Abid Malhi and Shafqat Ali were convicted of gang rape, kidnapping, robbery and terrorism offences back in March 2021 over the attack on the Sialkot-Lahore Motorway.
The site is called Daily Rag for a reason. They’ve always been running sensationalist and racist stories since its inception:
“There landed yesterday at Southampton from the transport Cheshire over 600 so-called refugees, their passages having been paid out of the Lord Mayor’s Fund. . .There was scarce a hundred of them that had, by right, deserved such help, and these were the Englishmen of the party. The rest were Jews. . .They fought and jostled for the foremost places at the gangways. . .When the Relief Committee passed by they hid their gold and fawned and whined, and, in broken English, asked for money for their train fare.”
Daily Mail, February 3, 1900
The relentless upvoting of tabloids may be my biggest issue with Lemmy. Information hygiene here is terrible, and the users don’t seem to care.
One time, calling this out, the OP of a news post responded that they didn’t care an article was fake. It was upvoted to the front page and never got removed.
Because anyone that talks about how Islam countries actually are and act is “islamiphobeic”. You’re instantly accused of being racist as a shitty defense for pointing out facts. Atheist myself and I think all religions are pieces of shit, but Islam as practiced in modern times is factually probably one of the worst religions. People of all religions do horrible things, but the amount of cruelty, murder, and rape under the guise of Sharia law is absolutely unparalleled in the modern world.
Average enlightened Westerner. You’re probably posting this from a taken land in the US, a slave owning setller colonial state built on the blood of at least 150 million true americans.
i mean i’m not OP but to further your point i live in california and the entire town i live in used to be a [not saying the tribe] graveyard. Every time they zone an area for new houses the tribe comes out, searches the land, and rehomes the artifacts.
we joke about having a ghost in our microwave. it’s one of those touchpad bullshits instead of real buttons. so if you use the microwave while cooking, with dirty hands, and leave a smudge, well. The fun part is that you don’t know when it will turn itself back on thinking a greasy smudge is a real finger touch. We’ve named the “ghost” Jeff and think it’s absolutely absurd.
so like, living in a house with a haunted microwave on an ancient indian graveyard? Yeah, that’s me.
The site is called Daily Rag for a reason. They’ve always been running sensationalist and racist stories since its inception:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jun/08/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices
I can’t find the article, but i remember seeing an anti-refugee headline from them at the outbreak of the Second World War.
Yeah.
The relentless upvoting of tabloids may be my biggest issue with Lemmy. Information hygiene here is terrible, and the users don’t seem to care.
One time, calling this out, the OP of a news post responded that they didn’t care an article was fake. It was upvoted to the front page and never got removed.
how was the posted story racist?
There’s always a fash trying to sanewash The Rag.
Because anyone that talks about how Islam countries actually are and act is “islamiphobeic”. You’re instantly accused of being racist as a shitty defense for pointing out facts. Atheist myself and I think all religions are pieces of shit, but Islam as practiced in modern times is factually probably one of the worst religions. People of all religions do horrible things, but the amount of cruelty, murder, and rape under the guise of Sharia law is absolutely unparalleled in the modern world.
Average enlightened Westerner. You’re probably posting this from a taken land in the US, a slave owning setller colonial state built on the blood of at least 150 million true americans.
i mean i’m not OP but to further your point i live in california and the entire town i live in used to be a [not saying the tribe] graveyard. Every time they zone an area for new houses the tribe comes out, searches the land, and rehomes the artifacts.
we joke about having a ghost in our microwave. it’s one of those touchpad bullshits instead of real buttons. so if you use the microwave while cooking, with dirty hands, and leave a smudge, well. The fun part is that you don’t know when it will turn itself back on thinking a greasy smudge is a real finger touch. We’ve named the “ghost” Jeff and think it’s absolutely absurd.
so like, living in a house with a haunted microwave on an ancient indian graveyard? Yeah, that’s me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI