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[GeoStorm @CryptoStorm3]

@LauraLoomer

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Fact of the day:

Pakistan shielded al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden after he masterminded the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 Americans and prompted the War on terror.

Just a couple months ago, Pakistan threatened to nuke India.

In March of 2026, hundreds of Pakistani protestors shot at and firebombed the windows and gate at the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan and attempted to enter the building to murder US diplomats and US Marines following the death of the Supreme Leader of Iran in an air strike ordered by President Trump.

The UK gang rape report just came out which shows hundreds of thousands of rapes committed against young English school girls. Guess what? All of the rapists are Pakistani Muslim men.

I do not love Pakistan. It’s a disgusting Islamic country that is run by Islamic terrorist sympathizers.

[D @ent472]

@arshiaunis @Ilhan This a great rebuttal but I almost wanted to say she’s so extreme, irrelevant and discredited that it’s almost not worth the effort of this response.

[Arshia Malik @arshiaunis]

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.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is officially set to resign as Prime Minister

Several media reports say he'll outline a resignation timetable on Monday after consulting with his wife and family today

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

You have to worry if an Amaravati cancellation (by Jagan) encore plays out in TN…

Chennai’s wait for 2nd airport just got longer. TVK scraps Parandur plan in keeping with poll promise

Shweta Tripathi @Shweta_journo reports for ThePrint

https://t.co/Z1GZPHnl2P

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️NEW: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey

“I have seen football at its highest level, the real football. Not this watered-down version they are serving us now. What happened with Almirón? A straight red card for covering his mouth? This is not football anymore. This is a circus run by bureaucrats in suits who have never felt the fire of the pitch.”

“Covering your mouth is now a red card? What is this, Big Brother on the field? FIFA wants to read lips, punish thoughts before they even become words. Next they will put muzzles on players like dogs. Players cannot even talk, cannot even breathe passion without some VAR robot or referee deciding your emotions are illegal. This is dystopian. Football is dying.”

“This rule was born because some players cry every week. One incident in the Champions League and suddenly the whole world must change. But elbow a man, break his leg, or spit — sometimes you get a yellow and a pat on the back. Two-tier football. Protect the protected, punish the rest. I have played in every league and I have seen it.”

On the softness of the modern game:
“Maradona would be sent off in the tunnel. Roy Keane? He would laugh at the referee and walk off with a smile while the stands burn. Pepe would have collected five reds before half-time. Today? Players are becoming actors, not warriors. They fall, they cry, they hide behind rules. Where is the masculinity? Where is the character? Football is not ballet. It is war. And they are turning it into a polite conversation with red cards as punctuation.”

“I, Zlatan, have scored goals that made stadiums shake and said things that made opponents tremble — without hiding. This generation is being raised soft. If you cannot handle words on the pitch, how will you handle life? FIFA is not protecting football. They are burying it. And one day, the real fans will rise and say: enough. Bring back the game.”

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

@dikshayadav_ takes a close look at the project keeping India's written history accessible in an AI age.

The first phase needs ₹5 crore, less than a mid-sized film's marketing budget.

The full piece in @SwarajyaMag below.

https://t.co/VD7TA4G4uy

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

In 1905, R Shamasastry opened a bundle of palm leaves in Mysore and recognised it as Kautilya's Arthashastra, which was lost for nearly a thousand years.

The find was pure luck. India has one crore more manuscripts like it.

Now, @midf_org is working to make them searchable. 🧵

[D @ent472]

@TweetinderKaul They really struggled in qualification though, tbf…

[D @ent472]

@iowahawkblog So you’re saying, nothing since sliced bread?

[D @ent472]

@_Indus_ @IndiaToday Rundwa, do tell us about how Sayeds, Arains and Jatts in Pakistan totally 100% intermarry all the time across social levels?

[Snehesh Alex Philip @sneheshphilip]

5 years from now, India can either be discussing 1st flight of AMCA, the progress of Indian jet engine and next-gen submarines, or it can be discussing another round of delays.

And that is the choice that must be made today.  India needs another ATV

https://t.co/wZAOeWMaPJ

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget

[Shambhav Sharma @shambhav15]

Shoutout to all the Indian Chads that that rattled Winnie the Pooh for the love of the game

[D @ent472]

@IndiaToday Gaurav Sawant is the joker who during op sindoor on air said “oh ho ho ho we’ve hit karachi” which eventually led to all Indian information being lambasted and discredited.

[D @ent472]

@kushal_mehra This specific TV presenter is a low-iq-jingoism-baiter.
He was one of those who during op-sindoor overstated the scale of our attacks which was later used to discredited all Indian information being put out.
And he did this while jovially exclaiming “oh ho ho ho”. Literally. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

Recently released Raakh joins a pattern that has settled into Indian content - Creative Rewriting in the name of Creative Liberty.

The 1978 Ranga-Billa case is dramatised on screen, but Inspector VP Gupta, who led the real investigation, is rewritten as SI Jayprakash Jatav, a Dalit officer battling caste prejudice in the force.

The pattern is not isolated.

Jai Bhim (2021) dramatised a real police torture case in which the brutal officer was Christian.
- The film recoded him on screen as a Hindu Vanniyar, with the community's sacred Agni Kundam symbol in the background.
- A legal notice eventually forced the filmmakers to blur it.

Soorarai Pottru, the 2020 film on Air Deccan founder Captain GR Gopinath, recast him on screen as a fierce Dravidian disciple of Periyar.
- Gopinath himself comes from an Iyengar background.
- The achievement on screen was real. The identity attached to it had been switched.

IC 814 kept the hijackers' onboard codenames Bhola and Shankar foregrounded on screen.
- The men's real Pakistani names — Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayeed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi — barely featured.

Traditional creative liberty compresses time, combines minor figures, invents dialogue.

What is emerging is different. The identity of a real person is swapped to attach a political narrative to their story.

For most viewers, the screen version replaces the historical record.

@CranksCorner in @SwarajyaMag with writes how cinematic shortcut crosses into ideological rewriting, and why the line is worth holding even when the individual films are well-made.

https://t.co/HhtVYXGZAe

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Apparently “Indira Gandhi” is Turkish slang for “misusing public money, stealing, embezzling”. How appropriate!

Credit: e_keerthana3942 (instagram)

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

7 arrested for working for an ISI-linked network.

What journalist Rana Ayyub did was that she mentioned the names of 4 Hindu and Sikh accused but cleverly hid the names of the 3 Muslim accused and wrote "among others".

The other 3 are: Arif, Sabir, Anas.

No one is supporting them, except some specific people who are defending and hiding them simply because the accused belong to their community. One of them is Rana Ayyub.

Here are the names of all 7 accused:
1. Anas
2. Deepak
3. Mohit
4. Arif
5. Karanveer
6. Jatan
7. Sabir