In the last few days, a large section of India’s liberal commentators have revealed themselves to be great fans of the US based think tank Freedom House. Somebody out there has downgraded India from “free” to “partly free.” The andolanjeevis came out in full force for this one.
Who are these people, by the way? As Freedom House notes:
“External analysts assess 210 countries and territories, using a combination of on-the-ground research, consultations with local contacts, and information from news articles, nongovernmental organizations, governments, and a variety of other sources. Expert advisers and regional specialists then vet the analysts’ conclusions. “
That paragraph is written as if it conveys some information. But does it really?
Why did Freedom House use only “external analysts,” “expert advisers” and “regional specialists?” Why not ask “local consultants” and “global thinkers” too?
That’s when you realize none of those job descriptions actually mean anything specific. Freedom House is just using random words to fill up space. They think that if the sentence is long enough, you will assume they know what they are talking about.
Don’t fall for this. Ask why they are using a long sentence to hide the names and credentials. As it is, the idea of an oligarchy of “experts” supposedly upgrading and downgrading democracies leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Of course the problems go much further. Even if we saw the names and (supposed) credentials, why should we assume the best about the intentions of these people? Could they pass the most basic sanity tests?
Now, I really hate to compare India and Pakistan on any metric, except for comic effect. In all other cases, even discussing such matters belittles India. It gives the appearance that our democracy is somehow comparable to whatever mess they have over there in Pakistan. But, I had to ask. If the high minded experts feel that minorities in India are under threat, what do these global humanitarians have to say about atrocities on Hindus in Pakistan?
You would be surprised (or perhaps not).
Right off the bat, don’t miss the respective maps they created for India and Pakistan.
They conceded all of PoK to Pakistan! For India? They couldn’t even leave us with the portions on our side of the Line of Control. Instead, they went all the way and cut off the whole of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh from India. You would think this is some B-grade movie in Pakistan, looking for cheap applause from its audience. But no, this report is now a bestseller in India. This is what Indian liberals are cheering. Seriously.
Anyway, one good thing about the Freedom House report about Pakistan is that they began with a joke. Here is the first line from their overview on the country.
“Pakistan holds regular elections under a competitive multiparty political system.“
I appreciate this. Humor is always a good ice-breaker. By the way, I wondered what is the first line from their overview on India. Turns out it is fairly similar, with one small difference.
“India maintains a robust electoral democracy with a competitive multiparty system at the federal and state levels, though politics are marred by corruption.“
They wasted no time in showing their prejudice, did they?
You may object here. How can you say that they have a bias against India? After all, they scored India at 67/100 and Pakistan at a paltry 37/100. So, if they are being unkind to India, they are being extremely severe with Pakistan.
Yes, they are being severe with Pakistan. The question is : for what reason? Will they blame Pakistan for how they treat Hindus? Absolutely not. A simple Ctrl+F search through the Freedom House report on Pakistan reveals just 2 instances of the word “Hindu.” In contrast, the word “Muslim” appears 16 times in the report on India. Again, I absolutely hate putting the two numbers side by side, but doing so is necessary to reveal the bias.
The report on India features sentences such as:
“Two developments in 2019 undermined the political rights of certain minorities, and Muslims in particular…“
” In August 2019, a Rajasthan court acquitted six suspects in the 2017 killing of a Muslim man, despite eyewitness accounts and video evidence of their complicity“
Wait till I show you what they said about Hindus in Pakistan, because it is a masterpiece in propaganda writing. As it is, there were only 2 instances of the word Hindu in the report on Pakistan.
“Hindus have complained of vulnerability to kidnapping and forced conversions, and some continue to migrate to India.“
Did you catch that? Read the sentence carefully. They didn’t acknowledge the atrocities committed on Hindus in Pakistan! They only said Hindus have complained of atrocities, thus in no way endorsing the claim!
You must have seen other instances of this trick in operation. We all know the difference between a headline that says “Scam in XYZ procurement” and a headline that says “ABC alleges scam in XYZ procurement.” In the second case, the media takes no responsibility for the allegation. Just what Freedom House did with Hindus of Pakistan.
This will become even more obvious when you notice the startling turn of phrase in the paragraph the sentence is taken from.
“Hindus have complained of vulnerability to kidnapping and forced conversions, and some continue to migrate to India. Members of the Christian and other religious minorities remain at risk of blasphemy accusations that can arise from trivial disputes and escalate to criminal prosecution and mob violence. The blasphemy laws and their exploitation by religious vigilantes have also curtailed freedom of expression by Muslims.“
Three sentences, back to back. Christians are at risk of blasphemy accusations. Muslims face the threat of religious vigilantes too. Two straight assertions, with no qualifiers. But Hindus? They have only complained. Freedom House will not say if they believe there is any truth in these complaints made by Hindus.
