They threatened to kill us if we didn't leave India: Rohingya

India's Hindu nationalist government's crackdown on 40,000 Rohingya forces them to try to cross over to Bangladesh.

…….. Following a crackdown that began in 2012, tens of thousands of Rohingya fled their villages, escaping Buddhist mobs who often aided by the Myanmar military.

The Muslim-majority Rohingya were forced to live in squalid camps, which have been equated with concentration camps, with severe restrictions on their movements.

…… Since then, more than a million Rohingya have left Myanmar, taking desperate journeys via sea and land for safety and a better future.

…… "Since April last year, Indian police started to visit our camp regularly, asking us to fill forms and give our biometric data. News spread across the camp that we would be deported back to Myanmar," he told Al Jazeera.

…… Rights groups have slammed India for handing over Rohingya to the Myanmar government in violation of the principle of non-refoulement, which prohibits states from deporting a refugee or an asylum seeker to territories where her life and freedom could be threatened.

….. Myanmar military has been accused of "textbook ethnic cleansing" in their campaign of mass killing, gang-rape and arson against Rohingya. Within months of brutal military offensive launched in August 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.

…. According to the UN, the Rohingya are currently the most persecuted community in the world.

full article on aljazeera.com

Antimuslimischer Rassismus hat in Spitzenpolitik Fuß gefasst

SOS Mitmensch hat erstmals einen Bericht über antimuslimischen Rassismus in der österreichischen Spitzenpolitik veröffentlicht. Für das Jahr 2018 wurden zwanzig antimuslimisch-rassistische Kampagnen dokumentiert, in die teilweise auch Mitglieder der Bundesregierung involviert waren. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation warnt vor einer gefährlichen Verankerung von Hassideologien in der Spitzenpolitik.

--> Bericht über antimuslimischen Rassismus zum Herunterladen

--> Stellungnahme von Prof. Birgit Sauer

--> Stellungnahme von Prof. Ruth Wodak

--> Stellungnahme von Prof. Anton Pelinka

Quelle: https://www2.sosmitmensch.at/antimuslimischer-rassismus-in-der-spitzenpolitik

Dazu sei noch angemerkt, dass eben dieser Rassismus von Herrn Michael Köhlmeier zum Gedenktag gegen Gewalt und Rassismus sehr wohl angesprochen wurde. Siehe/Höre im vorigen Post
das Video dieser Rede.

Und jeder glaubt was er will und viele wollen den Vergleich mit dem Nationalsozialismus und dem zunehmenden Antimuslimischen Rassismus nicht gelten lassen.

• Manche einfach weil es sie nicht betrifft und sie in ihrer eigenen Blase leben.
• Manche nach dem Motto: "Lieber Gott, schütze mich und meine Brut, zünd´ das Haus vom Nachbarn an, hauptsach´ mir geht´s gut." Solange es ihnen gut geht ist es egal, wer eine auf den Deckel bekommt - schließlich wird schon was Wahres dran sein....
• Und manchen entspricht diese Art von Politik und Rassismus, die anderen sind an allem Schuld.....

Michael Köhlmeier Rede zum Gedenktag gegen Gewalt und Rassismus, 4. Mai ...

Rainer Mausfeld zu den „Gelbwesten“, Neoliberalismus, Migration und Elit...

Zionism: cycles of trauma and aggression in the service of settler colonialism

The origins of Zionism are profoundly misunderstood by many. This is not coincidental and can be seen largely as the result of propaganda, which opportunistically and erroneously asserts that Zionism is the natural expression of Judaism.

….. Zionism first increased its influence in the small Jewish towns in Eastern Europe–the shtetls–at a time when many of their inhabitants became secular but not emancipated. Thus, their view of antisemitism and its accompanying violence and trauma was a modern one, not the traditional Jewish notion that deemed oppression and hardship as divine punishment for sins (for review see here). ….

….. In response to antisemitism, Zionists embraced their fear and contempt of their abusers to produce defensive aggression, reinventing identity in a reactionary attempt to ensure survival and restore pride. The reward of violence–power-quickly enticed Zionist leaders to morph what began as a defensive strategy into an offensive one that culminated with a settler colonialist vision of a homeland in Palestine at the expense of its Indigenous population, the existing Palestinian People.....

Opinion: The Zionist fallacy of 'Jewish supremacy'

Framing Zionism as Jewish and not white supremacy is a dangerous proposition.

….. Zionism is a modern movement, which gained traction among a minority of secular Jews only in the late 19th century in response to Europe's rising anti-Semitism and romantic nationalism.

