Thread by @FriedrichPieter

@mrubin1971, acting with academic disingenuity, attempts to prove that Pakistan's ISI is running a global campaign to promote vaccine hesitancy by using a SINGLE example: that I protested a donation to Sewa International, an affiliate of India's #RSS paramilitary.

https://twitter.com/mrubin1971/status/1468303200029757441

@mrubin1971, whatever his questionable motives may be, certainly must possess the basic knowledge that proving a broad claim requires referencing more than a single data point.

Thus, for instance, I can authoritatively claim that Christians in India face extreme and growing persecution because there are countless examples of speeches by Hindu nationalists, laws passed, and an actual pattern of attacks to point to as evidence proving the thesis.

Yet that is clearly, IMO, not the intention of @mrubin1971: to pull together multiple data points to actually prove his thesis. Rather, the entire purpose of his article appears to be focused solely on maligning me specifically. Dubious motivations indeed.

Furthermore, the article borders on what I would consider libelous. It flatly states, as though it is settled fact, that I have "militant associations." I do not, of course, nor would I ever be interested in having any as, if nothing else, it violates my Christian faith.

@mrubin1971 then, wisely avoiding directly claiming it & framing it as his "suspicion," makes the insane suggestion that my campaign to expose Sewa International's #RSS ties "is an information operation directed by Pakistani intelligence services."

@mrubin1971 further weaves in a number of claims about me that are simply inaccurate, including sourcing a 2013 article to claim that I am RIGHT NOW "active" as a secretary in an NGO as well as, source-lessly, claiming another organization as "my own," which it never has been.

@mrubin1971 goes on to state that I have claimed that Gandhi "promoted Hitler" — something I have definitively never once said; however, I first saw that accusation from HAF in 2019 (also made then without a source), which furthers my suspicions about Rubin's motivations.

I strongly believe that multiple aspects of this article rise to the point of libel and will be considering legal action. I demand that @TheNatlInterest and @AEI, both of whom have published this, retract it and publicly apologize for it.