Wednesday, October 20, 2021

DC Comics Superheroes Fight Injustice in Indian Occupied Kashmir

DC Comics latest movie release "Injustice" is inspired by a video game titled "Injustice: God Among Us". It shows superheroes destroying military equipment in Indian Occupied Kashmir with the narrator's voice saying that Superman is stopping a government "waging a genocidal war against its own people.”

DC Comics' Injustice


In the DC Comics film, Superman is determined to avenge the villain Joker’s grave crimes, which include killing Superman’s partner Lois Lane and their unborn child. The Justice League, including Batman and Wonder Woman among other superheroes, try to get Superman to  restrain himself. 

Depiction of Kashmir as “disputed” and the fictional superheroes’ destroying military equipment  have drawn a strong angry reaction in India, with Indians on social media venting against the United States: “America is literally always butting its nose in another’s nations business”. “So now comic writers write politics of world that they don’t know? I think not, this is a well planned deliberate attempt to showcase supremacy subtly to the young consumers who have no idea. It’s a no brainer who are behind such activities”      

https://youtu.be/aVf3uZIAjM8


 

13 comments:

Rashid A. said...

Indians always hide behind “Internal Affairs” shield while lecturing the whole world and interfering in the affairs of its neighbors and neighbors’ neighbors.

They forgot this principle when interfering in East Pakistan, Balochistan, Afghanistan, and Nepal.

By that logic, no one should protest treatment of Palestinians in Israel, West Bank and Gaza, should not have interfered when Bosnians were the victims of genocide by Serbs, or when Rohingyas are uprooted in Burma.

Sitar player Ravi Shankar went around the world fanning flames of cessation of East Pakistan. After every concert that Pundit would engage in politicking on the stage. Indians loved it.

The Beatles too part in it too

They also follow Chanakya philosophy, “thy neighbor’s neighbor is thy friend”, except when the neighbor or neighbor’s neighbor is a much stronger country.

MH Khan said...

At last American Society realized the true face of Modi’s Hindutva India !

samir sardana said...

Jiye Jiye Pakistan !

And the credit for this wave - goes to Pakistan,Pakistan Diplomacy and Imran Khan.

Comics reflect the underlying sentience of the masses and the expectations of morality,ethics and justice expected from the masses.

The only nation which has exposed the vermins of the Indian state and India = Pakistan

Z Basha said...

Riaz bhai, As an expert in global affairs what is your analysis on FATF for Pakistan and Turkey. I hope team IK and Erdogan can work closely and learn from each others experience. Since Pakistan has completed all but one item, is there any opportunity to work with Turkey in exchange for pending payments?

Riaz Haq said...

ZB: "what is your analysis on FATF for Pakistan and Turkey"

FATF is political tool for the West to keep nations in check.

If you doubt it, just look at the FATF black list that has only two names: Iran and North Korea. Both are on Uncle Sam's list of "bad guys", both members of Bush's "axis of evil".

Riaz Haq said...

#Pakistan turn tables with emphatic #T20 World Cup win over #India. After 29 years, Pakistan finally broke the World Cup jinx. They did it in the most emphatic fashion possible. The game lasted 37.5 overs but in reality the contest was decided in 19 balls https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/oct/24/pakistan-turn-tables-with-emphatic-t20-world-cup-win-over-india

Shaheen Shah Afridi had his plans in place, skills sharpened and steamed in to let loose not so much cricket balls but precision-guided missiles that produced shock and awe.

The fourth ball of the innings, the first that Rohit Sharma faced, swung in at pace, moving late and the batsman was fatally in front of the stumps when the back pad was nailed.

There really was little Rohit could do about the ball. But the story was a little different to KL Rahul, who shaped to work a similarly conceived delivery to the on side off the first ball of the third over and feathered the ball on to pad and stumps.

At six for two, India were looking down the barrel and fortunately for them Virat Kohli was not in the mood to give up. Batting outside his crease and nullifying the swing, Kohli signalled his intent by muscling Afridi into the stands over long-on.

