[ May 2, 2024 ]
Has Bernie Sanders ever been right about anything? “Over 200 million Muslims call India home,” he tweeted Wednesday. “Widespread anti-Muslim mob violence has killed at least 27 and injured many more. Trump responds by saying, “That’s up to India. This is a failure of leadership on human rights.”
Bernie is, as usual, wrong. His tweet reflects the American establishment media’s position that the riots in India over the last few days are examples of Hindu violence against Muslims, but they only maintain that position by an extremely selective, misleading, and inexcusably irresponsible presentation of what is going on in India.
The disinformation begins with the establishment media description of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which is the cause of the rioting. In an article entitled “Trump declines to condemn India’s anti-Muslim law,” the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that President Trump had “declined…to condemn India’s controversial new citizenship law, which discriminates against Muslims.” The law, said the Times, “excludes Muslims and has helped fuel a new wave of communal violence….The law passed by India’s parliament last year prioritizes citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians while excluding Muslims.”
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That’s partially true. Gulf News is closer when it says that “the Citizenship Amendment Act allows for the fast-tracking of applications from religious minorities including Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, but not Muslims.” Why would these religious minorities be given preferential treatment? Because they are being persecuted in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Who is persecuting them? Muslims. So the Citizen Amendment Act offers refuge to these persecuted minorities, and not to people among whom may be their persecutors.
What exactly is wrong with doing this? Are non-Muslims not actually being persecuted in those three Muslim countries? They are, and as The History of Jihad shows, the Islamic jihad against Hindus is a 1,400-year-old war. The LA Times’ headline shows how the charge of being “anti-Muslim” is used to intimidate and silence anyone who dares stand against the jihad or with its victims.
In reality, every nation on earth should offer a similar refuge. Muslims in India made that abundantly clear as far back as December, when they first began rioting over the CAA, throwing stones and torching vehicles. The riots got a new impetus when President Trump visited India; apparently the Muslims in India determined that the best way they could show that there need be no law protecting victims of Muslim persecution was by brutalizing innocent non-Muslims. The rioters don’t seem to be aware of the irony.
Bernie could possibly be excused if he is only reading the American media about India. The cover-up is relentless. One telling incident took place on Monday night, when a 51-year-old Hindu named Vinod Kumar was murdered by a Muslim mob in Delhi for the crime of having a sticker reading “Jai Shri Ram” on his motorcycle. The whole thing was captured on a video that went viral, featuring a crowd screaming “Allahu akbar” as Kumar is killed. But the tragic story of Vinod Kumar has not been reported in the Western media; nor have the stories of other Hindus who have been murdered by rampaging Muslim mobs.
Even worse, there appears to be a concerted effort to conceal such stories. Wikipedia has a page on the Delhi riots, but it has been systematically scrubbed of any mention of Muslim-on-Hindu violence. Compounding the impression that the violence has all been against Muslims, the Wikipedia entry on the riots features a photo not of the riots themselves, but of a Hindu leader.
Bernie might also have seen the Wall Street Journal report about how the brother of one of the people who was killed in the riots, Indian official Ankit Sharma, was killed by a mob that was chanting “Jai Shri Ram.” This was implausible on its face, because Ankit Sharma was not a Muslim, but it perpetuated the media narrative that Hindus are entirely at fault for the violence – that is, it perpetuated that narrative until Ankit Sharma’s brother himself denied the Wall Street Journal report and accused the WSJ of lying.
Maybe the Journal was just following the lead of the Leftist Indian media outlet NDTV, which was caught having edited out of its riot coverage images of a pile of stones, ready to be used as weapons, on the rooftop of a mosque. Or on the other hand, it could be that NDTV figured that if the venerable Wall Street Journal could do it, so could they.
In light of all this, it’s no surprise that Bernie Sanders would not have all the facts and rush to condemn those who are being attacked. But Bernie is actually not excused from the responsibility to be better informed; nor is anyone else. The establishment media is inundating us with fake news about India. Neither Bernie nor anyone else should take their bait.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 19 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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29 Comments
4 years ago
I simply cannot fathom how people are, seemingly, overlooking the very high probability that Senator Bernard Sanders converted to mohammedanism.
It (Sanders) surrounds itself with moslems. It has moslem performing groups at its rallies/riots. It clearly is against the Nation of Israel and is all for the surrounding moslem sh-tholes. Isn’t its last statement of protecting moslems, and giving them carte blanche to kill Hindus, Buddhists, et al, enough to FINALLY convince those that are following it (Sanders)?
Actions speak far louder than words.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Well, I can see what you mean, but the word ‘Jewicidal’ should be in the dictionary. I have a sister in law who is most definitely Jewish, and has similar attitudes.
I don’t know WHY, but believe me…it’s a feature.
