Democratic Senator asks US President Joe Biden, to engage with Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, to discuss the current situation in Afghanistan. He emphasized Biden’s administration to create an atmosphere of confidence between the two counties. He said that Pakistan is an important country and in my opinion President Biden should engage with Pakistan.

In a press conference, Chris Van Hollen said that “It is very important that the President talk directly with the Prime Minister of Pakistan.”

He said that there is no barrier between the two leaders to communicate with each other. He said that there is no specific reason that the Biden administration has not engaged with Pakistan.

Hollen said that the government officials of the US are in constant interaction with Pakistani counterparts, saying that “There are a lot of things that have been going on.”

While speaking to the media, Hollen asked the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to allow people to leave Afghanistan if they want to. He also demanded that the soil of Afghanistan should not be used for terrorism.

An instructional convention withinside the US addressing Hindu nationalism is being centered through right-wing Hindu organisations, that have despatched demise threats to contributors and compelled numerous students to withdraw.

The convention, titled Dismantling Global Hindutva, that’s co-backed through more than fifty-three universities inclusive of Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Rutgers has come beneath assault after numerous organisations in India and America accused event of being “anti-Hindu”.

The conference’s goal is to bring together scholars to discuss Hindutva, also known as Hindu nationalism, a right-wing movement that believes India shouldn’t be an ethnic Hindu state rather than a secular one. It began online on Sep 10th. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has promoted a Hindu nationalist agenda, which has resulted in discrimination and attacks against India’s 200 million Muslims.

The conference organisers said that “far-right fringe organisations have mobilized to target the speakers at the conference in the recent weeks, mischaracterizing” discussion of Hindutva’s political ideology as an attack.

The organisers said in a statement that “immense pressure has been placed on Institutions by fringe groups to back out of the meeting”, and this “huge disinformation efforts” had “sinister repercussions”. Several conference participants have withdrawn from the event, fearing that they may be barred from returning to their family in India or imprisoned upon entering the country.

Several speakers and organisers have had violent threats made against them and their families. Meena Kandasamy, a speaker, had photos of her children posted on the internet with phrases like “your son will die in a terrible death” and casteist slurs. After receiving death threats, several professors were forced to submit police reports.

More than 1 million emails were sent to Presidents, provosts, and executives at universities involved in the conference, urgina them to withdraw and dismiss participants, indicating a coordinated operation by groups in India and the United States. More than 30,000 emails were received in only a few minutes at Drew University in New Jersey, causing the university server to crash.

We are very concerned that all of these lies will be used to imprison individuals who speak at the conference, or worse, to inflict bodily harm, up to the murder, on those involved with the conference, the conference organisers said in a statement.
“Several speakers have had to withdraw from this conference over the last two to three days due to the range of nature of these threats”

One of the conference organisers, Rohit Chopra, an associate professor at Santa Clara University, remarked, “The level of hatred has been startling”
“Death threats, sexual violence threats, and threats against their families have been made against organisers and speakers. Members of religious minority linked with the conference have been attacked with casteist and sectarian slurs in the ugliest of language, and women participants have been exposed to the vilest form of misogynistic threats and abuse.”

Chopra claimed that he had received some emails accusing him of betraying Hindus. “There has also been a constant flood of comments condemning people involved in the conference of being terrorists, Hindu-haters, Hinduphobic, anti-Indian, and the like, whether by emails or social media” he stated.
“If this event has taken place, then I will become Osama bin Laden and will kill all the speakers, don’t blame me” one email to the organizers wrote.

Ben Baer, the head of Princeton University’s South Studies program which is a co-sponsor of the conference, said the University’s faculty and the legal department had been bombarded with hate mail and charges that the event was racist.
Those of us who have studied India and lived there for several years know that this claim is not just incorrect, but also purposefully deceptive, Baer remarked. It seems evident that the conference has been targeted by an organised effort by one or more fringe extremist groups, based among other things, on the cut-and-paste nature of a large number of the messages received.

The meeting has also sparked outrage on Indian’s right-wing television news stations, which have accused it of being funded by the CIA, foreign countries, and George Soros, who has said on the broadcast that it is aimed at supporting the Taliban.
The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, an Indian organisation accused of being involved in the murders of intellectuals and journalists as well as the Hindu American Foundation and the coalition of Hindus of North America, are all pushing against the meeting.

The Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), a sister organisation of the RSS and extremist nationalist organisation in India, issued a statement this week urging all universities involved to withdraw their support. They expressed their “great worry” over the planned, Dismantling Global Hindutva online event. Such events that increase Hinduphobia, foment Hindu hatred, and incite violence on the minority Hindu population in the west must be condemned.

Because of what is occurring in India, the Hindu right and Hindu supremacists in the United States feel particularly empowered and the severity of their attacks on intellectuals is dramatically increasing, said Truschke, who is required to speak in public with armed security.

More than 900 academics from around the world, as well as 50 organizations with ties to South Asia, published a declaration in favor of the meeting last week.
While the Hindu right-wing hopes to scare and bully intellectuals so that no one dares to investigate Hindutva, Chopra said the opposition underscored why the conference must go on.

He stated, “it’s a matter of intellectual freedoms.”
“Of not giving the devotees of a violent, majoritarian, fascist ideology the opportunity for intellectual discussion about Hindutva, or for that matter any topic”.

CJ Werleman is an Australian journalist, author, and political commentator. But beyond everything else, he is a crusader against Islamophobia. Werleman highlights atrocities against Muslims from around the world. In his recent show about completing the 20th anniversary of 9/11, he discussed the two aspects, how the destruction has visited the Muslim world in 20 years since the 9/11 attacks and how the US has suffered the deadly for.

9/11 attacks were carried by Al Qaeda, the terrorist organization founded by the late Osama bin Laden with America’s support. He highlighted that Islam has no relation with terrorism. But after 9/11 West dumped into the idea that Islam is the gateway to suicide bombing and cause of mass casualties attacks. This atmosphere made Muslim’s a reference object in national security discourse that Islam is the gateway to violence and extremism. A point of view started building that the more pious or conserved the Muslim became in participating in his faith, the more likely he is to become a radical Islamic extremist.

So instead of exclusively targeting the culprits responsible for 9/11 (Al Qaeda which numbered not more than 200 militants at the time of the attack ), the United States made 1.6 billion Muslims guilty by proxy. Suddenly every Muslim was made an object of suspicion, pumping the law and enforcement agencies to carry unconstitutional civilian operations if anyone was perceived to be a Muslim. For example, the New York police department carried out illegal Muslim violence and mapping programs for more than 12 years and this was a violation of the US constitution. The secret units infentraded and spied on Mosques and Muslim student groups and Muslim-owned businesses but never once did legal authorities prejudiced singly to law and enforcement to act upon.

After 9/11, US was in no mood to calm, clear and conservancy, US wanted only revenge no matter the intended cost, consequences and casualties. George W Bush took or should have been kept it to Al Qaeda but he turned it into a civilisation struggle between the Muslims and non-Muslim world. George Bush addressing his media said that “You are either with the US or you are against the US in the fight against terror”. The war has become a paradigm way for making everyone a conscripted soldier under a range of this civilisation war.

Ten days after the 9/11 on 21 Sep George Bush said that “Till there is no refugee for the rest and we will pursue nations that provide aid or haven to terrorism, every nation and every region now has a decision to make either you are with the US or you are with terrorists”.

After the US invasion rather than confining Bin Laden and bringing down him and his 200 followers in the Tura Baura mountains, the US choose to focus its energy and resources in toppling the Taliban regime thus making the United States an occupying prior, which was where the harsh show began. Suddenly, every being Muslim in Pakistan and Afghanistan became a suspected terrorist and the US began rounding up and torturing everyone.

The vast majority of the 700 Muslims were placed in torture cells since 9/11, these crimes against humanity happen because the United States moved over to the dark side. So here the US attracted global sympathy for the 9/11 attacks as the war on terror was not attracting global condemnation, fear and suspicion. If human rights and basic rule of law separate us from terrorists, the US was acting as the terrorist group had vagued to vanquish.

Linking to the most catastrophic decision of the US was a decision to invade Iraq, a country that has nothing to do with 9/11 and zero contact with Al Qaeda. Shocking way (cartoonist way) of describing state terrorism against a most defensive civilian population. The US franked down 1000 rockets on the Iraqi capital and killed millions of Iraqi’s. Americans then carried out armed drones and patchy gunships from the skies on civilians. In jail where the US military personals and contractors operated a system of torture and investigation revealed how the US soldiers even raped younger Iraqi boys in front of their mothers. Those who survived deadly torture established a group ” ISS” which should not surprise anyone, given to demonstrate there is a relation between torture, trauma and radicalization.

The US then expanded its operations to Pakistan, Syria, Yemen and Somalia. In an interview, Somalian refugee said that “Our homes destroyed, livestock destroyed, crops destroyed people obliterated. Our children and I face so much agony and suffering after being forced to flee and now we don’t even have a single bag, let alone a home to go to”.
After all, the US clung to the war on terror killed 2 million people. ( 1 million in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan, and 80,000 in Pakistan). War on terror discourse institutionalized Islamophobia and excuse and pretends wage of war against the unwanted Muslim population. 20,000 Hindu Muslims in 2017 were on pretence on combating Islamic terrorism. China justifies its way of concentration when China came to violent Islamism. War on terror generate Islamophobia, also gives fuel to fascists and created a wave of hate for Muslims and movements in Europe, the US and Australia.