This is straight up dehumanization of Hindus. The suffering of Hindus does not matter to them. The reason they think Pakistan sucks is because Muslims and Christians have a hard time there. Not because Hindus face atrocities. In fact, you can read the entire report on Pakistan. Not at a single place do they acknowledge by name that any crime was committed against Hindus.
In fact, such language tricks appear all through their report. Consider the following sentences they wrote about freedom in India:
“Muslim personal status laws and traditional Hindu practices discriminate against women in terms of property rights and inheritance.“
“Muslim personal status laws and traditional Hindu practices feature gender discrimination on matters such as marriage, divorce, and child custody.”
The exact same phrase “Muslim personal status laws and traditional Hindu practices” appears twice in the same report! Looks like someone had a template ready. And more interestingly, was trying hard to make sure you don’t notice the difference between laws in one community and practices in another. A lot of bad things happen in society. But when injustice is officially given legal sanction, it is a whole other level of unfairness.
But if Freedom House admitted that one community is just more open minded than the other, what would happen to their agenda?
In reading the reports from Freedom House, what stood out is how similar it is to the now familiar secular whitewashing style of mainstream media here in India. We all know the template: a Hindu victim becomes “Delhi man” while a Muslim victim is clearly identified as such. If a crime happens in a madrassa, you can’t just say that a crime happened in madrassa. You must say that the incident has put the spotlight on crimes in “madrassas and Vedic pathashalas.” You can’t just say that a Hindu was a victim. You can only say that that they are alleging it.
In other words, be strictly factual and super skeptical when reporting on Hindu victims. When a Muslim alleges victimhood, take all claims at face value, suspend all skeptical questioning and disseminate it widely. And above all, try to avoid mentioning Hindus as much as possible. If you don’t even mention Hindus, it becomes easier for the world to pretend like they don’t exist. Thanks Freedom House for showing us that this writing style has now gone fully international. Whether as a majority in India or as a tiny persecuted minority in Pakistan, global liberals have made it clear that we Hindus deserve no place at all.
One last thing. The cover of the Freedom House report is an apparent tribute to a group of protesters, their fists in the air, carrying signs that say “We want justice.” Who is on that cover?
I don’t know. I cannot tell by their clothes.
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The first question to ask is – Who gave “Freedom House” the right to arbitrate and sit in judgement of countries ? The answer is – Nobody. It is self assigned. So an NGO that sits in judgement of democracies is itself not chosen democratically. They dont see the irony of this. This is similar to the liberal in chief in India who criticizes democracy but gets elected “unopposed” every time in his party elections.
The basic and fundamental problem with all liberals (including those from Freedom house) is that they are not aware of how to get to the right knowledge. Hence they constantly end up making wrong inferences and making a fool of themselves.
Hindu philosophy was well aware of this problem thousands of years ago and delved deeply into how to get to the right knowledge. For example the Nyaya system posited four ways of getting to right knowledge – Perception(Pratyaksha), Inference(Anumana), Comparison(Upamana) and Testimony(Sabda).Now lets take the statement – Freedom in India went down – and see how a Nyaya philosopher would have refuted this.
One cannot conclude the above statement from Perception because the perception of millions who re-voted for Modi is that they became more free, the perception of few liberals cannot override this. One cannot infer anything (like inferring fire when smoke is there) because liberals have obviously not asked every person, they have sampled here and there (if at all they did even that). Similarly comparison doesnt help – take any stray or anecdotal incident liberals quote and you can see worser incidents in the developed countries (even the countries that score highly in their ranking). Similarly testimony or Sabda also fails because nobody vested the authority to Freedom House.
So one has to conclude that Freedom House arrived at the wrong knowledge and hence their conclusion is worse than useless. Now lets look at their motivation. We are all aware of how liberal media in India is an extortion racket. They will start criticizing if you dont pay up their hafta. Freedom house is just another version of this universal liberal racket. They will give India a low rank till Modi “pays up” with free Lutyens houses, Padma awards, and plane tickets to Indian liberals. If the Indian andolanjeevi liberals get their haftas, India’s freedom index will suddenly shoot up. As simple as that.
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Here are the links to Nyaya and Pramana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pramana
Indian government should include mandatory training on Nyaya and Pramana for anyone wanting to pursue a career in the media or judiciary. Without this training, all the liberal output is just wishful junk, devoid of any reasoning.
Today, a student shouts “Red salute to comrade” in JNU and next day becomes a NDTV journalist who will arrive at wrong inferences and conclusions for their entire career.
This kind of journalist is more dangerous for society than a terrorist. A terrorist causes havoc once, then is eliminated. A journalist causes havoc on a daily basis and may even go on to get a Padma award.
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The most amusing thing is that Freedom house has shown girls in hijab protesting to get freedom. I wonder how free these women themselves are considering they have to wear hijab and if they don’t-they maybe flogged by their family. They need to ask freedom from their own family first. Why blame govt. for family’s restrictions?
