India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

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Cain Marko wrote:Frankly, I'm not so concerned about Garcetti. He's making the right noises in front of the right crowd. So far Biden's moves have only disappointed and sidelined the far left/"porgessive" crew. And all they've done about it, is to swallow it. Case in point was the recent infra bill IIRC.

Its not too different from politicians world over - you make certain sounds in front of home crowd and others in front of abroad crowd. Ultimately you do only that which works out practically.
Agreed. All this hand-wringing about an Ambassador is vastly overblown. What will he do? He serves at GOI's pleasure. If his activities or statements become egregious, GOI can ask that he be replaced... and this would be far more of a disgrace for his career than anyone else.

GOTUS doesn't have the nerve to ignore a specific GOI request to remove an Ambassador who evidently cannot do his job. This isn't the India of the early '90s, when some minor State Dept ulcer like Robin Raphel could show up & ride roughshod over every diplomatic norm.

It's the hands you don't see and the connections you can't immediately identify that are far more dangerous when it comes to foreign meddling on behalf of BIF. An Ambassador is far too high-profile to be of much consequence in the sphere of covert subversion.
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https://www.nysun.com/national/powerful ... nti/91833/
Powerful Backlash Building Against Woke Anti-Americanism

Don't know if this real or just imagination but something to keep an eye
This can clearly be seen now as a hopeful view inflated by triumphalism. China has risen to take the place of the Soviet Union, which itself replaced the Nazi German Third Reich as the principal rival to western democracy. One could easily imagine, looking at the feeble and inadequate regime now in office in Washington and imagine that the West, haltingly led by the United States and infested by appeasers and defeatists, was once again under severe challenge by a transoceanic, totalitarian power.
Because it incentivizes competition, it inevitably leads to an overheated and potentially self-destructive economic frenzy, but since the Second World War, capitalism has demonstrated its ability to lift countries out of poverty and make advanced economies more prosperous, including formerly communist China, formerly fascist Spain, almost all of central and western Europe, South Korea, Israel, Chile, Singapore and much of Latin America. India is making unprecedented progress.
Only the coronavirus gave the Democrats the opportunity they needed to terrorize the population and deprive Trump of what appeared to be his probable re-election.

The Biden administration has made an almost complete shambles of every policy area: immigration, inflation, Covid, crime, and the unprecedented and shameful debacle in Afghanistan. It is increasingly obvious that either Mr. Trump or a candidate supported by him and endorsing most of his policies will be elected in 2024, and the renovation of America will resume. :lol:
For the first time, I am reading something sensible ... Keep Russia out of Chinese Axis but unfortunately woke scums are too busy pushing them into Chinese camp
The West can accommodate Russian ambitions up to a point. The key is to avoid driving a truncated and demoralized Russia into the arms of China and effectively giving the Chinese the right to develop the vast territory of Russian Siberia. As long as this can be avoided, the resumption of American national renovation will re-establish the unambiguous superiority of American influence in the world, and particularly its economic model. Capitalism is imperfect, but it is invincible, as was demonstrated 30 years ago.
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Nativity scene may make room for Hindu deity display at Oklahoma state Capitol
A Nevada-based Hindu organization is planning to place a display of Hindu deities at the state Capitol after a Christian group recently was allowed to put a Nativity scene in the government building.

Wednesday, Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, said he hopes to have 10-foot-tall monument showcasing various Hindu deities such as Lord Ganesha, Vishnu, Krishna, Rama or Lakshmi displayed at the state Capitol during the Hindu holiday of Diwali in October 2022.
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The woke brigade has its use in ensuring a dhimmi admin in place that will bend over backwards to allow unfettered Unkil access to developing markets and continue Unkil monopoly where possible and control because hey now Asians can do capitalism better than Unkil... Sugars like the same idea, like Peter Thiel says monopoly is good. How dare Chinmart doesn't get full access ... so if it is rewarding Susanah or felicitating Abdul all is good if they sell the country because after all their kids want to study in Hardward isn't it. Last century it was free world as an excuse for intervention now that the world is actually free they want woke world so as to carry on the same "civilizing" ethos
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The Legacy of Reagan’s Civilian ‘Psyops’

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/10/13/t ... an-psyops/
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Came across this article that was written soon after the end of the cold war during the "unipolar moment" and wanted to share.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xp ... story.html
In Search of a Credible Threat
By SEEMA SIROHI
Baltimore Sun

May 04, 1991
WASHINGTON — Washington. -- As arms manufacturers churn out new war scenarios to justify post-Cold War weapons programs, some of them are arousing alarm in diplomatic circles.

