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.
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?