Farhan Siddique

[Macklemore @macklemore]

What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage. When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention.

So we're going on tour. All proceeds will benefit organizations supporting the Palestinian people and movement.

Sign up at https://t.co/2na35y8pQ5

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

🚨Very concerning information coming in.

Both the CBI and ED are being pressured by the regime to raid close associates of the two Election Commissioners. Both of them are resisting pressure to hold a joint press conference with Gyanesh Kumar and unequivocally refute and trash the Indian Express report.

The same had happened to Ashok Lavasa. His family members were sent IT notices before he was pressured to resign.

This is completely unacceptable. The government has totally forgotten that this is post-Jantar Mantar India and the public cannot be fooled through such illegal and fraudulent tactics.

[زماں @Delhiite_]

Victim Blaming Failed. Locals Spoke Up.

"What were they doing there at night?" — the usual excuse.

But locals told a different story entirely.

They said these men had harassed women on this road not once... but at least 10 times before. First time caught.

> Girls stopped going to school.
> Tuition became a risk.
> A daughter-in-law couldn't walk home without being followed and abused.

This wasn't a first offence. This was years of terror. 😡

[The Muslim @TheMuslim786]

Location: Chopda, Jalgaon, Maharashtra

During the Ganesh procession, a police officer named Pawan Desale was seen celebrating with BJP workers while brandishing a lathi in front of a mosque.

It is worth noting that a Muslim IPS officer, Bushra Bano, faced complaints and a transfer for using phrases like "Assalamu Alaikum," "Inshallah," and "Jazakallah."

[زماں @Delhiite_]

3-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Raped by 16 year old boy in Purnea, Bihar

The accused lured her away from home on the pretext of showing a dance performance at a nearby music event. The child is currently receiving treatment at Purnea Medical College.
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He planned it. He lured a 3-year-old baby. He executed it.

And we'll call him a "minor" and send him to a reform home.

A 3-year-old doesn't understand what happened to her. But HE understood exactly what HE was doing.

At what point do we stop hiding predators behind their age?

"Juvenile" is a legal shield... not a moral one.
This isn't immaturity. This is a predator. Try him as an adult.

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

Cricket legend Imran Khan is rotting to death in a tiny jail cell in Pakistan. It's time Britain used its influence to help free him

https://t.co/Yf5eCx2fAi

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 ಪವನ್ ಖೇರಾ @Pawankhera]

Some social media accounts, including The Jaipur Dialogues and the Hindu Legal Fund, criticised the Muslim IPS officer for saying “Assalamualaikum” — “peace be unto you” — “Inshallah” — “God willing” — and “Jazakallah” — “may God reward you”.

And now she has been punitively transferred.

What exactly is offensive about her words?

They are blessings and prayers, spoken from a place of affection, faith and care.

She did not explicitly glorify the nation. But she prayed for her fellow citizens.

That, too, is an expression of patriotism - rooted in compassion, faith and goodwill - one that the bhakts will never understand.

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Real artists choose courage not complicity.

@edsheeran

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

One gets bail within days despite being caught on camera.

Other languishes in jail for six years without even a trial or hearing.

Same justice system. Very different approach.

[Mohammed Azharuddin @azharflicks]

THIS IS DEEPLY CONCERNING

An IPS officer is reportedly transferred after a complaint over saying “Assalamualaikum” and “Inshallah” in an interaction with civil service aspirants.

When greetings become grounds for targeting a public servant, we must ask: what kind of message are we sending to minorities?

India’s strength lies in its diversity, not in policing identities.

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

For a country whose Prime Minister inaugurated new Parliament with sengol & bare chested sadhus, transferring a Muslim IPS officer for saying Assalamalaikum & Inshallah is ridiculous. We are a nation gone mad, poisoned with hate & bigotry. God Save India.

[Sarcastic. @Sarcaztick]

Imagine having an Aadhaar card, voter ID, passport, land records and other documents proving you are an Indian citizen, and still being picked up from your home at midnight and sent to a detention centre because you are accused of being a Bangladeshi.

This is happening to Bengali Muslims in West Bengal.

According to Scroll’s report:

> Since June, at least 9 Muslim men and 2 children have allegedly been picked up from their homes, mostly during midnight raids, on suspicion of being Bangladeshi nationals.

> Families of several detainees say the police did not show them any warrant, FIR or remand order and did not give them a proper opportunity to prove their Indian citizenship.

> At least 4 of those detained had reportedly cleared the Election Commission’s recent SIR scrutiny.

> 61-year-old Ibrahim Sheikh was allegedly taken from his home around 12:30 am despite having an Aadhaar card, voter ID, pension papers and land documents. His family says they were later told that he had been sent to a detention centre.

> Jalil Akhtar was allegedly picked up while sleeping on his verandah. He was later handed over to the BSF for deportation, but the BSF reportedly returned him after he maintained that he was an Indian citizen. Police subsequently filed a case against him under the Immigration and Foreigners Act.

> Abdul Jabbar was allegedly picked up along with his two minor sons. His family says he possesses an Indian passport, birth certificate and voter ID and had voted in the recent Bengal Assembly elections.

> Sahin Sheikh was allegedly detained and, according to his lawyer, an FIR was filed nearly 20 days later after an alleged attempt to send him to Bangladesh failed.

Bengali Muslims are being harassed and detained despite having documents proving their Indian citizenship, yet the national opposition seems completely silent.

If they cannot even speak up when people are being picked up from their homes and sent to detention centres, then what exactly is the point of having an opposition? Who will stand up for these people?

[The Muslim @TheMuslim786]

Indore: Shaista, a Muslim woman from Khargone, alleges that a male guard tried to remove her Niqab and behaved indecently while she was getting her Abha card made at Indore M.Y. Hospital.

Remember, Nitish Kumar initiated the practice of removing the Niqab from Muslim women.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

"Umar Khalid has been behind bars for more than six years and the trial has not even started. What about his right to liberty? What about his right to speedy trial?"

- Justice Deepak Gupta

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Jyotinagar Colony in Kolkata, a slum with 95% Muslims, has gone without water supply for over six weeks now. Right after assuming office, local BJP MLA Ritesh Tiwari had pledged he won't do anything for Muslims. #GroundReport by @onkeyta_ & @anindyahazra96
https://t.co/kDq1NEPmG5

[The Muslim @TheMuslim786]

Urban Company is launching a new boycott of Muslims. Urban Company is shameless; I have been one of their clients in Lokhandwala and Bandra, but now they are boycotting Muslim women. Muslim women are not allowed to work at Urban Company.

How shameless are you people; you earn money from Muslims, so why boycott them as clients?

A woman named Juhaina Ahsan claimed that Urban Company is boycotting Muslim women.

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Gaza this morning.