exposed by several Fact Check sites as being run through ISPR. (19/n)
DOTO Db partners with Quill Foundation, whose Founder is Sohail KK, ex-President of Student Islamic Org. One of the editorial members of Quill is Ajit Sahi also the advocacy director of IAMC. Other prominent members in Quill are Harsh Mander & Saba Naqvi. (20/n)
To sum up:
Jamaat affiliated organizations, hand in gloves with Pak based terror groups, run anti India propaganda; collect funds in the name of Zakaat; pay the money to lobbying firms to influence USCIRF against India; (21/n)
and engage USCIRF officials through these organization and then influence them through fabricated databases and by anti-India events, manipulating them to designate India as a country of particular concern. (22/22)
Click on the link below to download the PDF of the full report!
USCIRF : An Organization Of Particular Concern #USCIRFExposed #USCIRFAnnualReport
Sudden spike in news about ‘bad’ Indian medicine – from US, Gambia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka - and emergence of Indian origin American ‘hero’ #DineshThakur.
Story of biggest assault on #IndianPharma, aided and abetted by Indian media, particularly, The Wire.
A Thread:
In Dec 2023 Livemint claimed that the US recalled ‘bad’ Indian meds. It was a headline spin – Indian med was a fraction of US meds. But why the negative spin on Indian pharma? We were interested and did what we do. Dig.
What we found was beyond shocking!
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In July'22 news came that several children died in Gambia bcoz of India-made cough syrup. WHO issued warning & news media screamed– Indian med killed Gambian children. The news was first broken by #Retures & #AlJazeera, repeated by Indian media.
An #ISIS module was busted by the NIA, headed by Saquib Nachan. Many would not know that Saquib goes back to the 1990s with Human rights ‘activist’ Bhajan Bhinder.
A trans-national - trans-generational strategy of bleeding India by thousand cuts.
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The two ‘activists’ - #ISIS fame Saquib Nachan & #OFMI fame Bhajan started together in 1992, & have been working on a two-pronged Hybrid-Warfare against India – spanning three continents and four decades.
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On Dec 10, 2023, NIA busted an #ISIS terror module of Saqib Nachan, and while his involvement in the 2002-03 Mumbai terror blasts is well known, he was also instrumental in a foiled terror attack in July 1992, identical to the deadly 93’ blasts, a year earlier.
In a long English word salad, a quarter dozen WaPo journalists in a hit piece have tried painting us somewhere between RW & RAW (no pun intended).
To do this, they recycled 2-year-old Pakistani propaganda, making it ‘ANONYMOUS.’
We dissect the ‘exposé’.
A Thread:
First, the claim of our association with Govt agencies/ RAW. The report is essentially a recycle of previous reports published by Pakistani ISPR/ Info-war machinery. The report is periodically recycled, last by known fake news peddler CJ Werleman.
Lazy Journalism!
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The only ‘upgrade’ the WaPo did was to make this Pakistani allegation as ‘anonymous’. And whatever is in addition to that is again attributed to ‘anonymous’ sources. Hence, literally, every fact claimed is ‘anonymous’. The report has more than 10 anonymous sources.
In a barely disguised revenge piece, WaPo has accused us of targeting ‘activists’ & ‘philanthropists’.
We will reply to each line in the report shortly.
Here is a question: why do WaPo’s ‘activists’ fold their shops, edit their past & disappear AFTER we expose?
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First, philanthropist #Soros
We exposed him NOT because he called for regime change in India, but because many anti-India fronts/players popped up by the Muslim Brotherhood/ Islamist Jamaat were getting funding/patronage from Soros -from #EqualityLabs to #HfHR to #DoTo.
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Rather surprising. Why would Soros fund radical Islamists?!
But it would not be surprising if you knew that Soros/ #OSF has been funding multiple #MB fronts linked to #Hamas and other terror-accused fronts.
Today we woke up to a surprise showdown with WaPo! Turned out, that Goliath is attempting a hit-piece on DisInfolab. Goliath is WaPo. Hitman is Verma, Pranshu Verma!
Trigger: Lab has exposed both Verma and WaPo, twice.
A thread:
Verma did a shoddy fan piece on #RaqibNaik and #HindutvaWatch (HW) but made NO attempt to verify the facts that:
a. HW’s backend was being managed from Pakistan.
b. Its FB page was being run from Turkey (now hidden)
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Verma also claimed that Raqib Naik founded HW. However, in his own story, he claims that someone gave the domain of HW to Naik AFTER he shifted base to the US. Some ‘anonymous activists’ must be. Then Verma forgot to square the circle.
Financial Times (FT) quoting anonymous sources reported that US thwarted an attack by India on Khalistani loudmouth Gurpatwant Singh Pannun who as per Indian media’s anonymous sources is a US Asset
But there's more to mix of Pannun/ #Khalistan-Role of UK establishment & BBC.
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Incidentally, the FT story about ‘Saving Pannun Ryan’ comes AFTER Canadian claim regarding Nijjar but the incident happened BEFORE that, or so it claimed. The article didn’t clarify why the ‘sources’ leaked it NOW.
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One such savior was BBC: about two years ago BBC did a story on a report by a UK think tank - Centre for Information Resilience (CIR). The report claimed that large-scale fake Indian handles were targeting Sikhs and farmers!