General Dynamics, one of the largest U.S. arms makers, offers a case in point. It caused a major diplomatic flap between Washington and New Delhi after company analysts -- in a briefing for key think tanks here -- singled out India as one of the targets for the "next-generation cruise missile."

General Dynamics is clearly looking to make up for a dip in sales to the Pentagon last year from $7 billion to $6.3 billion. The U.S. Navy canceled its contract for the A-12 jet and the company's production lines for the M1-A1 tank may have to close down unless foreign buyers come along.

General Dynamics' inclusion of India along with traditional enemies such as Libya and Iran surprised many South Asia experts; U.S.-Indian relations have been improving steadily for the past eight years. In a 52-page briefing paper the company outlined a scenario for the year 2000 in which India and Pakistan are spoiling for war over Kashmir. The United States would intervene to prevent an Indian nuclear strike against Pakistan and use 307 cruise missiles to neutralize targets in India. No action would be taken against Pakistan.

Details of the briefing sent shock waves through the Indian embassy here. "It is irresponsible to treat India as the enemy," a senior Indian official complained. "Scenario-building is a dangerous game and we can become victims of it." Despite assurances by the State Department and the Pentagon that General Dynamics was simply free-floating, officials in New Delhi are perturbed by the attempt to demonize India -- even hypothetically.

Eric H. Arnett, program associate with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, warns that the inclusion of friendly countries in war scenarios can contribute to the "Pentagon feedback" phenomenon where defense contractors present a line of thought that the Defense Department wants to hear.

"The Pentagon is a sort of closed intellectual community. People who say things they don't want to hear can become persona-non-grata," he points out. The Pentagon has denied that its officers were present at the General Dynamics briefings.

Selig Harrison, a South Asia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says the inclusion of India was a "significant barometer of anxiety in foreign-policy circles with the spread of missile technology. There is an atmosphere in the Congress and in public opinion in which proliferation of missile technology can lead to ambivalent attitudes toward friendly countries." India developed and tested its first medium-range ballistic missile, "Agni," in 1989, sparking strong criticism in Washington. It also has modern, well-trained defense forces.

Michael Klare, professor of peace and security studies at Hampshire College, says arms makers are "looking for a new Iraq" as targets for their computer-guided smart weapons. Only a handful of countries offer legitimate threats -- North Korea, India, Brazil, Taiwan, Israel, Pakistan, South Africa, Syria and Iran, says Mr. Klare. "India got picked because it has capabilities akin to those of Iraq. It is alleged to have nuclear weapons and it has tested ballistic missiles," he adds.

The other four scenarios laid out by General Dynamics are: Indonesia seeking U.S. help to curb rebels trying to close the strategic Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java; U.S. forces deciding to attack Libya's chemical plants; the U.S. attacking Iran after Tehran closes the Persian Gulf to oil shipments, and the United States threatening attack as the Soviet Union escalates its conflict with Japan over the disputed Northern Islands.

In the absence of a single credible enemy for the U.S., defense companies are clearly fumbling around in a minefield of complex regional conflicts, setting off politically sensitive booby traps in the process. The new scenarios "no longer depict a 'Star Wars' battle between good and evil, but an 'Indiana Jones' type situation where all kinds of crazies and nuts are encountered. It's now a battle against chaos," says Mr. Arnett.

In Third World capitals, alarm is growing that in the new unipolar world, such scenarios by arms manufacturers will only further aggravate regional conflicts that are already ominous enough.

