Comments - Implications of Trump’s Victory for Muslims, India and Pakistan - PakAlumni Worldwide: The Global Social Network 2024-03-28T23:15:31Zhttp://nedians.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=1119293%3ABlogPost%3A111522&xn_auth=no#Bannon said he learned to fe…tag:nedians.ning.com,2017-08-12:1119293:Comment:1161292017-08-12T00:34:38.779ZRiaz Haqhttp://nedians.ning.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>#Bannon said he learned to fear #Muslims when he visited #Karachi. Except he was probably in #HongKong. </span><a href="https://interc.pt/2uw1wSz" target="_blank">https://interc.pt/2uw1wSz</a><span> by @maassp IF YOU ASK Steve Bannon how he got the idea that Muslims in the Middle East are a civilizational threat to America, he will say that his eyes were first opened when he served on a Navy destroyer in the Arabian Sea. At least that’s what he told the journalist Joshua Green, whose…</span></p>
<p><span>#Bannon said he learned to fear #Muslims when he visited #Karachi. Except he was probably in #HongKong. </span><a href="https://interc.pt/2uw1wSz" target="_blank">https://interc.pt/2uw1wSz</a><span> by @maassp IF YOU ASK Steve Bannon how he got the idea that Muslims in the Middle East are a civilizational threat to America, he will say that his eyes were first opened when he served on a Navy destroyer in the Arabian Sea. At least that’s what he told the journalist Joshua Green, whose new book about President Donald Trump’s senior counselor is a best-seller.</span><br/><br/><span>“It was not hard to see, as a junior officer, sitting there, that [the threat] was just going to be huge,” Bannon said. He went on:</span><br/><span>We’d pull into a place like Karachi, Pakistan – this is 1979, and I’ll never forget it – the British guys came on board, because they still ran the port. The city had 10 million people at the time. We’d get out there, and 8 million of them had to be below the age of fifteen. It was an eye-opener. We’d been other places like the Philippines where there was mass poverty. But it was nothing like the Middle East. It was just a complete eye-opener. It was the other end of the earth.</span><br/><br/><span>That’s Bannon’s version. There are a few problems with it, however.</span><br/><br/><span>The port of Karachi was not run by the British in 1979. Karachi, which is the commercial hub of Pakistan, had a population that was well short of 10 million (it was about half that) and is not usually considered part of the Middle East. But the biggest problem is that the destroyer Bannon served on, the USS Paul F. Foster, never visited Karachi while Bannon was aboard.</span><br/><br/><span>Six sailors who served on the Foster with Bannon told The Intercept that the vessel did not stop at Karachi during its 1979-1980 deployment. The recollections of these enlisted men and officers are supported by the ship’s deck logs, which show no stop on the way to the Arabian Sea and are available to the public at the National Archives. And a map of the Foster’s port calls that was published in its “cruisebook” shows stops in Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, Christmas Island, Hong Kong, and Singapore — but not Karachi.</span><br/><span>It turns out that Bannon, who has drawn a large amount of criticism for his exclusionary stances on race, religion, and immigration, has also inaccurately described his military service, simultaneously creating an erroneous narrative of how he came to an incendiary anti-Muslim worldview that helps shape White House policy.</span><br/><br/><span>It’s not clear whether Bannon’s account of visiting Karachi is an intentional fabrication or a false memory that reflects his subconscious fears, or something else entirely. Whatever the reason, it raises a lot of questions. Bannon did not respond to several inquiries from The Intercept. A close friend of Bannon’s who is in regular contact with him, and spoke on the condition of not being named, said Bannon had not read Green’s book and that the quotes attributed to him had not been checked with him. Green, the author, told The Intercept that the interview with Bannon occurred in 2015 and was recorded and transcribed.</span><br/><br/><span>The news of Bannon’s problematic narrative comes at a delicate time for the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, which under his leadership produced incessant streams of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim stories. Bannon’s Navy service has always been deeply relevant to his work at the White House because it has been used as a reason for giving him influence on military affairs that his critics believe he does not merit. Bannon reportedly has a tense relationship with the retired generals who occupy key positions in the Trump administration – Chief of Staff John Kelly, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and particularly National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that McMaster has been waging a campaign to cleanse the National Security Council of Bannon’s allies, and that the two men have argued about Afghanistan policy.</span><br/><br/></p> #Pakistan Defiant as US Ponde…tag:nedians.ning.com,2017-07-30:1119293:Comment:1164062017-07-30T00:05:52.506ZRiaz Haqhttp://nedians.ning.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>#Pakistan Defiant as US Ponders New Strategy. Demands Renegotiation of #America's Access Rights to #Afghanistan</span><br></br><br></br><span><a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-defiant-us-ponders-south-asia-strategy/3962805.html" target="_blank">https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-defiant-us-ponders-south-asia-strategy/3962805.html</a></span><br></br><br></br><span>Days after the Pentagon announced it is withholding $50 million intended for Pakistan as part of its Coalition Support Fund, the…</span></p>
