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Indian American Muslim Council
@IAMCouncil
IAMC is the largest advocacy organization of Indian Muslims in the US. We stand for peace, pluralism and justice for all.
Mar 7, 2023 • 37 tweets • 11 min read
Live Tweeting tonight's National Press Club panel event on "India: The Modi Question" and @narendramodi's suppression of press freedoms. The @PressClubDC's Steve Reilly introduces the event. "Since Modi came to power we have watched with frustration as he has refused his citizens a free and independent media. We at the National Press Club demand he respect press freedoms." @PressClubDC President Eileen O'Reilly.
Nov 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hindutva Family of Hate in the United States

Bharatiya Janata Party's foreign agent in the US, the Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP)

Political diaspora groups such as the OFBJP support India’s major Hindu nationalist political party, the BJP, ideologically & financially.

Thread/ Like other US-based Hindu Right groups, Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) began as an outreach project of members of India-based Sangh Parivar groups. Specifically, Lal Krishna Advani, one of the BJP’s co-founders and an RSS man, founded OFBJP in 1992.
Oct 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
#ALERT

US largest grassroots-based civil rights organization @NAACP's Bergen County Chapter has voiced support to @DemsTeaneck for a demand to investigate links of several Hindu American organizations with India's Hindu supremacist movement led by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.1/5 “TDMC’s resolution is a much-needed intervention to tackle the challenges posed to freedoms in the US by Hindu supremacist hate and bigotry,” the @NAACP said.
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Oct 8, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
IMPORTANT REPORT on 2020 Anti-Muslim Pogrom in Delhi, put together by retired judges Madan B Lokur, AP Shah, Anjana Prakash, RS Sodhi & former bureaucrat GK Pillai.

The ruling BJP engineered the anti-Muslim narrative and propaganda that led to violence.

iamc.com/uncertain-just… Image Polarization between communities, particularly anti-Muslim hate, was deliberately fueled in the months preceding the violence. Anti-CAA protesters were labelled “traitors” by candidates and party leaders, such as Kapil Mishra and Anurag Thakur, at election rallies.
Jul 15, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
A very important report released by @FoundationTLS on how Hindutva groups are using Facebook (@Meta) to preach anti-Muslim hate and violence

A thread on major findings 🧵

#StopFundingHate #StopIndianMuslimGenocide The report shows extensive Hindutva fan page networks are using @Meta to widely amplify hate speech and calls to violence and genocide against Indian Muslims.
May 28, 2022 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
A comprehensive & damning report on the Hindutva Infrastructure peddling, mobilizing & fundraising in the United States

Hindutva fascist groups operate a vast social ecosystem throughout India & their counterparts in the US are normalizing anti-Muslim hate & violence.

THREAD👇🏽 Sangh’s apparatus of influence in India, are funded and supported in large part by communities in diaspora
May 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Khargone, Madhya Pradesh needs our ATTENTION!

State police have unleashed a reign of terror against Muslims in Khargone, which was the hotspot of Hindu extremist violence in April.

Instead of taking action against Hindu rightwing, Police have filed 65 FIRs & named 599 Muslims. Since the last month, the police arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned, and tortured Muslim men. At least 150 Muslim men, including 14 minors, are currently languishing behind bars, the locals told IAMC.
May 4, 2022 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
India is one of the deadliest countries for journalists in the world: @danbast of @RSF_inter

#PressFreedomDay What has changed under the Modi government is that imprisonment, judicial harassment have become common, which is a very new phenomenon in India: @danbast of @RSF_inter
May 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
IAMC joined #EidAlFitr celebrations at the White House at the invitation of US President Joe Biden

IAMC Executive Director @rasheedahmedusa was among the invitees that included members of the Legislative & Executive branches, as well as leaders of the American Muslim community. “On behalf of IAMC, the largest civil rights organization of Indian Muslims in America, it is my honor to represent the community at the White House on this holiest of days,” @rasheedahmedusa said at the event in the majestic East Room.
Apr 11, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
STATEMENT — Today, Hindu extremists in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Karnataka, and other Indian states attacked Muslims & their places of worship.

These large-scale, well-orchestrated attacks serve as a precursor to the full-blown genocide.