Seema Sirohi is the Washington correspondent for The Telegraph in Calcutta. She wrote this commentary for the Pacific News Service.
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will it be halal certified in the US before shipment or after it reaches India...just asking onlee

India ready to give market access to U.S. Pork after proper certification


https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/168 ... of-us-pork
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chetak wrote:will it be halal certified in the US before shipment or after it reaches India...just asking onlee

India ready to give market access to U.S. Pork after proper certification


https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/168 ... of-us-pork

now this is a Masterstroke.

looking forward to eat mangoes this summer.

USA Permits Import Of Indian Mangoes And Pomegranates As India Allows Entry Of American Cherries And Pork

https://swarajyamag.com/insta/usa-permi ... s-and-pork
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India seeks information on assault on Sikh cab driver in NYC.

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Even if this was done with an eye on elections back home, if India doesn't stand up for Sikhs, no one else will. Especially not Pakis, Turdeaus or Brits. Hope those who have a "Khaali-stan" between the ears recongise this truth.
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Its related to discrimination in US.
After 9/11 an unfortunate Sikh was killed in Arizona.
Later various violent incidents occured.
Not a single protest from MEA.

Should be happy and not bring elections cynicism.
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Or Sikhs for Justice.
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sanjaykumar wrote:Or Sikhs for Justice.
Need an Indian Mossad operation for this group.
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Biden nominates Muslim woman to the federal bench, a first in US history as he diversifies the judiciary
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden nominated a Muslim woman for a federal judgeship for the first time in U.S. history Wednesday as part of his administration's push to reshape the federal judiciary with diversity.

Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, is Biden's nominee for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. If confirmed by the Senate, Choudhury would become the first Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge and the first Bangladeshi American.
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I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

Our dear simple, communist CM from the highly advanced state of Kerala is heading to the US for a medical checkup! Oh the irony https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ ... 274153.ece :shock: :eek:

I do wish the CM well since well he is a CM and a fellow citizen, but really couldn't he get all the treatment he needed locally, or at a communist paradise instead?
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Mayo clinic? They charge $10 000 just to see your file. Then the real Billings commence.
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The American tool Tanvi Madan tries some fear-mongering about China and Russia, like other american talking heads commenting on sooth asia.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opini ... a-7734303/
For one, it would hinder Delhi’s interest in preventing a further deepening of Russia’s ties with China. Potential Russian military action against Ukraine and western backlash would mean that Moscow will need Beijing’s diplomatic support even more. Beyond the strategic challenge that a close Sino-Russian partnership poses for India, a Moscow that is more beholden to Beijing would be particularly problematic at this moment when India is dependent on Russian military supplies and Sino-Indian border tensions could flare up again.
This is already a reality, Russia and India are both well aware of the threats from China and are dealing with it fine without any help from the USA. These analysts in the USA seem to think that people in India are not watching US attitudes about India and responding appropriately, after they have continuously spit on India from the USA think tanks for years -- Tanvi Madan worked for the US state dept. in the past, so her line is close to US SD's line.
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yensoy wrote:Our dear simple, communist CM from the highly advanced state of Kerala is heading to the US for a medical checkup!
There are several Mayo clinics. He is headed to Minnessota. What's his ailment?
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Mayo Clinic in MN is the first one, AFAIK.
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sanjaykumar wrote:Mayo clinic? They charge $10 000 just to see your file. Then the real Billings commence.
Don't they take insurance?
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Vayutuvan wrote:
sanjaykumar wrote:Mayo clinic? They charge $10 000 just to see your file. Then the real Billings commence.
Don't they take insurance?
Yes.
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Vayutuvan wrote:Mayo Clinic in MN is the first one, AFAIK.
It is. Top-notch, last resort medical care. Must be something seriously wrong with the CM if he is going to be admitted for two weeks.
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And I wish him all the best since he is elected CM of an Indian state, for that matter an Indian, a human. But the duplicity of communists never ceases to amaze me. What exactly is lacking in terms of medical competence or capability within the borders of India for a so-far healthy person (I am excluding rare diseases which usually manifest an an early age)? Or he could get the care in a communist paradise - Russia, China, Cuba... or even Dubai or Singapore. But no, he has to go to the USA.
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In the belly of the capitalist beast. You should commend him for his fearlessness.
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Does anyone notice it was some American think tanker who was suggesting China will transfer hypersonic missiles to TSP to defeat S-400 air defenses?
Bile is still there.
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It's probably a 90 year old who's still miffed that third world India beat the $h1t out of their client state in 1971. CENTO anyone, hmmmm? And to add insult to injury, with Soviet weapons. The younger crop do not carry that particular baggage.
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anupmisra wrote:
yensoy wrote:Our dear simple, communist CM from the highly advanced state of Kerala is heading to the US for a medical checkup!
There are several Mayo clinics. He is headed to Minnessota. What's his ailment?
Swollen b@lls cancer according to the grapevine. Another Commie secretary was at MD Anderson Houston to treat something similar.
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sanjaykumar wrote:It's probably a 90 year old who's still miffed that third world India beat the $h1t out of their client state in 1971. CENTO anyone, hmmmm? And to add insult to injury, with Soviet weapons. The younger crop do not carry that particular baggage.
Not a young one, but not a 90 year old one either