<p><span>#Pakistan Defiant as US Ponders New Strategy. Demands Renegotiation of #America's Access Rights to #Afghanistan</span><br/><br/><span><a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-defiant-us-ponders-south-asia-strategy/3962805.html" target="_blank">https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-defiant-us-ponders-south-asia-strategy/3962805.html</a></span><br/><br/><span>Days after the Pentagon announced it is withholding $50 million intended for Pakistan as part of its Coalition Support Fund, the South Asian country's ambassador hinted at potential retaliation, possibly coaxing Washington to negotiate access to the country's air corridors, which Islamabad suggests have been taken for granted.</span><br/><br/><span>Pakistan is ready to cooperate with the United States, Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said, though Washington may now end up having to negotiate with Islamabad on the corridors and other tangible assets, he added.</span><br/><br/><span>"All that Pakistan has done in the fight against terrorism has not been sufficiently factored" into the U.S. decision to reduce its support funds, Chaudhry lamented during a discussion this week at the Washington office of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.</span><br/><br/><span>Air rights up for negotiation?</span><br/><br/><span>Pakistan has facilitated air and ground logistical support for U.S. troops in Afghanistan "like no one else," Chaudhry said, adding that "since 2001, all air corridors from Pakistan have been available to the United States free of cost."</span><br/><br/><span>The reason Pakistan did so "was because we believed this was a common war," the ambassador said, but there have been occasions when U.S. actions have left his country's leaders thinking "that perhaps we are not partners."</span><br/><br/><span>Questions concerning Pakistan's commitment to bilateral partnership have also been raised by the U.S. A prime example was the discovery in 2011 that al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden had been living undisturbed near a key Pakistani military facility.</span><br/><br/><span>U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said he withheld $50 million in Coalition Support Funds because he couldn't certify to Congress that Pakistan had taken sufficient action against the Haqqani network, a Taliban-associated organization which the U.S. has deemed a Foreign Terrorist Organization, since September 2012. The group has been blamed for attacks in Afghanistan, which have contributed to the country's destabilization, an issue of concern to the U.S.</span><br/><br/><span>For its part, Islamabad's message is don't drop "every security lapse in Afghanistan on Pakistan's doorsteps," as the country's ambassador to the U.S. put it.</span><br/><br/><span>The Pakistani envoy's remarks came at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has been reviewing its overall strategy toward South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. And his defiant tone may reflect Pakistan's decreasing dependence on the United States amid an influx of Chinese capital investments and a strengthening political relationship between Islamabad and Beijing.</span></p> Joshua Green, author of "Devi…tag:nedians.ning.com,2017-07-19:1119293:Comment:1157132017-07-19T16:13:01.071ZRiaz Haqhttp://nedians.ning.com/profile/riazul
<p>Joshua Green, author of "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, And The Storming Of The Presidency" on NPR's Fresh Air:</p>
<p><br></br>I talk a little bit about Bannon's time in the Navy. He was on a destroyer in the Persian Gulf right during the Iran hostage crisis and described to me the Middle East, Pakistan as being almost primeval. He considered Muslims these frightening, threatening people who ultimately wanted to invade the West. And I think that that is where a lot of his…</p>
<p>Joshua Green, author of "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, And The Storming Of The Presidency" on NPR's Fresh Air:</p>
<p><br/>I talk a little bit about Bannon's time in the Navy. He was on a destroyer in the Persian Gulf right during the Iran hostage crisis and described to me the Middle East, Pakistan as being almost primeval. He considered Muslims these frightening, threatening people who ultimately wanted to invade the West. And I think that that is where a lot of his anti-immigrant, Islamophobic ideas really started from.</p>