Having lost his most reliable partners, Kohli changed gears, committing himself to playing traditional cricket shots, pushing back just enough to keep India in the hunt.

Adding 53 with Rishabh Pant, Kohli ensured that hope floated for India, and when he was finally dismissed, the sixth wicket of the innings, he had done enough to get India to 151 for 7.

While that was certainly a few runs short, given the occasion, the stage and the quality of Pakistan’s bowling on the day, it was the best India could do, and at least gave their bowlers a fighting chance.

In boxing parlance, though, India’s bowlers simply could not land a single punch when it was their turn.

If Afridi was the pointed end of the spear, Babar Azam was the shield. Oozing class from the first ball he placed, Azam set the tone with a back-foot punch through cover that should be immortalised in bronze.

Azam’s footwork was textbook, his timing immaculate and his placement cruelly efficient. There was nothing India’s bowlers could produce that troubled him as he cruised to an unbeaten 68.

While Azam was the man controlling the tempo of the chase, his partner, Mohammad Rizwan, was the perfect foil. Rizwan took just enough chances to put the bowlers off their game, and crucially had perfect understanding with his captain. The pair barely had to call – not that they would have been able to hear each other in a heaving stadium – when they were turning ones into twos.

A look from Azam would be enough for Rizwan to commit to the run, and when he decided to be cheeky, the ball screamed off the middle of the bat. Rizwan ended on a 55-ball 78, sealing Pakistan’s pitch perfect 10-wicket win.

Riaz Haq said...

From India Today: Pakistan captain Babar Azam and his opening partner Mohammad Rizwan made light work of the 152-run chase, getting to the target in the 18th over to break the World Cup jinx and register their first-ever 10-wicket win in a T20I match.

This was Pakistan's first-ever win against India in a World Cup match of any format. It was also their maiden T20I win by 10 wickets over any opposition and the highest opening stand against India in the format. It was also India's first 10-wicket defeat in the format.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/heres-how-indian-political-leaders-reacted-to-pakistan-s-win-in-t20-world-cup-match-1868889-2021-10-25

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Rare honesty seen today on India's ZeeNews after Pakistan's "One-sided win" against India in T20 World Cup. Analysis by India's ex cricketers Mohammad Kaif & Harpal Bedi

https://fb.watch/8RNaT-R4lD/

Riaz Haq said...

#Kashmiris beaten, #Shami, the only #Muslim member of the defeated #Indian #crcket team, abused after #India loses to #Pakistan in #Dubai. #Hindutva #Modi #BJP #T20WorldCup #IndiavsPakistan | Cricket News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/25/kashmiri-students-mohammed-shami-india-pakistan-t20-match-online-abuse

As soon as the match at the Dubai International Stadium ended, some Kashmiri students celebrating Pakistan’s victory were attacked in India.

Even Mohammed Shami, a Muslim member of India’s playing-XI, was abused on social media following the loss, despite captain Virat Kohli acknowledging his side had been “outplayed” by Pakistan.

Cricket matches often worsen the tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours, who have fought three wars since their independence from the British in 1947.

‘I feel unsafe’
Muzamil, a Kashmiri studying in a college in Mohali district in western India’s Punjab state, told Al Jazeera that minutes after the cricket match ended, “a group of nearly 20 goons gathered outside our hostel”.

“We had never seen those faces and had no idea who they were. They had sticks and they beat up three of my friends. I was afraid and didn’t leave the room,” said the 22-year-old who did not want to disclose his full name for fear of reprisals.

After the assault, Muzamil said his friends were forced to move into the house of another friend, as they feared for their safety.

“This was a game and supporting any team is an individual’s choice. What happened to us is really, really wrong,” he told Al Jazeera.

“It happens with us in [New] Delhi and everywhere else. As a Kashmiri student, I feel unsafe in India.”

“But it was suicidal to do so in Punjab,” said Nasir Khuehami, the national spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir Students’ Association, referring to Kashmiris celebrating Pakistan’s win.