If indeed he is this one Ramana ji is referring to -

Richard Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center in Alexandria, Virginia.

Link - Can Pakistan counter India’s new S-400 air defense system?

The bakis of Samaa TV have a youtube video highlighting how is a top strategical genuis whom all the top US generals and Senate listens to... it is a very funny video, BENIS material so i am not putting it here :D
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srikandan wrote:The American tool Tanvi Madan tries some fear-mongering about China and Russia, like other american talking heads commenting on sooth asia.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opini ... a-7734303/
For one, it would hinder Delhi’s interest in preventing a further deepening of Russia’s ties with China. Potential Russian military action against Ukraine and western backlash would mean that Moscow will need Beijing’s diplomatic support even more. Beyond the strategic challenge that a close Sino-Russian partnership poses for India, a Moscow that is more beholden to Beijing would be particularly problematic at this moment when India is dependent on Russian military supplies and Sino-Indian border tensions could flare up again.
This is already a reality, Russia and India are both well aware of the threats from China and are dealing with it fine without any help from the USA. These analysts in the USA seem to think that people in India are not watching US attitudes about India and responding appropriately, after they have continuously spit on India from the USA think tanks for years -- Tanvi Madan worked for the US state dept. in the past, so her line is close to US SD's line.
This Tanvi Madan is a little too eager, too enthusiastic and is the "seeking approval" types and I am sure will talk down to you with condescension if you have a brown skin. She is the "I've made it to the top" types with bucket loads of conceit.
You can play B$ Bingo with all of her articles...."crisis", "Pacific theatre" "Moscow" "Beijing" . boom ! bam!
Delhi and Washington might manage that problem but there will be others too. A deteriorating situation in Europe could draw US attention away from the Indo-Pacific theatre, as Afghanistan and Middle East crises did in previous administrations. It has already absorbed considerable American bandwidth at a time when Delhi wants Washington to be focused on the China challenge.
:roll: South America and Australia missing ...rest of the world is covered. Cant you see guys...its a global crisis. And PM Modi and EAM Jiashankar want Washington to focus on China challenge...dont know why they arent listening to Tanvi madam.
It is unclear if Delhi privately has expressed or will express its concerns to Moscow. Regardless, it is likely considering such a scenario, and will have to prepare for the potential fallout for India’s interests with Russia, the West and China.
:roll: :rotfl: I mean who writes this stuff in bold. Looks like she desperately wants to sound important. And gives the impression that Tanvi Madan otherwise is usually privy to diplomatic whispers....when in reality she knows nothing, is a nobody and comes across as someone being bombastic.
potential fallout for India’s interests with Russia, the West and China.
:shock: Oh no! Its all over! Oh dear Oh dear! There you go. EM Jaishankar should be fired and replaced with Tanvi Madan. All our interests are gone. With West, China, Russia. We only have the penguins of Antartic and polar bears of Arctic to help us diplomatically.
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Representative Scott Perry (R- PA 10th district) has done us a service by raising concerns about Pakistan's appointment of Masood Khan-- a known jihadi terrorist sympathizer who has praised Hizbul Mujahedin, Burhan Wani and Aafia Siddiqui-- as its Ambassador to Washington DC. Thanks to a letter written by Rep. Perry, the appointment of Masood Khan has been placed on (at least a temporary) hold.

