Jan 7, 2020 02:25 AM
(This post was last modified: Jan 7, 2020 02:25 AM by C C.)
More student protests erupt in India (subcontinent community)
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-ne...niversity/
EXCERPT: Student protests are taking place across India after an attack on a university that an opposition party has branded “state-sponsored terrorism”. The protests follow weeks of unrest in India over a new citizenship law which discriminates against the 200 million Muslims in the country. At least 27 people have reportedly died during the government’s crackdown on these protests.
[...] India’s students have been making their voices heard in recent weeks by organising resistance to the Citizenship Amendment Act. The law, introduced by prime minister Narendra Modi, is widely considered Islamophobic, as it provides a route to citizenship for asylum seekers except, explicitly, those who are Muslim.
The state’s response to the protests has been violent... (MORE - details)
Islamists have opened a terrifying new front in their war with France (French community)
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/is...th-france/
EXCERPT: France has endured an appalling series of Islamist terror attacks in recent years. One might feel a sense of relief that the country escaped relatively lightly last Friday. That will, of course, be no consolation to the family of the man who was killed by 22-year-old Nathan C, a recent convert to Islam, who stabbed his victim to death as he defended his wife in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif.
[...] Some media outlets have cautioned that the perpetrator, who was shot dead by police and whose surname hasn’t been disclosed, had a history of mental illness. But arguably of greater relevance is his apparent adherence to the ultra-conservative Salafism, the ideology that links many of France’s Islamist terrorists.
That the attacker reportedly spared a Muslim will send a chill through the French government. Already much is being made of this by right-wing groups on social media. The strategy of the Islamists in France is to fracture the country, turning Muslim against non-Muslim and in the process drawing in the left and the right on opposing sides.
They failed to achieve that with the attacks in 2015 and 2016 [...] In doing so, their victims included French Muslims, who were gunned down as they enjoyed a meal in Paris or run over by the truck that careered down the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Has there been a change in strategy? A realisation from Islamists that if they are to plunge France into a civil war then a more a nuanced terror is required? It’s not enough to kill; what they must also do is create a climate of fear, suspicion and hostility between non-Muslims and Muslims.
[...] In his 2016 book, ‘The Fracture’, political scientist Gilles Kepel, explained how Islamists, with their help of the gullible on the French left, have used Islamophobia to turn Muslims into perpetual victims. Looking ahead to the 2017 election, Kepel wrote that whatever the outcome, the president would be confronted in the five years that followed with a “very profound social and cultural crisis”, one that would require an extraordinary “political vision” to avoid a catastrophe... (MORE - details)
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-ne...niversity/
EXCERPT: Student protests are taking place across India after an attack on a university that an opposition party has branded “state-sponsored terrorism”. The protests follow weeks of unrest in India over a new citizenship law which discriminates against the 200 million Muslims in the country. At least 27 people have reportedly died during the government’s crackdown on these protests.
[...] India’s students have been making their voices heard in recent weeks by organising resistance to the Citizenship Amendment Act. The law, introduced by prime minister Narendra Modi, is widely considered Islamophobic, as it provides a route to citizenship for asylum seekers except, explicitly, those who are Muslim.
The state’s response to the protests has been violent... (MORE - details)
Islamists have opened a terrifying new front in their war with France (French community)
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/is...th-france/
EXCERPT: France has endured an appalling series of Islamist terror attacks in recent years. One might feel a sense of relief that the country escaped relatively lightly last Friday. That will, of course, be no consolation to the family of the man who was killed by 22-year-old Nathan C, a recent convert to Islam, who stabbed his victim to death as he defended his wife in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif.
[...] Some media outlets have cautioned that the perpetrator, who was shot dead by police and whose surname hasn’t been disclosed, had a history of mental illness. But arguably of greater relevance is his apparent adherence to the ultra-conservative Salafism, the ideology that links many of France’s Islamist terrorists.
That the attacker reportedly spared a Muslim will send a chill through the French government. Already much is being made of this by right-wing groups on social media. The strategy of the Islamists in France is to fracture the country, turning Muslim against non-Muslim and in the process drawing in the left and the right on opposing sides.
They failed to achieve that with the attacks in 2015 and 2016 [...] In doing so, their victims included French Muslims, who were gunned down as they enjoyed a meal in Paris or run over by the truck that careered down the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Has there been a change in strategy? A realisation from Islamists that if they are to plunge France into a civil war then a more a nuanced terror is required? It’s not enough to kill; what they must also do is create a climate of fear, suspicion and hostility between non-Muslims and Muslims.
[...] In his 2016 book, ‘The Fracture’, political scientist Gilles Kepel, explained how Islamists, with their help of the gullible on the French left, have used Islamophobia to turn Muslims into perpetual victims. Looking ahead to the 2017 election, Kepel wrote that whatever the outcome, the president would be confronted in the five years that followed with a “very profound social and cultural crisis”, one that would require an extraordinary “political vision” to avoid a catastrophe... (MORE - details)