“They are a minority in mainland India and the celebrations were stupid. Knowing that your life is in danger, it wasn’t a wise step.”

Riaz Haq said...

India went into the match with a 12-0 record in World Cups against their neighbors but Pakistan snapped that streak with a 10-wicket romp at Dubai International Stadium.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/24/india/t20-world-cup-india-pakistan-cricket-intl-hnk/index.html

Kohli reacted with incredulity when asked if their unblemished track record made them complacent ahead of the Group 2 blockbuster.
"You don't go out there to take anything lightly, especially a team like Pakistan who on their day can beat anyone in the world," Kohli, who will relinquish India's Twenty20 captaincy after the tournament, told reporters.
"This is a game that has to be respected, and we are a team that definitely respects the game... We never take any opposition lightly. Neither do we differentiate between oppositions, that's how we play our cricket."
Put into bat, India could not really recover after Shaheen Afridi wrecked their top order.
With Pakistan captain Babar Azam and opening partner Mohammad Rizwan smashing an unbeaten half-century, the chase was a cakewalk for Pakistan who triumphed with 13 balls to spare.
"They definitely outplayed us, there's no doubt about that," Kohli said. "You don't win by 10 wickets if you don't outplay the opposition. We did not even get any chances. They were very professional and you definitely have to give them credit."
Kohli said the team tried to put pressure on them but "they had the answers." "There's no shame in accepting that a team played better than you," he added.
India next plays New Zealand on Sunday and Kohli felt the break would do a world of good to his side, who had a fair idea about the areas they needed to work on.
"We know exactly how the game went, and where it went wrong. We have absolute clarity of that," the 32-year-old said. "That's a good thing to know where you went wrong as a team, so that we can work on it and try and correct it and move forward."
Kohli said there were still a lot of matches left in the tournament. "If we stick to the process we follow, we definitely feel like we can overcome these mistakes," he added.

Anonymous said...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/25/kashmiri-students-mohammed-shami-india-pakistan-t20-match-online-abuse

G. Ali

Riaz Haq said...

#IndianCricketTeam took the knee. They were not being vocal defenders of civil liberties. In fact, given that they have rarely, if ever, spoken on any issue of social justice in #India, they were being precisely the opposite. #MuslimLivesMatter #BLM https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/25/barkha-dutt-india-cricket-team-knee-cosmetic/?tid=ss_tw

Pakistan walked away with the match, and as happens so often with big-ticket playoffs, Indians were heartbroken. Some people online started making coarse and lewd comments about the defeat. The person who got the worst of it was 31-year-old player Mohammed Shami. Toxic, brazenly Islamophobic comments were left on his Instagram page, suggesting that he was a traitor, one who could take the next flight out to Pakistan. Shami was singled out in a different way than other players, and the language used for him was directly related to his being Muslim. In fact, he is the only Muslim on the team’s playing lineup for this tournament — a fact that would have been irrelevant had the hate directed at him online not underscored his religion.
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Taking the knee — which first gained the spotlight in 2016, when then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick controversially knelt through the U.S. national anthem — has become a global symbol of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. It is a simple, universally understood, powerful sign of mobilization against racism. It upholds the classic idea that sport, with all its visceral competitiveness, is about something noble in the end. In the 1968 Olympics, nearly five decades before Kaepernick’s act, two African American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raised their fists in the air during the American anthem to drive home a message on human rights.

So why did the sight of India’s cricket team — possibly the 11 most loved men anywhere in the world — dropping to the grass in a shiny Dubai stadium, in support of racial equality, trigger incredulity to start with and utter cynicism by the end?

Because in taking the knee — and it now transpires that it was on the orders of the board that manages the national game — they were not being vocal defenders of civil liberties. In fact, given that they have rarely, if ever, spoken on any contemporary issue of social justice in India, they were being precisely the opposite. In following instructions to endorse a campaign that has virtually no manifestation in the Indian context (caste discrimination would be more relevant), the cricketers were picking a topic that was distant and thus “safe.”