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<p><span>#Trump disbands #Afghanistan-#Pakistan unit in #StateDepartment.Eliminates #AfPak special rep position <a href="http://politi.co/2rZ8qid" target="_blank">http://politi.co/2rZ8qid</a> via @politico</span><br></br><br></br><span>The Trump administration on Friday moved to eliminate the State Department unit responsible for dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan — transferring its duties to a regional bureau whose leadership ranks have been decimated, two sources told…</span></p>
<p><span>#Trump disbands #Afghanistan-#Pakistan unit in #StateDepartment.Eliminates #AfPak special rep position <a href="http://politi.co/2rZ8qid" target="_blank">http://politi.co/2rZ8qid</a> via @politico</span><br/><br/><span>The Trump administration on Friday moved to eliminate the State Department unit responsible for dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan — transferring its duties to a regional bureau whose leadership ranks have been decimated, two sources told POLITICO.</span><br/><br/><span>The development came with less than a day’s notice. It deeply rattled U.S. officials who say the shift leaves unclear who is responsible for handling diplomacy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan at a time when the Trump administration is considering ramping up military efforts in that region.</span><br/><br/><span>The phase-out of the office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) was put in motion under the Obama administration. But diplomats are concerned that the Trump administration has yet to name people to lead the South and Central Asia Bureau, leaving a leadership vacuum. That State Department bureau has seen unusually high levels of senior staff departures since Trump's inauguration in January.</span><br/><br/><span>“The Afghanistan and Pakistan function is being dissolved and transferred into a structure that has been dissolved itself,” a U.S. diplomat familiar with the issue told POLITICO. “We’ve long planned for SRAP to go away, but the intention was for the policy to be transferred responsibly. This happened on less than 24 hours notice.”</span><br/><br/><span>The State Department press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</span></p> As #Trump vows to stop flow o…tag:nedians.ning.com,2016-12-08:1119293:Comment:1117762016-12-08T03:39:44.979ZRiaz Haqhttp://nedians.ning.com/profile/riazul
<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>As</span> <span class="_5u8n"><span><span>#Trump</span></span></span> <span>vows to stop flow of</span> <span class="_5u8n"><span><span>#jobs</span></span></span> <span>overseas, U.S. plans to make</span> <span class="_5u8n"><span><span>#F16</span></span></span> <span>fighter jets in</span> <span class="_5u8n"><span><span>#India…</span></span></span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>NEW DELHI — As a new American president bent on retaining American jobs prepares to take office, the Obama administration and the U.S. defense industry are working on a deal with the Indian government to build iconic U.S. combat aircraft in India.</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>In recent months, Lockheed Martin and Boeing have made proposals to the Indian government to manufacture fighter jets — the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F/A-18 Super Hornet — in India as the country seeks to modernize its rapidly aging fleet of largely Russian-built airplanes.</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>In both cases, the aviation companies would be building production facilities in India; Lockheed Martin proposes to move its entire F-16 assembly line from Texas to India, making India the sole producer of the single-engine combat aircraft.</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>The U.S. military is phasing out the F-16 for its own use, but other countries remain as likely customers.</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>The proposals have the strong backing of the Obama administration, which has sought a closer connection with the Indian military in recent years. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said she was “optimistic” about the prospect of a deal after a visit to New Delhi in August, and Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter is set to return to India this week, with procurement high atop the list of discussion topics.</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>But the election of a billionaire businessman focused on keeping jobs at home, rather than creating them overseas, has brought a measure of uncertainty to the talks.</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>“What will be the U.S. policy posture now that the new president-elect is in the mix?” said one high-level official at an American defense firm in India, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal negotiations. “Is he going to continue the policy of engaging in India on co-</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>On Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump appeared at a Carrier plant in Indiana, where his team had brokered a deal to save about 1,000 jobs, and on Sunday he let fire a series of tweets that implied a new tax penalty on goods produced by companies that leave the United States.</span></div>