Hindus suffer a lot in Pakistan but it is not highlighted anywhere. Instead it is whitewashed by crooks like Harsh Mander who said that Muslims have the first right on India as they did not leave the land when they had the option of Pakistan. The truth is that Muslims in India were not killed/harmed/raped/driven out of their homes in 1947 like it happened with lakhs of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan.2 Million Hindus in Pak are bonded labourers even today. Temples are broken regularly. The ghettos occupied by Hindus do not even have water or electricity. Their pathetic condition can move everyone except those who spew crap like ‘Aman ki Asha’. A Hindu lady Krishna Kohli, an ex-bonded labourer turned politician in Pakistan has repeatedly tried to pass the “Protection of the Rights of Religious Minorities Bill” in Pak yet it has been repeatedly turned down by the Senate Standing Committee headed by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F).
See below data based on census of 2011 and 1951.
In India>>>
Hindus
966.2 million 2011
303.5 million 1951
218.3% increase
Muslims
172.2 million 2011
35.4 million 1951
386.4% increase
Hindus in undivided Pakistan>>>
11 million in 1947
Hindus In Pak and Bangladesh currently>>>
8 million Hindus in Pakistan
12.73 million Hindus in Bangladesh
Total 20.73 million Hindus in both countries
0.09% increase in population of Hindus in Pak and Bangladesh.
Muslims in undivided Pakistan>>>
60 million in 1947
Muslims in Pak and Bangladesh currently>>>
174 million in Pak
146 million in Bangla
Total 320 million Muslims in both countries
433% increase in population of Muslims in Pak and Bangladesh.
While Muslim population increased by 386.4% in India (even more than the majority populations of Hindus which increased by 218% only) since independence, Hindu population in Pak and Bangla did not increase beyond 0.09% while Muslims increased by 433%. Just think about this.
The ever-increasing population of India can be largely attributed to the M community. Yet it is Hindus who are blamed. Saayoni Ghosh, TMC candidate from Asansol even shared images of condoms over Shiva lingam. This is shameful!!! Hindus need to increase their population. Also we need to bring in the pop control law and apply it strictly to the M. Illegal immigrants must be deported back to Pak and Bangladesh.
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The methods of “Freedom House” are very similar to the methods used by the Church in the pre-Copenican era. Which is to say the methods were plagued by a lack of method and a lack of data.
The Church believed for centuries that the universe revolved around the earth. The Church was the “Freedom House” in the pre-enlightenment era – judging everything beyond their level of competence.
It took a Copernicus, a Kepler, a Galileo and a Newton to finally nail the truth with lots of data and methods(formulae) that fit the data. Since then this process has become the gold standard in science – you have to reveal the data and the algorithm(the method) for anyone to believe you.
Freedom House should reveal the data and the algorithm. Else it is living in pre-Copernican, 13th century by using voodoo methods. Just to clear the air, maybe Freedom House should announce that the universe still revolves around the earth.
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Even then the Catholic Church did not accept the scientific proofs of Galileo and Copernicus. The Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church forced them to recant their theory that the Earth moves around the Sun under threat of torture. Both were charged with heresy and penalties were imposed on them. They were forbidden from teaching their studies. Also kept under house arrest for almost a decade. It took the church 359 years to finally admit the truth.
How will the Fief-dumb house tell their methods when they don’t have any! The maps of India and Pak which they hv published clearly show their inclination.
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What is the number of the USA where almost seventy million voters are accusing that there was a major fraud in the election and don’t believe the government is legitimate? Where many legislators voted to nullify the election results?
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The score of USA is whatever you want it to be. Because the scores are all made up.If you gave me $30 million, I can setup a “Freedom House” in India and give you whatever score you want. I can give any country the score you want. If you bargain hard, I can do it for even $ 3 million
Liberals in India pained by low funding and low success rate in tilting elections would have told the Freedom house to downgrade India. Freedom House “experts and analysts” first decided the score, then worked backwards and found some random,anecdotal events to support their predetermined score. Thats all there is to the scoring.
This is similar to the way Wikipedia carries anti-India content these days. One “expert” from US visits India, makes some stray observations and publishes in some forum. Other liberals on Wikipedia then cite this fraud article as “published evidence”. This is the standard liberal game – point to another liberal’s opinion as evidence that supports their foregone conclusion. So a liberal in India will cite a liberal in the US who in turn will cite the same Indian liberal. Liberals extract government funding everywhere for playing this cyclic game of mutual back scratching.
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The report from Freedom house is like a certificate of chastity by a house of prostitutes or brothel. If these Very low brains think they are sophisticated to fool by play of words to pass garbage impartiality as neutral analysis, they are idiots indeed. They have no credibility but the conspirators behind this gang should be identified and monitored for the people of India.
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May a thousand (fake) reports bloom, may many Freedom Houses bloom
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