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Hate slurs ensure a discriminated citizen: India’s Muslim voices speak up, 2023 A glimpse at daily life for Muslims living in India? https://cjp.org.in/hate-slurs-ensure-a-discriminated-citizen-indias-muslim-voices-speak-up-2023/ 19, Dec 2023 the Hindutva brigade executes both a social and political project of ensuring the permanent construct of an antagonist picture of Muslims. Be it as a violent race, intolerant, aggressive, traitorous or unclean, the doppelganger to these prototypes is the meat consuming, lascivious, male Muslim who is responsible for the insidious rise in Muslim population. Using repetitive propagandist methods of stigma, these forces have fine-tuned this hate-letting to minute detail, harnessing technology and even music for far reach.

In India itself latest reports indicate an alarming 500% surge in cases filed under India’s hate-speech law over the past seven years, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). There were 255 incidents of hate speech documented at gatherings that targeted Muslims in the first half of 2023 alone. The report further exposes that a staggering 80% of hate speech events transpired in states governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Several incidents, including those involving top official leaders such as Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, have been recorded over the year.

Poet and writer, Hussain Haidry reflects on how firmly entrenched and pervasive propaganda and otherisation of Muslims has become.

“What has happened is that the otherisation is pretty much complete. Now it is very difficult to not be spotted as a Muslim under any circumstance, in any room. Today, I couldn’t pass off (without my identity). Identity is obvious.

“Secondly, while there may not be physical violence, because my class capital and social capital afford me some protections. But, this also exposes you (me) to online attacks, which can easily translate into real life by harming your career and lead to social and economic ostracisation. There may not be an imminent physical threat as such, but online attacks can also affect and attack my career since my livelihood is dependent on that.

J&K: Anger in Poonch After Videos Allegedly Show Torture of Three Civilians In Army Questioning https://thewire.in/rights/anger-in-poonch-after-videos-show-three-dead-after-alleged-army-questioning After videos showing the alleged torture of detained civilians spread online, their death has triggered massive protests in Srinagar. News agencies say the internet has been shut down in the district

. “I have served in the forces for 32 years, my brother’s death is the reward for my loyalty” says Noor Ahmed, brother of a civilian who was among the eight people reportedly picked up by the Army for questioning on Friday (December 22).“My younger brother Safeer has suffered violence; my faith is shaken. Top officials have visited our homes, given us compensation, assured justice, but will we ever get it? My 43-year-old brother has left behind four children, who will raise them?” he told The Wire.

Ahmed also said, “I have served across India, have been a part of the intelligence services; if this can happen to us, how can anyone else be safe?”

Mehmood Ahmed, the village’s sarpanch, said that all three civilians belonged to poverty-stricken families and lived hand to mouth. 

कश्मीर पर चुप क्यों सरकार? | Govt's silence on kashmir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXWy6TgnaAY कश्मीर से दो ख़बरें आई हैं। बारामुला में आतंकवादियों ने पुलिस के एक पूर्व SSP शफी मीर की हत्या कर दी है। दूसरे मामले में सेना पर FIR हुई है कि सेना की कस्टडी में तीन लोगों की मौत हुई है। आज के इस वीडियो में हमने विश्लेषण किया है कि किस तरह हिंदी प्रदेश के अख़बारों ने दूसरी ख़बर पर पर्दा डालने का काम किया है। एक ही ख़बर को अलग अलग संस्करणों में अलग अलग पन्नों पर छापा जाता है। इस वीडियो को दोबारा चला कर देखिएगा, आपको पता चलेगा कि बहुत लोगों को अभी तक अख़बार पढ़ना भी नहीं आता था। कितना कुछ गायब कर दिया जाता है, कितना कुछ हल्का कर दिया जाता है और उन बातों को अब प्रमुख नहीं बनाया जाता जिनसे मोदी सरकार पर कोई आंच आए। ख़बरों का काम अब मोदी सरकार को बचाना हो गया है। हिरासत के भय से पत्रकारिता भी दम तोड़ चुकी है। इसकी जांच कोई नहीं करेगा। सब कुछ प्रचार है, पत्रकारिता का अचार है। 
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Security Council adopts key resolution on Gaza crisis https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1145022

The Council demanded that the parties “allow, facilitate and enable” the immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale directly to the Palestinian civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip. It also requested the UN Secretary-General to appoint a Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator with responsibility for “facilitating, coordinating, monitoring, and verifying” in Gaza, as appropriate, the humanitarian nature of all relief consignments to the enclave provided through States that are not party to the conflict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZmSVxTp0Rk The U.N. Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding aid deliveries to hungry and desperate civilians in Gaza but without the original plea for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.

The long-delayed vote in the 15-member council was 13-0 with the United States and Russia abstaining. The U.S. abstention avoided a third American veto of a Gaza resolution following Hamas’ surprise Oct. 7 attacks inside Israel. Russia wanted the stronger language restored; the U.S. did not.

https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1738259729443385434  Biden managed to delete the call for suspension of hostilities as well as the establishment of a robust UN inspection mechanism in Gaza.