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<p><span>After pink slips, #UCSF tech workers train their foreign replacements from #India. #Trump #Jobs <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf-tech-workers-train-their-foreign-replacements/" target="_blank">http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf-tech-workers-train-their-foreign-replacements/</a> … via @mercnews</span><br></br><br></br><span>In a move that could spread to other universities, about 80 information tech workers at UC San Francisco are…</span></p>
<p><span>After pink slips, #UCSF tech workers train their foreign replacements from #India. #Trump #Jobs <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf-tech-workers-train-their-foreign-replacements/" target="_blank">http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf-tech-workers-train-their-foreign-replacements/</a> … via @mercnews</span><br/><br/><span>In a move that could spread to other universities, about 80 information tech workers at UC San Francisco are facing layoffs and have begun training their replacements — lower-paid tech workers from an Indian outsourcing firm.</span><br/><br/><span>The outsourcing, laid out in a $50 million contract with Indian employment firm HCL Technologies, is unusual among public institutions, experts say. The school expects to save $30 million over five years.</span><br/><br/><span>“I don’t know of any other university that’s done this,” said Ron Hira, a Howard University professor who studies immigration and outsourcing. “At some point, you start to cross these ethical lines.”</span><br/><br/><span>The majority of the outsourced work will be done in India. Additional IT staff may be brought to the UCSF campus from overseas on H-1B visas, according to public documents.</span><br/><br/><span>Employees and advocates are criticizing the move, saying it will leave the university and the UCSF Medical Center staff with inferior service and could endanger medical data. The UCSF workers, due to lose their jobs in February, are training their replacements, sometimes via videoconferencing to India.</span><br/><br/><span>U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren on Tuesday asked University of California President Janet Napolitano to reverse the decision. Lofgren wrote that replacing some of the workers with H-1B visa holders would be a misuse of the visa</span><br/><br/><span>“I think it is proper to expect our major public institutions, such as the University of California, to comply with both the letter and the spirit of the law,” Lofgren said.</span><br/><br/><span>---</span><br/><br/><span>“They can replace just about any IT job with H-1B workers,” he said. “It’s obviously a major issue.”</span><br/><br/><span>UCSF offers graduate degrees in medicine, nursing, dentistry and pharmacy and has a $5.4 billion annual budget, with about two-thirds earmarked for employee salaries and benefits. Administrators say the university faces fiscal challenges. </span><br/><br/><span>“We’re under a great deal of pressure,” Joe Bengfort, chief information officer at UCSF, told employees at a staff meeting earlier this year, according to a video of the meeting. “Outsourcing is not a silver bullet and we don’t treat it as such, but it’s probably the most difficult thing we’ve done.”</span><br/><br/><span>The cuts amount to almost 20 percent of the university’s IT staff and fall heavily on back-office operations, according to a presentation made to employees.</span><br/><br/><span>The school has also contracted with cybersecurity firm FireEye and Dell for other IT functions.</span><br/><br/><span>In a statement, the university said the new contracts “will not only increase savings but also strengthen cyber security and enhance IT quality and consistency.”</span><br/><br/><span>---</span><br/><span>The move is similar to layoffs at Disney and Southern California Edison last year, where employees were forced to train their lower-paid replacements. Disney laid off about 250 IT workers, although some were brought back in different roles. Southern California Edison planned to pare about 500 workers through layoffs and attrition to outsource its operations.</span><br/><br/><span>More than a decade ago, the UCSF Medical Center contracted out its medical transcription. In 2003, a Pakastani transcriber threatened to post confidential patient records unless she received more money. The threat was eventually withdrawn.</span></p> #US exports to #Pakistan sust…tag:nedians.ning.com,2016-11-17:1119293:Comment:1116272016-11-17T18:08:18.950ZRiaz Haqhttp://nedians.ning.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>#US exports to #Pakistan sustain 10,000 jobs in #America </span><a href="http://uspolitics.einnews.com/pr_news/354361502/south-and-central-asia-benefits-of-u-s-pakistan-economic-cooperation" target="_blank">http://uspolitics.einnews.com/pr_news/354361502/south-and-central-asia-benefits-of-u-s-pakistan-economic-cooperation</a><span> …</span><br></br><br></br><span>South and Central Asia: Benefits of U.S.-Pakistan Economic Cooperation</span><br></br><span>Our economic partnership with Pakistan, a…</span></p>