Given how tumultuous a time it is in India — with ferocious public debates erupting over everything from the pandemic to the spiraling violence in Kashmir — there is much to say and do related to the country’s own domestic realities. The cricketers could have thrown their unparalleled influence behind any cause dear to them. One example is how the former Bangladesh cricket captain made a blistering statement on the spate of attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh.

Had they continued to remain silent, as they usually are, no one would have noticed. Everyone was too engrossed in the faceoff with Pakistan, an adrenaline-thumping sporting encounter like no other in South Asia. It’s when they suddenly decided to borrow from the playbook of American football players to make a superficial show of support for an issue far removed from them that their opacity on more relevant matters suddenly became striking.

Intriguingly, India’s left, right and center seem united in believing that the gesture smacked of the worst sort of tokenism. Even this might have ended with mild opprobrium if it were not for what happened next.

Ahmed said...


Dear Sir Riaz

I don't agree with your comment about FATF list, I don't think that FATF is a western tool, because if it was the case then China would also have been in a gray list of FATF because Chinese government doesn't give proper rights to its labors who are doing odd jobs like construction and building work. Pls note that it is only these arrogant and bloody Indians who are trying to convience and persuade other 1st world countries to keep Pakistan in gray area of FATF list. Did America or any other country support India in its action against Pakistan?

My relatives living in America tell me that Americans normally don't like Indians as much as Indians try to portray about themselves.

Thanks

Riaz Haq said...

Pakistan refuses use of its airspace for #Srinagar-#Sharjah flight of #India's GoAir! #Pakistan's refusal on Tuesday forced the flight to take a longer route and fly over #Gujarat to reach its destination in the #UAE.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/j-k/pakistan-refuses-use-of-its-airspace-for-srinagar-sharjah-flight-333815

Pakistan has denied use of its airspace to Go First's Srinagar-Sharjah flight, the government officials said on Wednesday.

According to officials, Pakistan's refusal on Tuesday forced the flight to take a longer route and fly over Gujarat to reach its destination in the UAE.

Go First, previously known as GoAir, had started direct flights between Srinagar and Sharjah from October 23 and the service was inaugurated by Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his visit to the Valley last month.

According to officials, till October 31, the flight was going through Pakistan airspace.

However, Pakistan on Tuesday did not allow the flight to pass through its airspace, and therefore, the service had to take a longer route, going over Gujarat, adding around 40 minutes to the flight time, they said.


There was no immediate statement or comment from Go First on the matter.

This is the first service between Jammu and Kashmir and the UAE after 11 years. Air India Express had started a Srinagar-Dubai flight in February 2009 but it was discontinued after some time due to low demand.

Reacting to Pakistan's action, former J&K chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah tweeted "very unfortunate. Pakistan did the same thing with the Air India Express flight from Srinagar to Dubai in 2009-2010. I had hoped that @GoFirstairways being permitted to overfly Pak airspace was indicative of a thaw in relations but alas that wasn't to be." Blaming the Centre, PDP chief and former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti tweeted "puzzling that GoI didn't even bother securing permission from Pakistan to use its airspace for international flights from Srinagar. Only PR extravaganza without any groundwork." Inaugurating the flight, Shah had said the commencement of Srinagar-Sharjah services would boost tourism.

"There are many people from Srinagar and Jammu who are settled in the Gulf countries. There are many tourists who want to come from the Gulf countries to Jammu and Kashmir. The tourism of J-K is going to get a big boost with the commencement of Srinagar-Sharjah flights," he added.

The Srinagar-Sharjah flight duration is around 3 hours if the Pakistan airspace is used, however, with Islamabad refusing to allow the flight through its airspace, it will be nearly an hour longer, raising fuel and ticket costs.

The Pakistan government, however, allowed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special flight to Italy to use its airspace on Friday to attend the G20 summit. His return flight from Italy was also allowed to use the Pakistan airspace on Wednesday, officials said. — PTI