Bring law to deport those with chronic alcohol or drug abuse, welfare fraud, associations with criminal gangs, clan networks, or extremist organizations, & public support for movements that seriously threaten NZ democratic values.
@actparty@NZNationalParty@nzfirst#NZPol
England disappointed big time. Same for Portugal, Belgium and Spain. Lost money on all of them because they couldn’t score that one goal. FIFA rankings are a joke.
As an Indian woman from Muslim heritage, I write this rebuttal with the clarity and directness that comes from living the reality @Ilhan only tweets about from afar. Ilhan Omar’s claim that India has reached the “eighth stage of genocide” against Muslims is not analysis. It is reckless, fact-free propaganda that insults every one of us who actually live here, work here, raise families here, and exercise our rights every single day.
If there were even the beginning of genocide, our population would not have exploded. In 1951, Muslims were about 9.8% of India. By 2011, we were 14.2%. Today we are estimated around 14.5–15%, heading toward 18% by 2050 according to Pew projections. From roughly 35 million in 1951 to over 200 million now. Absolute numbers have multiplied nearly six-fold while the country’s overall population grew far slower in percentage terms. Genocide does not produce the world’s largest Muslim-minority population that keeps growing faster than the national average for decades. It produces mass graves and fleeing refugees. We have neither.
We vote in every election in the world’s largest democracy. We contest seats, win them, become MPs, ministers, judges, IAS officers, doctors, engineers, and business leaders. Three Presidents of India have been Muslim. We serve in the armed forces and police. We own businesses, run hospitals, produce films, and dominate segments of entertainment and sports. This is not the signature of a community facing extermination.
We are thriving and prospering — with real data and real lives. Yes, like every large community, we have internal challenges — lower average literacy and educational enrollment in some metrics, pockets of poverty, and the need for better skilling. But the narrative of uniform victimhood is a lie told by people who have never walked through a Muslim-dominated area in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, or Kerala and seen the middle class, the professionals, the entrepreneurs, and the young women studying medicine and engineering.
Prominent Indian Muslims — from business (Wipro’s Azim Premji built one of India’s largest companies), to cinema (generations of stars and directors), to sports, academia, and medicine — show what is possible when talent meets opportunity in a free society. Millions of ordinary Muslim families have moved from villages to cities, from informal work to formal jobs, from one generation of limited schooling to the next pursuing professional degrees. That is prosperity in motion, not persecution.
We enjoy specific rights and accommodations that Hindus as a group do not. This is the part Omar and her echo chamber never mention. Indian Muslims operate under a parallel personal law system for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and maintenance rooted in Sharia. Hindus do not.
After independence, Hindu personal law was comprehensively reformed and codified into a uniform framework (Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu Succession Act, etc.). Muslims retained the right to follow their own religious laws — including provisions for polygamy (up to four wives) and differential inheritance rules that the Hindu majority surrendered decades ago.
We also have constitutional minority protections under Articles 29 and 30 that allow us to establish and administer our own educational institutions with significant autonomy — rights the Hindu majority does not claim as a group because it is not classified as a minority. The Waqf Act gives Muslim institutions unique control over vast religious and charitable properties in a manner unparalleled for any other community.
In short: the Indian state has gone out of its way, through personal laws and minority safeguards, to preserve and accommodate Muslim religious and cultural identity in ways it has not extended equivalently to the Hindu majority. These are not “equal rights” in every narrow sense — they are deliberate accommodations that give us more space to live according to our traditions than the majority community receives under the same Constitution.
As a woman from Muslim heritage in India, I have the full protection of the Indian Constitution plus the framework of personal law. The criminalization of instant triple talaq in 2019 removed a specific vulnerability that existed under uncodified practice. I can study, work, vote, travel, criticize the government, wear what I choose (or not), and practice my faith openly — all while living in a country where my community’s population share has steadily risen for 75 years.
@Ilhan Omar’s “eighth stage of genocide” rhetoric is not solidarity. It is the lazy export of American culture-war talking points onto a country and a people she does not understand. It erases the agency of 200+ million Indian Muslims who are neither cowering nor waiting for rescue from Washington. It cheapens the word “genocide” while real atrocities happen elsewhere.
Stop peddling foreign fantasies about our lives. We are here. We are visible. We are voting. We are building. And we reject your narrative with the facts of our own existence. That is the view from inside — not from a podium in the United States.
@SitaraWrites@SelinaStreet100 The article doesn’t say- but there would be divorce in these cases, after each PR is obtained for the partner. Min five yrs gap explains meeting INZ criteria.
In past have known people married with Maori women here, paid money, divorce after PR and sponsored their real wife.
@sainonepal@gbudhathoki विकसित देशमा हाईवे र सडकमा बाधा हुने गरी केही राख्न वा झुन्ड्याउन पाइँदैन । चुनावको बेला तोरणहरू सडक माथि राख्न पाईन्न । सडकको छेउमा गाडिएका सबै बोर्ड उम्मेदवारले भोटको अघिल्लो दिन हटाउनु पर्छ ।
नेपालले पनि त्यस्तै गर्नुपर्छ ।
Let me break it down in a simple way that I’ve been reporting from the beginning.
To invent a vaccine for a disease that didn’t exist, our scientific Einsteins used taxpayer money to partner with communist China to create the dangerous virus in a lab—So that they could create a vaccine for it.
Covid was a result of primarily US funded vaccine research, and that’s the thing they could not let you know.
They stopped at nothing to obfuscate, misdirect, cover their tracks, protect themselves, and controversialize anyone telling the truth.
The scientific establishment and media aided and abetted.
I can think of no more impactful, crimes and violations that have occurred in our lifetime.
Zevenor Gordon, a sexual predator, has been jailed for 16 months for sexually assaulting 6 schoolgirls and women in London.
Paul Powlesland, an environmental lawyer, is facing 2 years in prison for cleaning and removing garbage from the London river without a license.
British justice system is broken.
@Dane_Giraud@FullTwatforward Dutta grew up in West Bengal, the marxist state of India that was under Jyoti Basu rule and is a hard core communist. He is anti-BJP, the ruling party of India and is part of global academic ecosystem that preaches against Hindu and Hinduism.
@EnokaPoere@napoleonbusch2 You got no choice, Enoka. Indians r already here. Legal citizens from decades. New generations born here. Many work environment is diverse- there are high skilled who contribute.
Racist are small minority, mostly keyboard warriors. We can talk abt immigration without being racist
@EnokaPoere@napoleonbusch2 You got no choice, Enoka. Indians r already here. Legal citizens from decades. New generations born here. Many work environment is diverse- there are high skilled who contribute.
Racist are small minority, mostly keyboard warriors. We can talk abt immigration without being racist
I was in a police holding cell for a full 24 hours for defending myself from inbreds, while the inbred who threw a 3-year-old kid into a crocodile enclosure was out in 12 hours.
What strange times we are living in.
@ErikEtv@TheZeitgeistNZ Hey @ErikEtv, can’t you have a single conversation without bringing in Indians? Seems Indians are living free in your head 24/7. If they hear this, they will charge you for that 😀.
@MyUnveiledTruth@Socia1852707@Lama06081999 Hi Melissa, the guy arrested is from Nepal, a country with over 100 different communities living from centuries- those who call only certain community as Nepali are racist. I live in New Zealand and the Gurung, Rai, Limbu here are the most communal among Nepalese.