When tech in india scales, so does Islamophobia.

Here are key findings from new CARE report:

40% of Muslim participants surveyed said that over the last year they had been called offensive names as a result of being a Muslim.

1/n 60% of the respondents reported coming across content on digital platforms stating Muslim immigrants will take over India.More in Politics :

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What in gods name is this high school essay on the blessings of the internet?

Does the author have no idea of how internet access or the lack thereof doesn't work the same way for all of us?

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hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/brun… The Indian middle class is barely 28 percent of the population and even within that, most of us don't have the leisure time to be streaming and zooming and ordering stuff online on demand.

Not to mention as pointed out by @FarhanaCvg, Kashmir had the longest internet shutdown ++

Men keep asking for evidence of Marital Rape but what they're really saying is that they don't want to hear it or acknowledge it's dark reality.

Here is a detailed and painful telling of two stories from married life by @UBhattacheryya

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mojostory.com/ground-reports… You will find here victims who are bewildered by what has happened to them. They can't believe it themselves and neither will their own families.

The social environment that incapacitates their testimony is the same one multiplied here on SM by MRAs.

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Friends, please alert your families and society WA groups:

When you receive the forwards from these websites, almost always the information is false so please make sure to fact check.

LIST
opindia.com
swarajyamag.com
Postcard.news

(Contd below) Contd list of propoganda websites:

ThefrustratedIndian.com
Shanknaad.net
InternetHindu.org
indiafacts.org.in
hindujagruti.org/news
hindupost.in
trueindologytwitter.wordpress.com
hindugenocide.com

Yemen:

Saudi led coalition airstrikes have killed 70 civilians in the past 24 hours. There is no internet.

This is happening in a situation where 10000 children r already dead, millions displaced & much of the population stands on the brink of famine ++

bbc.com/news/world-mid… "Hours after the air strike, rescue workers were still pulling bodies out of the rubble, and hopes of finding survivors are fading,"

The abuse that Kashmiri muslim women face online from H men is a whole different level.

It is territorial in nature, linked to ideas of sacred land and violent conquest.

Here's a short thread of examples, which I am posting with permission.

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"humare liye Tim meat K piece se zyada kuch nahi..."

Followed by threats of gang rape.

Widespread collective dissent by muslims in both political and cultural spheres is the only pathway towards guaranteeing their survival and dignity.

++ We, the majority, must enable for them the cultural institutions, legal guarantees and protections of the public sphere to speak and organise without fear and hesitation by providing material and ideological support.

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Genocide Watch has declared a Genocide Emergency Alert for India today at Justice For All, which is an anti-genocide human rights organization. This online briefing was attended by four hundred community and interfaith leaders from around the United States, Canada and other countries.

Women in patriarchal relationships have been brutalised for so long, there's a special term for it: Intimate Partner Violence (IVF).

1 in 3 women in India is likely to have been subjected to intimate partner violence

1/n Intimate partner violence involves abuse of a physical, emotional, or sexual nature.

And yet "only one in 10 of these women formally reports the offence to the police or healthcare professionals".

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In 2017, the Centre had opposed criminalizing marital rape, stating that the same will have the effect of destabilizing the institution of marriage.

So what's changing now? ++ The reason why men legally get away from being legally prosecuted for rape within a marriage is an exception to Section 375 of IPC, "which exempts forceful sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife from the offence of rape, provided the wife is above 15 years of age."

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There is now a fresh rot of pro-Hindutva groups on @Reddit, including a sub-Reddit titled “Muslimahs for Hindu Men,” "where Muslim women and children are sexualized in the most grotesque, dehumanizing and violent ways imaginable"

15k+ H men are enjoying this content As we speak, there are open calls for the abduction and rape of Muslim women being seen and heard on @Reddit with vast gleeful participation of H men.

If this is not evidence of a thriving ecosystem, then what exactly is?

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We still live in the same world where 127 muslims were arrested under UAPA for attending a 3 day seminar in Surat in 2001.

It took 19 years to acquit all of them. 5 of them died in the long trial process

++ Ask yourself: how are muslims supposed to organise publically against these Dharam Sansads which are an existential threat to their lives?

Wouldn't they again be risking 20 years of incarceration or worse of they tried?

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For me, M Kesavan's article wasnt just about UP elections. It was about how we as a people imagine ideas around freedom and security.

It was about how we choose to live and die under successive governments without anything fundamental changing.

++ Why do our expectations from those who protect us have nothing to do (anymore) with demands for safety, public health and collective well being?

Been listening to Kashmiris and I realise they think about this one thing a lot: dissaperance. It's not the same feeling of loss that you and I might feel.

This is something else. It's dispossession. I don't think we have the imagination to understand what they are feeling.

++ Even when they're not talking about it, they are talking about it.

They are trying to share experiences of invisibility. About being cut off. Divided. Unseen.

We are constantly talking about them. Without talking about them.

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"...the dog whistle of Islamophobia has now become a foghorn"

Do read this article by renowned author Arjun Appadurai

m.thewire.in/article/politi… ...the relationship between nationalism and violence is both intimate and two-way. We are accustomed to thinking that nationalism can lead people to kill and die in the name of the nation."

In 1951, the world decided to legally protect itself from genocide. So they codified it into a document.

This document is called The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or Genocide Convention.

India is one of the 152 signatories

1/n This convention is a response to the atrocities of the holocaust.

Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in 1944 to describe Nazi policies in occupied Europe, and the Armenian Genocide campaigned for its recognition as a crime under international law.

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Muslim women knew it was going to happen again. And the state did nothing about it.

They filed cases for Sulli deals but no FIR had been registered.

New story from @BehanBox

behanbox.com/2022/01/06/bul… The Mumbai Police had sent notices to GitHub, GoDaddy and Twitter demanding details of the app’s creators, their website and accounts. The platforms refused to provide these details and demanded a subpoena instead

Two brothers aged 28 and 31 have been raping their minor sister over a period of six years since she was 11.

She managed to speak up only when she was 17. Let that sink in.

google.com/amp/s/www.free… She said that both would assault and verbally abuse her if she protested.

In March 2016, her eldest brother had punched her in the abdomen when she refused to satisfy his lust. She then decided to lodge a police complaint.

This is a frontal assault on social sciences research programs in higher education.

A disgusting use of marketplace rationalisation to weed out any chance of critical thinking not in alignment with market initiatives.

SC/ST education is at stake too ++

google.com/amp/s/www.tele… "The listed “closed” programmes include Emeritus Fellowship, Dr S. Radhakrishnan Post Doctoral Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences, Post Doctoral Fellowship to Women Candidates and Post Doctoral Fellowship to SC-ST Candidates."

"From 20.6 per cent, the prevalence of spousal violence against women aged between 18 and 49 years has risen to 44.4 per cent."

google.com/amp/s/www.newi… Forms od violence include: 'arms twisted, hair pulled, being kicked, dragged, beaten up, punched with a fist or something that could hurt her, choked or burnt, the report stated'

ICYMI, this is what was happening to a journalist while she was speaking live about Tripura last night

Please step up as citizens & protect our journalists and democracy at moments like this in the utmost respectful manner possible.

#SaveTripuraMuslims Here's a nice way to do it

https://twitter.com/medusaflower/status/1453779036799266817?t=J0V5unkZsNlbleUFfDCE5A&s=19