#StopIndianMuslimGenocide IAMC urges the international human rights organizations & civil society groups to take note of the deteriorating situation and ask the Indian government to take immediate steps to protect country’s 200 million Muslims
Mar 9, 2022 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Modi himself is a fascist, who is allowing for policies across India to target minority groups: @lsarsour We cannot allow our government to continue to align with a government like Modi's. We have to be consistent in the way that we criticize authoritarian regimes across the world. And Modi has no interest in uniting Indians, in bringing people together: @lsarsour
Dec 10, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
.@Hindus4HR & @IAMCouncil welcomed the release of renowned HR defender & lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj on Dec 9 after being incarcerated for more than 3years without trial.

We also reiterate demand for release of Umar Khalid, @KSaifi, Sharjeel Imam & hundreds of other Muslims. 1/n Ms. Bharadwaj’s release from prison rekindles the ever waning hope in the Indian judiciary’s ability to withstand fascist pressures from the Indian government that has falsely accused and jailed tens of thousands of human rights defenders,...... 2/n
Dec 10, 2021 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
A coalition of 22 human rights organizations have sent a letter to @SecBlinken over his refusal to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) as recommended by the @USCIRF. 1/n

iamc.com/22-organizatio… For the last two years, in 2020 and in 2021, @USCIRF has noted that the Indian government has been “engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRA).” 2/n
Dec 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
34 international multi-faith human rights NGOs have written a letter to @POTUS & @VP expressing deep concern that #SummitforDemocracy will ignore widespread HR violations & persecution of minorities in India as govt devolves from democracy to fascism.

iamc.com/bidens-summit-… The letter provides details and indisputable facts for 14 instances in which democracy is under attack or being abused by the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and members of his BJP/RSS party.
Sep 8, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
“ Hindu nationalism is a political ideology that advocates for Hindu supremacy and the exclusion of members of other Indian religious groups from equal participation in society, originally in India and, increasingly, in the United States” ~ @RutgersU’s @AudreyTruschke “For more than 5 years, I have received hate mail from Hindu supremacists every single day. I have been target of so many death and rape threats that I have lost count. Last week a threat was made on a general Rutgers phone number by a man spouting Hindu supremacist rhetoric.”
Sep 8, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
“There is an attempt by Hindu nationalist organizations and individuals to influence, limit and distort debates and teaching on US university campuses around Indian history, Hinduism and contemporary politics in India” ~ @Stanford professor Thomas Blom Hansen “RSS was never part of the nationalist movement, never supported India’s democratic constitution, was banned three times since 1948, including for complicity in the murder of Gandhi” ~ Prof #ThomasBlomHansen
Sep 8, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
“My great grandfather H. R. Guruva Reddy was part of the national liberation struggle against British colonial occupation of India. My grand-uncle K C Reddy was a leading figure in the struggle for independence in the state of Karnataka.” ~ @RutgersU’s @ProfessorKumar. “I grew up from a young age learning about how India was formed as Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic. And we took democracy, free speech, secularism and other such values seriously.”
Sep 8, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Delhi University Professor @Apoorvanand__ delivering his remarks on how #HinduSupremacists are choking and stifling academic freedom in India and how the very same model is being implemented in the United States “The idea of academic freedom has now become redundant in India. The primary reason for it is the complete takeover of all institutions by the ruling BJP along with Rashtriya Swaymsevak Sangh, a fascist organization" @Apoorvanand__
Aug 11, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
“India is often called as the world’s largest democracy, but it uses authoritarian means to silence the dissent” ~ @suchitrav

#CongressionalBriefing #ReleasePrisonersOfConscience “Draconian laws like UAPA is being disproportionately used to target Muslims, Kashmiris, Dalits, and Adivasis," @suchitrav #CongressionalBriefing
Aug 11, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
“Whenever someone speaks against this current ruling administration, they are likely to face social pressure to quiet them and attack their dignity" ~ @warishusain

#CongressionalBriefing #ReleasePrisonersOfConscience

Watch live here: “When it comes to human rights defenders working for the Muslim in India community- they will be called terrorists, and when it comes to those working on gender issues- they will be called prostitutes or other terms meant to destroy the dignity of the target.” #FreeUmarKhalid
Aug 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hindu right calls for violence against Muslims in India.

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