<p><span>#US exports to #Pakistan sustain 10,000 jobs in #America </span><a href="http://uspolitics.einnews.com/pr_news/354361502/south-and-central-asia-benefits-of-u-s-pakistan-economic-cooperation" target="_blank">http://uspolitics.einnews.com/pr_news/354361502/south-and-central-asia-benefits-of-u-s-pakistan-economic-cooperation</a><span> …</span><br/><br/><span>South and Central Asia: Benefits of U.S.-Pakistan Economic Cooperation</span><br/><span>Our economic partnership with Pakistan, a growing country of over 190 million, directly benefits America by creating well-paying U.S. jobs, promoting U.S. businesses and exports, and advancing scientific progress in critical areas. The following are some examples:</span><br/><br/><span>Creating U.S. Jobs:</span><br/><br/><span>The United States exported $1.8 billion in goods to Pakistan in 2015, creating or supporting over 9,200 U.S. jobs according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. As one example, in 2016, General Electric won a contract to provide 55 locomotives to Pakistan Railways, all of which will be manufactured in Erie, Pennsylvania.</span><br/><span>Foreign direct investment from Pakistan to the United States in 2015 supported up to 1,000 additional U.S. jobs.</span><br/><span>Promoting U.S. Businesses and Exports:</span><br/><br/><span>The United States and Pakistan launched the U.S.-Pakistan Clean Energy Partnership in 2015, which supports private investment in financially sound, clean energy projects in Pakistan. The Partnership aims to add at least 3,000 megawatts of clean power in Pakistan by 2020, creating opportunities for U.S. businesses across the clean energy spectrum.</span><br/><span>In 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) hosted a Pakistani group of Cochran and Borlaug Fellows to study the benefits of using U.S. wood products.</span><br/><span>USDA connects U.S. and Pakistani scientists to jointly develop varieties of seeds that will resist diseases that threaten both U.S. and Pakistani cotton and wheat production.</span><br/><span>Advancing Science and Technology Achievements:</span><br/><br/><span>Since 2005, grants co-financed by both countries under the U.S.-Pakistan Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement have funded 96 research projects in a variety of scientific areas.</span><br/><span>Researchers from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad and the University of California at Davis are developing a low-cost, blood-based Tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test—more sensitive than the current World Health Organization-recommended sputum test—that is undergoing trials in Chennai, India to prepare for approval and commercial launch of the test in India. This test could eventually enable patients testing positive for TB to undergo effective treatment sooner for a highly damaging disease affecting populations across multiple TB-endemic countries.</span><br/><span>Researchers at the University of Michigan at Dearborn and the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) in Lahore are collaborating to develop air quality monitoring that can be applied to mobile and wireless devices. This new area of research aims to improve air quality in polluted urban areas in both countries, and possibly soil and water quality in future applications.</span><br/><span>23 U.S. universities from 16 states and the District of Columbia have received grants to work with counterpart Pakistani universities in fields ranging from business development to gender studies.</span></p> League of nationalistsEconomi…tag:nedians.ning.com,2016-11-17:1119293:Comment:1116262016-11-17T16:39:53.156ZRiaz Haqhttp://nedians.ning.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>League of nationalists</span><br></br><br></br><span>Economist Magazine </span><br></br><br></br><span><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/international/21710276-all-around-world-nationalists-are-gaining-ground-why-league-nationalists" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/news/international/21710276-all-around-world-nationalists-are-gaining-ground-why-league-nationalists</a></span><br></br><br></br><span>It is troubling, then, how many countries are shifting from the universal, civic nationalism…</span></p>
