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Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Ms. Bakhsh has nothing to say about the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan or even her home state of Kashmir.
She us concerned about Muslims everywhere on earth but nit in the plight of the Hindus in Kashmir. The targeted pogroms and genocide against Hindus carried out by Islamists in Kashmir valley does not bother her. She would not report it.
But these very same people are totally silent on what’s happening in Bangladesh. They are warning us Indians of the danger of communalism when communalism, in it’s most violent and destructive form, is tearing apart Bangladesh. Hundreds of Hindu Bengalis have been murdered and thousands of homes and shops gutted. The violence and intimidation continues unabated.
But people like Paranjoy Guha Thakurta won’t speak a word about it.
Ms. Bakhsh has nothing to say about the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan or even her home state of Kashmir.
She us concerned about Muslims everywhere on earth but nit in the plight of the Hindus in Kashmir. The targeted pogroms and genocide against Hindus carried out by Islamists in Kashmir valley does not bother her. She would not report it.
But these very same people are totally silent on what’s happening in Bangladesh. They are warning us Indians of the danger of communalism when communalism, in it’s most violent and destructive form, is tearing apart Bangladesh. Hundreds of Hindu Bengalis have been murdered and thousands of homes and shops gutted. The violence and intimidation continues unabated.
But people like Paranjoy Guha Thakurta won’t speak a word about it.