Despite U.S. pressure …
“Turkey has vowed to push forward with its offensive targeting Kurdish forces in Syria despite continued international criticism” …
- 100,000 Flee as Turkish Offensive Pushes into Syria (Deutsche Welle)
… even though some ISIS detainees escaped from prison and “women affiliated with Isis attacked security offices with sticks and stones during unrest at a camp in the region where Turkey has launched attacks”:
After two months, “around 4 million post-paid cellphone connections will be restored in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, … [but] internet services will remain suspended for now” …
- India to Restore Post-Paid Cellphone Connections in Kashmir (AP / Washington Post)
… and opposition leaders ask how local elections taken seriously or India trusted amid a communication shutdown when “most of the state’s political leaders in detention” …
… while India’s home minister says Modi has warned America’s president against speaking up on India’s occupation of Kashmir because it is an “internal matter” [!]:
Many of the estimated 1.5 million Uighur Muslims and other minorities detained in China are sentenced in a closed court trial and charged for religious practices called serious disturbance of the normal religious order:
Those who insist that antipathy for what Max Blumenthal and Rania Khalek have called “the Jewish State in the Levant” is any more anti-Semitic than antipathy for ISIL is anti-Muslim don’t recognize their own bigotry:
- Merkel’s Gov’t Says Iran’s Call to ‘Wipe Israel off the Map’ Not Antisemitic (The Jerusalem Post)
Iranian women in attendance enjoyed a 14-0 home team win, but “Tehran has yet to announce that they will be granted unrestricted access to all matches”:
Rejecting Zamiruddin Shah’s “fervent wish that Muslims … hand over the disputed land to Hindus for construction of Ram temple as a goodwill gesture [to] ensure communal harmony and peace in the country”:
“We refuse to engage with a party that has made hate and division a central element of its platform — but more importantly, that 98 to 99 per cent of Canadians are rejecting as per the most recent polling”:
