Theyll also play the victim cards of "The West hates Modi" and "Hindu/ Hinduism is in danger". Please vote for Modi in 2024, so we can commit more atrocities on Indias Muslims and Christians and Sikhs.
In the past months, Momika, a refugee from Iraq, has desecrated the Quran in a series of anti-Islam protests mostly in Stockholm that have caused anger in many Muslim countries. Swedish police have allowed his actions, citing freedom of speech.
I agree. All which are forms of selfishness and inconsideration of others. The actions of both sides are indefensible, but it sounds like one side escalated this situation and could have handled it with a lot more grace. They sound like just another hate group to me. The more selfish people become the more they all will devolve into ignorant, intolerant hate groups.
Book, prophet, religion, none of these things are a justification for a riot. And let’s ignore the irony of said religions preaching peace and loving thy neighbor.
If it were the local government gathering up and burning ALL the Quran's in the jurisdiction, that'd be one thing. This is a single private actor getting the exact response they desired, though.
That’s exactly the point they are making in burning it. sacred to you is not sacred to me. Thinking that they have any right to enforce their religious beliefs on anyone else is not okay, doing so violently reveals they are the villains.
If Islam wants to be part of modern society, they need to accept others are not religious, and some are vehemently against religion, and that those views, demonstrated in public, is their right too.
The core issue a lot of people have with Islam in particular is the belief that they must enforce Islamic law on others around them.
Asking your beliefs be respected is not enforcing anything on to anyone else, and deliberately baiting an oppressed group for a reaction by going out of your way to disrespect them, and then pulling a surprised Pikachu face when they react is antagonistic fascist bullshit.
Today is the 87th day of Manipur being converted into a war zone, where no life is safe, and people's dignity is in danger whether they live or die. Morgues are full of unclaimed corpses, because it is too risky for relatives to claim their bodies. Some people haven't been that dignity in their death, and their corpses lie in the streets to be mauled and eaten by stray dogs. Back home, their families wonder & worry whether they're alive or dead.
87 consecutive days of violence, 86 consecutive nights of terror.
Yet Biren Singh Chief Ministerhip is untouched, Amit Shah continues to be India's Home Minister, and Narendra Modi continues to be India's Prime Minister. If not for the Assam Rifles, the situation would be much worse.
India's elected Prime Minister refuses to address Parliament for fear of being questioned, refuses to addressed the nation on Manipur refuses to take steps to end the violence, refuses to appeal for peace. So what is he doing? Giving speeches in state election campaigns.
What is mainsteam media doing? Trying to protect the PM by projecting blame on the opposition.
Meanwhile, instigators are using social media & local mainstream media to spread fake news to fuel the burning fire in Manipur and to set ethnic & communal fires in the sister states of Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Assam.
I'm almost 70. First learned about climate change in 1972. Back then I was certain we would prevent at least the worst of the results, because we were passing good laws around pollution and environmental issues. But no, big time capitalism decided that short term (a few decades) profit was more important to them than leaving behind a habitable planet for their great grandchildren. I presume they thought that, being ultra rich, they would be able to either escape to another planet or build viable domes to live in.
Please don't tell my son, but I sometimes wish I'd chosen abortion. Now he has 3 children, and I cry for their future.
Im just young enough to experience the 70's a bit. Feels to me like everything passed that starting with reagan was just a big slide. I am so happy im not just a touch older or that I had gotten my career going faster because if I had I might have had kids. I have siblings with kids and grandkids though and I to weep for their future.
Back then I was certain we would prevent at least the worst of the results
Well, to be the bearer of good news, this is probably going to happen. The Paris Agreement aims to limit warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, and while there's still quite a lot of work to do and it's not going to be easy, this is a reachable target. There will still be significant consequences, plenty of people will suffer, and it's not remotely just or fair, but it also is not a cataclysmic and apocalyptic scenario.
It's really important to maintain some perspective with these things. A lot of very hard work has been done to get us to this point, and we shouldn't completely lose sight of that, even if we deserve quite a lot more and shouldn't even be in this situation in the first place.
Just the usual neoliberal apologism, blaming the customers for the abhorrent things the executives do to quench their greed.
If you asked functionally anybody if they want child labor chicken and slave made clothing, they’re going to say “no”.
They buy it because they don’t know, because they can’t afford another option or because there simply is no other option because Child Killin Chickin undercut the competiton by being the biggest psycopaths.
I’m aware, having done so myself for over 30 years. But how long do you think that moral high ground will hold you?
Is your chocolate fair trade and slave free? Your coffee? Were your vegetables grown and picked by people being paid a fair and living wage? Does the company that makes your burritos bust unions?
If you’re confident you’re in the right for every piece of food you eat, I’d love to know what that costs you because it’s going to be a fuckload more than minimum wage leaves.
“Bottom up” solutions to exploitation don’t work and are nothing more than the propaganda of scumbags. So rather than shaming people for what they eat, try shaming the corporations and politicans who let it be unethically produced in the first place.
That makes it even sadder. 16 in 8th grade would mean he had been held back a couple of times or something in the same vein. I wonder how long he had been working there.
More like "walked through the wide open thoroughfare designed to allow them in" via deliberate underfunding of regulators and de-fanging consumer protections.
Imagine if a person did this to a bunch of individuals. What would the punishment be?
That person would likely be in prison for the rest of their lives, at least, they would be removed from society as they have proven that they cannot be trusted to participate in good faith.
"The defamation complaint, filed by Bharatiya Janata Party member Binay Kumar Singh, has alleged that even though the documentary has not been officially released in India, a Wikipedia page provides links to watch it and that the content is still available on Internet Archive."
The emperor wants all mention of his nakedness to be wiped from human memory.
Xi better take notes. Actually, the west, too. The brave Ukrainian way was apparently the correct approach. It's how we should have reacted to dictators long ago.
Edit: apparently there's some bug that doesn't let me write my comment as a top-level one...
Ok so it’s actually sponsoring, they are being forced to contribute by the Russian government. Not a nebulous ‘still doing business and paying taxes therefore…’
So, they could have chosen to leave the country, but they chose to stay and and take on the extra demands of the government.
Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, who gained recognition after the 2004 US movie "Hotel Rwanda" depicted the role he played in saving lives during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, described his months long imprisonment as "hell."
In a Youtube video released Saturday to mark Rwanda's 61st anniversary of independence, Rusesabagina stressed the people of Rwanda were "prisoners in their own country."
"Rwanda is an authoritarian government that has no rights for its citizens and doesn't tolerate dissent for its citizens," Rusesabagina said.
He was released on March 24, following months in prison after the Rwandan government slammed him with a 25-year sentence on terrorism charges in September 2021. Rusesabagina spoke about his time in prison. He said he was "tortured, imprisoned and faced false charges that had nothing to do with me."
The Rwandan dissident, speaking from his home in San Antonio, Texas, thanked several players for advocating for his release. He named the European Union, NGOs, human rights groups and the press for keeping "my story alive."
But Rusesabagina particularly singled out the US, for the role it played in securing his early release from prison."This is what made the difference. When the US government said that this cannot continue, Rwanda was forced to be realistic," Rusesabagina said.
The government critic was arrested in August 2020, when a plane carrying him to Burundi was diverted to Rwanda. The US said he was "wrongfully detained," while Rusesabagina spoke of his arrest in the Saturday video as a kidnapping.
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