<p><span>League of nationalists</span><br/><br/><span>Economist Magazine </span><br/><br/><span><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/international/21710276-all-around-world-nationalists-are-gaining-ground-why-league-nationalists" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/news/international/21710276-all-around-world-nationalists-are-gaining-ground-why-league-nationalists</a></span><br/><br/><span>It is troubling, then, how many countries are shifting from the universal, civic nationalism towards the blood-and-soil, ethnic sort. As positive patriotism warps into negative nationalism, solidarity is mutating into distrust of minorities, who are present in growing numbers (see chart 1). A benign love of one’s country—the spirit that impels Americans to salute the Stars and Stripes, Nigerians to cheer the Super Eagles and Britons to buy Duchess of Cambridge teacups—is being replaced by an urge to look on the world with mistrust.</span><br/><br/><span>----------</span><br/><br/><span>In India ethnic nationalism, never far beneath the surface, is worryingly resurgent. Since 2014 the country has been ruled by Narendra Modi of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The party seeks to distance itself from radical Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) groups, which criticise it as “soft” on Pakistan, Muslims and those who harm cows (which are sacred to Hindus). And Mr Modi is urbane, pro-business and friendly towards the West. But he is also a lifelong member of the RSS (National Volunteer Organisation), a 5m-strong Hindu group founded in 1925 and modelled loosely on the Boy Scouts.</span><br/><br/><span>Members of the RSS parade in khaki uniforms, do physical jerks in the morning, help old ladies cross the street, pick up litter—and are occasional recruits for extremist groups that beat up left-wing students. And last year Mr Modi’s minister of culture, Mahesh Sharma, said that a former president was a patriot “despite being a Muslim”. The minister remains in his job.</span><br/><br/><span>Hindutva purports to represent all Hindus, who are four-fifths of India’s population. It promises a national rebirth, a return to an idealised past and the retrieval of an “authentic” native identity. Its adherents see themselves as honest folk fighting corrupt cosmopolitans. They have changed India’s political language, deriding “political correctness”, and calling critical journalists “presstitutes” and political opponents “anti-national”. The RSS also exerts huge sway over education and the media. Some states and schools have adopted textbooks written by RSS scholars that play up the role of Hindutva leaders and marginalise more secular ones.</span><br/><br/><span>The BJP has made a big push to control the judiciary by changing rules for appointments, but has met strong resistance. It does not control most states in the east and south. Many of the educated elite despise it. And banging on too much about Hinduism and not enough about the economy is thought to have cost it a state election in Bihar last year.</span><br/><br/><span>So India will not slide easily into Turkish-style autocracy—but plenty of secular, liberal Indians are nervous. The police, especially, are thought to favour the ruling party. A reporter nabbed by cops for the “crime” of filming angry crowds outside a bank in Delhi this week says they threatened him with a beating and said: “Who gave you permission to film? Our government has changed; you can’t just take pictures anywhere you like any more.”</span></p> 'Go back to #India b*tch': #S…tag:nedians.ning.com,2016-11-16:1119293:Comment:1115302016-11-16T06:07:31.665ZRiaz Haqhttp://nedians.ning.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>'Go back to #India b*tch': #Seattle councilwoman Kshama Sawant threatened for encouraging #Trump protest <a href="http://via.q13fox.com/dwaox" target="_blank">http://via.q13fox.com/dwaox</a> via @Q13FOX</span><br></br><br></br><span>A Seattle city councilwoman who called on protesters to “shutdown” Donald Trump’s inauguration has since received hundreds of angry emails and phone calls, some telling her to kill herself, her office said.</span><br></br><br></br><span>A spokesperson for Councilwoman…</span></p>
<p><span>'Go back to #India b*tch': #Seattle councilwoman Kshama Sawant threatened for encouraging #Trump protest <a href="http://via.q13fox.com/dwaox" target="_blank">http://via.q13fox.com/dwaox</a> via @Q13FOX</span><br/><br/><span>A Seattle city councilwoman who called on protesters to “shutdown” Donald Trump’s inauguration has since received hundreds of angry emails and phone calls, some telling her to kill herself, her office said.</span><br/><br/><span>A spokesperson for Councilwoman Kshama Sawant said the office has been inundated with racist messages and threats of violence following remarks Sawant gave during a post-Election Day press conference at Seattle City Hall on Nov. 9.</span><br/><br/><span>“Join me, I appeal to you, today at 4 p.m. at Westlake (Park),” Sawant told a crowd. “Let’s have a massive protest and tell America we do not accept a racist agenda and let’s make sure that on Inauguration Day, on the 20th and 21st of January, let’s do a nationwide shutdown and occupy inauguration.”</span><br/><br/><span>Hundreds of people later showed up at an anti-Trump rally at Westlake Park, where Sawant reiterated her call for protest. A video of the speech went viral, and Sawant’s office said they fielded more than 200 calls before 9:30 a.m. Thursday.</span><br/><br/><span>“A (Sawant) staffer was told on phone: ‘I will come and tattoo a swastika on your head and on that bitch’s head,’” Council spokesperson Dana Robinson Slote told Q13 News in an email.