4 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
I have known many Jewish people over the years. And, had more than a few Jewish friends (all males). Those that were friends, shared a similar world view. Most of the others, not so much …. Democrat Party members to a fault. But, being “Jewicidal”” is not to be compared with being a moslem loving islamophiliac. Or, worse, FAR worse, being an outright moslem. There seems to be MORE than SIGNIFICANT circumstantial evidence that Senator Bernard Sanders is a moslem (the vilest of ALL creatures).
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Maybe, but muzzies do tend to be loud and proud about it. A muzzie himself? No, I think Bernie is just a not-too-bright ideologue with delusions of grandeur (plus more than a smidgeon of megalomania)
who has found out how to get lots of stuff free for himself by playing around in politics. He’s also lazy, sooo…
I’m with the school of thought that good ole Bernie is just in it for fifteen minutes of fame and the payola. Hopefully after he gets it this go around he’ll disappear and we never have to listen to his stupidity or look at his unpleasant face again.
4 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
I have to disagree. If it walks like a moslem. Talks like a moslem, Squeals about things, like a moslem. Good chance, Bernard’s a moslem.
Actions speak far louder than words.
4 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
I must disagree. If it walks like a moslem. Talks like a moslem, Squeals about things like a moslem. Good chance, Bernard’s a moslem.
Actions speak far louder than words.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Either way, he’s bad news and cannot be allowed to infest the White House.
Also, I will say that whether he is or isn’t an actual muzzie, the results would be similar and catastrophic.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Either way, he’s bad news and cannot be allowed to infest the White House.
Also, I will say that whether he is or isn’t an actual muzzie, the results would be similar and catastrophic.
4 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
Bernie really believes in communism. He has been consistent in that belief. I see him as am atheist that just goes through the motions of Judaism and graduated to a European style globalist in agreement with their agenda.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Maybe, but muzzies do tend to be loud and proud about it. A muzzie himself? No, I think Bernie is just a not-too-bright ideologue with delusions of grandeur (plus more than a smidgeon of megalomania)
who has found out how to get lots of stuff free for himself by playing around in politics. He’s also lazy, sooo…
I’m with the school of thought that good ole Bernie is just in it for fifteen minutes of fame and the payola. Hopefully after he gets it this go around he’ll disappear and we never have to listen to his stupidity or look at his unpleasant face again.
4 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
I have to disagree. If it walks like a moslem. Talks like a moslem, Squeals about things, like a moslem. Good chance, Bernard’s a moslem.
Actions speak far louder than words.
4 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
I must disagree. If it walks like a moslem. Talks like a moslem, Squeals about things like a moslem. Good chance, Bernard’s a moslem.
Actions speak far louder than words.
4 years ago
Turkey Declares War on Bashar al-Assad’s Regime in Syria
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/turkey/turkey-declares-war-on-bashar-al-assads-regime-in-syria/2020/03/01/
I am GLAD Trump got the heck out of Syria…
“Turkey on Sunday announced it had launched a military operation against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, in response to the Syrian army’s attack on Turkish troops in Idlib”
– the Democrats were wrong about that too
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
One of the rare pieces of good news in recent times. May Erdogan and Assad bleed each other to death.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nemesis
LOL, exactly what I thought. When your enemies are killing each other what’s not to like? And there are damn few of anything but muslums living in either islamic hellhole state.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nemesis
Yes, that’s exactly why Trump got out of Syria. Helping bad guys defeat other bad guys is a waste of lives and treasure. And notice that the Left has completely lost interest in Syria. Maybe they realized that Trump was right.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nemesis
Sadly it will not be either of them who does the bleeding! I would like to see them both suffer the same fate as Ghadaffi
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Agree. And Left/Libs have been bringing jihad right into America/EU.
somali jihadis attack American citizens while police make excuses http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/maine-jihadi-zone/
Its happening in Demonrat run counties/states .
4 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
And anyone who defends themselves from violence from the left, Mo’s Slimes, or antifa goes to prison.
4 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Arn’t there any men in Maine who can rally together and sort the problem out?
4 years ago
People got it all f-ed with democracy.
Democracy isn’t about “I smoke here & they say it’s ok so you have no voice there because your outnumbered”. Democracy is strictly about protecting health.
Democracy was invented as measure against a tyrant.
Capitalism is a tyrant imposing collectivist, static environmental crimes & unhealthy food on health-loving individuals.
The solution is of course a government that has health as top-priority.
4 years ago
Reply to
Jay Wizzy
What kind of economic system is compatible w/a democracy if not capitalism comrade?
4 years ago
Really good article.
4 years ago
The muslims and libturd dumocraps will destroy any society that allows them in. And India can make any laws they wish to protect their sovereignty and citizens!!! Any country that keeps allowing in criminal parasites isn’t looking out for it’s citizens and will be over powered by the cockroaches in due time!!!!
4 years ago
Leftism and Islam … two peas in a pod.
4 years ago
Thanks, good article.
4 years ago
Should Comrade Bernie ever gain control of the White House he will arr.import hundreds of thousands of jihadists to kill any and all who oppose his Communist dictatorship.
4 years ago
Maybe he should call the 200 million Muslims home in Cuba.