Please show your appreciation for Scott Perry and incentivize him to continue fighting the good fight.

https://patriotsforperry.com/
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US is apparently a "strategic ally" of India but you would never know that from their behavior towards India, but don't let that fool you, they are actually religious christian bigots that have no goodwill for India or Indians...if that is not already very clear from their narrative on India. This piece of goat faeces goes by the title of "International Gand Poobah of Religious Freedom" -- would have been more effective if he made this statement from Bagram Air Force Base where the US troops are saving religious freedom in Afghanisthan...oh wait, they didn't.


https://twitter.com/IRF_Ambassador/stat ... 2350402564
Religious freedom includes the ability to choose one's religious attire. The Indian state of Karnataka should not determine permissibility of religious clothing. Hijab bans in schools violate religious freedom and stigmatize and marginalize women and girls.
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This US Ambassador At Large for International Religious Freedom (who does not put his name on his Twitter profile) has some interesting antecedents.

His name, it turns out, is Rashad Hussain. He has had that for ambassadorship only a few weeks now. So we should expect to be hearing from him for a while yet.

He was born in the US to Indian Muslim immigrant parents. In 2010, he was appointed by Obama as a Special Envoy to the OIC.

And at the time of his appointment to that office, something interesting happened: certain very-dark-green aspects of his past were mysteriously scrubbed from his curriculum vitae.

https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/ ... in-coverup
Washington Rashad Hussain Coverup?
by Robert Spencer
Human Events
February 17, 2010
Who is covering for Rashad Hussain? Last Saturday, in a video message to the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Qatar, Barack Obama appointed Rashad Hussain to be his administration's special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Rashad Hussain several years ago defended a leader of a jihad terrorist group -- and now the record of his doing so has been deep-sixed.

Journalist Patrick Goodenough of CNS News has discovered that in 2004 Hussain denounced the prosecution of University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian as a "politically motivated persecution" designed "to squash dissent."

To be sure, this was a widespread view among liberals at the time. Al-Arian himself pushed all the right Leftist buttons: "I'm a minority. I'm an Arab, I'm Palestinian. I'm a Muslim. That's not a popular thing to be these days. Do I have rights, or don't I have rights?" The American Association of University Professors defended Al-Arian, as did The Chronicle of Higher Education, which published a cover story called "Blaming the Victim?" and featuring a photo of Al-Arian.
Again, Qatar. Means: probable Ikhwani working in classic Muslim Brotherhood mode, infiltrating the system, worming his way up the hierarchy, and always leveraging his office to perform overground work for jihadi terrorists.

Sami Al-Arian, by the way, is a convicted jihadi terrorist (and also a former professor at the University of South Florida!) He pled guilty in 2006 for his affiliation with the US-designated terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and was sentenced to time in prison and deported to Turkey.

More about him here:
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/turki ... nce-671344
https://www.meforum.org/4065/the-terror ... i-al-arian
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srikandan wrote:US is apparently a "strategic ally" of India but you would never know that from their behavior towards India, but don't let that fool you, they are actually religious christian bigots that have no goodwill for India or Indians...if that is not already very clear from their narrative on India. This piece of goat faeces goes by the title of "International Gand Poobah of Religious Freedom" -- would have been more effective if he made this statement from Bagram Air Force Base where the US troops are saving religious freedom in Afghanisthan...oh wait, they didn't.


https://twitter.com/IRF_Ambassador/stat ... 2350402564
Religious freedom includes the ability to choose one's religious attire. The Indian state of Karnataka should not determine permissibility of religious clothing. Hijab bans in schools violate religious freedom and stigmatize and marginalize women and girls.
India has the right to choose whatever she wants to. For everyone else there is Pakistan
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There are several European jurisdictions with bans on tribal wear. Did they come under this same scrutiny and sanctimony?
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Rudradev wrote:This US Ambassador At Large for International Religious Freedom (who does not put his name on his Twitter profile) has some interesting antecedents.
Rudradev gaaru,

Interestingly Wikipedia says the following. Ambassador Mr. Rashad Hassan, Esq. has been rehabilitated so that he can give moral lectures to the most tolerant people in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashad_Hussain
the Washington Post described Hussain as member of the President Obama's "spiritual cabinet."
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Upon appointing the 31-year old White House attorney as one of the youngest posted American ambassadors[9] and highest ranking Muslim American officials[10] Obama stated: "as an accomplished lawyer and a close and trusted member of my White House staff, Rashad has played a key role in developing the partnerships I called for in Cairo, and as a Hafiz of the Quran, he is a respected member of the American Muslim community, and I thank him for carrying forward this important work."
His philosophy thesis was titled "Assessing the Theistic Implications of Big Bang Cosmological Theory." He holds an MPA from the [/b]John F. Kennedy School of Government[/b] and a Master's degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies, both from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. At Yale, he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.
In addressing extremism, Hussain has also argued that Muslim communities must improve secular and religious education for boys and girls, increase access to opportunity through job creation, address the sense of political disenfranchisement in Muslim communities, and improve deradicalization programming.[61] In a panel hosted by Peter Bergen on online radicalization in 2013, Hussain described the extremists' online approach as combining a message of religious obligation to defend Muslim causes with emotional international images in a way that attempts to provide a sense of purpose to disaffected youth.
Janus headed talk this.
Hussain has worked on efforts to improve the protection of Christians, Jews, and other religious minorities living in Muslim-majority countries.[63] He has also sought to combat anti-Semitism by denouncing Holocaust denial and the publication of anti-Semitic materials in the Muslim world. In an op-ed on addressing anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, he condemned the broadcast of an anti-Semitic film aired in some Muslim-majority countries, arguing that Jews and Christians face discrimination and violence in these countries and that "Efforts must be made to ensure that textbooks and television programming in the Muslim world are free from the types of dehumanizing ideas and images that breed intolerance and hate."Speaking to Foreign Ministers of Muslim countries at the OIC Ministerial in Guinea in 2013, he also criticized "restrictions on places of worship, including churches and synagogues" as "unacceptable."[44] He has also condemned blasphemy laws on other restrictions on speech that are used to persecute religious minorities,[65] including Coptic Christians in Egypt, where he visited with an American Coptic leader in 2012.[66][67]

Hussain has also traveled to a number of countries to address persecution of Muslim communities, including the Central African Republic,[42] Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, India, the Rohingya population from Myanmar, and a number of European nations.
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Vayutuvan wrote:
Rudradev wrote:This US Ambassador At Large for International Religious Freedom (who does not put his name on his Twitter profile) has some interesting antecedents.
Rudradev gaaru,

Interestingly Wikipedia says the following. Ambassador Mr. Rashad Hassan, Esq. has been rehabilitated so that he can give moral lectures to the most tolerant people in the world.
Vayutuvan ji, good find!

The Janus-headed talk puts him squarely in the company of Malala Yousafzai. Classic Islamist move.

Another thing to note. This guy's elevation to USCIRF's "Ambassadorship at Large" coincides (ominously) with Ilhan Omar's "Islamophobia" bill passing in the House of Representatives. The MB/J-e-I cabal in the US is doing everything it can to weaponize US law for jihadi causes. The "Islamophobia" bill is the bullet in the chamber of the gun, and Rashad Hussain is the muzzle.

Added later: I wonder how the US-based MB/JeI cabal will respond to Rana Ayyub-gate. Ayyub was their primary native-informant mouthpiece on the rising fascism and intolerance of India, getting published in WaPo/NYT on a regular basis.

One may recall Dexter Filkins of the New Yorker visiting Cashmere with Rana Ayyub and writing reams about the horrors of No Internet Connection (following the revocation of Article 370). The New Yorker, of course, has never breathed a word about the Kashmiri Pandit genocide or the decades of bloody jihad that followed.