</span><br/><br/><span>The office was also inundated with emails.</span><br/><br/><span>“Go back to India bitch,” one email read. “I am tired of being shamed because I’m a white male. You automatically think I’m a racist. How about you go the (expletive) back to India or wherever you came from?”</span><br/><br/><span>Another email accused Sawant of enticing a riot.</span><br/><br/><span>“We didn’t riot with Obama was elected,” the email reads. “Ever stop to think we see (Obama) as a racist? But we carried on and lived to fight another day. Stop being such a cry baby bitch and go hang yourself.”</span><br/><br/><span>Sawant’s call for protest is not a surprise. The socialist council-member has herself engaged in acts of civil disobedience during her time on the council and was arrested during a wage protest in 2014.</span></p> #Trump's top advisor Steve ‘T…tag:nedians.ning.com,2016-11-16:1119293:Comment:1115292016-11-16T04:41:00.998ZRiaz Haqhttp://nedians.ning.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>#Trump's top advisor Steve ‘Turn On the Hate’ Bannon, in #WhiteHouse. #Racism #Islamophobia #Antisemitism #Misogyny</span><br></br><br></br><span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/turn-on-the-hate-steve-bannon-at-the-white-house.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/turn-on-the-hate-steve-bannon-at-the-white-house.html</a></span><br></br><br></br><span>In an ominous sign of what the Trump presidency will actually look like, the president-elect on Sunday…</span></p>
<p><span>#Trump's top advisor Steve ‘Turn On the Hate’ Bannon, in #WhiteHouse. #Racism #Islamophobia #Antisemitism #Misogyny</span><br/><br/><span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/turn-on-the-hate-steve-bannon-at-the-white-house.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/turn-on-the-hate-steve-bannon-at-the-white-house.html</a></span><br/><br/><span>In an ominous sign of what the Trump presidency will actually look like, the president-elect on Sunday appointed Stephen Bannon as his chief White House strategist and senior counselor, an enormously influential post.</span><br/><br/><span>Many if not most Americans had never heard of Mr. Bannon before this weekend, and for good reason: He has kept a low profile, even after taking over Mr. Trump’s campaign in August. Before that, he worked as the executive chairman of the Breitbart News Network, parent company of the far-right website Breitbart News, which under Mr. Bannon became what the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a “white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill.”</span><br/><br/><span>Mr. Bannon himself seems fine with that description, telling Mother Jones last summer that Breitbart was now “the platform for the alt-right,” a loosely organized group of mostly young men who believe in white supremacy; oppose immigration, feminism and multiculturalism; and delight in harassing Jews, Muslims and other vulnerable groups by spewing shocking insults on social media.</span><br/><br/><span>To scroll through Breitbart headlines is to come upon a parallel universe where black people do nothing but commit crimes, immigrants rape native-born daughters, and feminists want to castrate all men. Here’s a sample:</span><br/><br/><span>“Hoist It High and Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage” (This headline ran two weeks after a white supremacist massacred nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C.)</span><br/><br/><span>“Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy”</span><br/><br/><span>“Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement’s Human Shield”</span><br/><br/><span>If you don’t find the headlines alarming, check the reader comments. Or take a look at who’s rejoicing over Mr. Bannon’s selection. The white nationalist Richard Spencer said on Twitter that Mr. Bannon was in “the best possible position” to influence policy, since he would “not get lost in the weeds” of establishment Washington. The chairman of the American Nazi Party said the pick showed that Mr. Trump might be “for ‘real.’” David Duke, former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, called the choice “excellent” and said Mr. Bannon was “basically creating the ideological aspects of where we’re going.”</span><br/><br/><span>Mr. Bannon is in some ways a perplexing figure: a far-right ideologue who made his millions investing in “Seinfeld”; a former Goldman Sachs banker who has reportedly called himself a “Leninist” with a goal “to destroy the state” and “bring everything crashing down.” He has also called progressive women “a bunch of dykes” and, in a 2014 email to one of his editors, wrote of the Republican leadership, “Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that’s the ONLY thing that will make them do their duty.”</span><br/><br/><span>A few conservatives have spoken out against Mr. Bannon. Ben Shapiro, a former Breitbart News editor who resigned in protest last spring, said Mr. Bannon was a “vindictive, nasty figure.” Glenn Beck called him a “nightmare” and a “terrifying man.”</span></p>