Jamaat-e-Islami launched campaign in US to discredit India on Kashmir Ignored By American Public
A campaign launched by two Islamic organizations in 2019 in the US even entrapped the US Congress which led to a most foolish hearings and resolutions on Kashmir in the US Congress. What did the US Congress achieve by it ? Nothing except creating bad blood between the two countries. The US Congress has no business to poke its nose into internal Sovereign affairs of India. The Indian Parliament can also reciprocate such resolutions against American Congress and the Senate, every day, if it wishes.
After the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India by the Sovereign Indian Parliament, in August 2019, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Helping Hands for Relief and Development (HHRD) launched a campaign in the US and around the world against India. ICNA and HHRD are affiliated to Jammu and Kashmir unit of Jamaat–e-Islami which was banned by the Indian government in 2019 on the grounds that it had relations with terror group Hizbul Mujahideen which has killed thousands of innocent civilians in past.
It clearly establishes a major plot to discredit India at international level on Kashmir issue. Both ICNA and HHRD along with other Islamic groups ran an anti-India campaign under the banner ‘Stand with Kashmir’ and organized a protest in front of consulate General of India in New York and Los Angeles. These groups also campaigned to replace their social media profile with pictures of red dots to show solidarity on Kashmir.
‘’On August 16, the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a lobbying umbrella group of Islamist organizations, held a D.C. rally for Kashmir in front of the Indian embassy. The rally was co-sponsored by ICNA and MAS, along with the extremist mosque Dar al-Hijrah and the Turkish American National Steering Committee (TASC). WikiLeaks emails revealed that TASC coordinates closely with regime figures from the authoritarian Turkish government.’’ Said Oren Litwin is his article ‘Islamists are Exploiting The Conflict in Kashmir’ published at The Daily Wire.
Islamist originations mainly funded by Pakistan have become very powerful in the US in recent months. Last year in the month of October-November hearing by US Congress reflected the strong presence of these groups in the US, A convention of more than 25,000 Muslims from the United States and Canada was held in Chicago in December 2019 under the banner of ICNA, which debated a session on Bangladesh & Kashmir: Democracy, Human Rights and Religious Freedom.
