She will not suffer politically in the slightest degree for this. In fact, for the left, support for jihad violence is mainstream, even heroic.
“Tlaib Speaks at Kashmir Event Featuring Jihad Supporters,” by Abha Shankar, IPT News, February 17, 2021:
A Kashmir Solidarity Day event, dedicated to promoting the Islamist narrative on a decades-old conflict, drew the radicalized son of a prominent jihadist as well as a sitting member of Congress.
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., spoke at the Feb. 5 webinar sponsored by Justice for All, the activist arm of the Chicago-based multimedia company Sound Vision. Sound Vision is an offshoot of the proselytizing group, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA).
Tlaib discussed a 2019 voiding of a of a 70-year-old “temporary” provision that divided the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into two federally-administered territories that are now governed directly by New Delhi.
She described “the horrific images, the horrific actions by the Indian government,” in the aftermath of the 2019 action. “We know that it [India] continues that form of oppression, not only … in Kashmir, but all around the country, but we are stronger when we come together and fight against those injustices.”
Tlaib’s comments fit into a broader campaign to misrepresent and exaggerate the situation in J&K.
India imposed political detentions, Internet and media restrictions after the status change to maintain order. Many of those restrictions have since been lifted and mainstream political figures released. Local-level elections were successfully conducted in the union territory in December.
Still, Islamists have falsely cast India’s changes as catastrophic and ominous. A Nov. 30 show on Muslim Network TV hosted by Sound Vision’s founding chairman, Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, portrayed Kashmiris as victims of brutal aggression by India’s “one million [person] army” deployed in J&K.
Tlaib responded to India’s changes by introducing a resolution in Congress “condemning the human rights violations taking place in Jammu and Kashmir and supporting Kashmiri self-determination.” The resolution has not advanced.
Ahmed bin Qasim, a journalist with the Turkish government mouthpiece TRT World, joined Tlaib at the Kashmir solidarity event. He is the son of prominent Kashmiri jihadist Ashiq Hussain Faktoo and hardcore separatist leader Aasiya Andrabi.
Qasim described the Kashmir policy under successive Indian administrations as “evil” and claimed that “both in the Indian secular liberal imagination, and in the Hindu fascist imagination, Kashmiris are demons, they constitute the other, and they are killable people.”
His Twitter posts, that are now visible only to his followers, advocate Islamist insurrection in Kashmir.
“My dear mother, may you continue to agitate and frustrate the colonizer like you always have. #InternationalWomensDay,” Qasim wrote last March. Another tweet quoted Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Riyaz Naikoo saying, “No colonial occupation has continued forever, and it is our firm belief that the Indian rule in Kashmir will also collapse sooner or later, until then, we will fight.”
A former top commander of the Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen (JUM) Faktoo was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the 1992 murder of prominent Kashmir Pandit (Hindu) human rights activist Hriday Nath Wanchoo.
The pro-Pakistan JUM emerged in 1990 as a breakaway faction of the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and is reported to have carried out terror attacks in J&K. Faktoo reportedly is a founding HM member.
Qasim’s mother, Aasiya Andrabi, is a hardcore pro-Pakistan separatist leader. She was arrested in April 2018 for running the terrorist organization Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of the Nation). In December, a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court ordered Andrabi and two of her associates be charged with sedition and conspiracy to commit terrorist attacks.
Dukhtaran-e-Milat, a banned outfit, has “called for jihad and use of violence against India,” India’s National Intelligence Agency said….
Infidel says
Ha! All the decades previous Indian non-BJP governments spent appeasing the Palis and boycotting Israel – finally, this is what India gets!
India should purge its entire foreign service of anyone who was indoctrinated under those regimes, and move its embassy to Jerusalem. Not just that, it should declare that from now on, it’s squarely on Israel’s side. They have nothing to get from the Palis – let Pakistan have them
gravenimage says
+1
toomanyhobbies says
more terrorist activities, how are these people allowed in office?
Ruislamicky? says
+100
James Lincoln says
I’m not sure which “squad” member is the most repulsive…
Infidel says
Oh, easily Ilhan!
Grace says
I think the squad are equally repulsive. They make fools of the democratic party every time they make these foreign appearances. All three have been accused of mishandling campagn funds but the party seems to be afraid of them.
gravenimage says
Rashida Tlaib speaks at Kashmir event featuring jihad supporters
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Appalling, but no surprise. And no, most Democrats will either not learn about this or will not care.
The Istanbulian says
Nice to know that imperialist colonialism is a ok ?? in tlaib’s book – as long as it’s arab, islamic, sunni
Infidel says
And a majority of Indian-Americans still vote (D), even though a majority of Indian-Indians are pro Trump. And that too despite the fact that every Indian-American Democrat congressperson is anti-India on this issue of Kashmir
Relic says
there’s alot of yes please
Andrew Blackadder says
How come these people are allowed to have these “Days” in the USA, like”muslims in the Capital Day”,where muslims stay in the Rotunda of OK City and others Cities, muslims sit on the Floor, eating and drinking, basically just staying there all day, throughout the weekend, so why is that even allowed.
Gandhi-Ji was so 100% correct when he went totally against the creation of Pakistan and East Pakistan,Now known as Bangladesh, he saw the future but the British had little choice as Jinnah,the first PM of Pakistan, a Saville Row Suit wearing, Dunhill cigarettes smoking, Scotch Whisky drinking muslim that he was, said Pakistan and Kashmir will be islamic one way or the other, and now look at what a bloody mess islam has made, as they do everywhere, today…
This islamic takeover is never going to end until a strong Western Leader stands up and stops it dead in its tracks, deports all muslims that are even a little threat to our civilization, and says to hell with yer PC bullshit.
Ha-ha what am I thinking…
gravenimage says
Sadly, Gandhi was actually quite Islamophilic. Gandhi’s main opposition ot partion was that it prevented Indians from (supposdly) living in one big happy nation. He consistently ignored Muslims’ savagery towards Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists.
Boycott Turkey says
Pakistan is the illegal occupier in Kashmir not India Pakistan is also sponsoring terrorism there funny how this group is called justice for all yeah right justice for all does that include justice also for Pakistani Christians Hindus and Sikhs? Also how about justice for the Hindu Pandits who where driven from there homes by Pakistan in Kashmir any justice for them ?