Reports out of Kashmir suggest the region remains in near total lock-down since India revoked its legal autonomy and started carrying out a broad crackdown against pro-independence groups.
Protests have erupted as the Indian military tries to impose a full curfew. At least six people have been killed and over 100 others wounded in the crackdown on protests.
Military checkpoints are set up every 100 meters across the capital of Srinagar, and only people whose jobs are considered “essential” are allowed in the streets. Many seen as favoring independence have been preemptively detained.
In the meantime, tensions between India and Pakistan are rising, with Pakistan protesting the move. This has led to some exchanges of fire along the Line of Control that separates Indian and Pakistani-claimed parts of Kashmir. While exchanges of fire on that border are not unusual, there is growing concern this could lead to a full-scale war.
Hindus, because of a deeply embedded caste system, don’t even see each other as equal human beings–so how can they be expected to embrace Kashmir Muslims as equal citizens.
Modi has learned well from his Israeli pals how to annex territory.
Hindus operate according to their beliefs, not to your beliefs about their beliefs. And since there are a billion or so of them, divided into innumerable sects, attributing any one belief to all of them would be a fool’s errand.
Have you lived in India? I have.
BYE
PS: Look at the classified ads for marriage in India, and you’ll see vast majority seek a spouse from their own caste. In many rural area, girls cannot even marry a guy from a different village.
PS: I will no longer be responding to your comments because you need to keep your language in check.
You made a sweeping (and incorrect — the caste system has been in a state of increasing disintegration for decades) statement treating a billion people as one unified collective.
That’s an ethnic/religious slur. Sorry for just correcting it instead of deleting it. I won’t make that mistake again.
Right. So I am anti-black, anti-Sem and now anti-Hindu.
I know you have huge mental bandwidth and knowledge, but on the subject of caste and its “disintegration,” do take some time and google what Arundhati Roy says on the subject. Although it’s possible you know more about India than her. In light of your erudition, I’m sure you’re familiar with her. Read her award winning book, “God of Small Things.” Psst, it’s also about caste 🙂
Let me know what you find. I also understand you’re on a short fuse (kinda like Trump) so feel free to ban me from this site and/or delete my earlier post.Hey, Trump would do that 🙂
Come to think of it, the term fake journalist comes to mind. Ciao!
I’ve got no idea what you’re “anti-,” since you say X and then get all harumphy when anyone takes it to mean X instead of something other than X. You lumped about a billion people together and ascribed beliefs and actions to all of them on the basis of their shared religion (which comes in about as many flavors as it has adherents). That’s just a fact.
I’ve read the Intercept article on Tulsi. I’ve been pointing out her Hindu nationalist (and Zionist) connections right here at Antiwar.com for months.
Modi is a monster. I don’t know what Tulsi sees in him.
Read the article The Intercept did some weeks ago on Tulsi. It brings out Tulsi’s connection to right-wing Hindus.
I’ve a feeling our overseer, the most estimable Robert L. Knapp, will find my post totally bigoted and will ban me forever from this web site. His exchange with me above should prove illuminating.
His name is Tom, and he made a few good points. Though I do disagree with this site’s practice of blocking people. That’s not Tom’s choice, though. Don’t shoot the moderator.
Why am I not surprised that you operate on feelings rather than on facts?