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Claiming back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) would have profound strategic, political, economic, and symbolic consequences for India. Here’s a breakdown of the potential advantages and gains, assuming a scenario where it’s done successfully and sustainably.
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.
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
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Palki Sharma exposes "deep-rooted" anti India bias in Western media.
They ignore India's achievements and rely on negative portrayals. They hire correspondents who are willing to "question the India" rather than report objectively.
After Pulwama, the majority of international coverage focused on the Kashmir issue rather than identifying it clearly as a terrorist act.
This gets worse.
So not only did the US Navy fire two missiles and kill three Indian sailors they refused to rescue the 24 Indian crew despite saying they are on fire, the vessel is sinking and that they are an all Indian crew.
The Omanis rescued them.
US Director of National Intelligence @DNIGabbard:
“Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.”
A hidden spy camera was just discovered inside a ceiling panel at the absolute heart of the UK government, and intelligence agencies have no idea who is watching. The device was found inside the heavily guarded Whitehall building housing the Home Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Security officials are scrambling to figure out how a hostile actor bypassed elite checkpoints to plant the camera, how long it has been recording, and exactly what high-level state secrets have been covertly streamed out of the building.
The timing of this catastrophic breach is terrifying. This exact Whitehall hub was the operational command center where civil servants handled the fiercely contested, fast-tracked approval of China’s new London mega-embassy earlier this year. That massive diplomatic compound, set to be Europe's largest, was pushed through by ministers despite explicit warnings from security experts that the site sits directly over critical fiber-optic cables carrying vital financial and government data. The reality that a covert camera was active in the very offices managing this geopolitical flashpoint raises immediate fears of a successful, high-level foreign intelligence operation.
This breach completely shreds the illusion of Whitehall’s physical security. For a physical spy camera to be hardwired into a ceiling, the perpetrator either possessed an insider security pass or exploited a massive blind spot in maintenance vetting and routine electronic bug sweeps. With a high-stakes judicial review of the Chinese embassy decision looming, MI5 is left racing against the clock to assess the damage to a domestic security hub that has been thoroughly compromised from the inside out.
#Whitehall #Espionage #NationalSecurity #UKPolitics #HomeOffice #ChinaEmbassy #MI5 #SecurityBreach
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@hughlaurie@Ateendriyo@jan_murray It’s funny because it is in this exact manner of wit, charm, sarcasm and humour Dr. House would take someone down. Bravo.
France busts 13 counterfeit Chinese news websites used to spread pro-China propaganda in various languages using large language models and AI tools
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We reported a while back how chinese were targeting Singaporean indians, trying to sow discord against them using social media. The Singapore government took swift actions on those posts but the Chinese are doing this everywhere, & in every country. They want entire control.
🚨 Sylhet BNP leader Fahim, one of the richest men in the region, was asked by a Hindu public representative for a small donation to help build a temple.
His blunt reply: “As a Muslim, I cannot help build a temple.���
Yet it was Hindu votes that helped elect BNP leaders in Sylhet.
This is the gratitude minorities receive.