Similarly in December 2021, a London-based Iran-born MB Hijabi named Yasmin Serhan wrote a massive hit piece in The Atlantic. Google it if you like, I won't profane this forum with a link. It was entitled: "The World’s Largest Democracy Is Failing: What the attacks against the journalist Rana Ayyub reveal about the state of India’s democracy".

Quoting from that farticle:
So in 2016, two years into Modi’s premiership, Ayyub decided to self-publish the investigation in the form of a book called Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up. It became a best seller and has since sold 400,000 copies in more than a dozen languages, according to Ayyub. :mrgreen: The book is currently in the process of being adapted into a documentary feature, which is slated for release in 2022.

Although Gujarat Files earned Ayyub international recognition and accolades, it also established her as an enemy of Modi’s Hindu-nationalist project—a status that she said has put her on the receiving end of torrents of intimidation and abuse, both on- and offline. In 2018, she became the target of a deepfake in which her likeness was doctored onto a woman in a ***** video. The fake video was widely circulated, including by members of the BJP. Not long after that, someone posted Ayyub’s phone number and address online. Although she might never find out who was behind the video or the doxing, she said that most of the online accounts sharing them belonged to supporters of Modi and his party.

“I’m somebody who is changing the opinion of the world vis-à-vis India,” Ayyub said. “The only way they think they can stop me is with rape and death threats, which are now a part of my life.” :(( :(( :((

The following part, in fact, looks like an attempt to pre-empt Ayyub-gate-- as if they knew would soon come to light:

The intimidation hasn’t stopped there. Ayyub told me that she has been followed by people and vehicles, both in India and abroad. Since June, she has also been facing a series of criminal charges. The first concerns a viral video of an elderly man claiming to have been the victim of an Islamophobic attack, which she and other journalists and lawmakers shared on Twitter. Police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh allege that sharing the video online amounted to an attempt “to destroy communal harmony.” She faces separate charges of tax evasion, and of misappropriating funds stemming from her relief work during the pandemic. The cases are all bogus, she said. Members of her family have had their bank accounts frozen because they had financial transactions with her, she told me. She has foregone leaving Mumbai in fear that she could be called in for questioning or even arrested. “It’s like you’re living as a fugitive in your own house,” she said.

These kinds of arbitrary and punitive investigations—against journalists, human-rights campaigners, activists, and political opponents—have become standard in Modi’s India, where the government has weaponized the country’s police and courts in a bid to silence its critics. “They don’t go after you for what you’ve written,” Salil Tripathi, an Indian-born journalist and the former chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee, told me, but rather “for a tax violation, a regulatory violation, or something else that seems like a crime so it’s very hard to garner public sympathy around you.”

Now it stands revealed, with abundant evidence, that Rana Ayyub is nothing but a money-grubbing grifter. Will Rashad Hussain and company raise a hue-and-cry about how she is being "victimized by Modi's attack dogs in the Enforcement Directorate"? Or will they quietly pretend to forget she ever existed?
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RD gaaru

More stuff about the person who recruited him
The Washington Post reported that, "After the 2008 election, Hussain was recruited to the White House Counsel's office by Greg Craig and Cassandra Butts, a fellow Tar Heel and Obama's former Harvard Law classmate. He has worked there on national security and new media issues, and helped inform the administration's Muslim outreach efforts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_B._Craig
In 2019, Craig was indicted on charges of lying to federal prosecutors about the work he did at Skadden on behalf of the government of Ukraine under Viktor F. Yanukovych, work referred to Craig by Paul Manafort, then a Yanukovych consultant. Craig was acquitted in a jury trial.
Ukraine connection.
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Out of curiosity, can students in US attend school in Hijab?
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Yes, they can in the spirit of anything religious is allowed. The dress codes focus on decency and safety more than anything else. So no guns, offensive tattoos and adequate amount of clothing. I suppose the dress code around clothing may be in violation of the religious beliefs of students keeping faith in religions that proscribe any type of clothing, but such a case has yet to happen in real life.
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