Why are there new clothing restrictions in French classrooms?

 

Restrictions include clothing deemed ‘religious’, but Muslims say they’re being targeted.

France has banned clothing in classrooms that is defined by the state as religious.

The government says the ban is meant to defend the country’s strict secularism, but Muslims believe it’s a targeted attack on fundamental freedoms.

India: Anti-Muslim hate music

 Sandeep Acharya is a popular musician. Millions of users stream his songs online, and thousands of fans attend his concerts. He belongs to India’s Hindutva music scene - an Islamophobic scene that has been on the rise in India. Hindutva pop is often played when Hindu groups rally in India. Some songs have even sparked violence and riots.

Love jihad: India's lethal religious conspiracy theory

 

The mutilated body of a 24-year-old Muslim, Arbaaz Aftab Mullah, was discovered on a railway track near his home. His family believe he was murdered because of his interfaith relationship with a Hindu woman and that he is one of the latest victims of the 'love jihad' conspiracy theory, which has swept across groups of Hindu nationalists in India. The theory claims that Muslim men are seducing Hindu women and luring them into marriage in order to convert them to Islam. The claims are baseless, yet the consequences are real

'I thought they would kill me': Delhi mob victim describes attack

Mohammad Zubair, a Muslim, was brutally attacked as Delhi experienced some of its worst religious riots in decades. ‘My clothes were drenched in blood,’ he said of his ordeal. Muslims and Hindus across the region have been mourning their loved ones after dozens of people were killed in the latest wave of violence

China's secret internment camps

China has been quietly detaining its population of Uighurs, the country’s Muslim minority, in internment camps. First-hand accounts from inside the camps paint a brutal picture of torture and political indoctrination. At first, China denied the existence of these camps and tried to cover them up. But as a network of academics and activists uncovered evidence of the camps' locations, and the reality of what’s going inside, China changed its story.

From denial to pride: how China changed its language on Xinjiang's camps

After Joseph Stalin created show trials and the gulag which persisted in the former Soviet Union until his death. At least where show trials are concerned. While the gulag system continued while not quite as draconian even today under Putin.  China has decided to reinvent that system and seems quite proud of the whole horrible system.  They have even brought back reeducation camps just to complete the triumphant.

China’s state broadcaster CCTV last week offered a look inside Xinjiang’s controversial internment camps.

In the 15-minute segment journalists visit the Hotan City Vocational Skills Education and Training Centre where they teach students Mandarin, China’s various legal codes, and job-relevant skills, according to a city official, reciting almost verbatim a description previously given in Chinese state media.

Students are shown learning cosmetology, baking, sewing, woodworking and more. The cafeteria is decorated with balloons and bunting, and all the dorms have air conditioning. One young woman tells an interviewer woodenly: “If I wasn’t here studying, I don’t even want to imagine where I’d be. Maybe I would have followed those religious extremists into a life of crime. The government and party found me in time and saved me.”

   

President Obama Is The Founder Of ISIS Who Knew? (video)

Donald Trump the Republican candidate has gone beyond the pale with his assertions that President Obama founded ISIS. This all harkens back to a negotiated agreement reached during the last few months of the George W. Bush administration. But, there's even a more shocking reason for his comments. Conservatives in America view President Obama is foreign, a secret muslim, foreign born and a terrorist sympathiser.

CHRIS HAYES (HOST): Donald Trump is clearly pretty proud of this line, a line that is obviously patently and viciously untrue. But it’s more than sloppy wording, I think, or rhetorical flourish, it is part of a long case conservatives, and Donald Trump in particular have been building, that Barack Obama is not just a president they disagree with, he is fundamentally foreign. He is an other, possibly aligned with the enemies of the United States. Remember first there was birtherism, Donald Trump was eager to jump into the league.

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There were suggestions President Obama, labeling him the apologizer in chief, wants to deliberately diminish America's power on the world stage. Here's just one example, Marco Rubio repeatedly in the Republican primary.

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Trump’s political ascendency during the primary season brought back to the far more blunt suggestions of President Obama's true allegiance, something Donald Trump discussed just one day after the Orlando mass shooting.

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DONALD TRUMP: We’re led by a man that either, is not tough, not smart, or has got something else in mind and the something else in mind, people can't believe it. People, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. There's something going on.

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