Last month, the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the defamation go well with filed by the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) in opposition to Hindus for Human Rights co-founders Sunita Vishwanath and Raju Rajagopal, Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) government director Rasheed Ahmed, Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations of North America (FIACONA) chairman John Prabhudoss, and Rutgers University professor Audrey Truschke.
Notably, the courtroom had dismissed the lawsuit even supposing Vishwanath and Truschke, amongst others, had been discovered to have made verifiably false statements attacking HAF.
Now, following the US courtroom’s arbitrary rejection of the grievance, the ultra-leftist web site The Wire, which has all the time been keen to supply platforms to these peddling anti-India, anti-Modi, and anti-Hindu narratives, has now given Rasheed Ahmed, the chief director of the novel Islamist organisation Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), a platform to insult and gaslight American Hindus of their lawsuit in opposition to controversial ‘historian’ Audrey Truschke and others.
Rasheed Ahmed’s article degenerating the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) was revealed by The Wire on January 13, Friday. The IAMC government director not solely accused the Hindu American Foundation of ‘deliberately cooking up falsehoods’ but in addition spewed venom in opposition to the Indian authorities by calling it a ‘fascist’ regime, a standard narrative peddled by the anti-Modi, anti-India brigade, each in India and outdoors.
In could also be recalled that after the decision, HAF’s Executive Director Suhag A Shukla in an announcement stated, “It is incredibly disappointing that, despite the fact that Vishwanath and Truschke, among others, were found to have made verifiably false statements attacking HAF, the judge dismissed our legal action on procedural grounds. We remain convinced that the defendants’ false and malicious statements about HAF constitute actionable defamation, and we have every reason to believe that they will continue to spread their malicious lies.”
Despite the truth that the courtroom had famous that false statements about HAF had been certainly made, IAMC’s Rasheed Ahmed wrote, “HAF’s response, though, on losing the lawsuit, was incredibly audacious: they celebrated their loss by misrepresenting short phrases sans context, deliberately cooking up falsehoods.”
“This reaction by HAF is hardly surprising. It is in line with how the Hindu far-right ecosystem in India – the current government, its stogie media and their hate-mongering leaders – constantly distort truth to humiliate, harass, disenfranchise and even kill Muslims, Christians and Dalits, all the while claiming to be on the right side of the law,” Rasheed Ahmed continued to spew venom in his article.
What is IAMC and what does it do?
For the uninitiated, Rasheed Ahmed is the chief director of the Indian American Muslim Council, Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), a radical Islamist group that has alleged hyperlinks with banned terror organizations such because the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and has a protracted historical past of lobbying in opposition to India.
The IAMC is a Jamat-e-Islami-backed lobbyist organisation claiming to be a rights advocacy group. In the previous, it had reportedly collaborated with and even paid cash to varied teams within the USA to get India blacklisted by the USCIRF (United States Commission on International Religious Freedom). An in depth report by Disinfo Lab has uncovered its hyperlinks with the phobia outfit Jamat-e-Islami.
IAMC founder Shaik Ubaid and member Abdul Malik Mujahid have headed the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the US entrance for Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan. According to DisInfo Lab, ICNA has established hyperlinks with Pakistan-based terror teams just like the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Rasheed Ahmed, who heads the IAMC presently was the previous government director of the Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA). IMANA’s Director of Operations is Zahid Mahmood an ex-Pak Navy official.
IAMC had been caught spreading pretend information and misinformation to additional the Islamist trigger in India. It had additionally been slapped with the UAPA in 2021.
HAF Chief reiterates how the US courtroom had discovered that the defendants had made verifiably false statements attacking HAF
Meanwhile, reacting to the hateful and malicious article written by Rasheed Ahmed for The Wire, HAF’s Executive Director Suhag A Shukla took to Twitter to reiterate how the defendants named within the lawsuit had been, certainly, discovered to have made verifiably false statements attacking HAF. She additionally took a dig on the ultra-leftist portal The Wire for offering a platform for Rasheed Ahmed.
Facts:
-Author of Al Jazeera piece defaming Hindu orgs was on Exec Com of @IAMCouncil (conspiracy)
-Truschke & Viswanath “plausibly verifiably lied” about HAF in numerous methods
IAMC resorts to hateful cartoons & a bit in @thewire_in—as credible an outlet as their response. pic.twitter.com/ok9Cp0Uqo5
— Suhag A. Shukla (@SuhagAShukla) January 13, 2023
“Facts: -Author of Al Jazeera piece defaming Hindu orgs was on Exec Com of @IAMCouncil (conspiracy) -Truschke & Viswanath “plausibly verifiably lied” about HAF in numerous methods IAMC resorts to hateful cartoons & a bit in @thewire_in—as credible an outlet as their response,” tweeted Suhag A Shukla.