Early Zionists syncretised many aspects of European fascism, white supremacy, colonialism and messianic Evangelism and had a long and sordid history of cooperating with anti-Semites, imperialists and fascists in order to promote exclusivist and expansionist agendas.

Opinion: Blaming European anti-Semitism on Palestinians and Muslims

The German and Austrian far right is incorporating Zionism into ultranationalism to whitewash its bloody past. 

In November 2018, a conference entitled Europe beyond anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism: Securing Jewish life in Europe, organised by Austria's right-wing government, was held in the Austrian capital, Vienna. The one-day event wrapped up with the issuing of a final communique which stressed that Austria is committed to "fighting every form of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism" and claimed that "anti-Semitism is nowadays oftentimes manifest in exaggerated and disproportionate criticism against Israel." 

Keine Menschlichkeit: Der UN-Migrationspakt – eine Kontrollvereinbarung zum Staatsnutzen

Weder der Migrations- noch der Flüchtlingspakt sind ein Akt der Menschlichkeit. Es geht darum, Armutsmigration zu beschränken und die Anwerbung von nützlichen Migranten zu ermöglichen.

Ende 2018 haben über 160 Staaten den UN-Migrationspakt verabschiedet und anschließend um einen Flüchtlingspakt ergänzt. Damit haben sie eine grundlegende Unterscheidung getroffen: Wer sich z.B. aus Armutsgründen auf den Weg nach Europa macht und im Meer ertrinkt, ist kein Flüchtling, sondern Migrant, der aus welchem Grund auch immer von A nach B will und dabei Grenzen überschreitet. Als Illegaler kann er zurückgeschickt und in Libyen eingesperrt werden – ein Rechtsstandpunkt, den nicht nur die Kanzlerin, sondern auch die deutsche Presse inzwischen übernommen hat, wobei man sich natürlich  von den einschlägigen Lagern distanziert.

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Denationalisation: A punishment reserved for Muslims

 Recent examples of expatriation practices in the UK and Australia demonstrate a glaring anti-Muslim bias.
In the name of "safeguarding" civilisation, the forces waging the "war on terror" have revived a form of punishment once described by the United States Supreme Court as "more primitive than torture": the stripping of citizenship.

…. But despite these extreme effects of expatriation, a number of countries claiming to be the foremost defenders of human rights have enacted laws enabling them to strip citizenship from those they deem "terrorists" or otherwise undesirable, including the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Canada (subsequently revoked) and Australia.

…. The UK's home secretary has almost unfettered discretion to relieve individuals of their British citizenship - no legal trial or conviction necessary - if he or she decides it is "conducive to the public good". 

…. The targeting of Australian Muslim with expatriation measures reflects the prevailing preoccupation with Muslim sources of "ideological extremism" in Australian society. Yet "the attention given to what is represented as Islamic extremism is far out of proportion to its impact in Australian society, which is close to Zero.....

…. The campaign to strip citizenship from so-called "extremists" exposes the "extremism" of the "war on terror" itself - which has progressively normalised the idea that Muslims accused of being dangerous should be "cast out" not only from Western law and politics, but from the ambit of human rights altogether.
full article on aljezeera

The new citizenship bill and the Hinduisation of India

A new bill which seeks to grant citizenship only to non-Muslim immigrants is an attack on India's secular character.

On January 8, India's lower house of parliament approved a bill that would grant residency and citizenship rights to undocumented non-Muslim immigrants, sparking protests in the country's northeast. The protests took place mainly in the state of Assam, where millions of people were accused of being foreigners and effectively stripped of their citizenship last year.

….. The governing Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) main strategist for the northeast, Himanta Biswa Sarma, recently exposed the real purpose of this bill: protecting India's so-called Hindu identity.

…. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also previously admitted that the bill is tied to his party's desire to make India a Hindu nation that prioritises the rights of Hindus irrespective of their citizenship. 

… The Assamese's main fear is that Bangla-speaking people from neighbouring Bangladesh, irrespective of their religion, would come to dominate Assam. Hindu and Muslim Assamese are united on this viewpoint and they all want undocumented immigrants to be kicked out of the state.

However, with this new citizenship bill, the BJP government is trying to convince Assamese Hindus that their loyalty should lie not with the indigenous Muslim communities of their state - who speak their language - but with Bengali Hindus.

.... The citizenship bill needs to be seen as a part of the BJP's larger ideological and political agenda to transform India into a "Hindu homeland". The governing party believes India belongs to Hindus and everyone else are invaders, or at best latecomers, who should expect nothing more than a guest status.

The BJP is clearly using this bill to send a message to the Hindus in other parts of India that under their rule, "Hindus will always come first". 

full article on aljazeera