Context: RSS #Hindtutva follower Nathuram Godse shot #Gandhi because he "loved Muslims." RSS destroyed 15th century Babri mosque, RSS butchered & raped 1000s of Muslims in #Gujarat. RSS fanatics now more emboldened than ever since #Modi came to power in #India. Violence against 1
Muslims has reached epidemic proportions in India following reemergence of RSS, an ultra-Hindu nationalist paramilitary that models itself on Mussolini's fascists. Yes, really. Whilst many Hindus don't subscribe to its views Narendra Modi was voted into office twice via BJP, 2
political wing of RSS. Modi's a member of both. Further emboldened by visiting Hindutva hate-mongers and prominent Modi supporters in power like #Sunak and #Patel serving in UK's most Islamophobic gov't to date, its little wonder these literal thugs (Hindi origin) act like this 3
NB: The swastika is originally a symbol of Aryan Hinduism which Nazis hijacked. But there's convergence. Caste system, racial superiority etc. RSS supporters often employ European far-right language to abuse Muslims and others. So, stop going for @Majstar7 and educate yourself. 4
PS. This is atypical behaviour for UK Hindus. As already occurred in #Leicester culprits will be outnumbered and may be arrested. Unfortunately or not, when it comes to gangs, prison & street fights Muslims will outdo them. Just remain cool & dignified against the fascists. 5
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This "breaking" news was revealed 7 yrs ago. What's "new" is MI5 would've known all this before her #ShamimaBegum's nationality was revoked. In other words, they tacitly knowingly approved. During my time in HMP Belmarsh I met a young British man who told me a shocking story. 1
He'd been recruited & paid large sums by #MI5 to infiltrate #ISIS & report back. But after suspecting he was working both sides they arrested & prosecuted him under terror laws. His case was so sensitive much was heard in secret with unprecedented media reporting restrictions. 2
Despite being found not guilty of the main charge he was placed under TPIMs (house arrest). When that order expired he was rearrested. He remained in prison while the government sought to deport him to the land of his parents' origin - even though he was British and had 3
I met him again in 2011 at an event for girls’ library in Afghanistan organised by @yvonneridley. We spoke about #WoT, #Gitmo & #AafiaSiddiqui for whom he’d fought. CIA’s Raymond Davies had killed 3 Pakistanis in #Lahore & we discussed how this was the moment to get her back. 2/9
Khan opposed #WaronTerror from the outset. He marched in #London against #Iraq invasion. After becoming PM he bought peace and security to tribal areas and ended US drone strikes. He sought peace with #Taliban & honoured ppl of #Afghanistan. 3/9
1. US invaded #Afghanistan after #Taliban refused to hand over Bin Laden after 9/11 attacks. 2. US invaded #Iraq based on tortured “confession” of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi that AQ was working with #Saddam to get WMDs. 3. But, just like AQ, there no WMDs in Iraq - until invasion.
4. Abu Musab al-#Zarqawi left Afghanistan to set up AQI in Iraq to fight US. 5. His tactics were so brutal than even AQ central tried to curb them. 6. Shia and Sunni groups who’d both fought occupiers turned on each other while US back one against the other.
7. Abu Ghraib abuse images shocked the world but Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (#torture) first used in Kandahar, Bagram and #CIA ‘black sites.’ 8. Alleged AQ & Taliban captives sent to #Guantanamo where General Geoffrey Miller applied US approved torture methods.
What a coincidence. In a major new report, Israel has been accused by Human Rights Watch for carrying out “crimes against humanity” with the use of a system of “apartheid and persecution” against the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank. 1/6
Simultaneously, in the week that police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd, a devastating report published in the US has described police shootings of people of African decenct as “crimes against humanity.” 2/6
In both the case of Israeli state and the US police, the reports have called for a the culprit nations to be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Unfortunately, that’s where my optimism ends. 3/6
One of the rioters killed by police in Washington identified as Ashli Babbit, a 14-year veteran who served four tours with USAF as a 'high level security official.' That means she took part in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia or Syria or in the rendition of prisoners to Guantanamo 1/4
or other secret prisons. Of course, none of that matters because she was serving her country. In fact, even those who oppose Trump probably praise her service record and would otherwise have seen her as a true patriot because of it. 2/4
Now that she's been identified as part of an "insurrection" against the very nation she claimed to serve I wonder if anyone will question the machinery and system that sewed her path to violent confrontation, like they've done with Muslims for the past two decades 3/4
Don't welcome news of any death sentence but, under his leadership Pakistan was used by CIA to kidnap people from their homes in the middle of the night, in front of their families. I will never forget the night Pakistani ISI and US CIA agents stormed
into my house in the middle of the night and shutting out my life for the next three years. Musharraf boasted in his book - published by the same people who published my book - that he received "millions of dollars in bounty money" for all those he handed over.
It was under Musharraf that Pakistani airspace was used to allow bombing missions into Afghanistan that killed thousands. It was under this man that war flared up in the KPK (NWFP) region and armed UAV (drones) began targeted assassinations and brutal internal conflict.