Issue 86: Friday, 15 July 2022

THIS WEEK IN DC – President Biden Names Twenty-Third Round of Judicial Nominees; Trump To Return To DC For First Time Since 2021 To Address Policy Summit; Groundbreaking Held For New Gulf War Memorial In DC; Biden Officials Pitch Pared-Down China Competition Bill To House; Schumer To Move On Long-Awaited Bill To Boost Semiconductor Industry; Senate Democrats To Roll Out Weed Decriminalization Bill Next Week; House Democrats Adopt Amendment Giving DC Mayor Authority Over City’s National Guard; House Passes Active Shooter Alert System Following Failed Vote Last Month; House To Vote On Constraining US Arms Sales To Saudis On Eve Of Biden Trip; Bannon Predicted ‘All Hell Is Going To Break Loose Tomorrow’ After Jan. 5 Call With Trump; Newsom Slams Red State Governors On D.C. Trip, Stoking Speculation About His Future.

MPAC Hosts Indian Democracy at Crossroads

In 1948, Gandhi was murdered by an avid follower of RSS, a Hindu nationalist ideology. By most, he is remembered as an extremist who sought to destabilize the secular nature of the nascent democracy.

Seventy-five years later, adherents of that same ideology, once considered extremists, are now the ruling party in India, a nation home to over 200 million Muslims.

Those two hundred million Indian Muslims were once in peril, subjected to prejudice and harassment, and their safety was not ensured. That was then, now we have crossed that point, and those same people are the victim of violence and are being murdered, unapologetically with the support of the government.

Modi and the rest of the BJP know that one of the only obstacles that is in the way of committing outright genocide are the journalists writing about the violence and dehumanization that is occurring and sharing it with the rest of the world.

It is for that reason we presented Ajit Sahi with our Voice of Courage award in March of this year…

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ICYMI

Ongoing: House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol continues with a series of committee hearings.

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GOOD TO KNOW

From Afghan refugee to first Muslim hijabi Senator in western Australia
Survey: Almost half of Muslim Americans disapprove of Biden; majority to stick with Democrats in midterms
After years of opposition Muslim cemetery gets final approval
Minnesota’s Muslim community fills U.S. Bank Stadium for ‘Super’ Eid
In 'Ms. Marvel', Muslim fans see a reflection of their lives

- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY -

July 10, 1947 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee; July 11, 2014 - The UN Security Council calls for a special meeting to discuss the Israeli-Palestine conflict and Israel continues attacks on Gaza; July 12, 2007 - US Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes in Baghdad where civilians are killed; July 14, 1957 - Rawya Ateya takes her seat in National Assembly of Egypt becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world; July 15, 1099 - Jerusalem is captured and plundered by Christian forces during first crusade; July 15, 1962 - Algeria becomes member of Arab League; July 16, 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar when Prophet Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina; July 16, 1979 - Iraqi president Ahmed Hassan Al Bakr is replaced by Saddam Hussein.

July 11, 1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel; July 11, 1900 - Charlotte Cooper becomes the first female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport; July 12, 1967 - Race riot in Newark, New Jersey, 26 killed, 1,500 injured & over 1,000 arrested; July 14, 1798 -The Sedition Act becomes law in US makes it a federal crime to write or publish false statements about the Federal government; July 14, 1946 - Mass murder of Jews in Kielce, Poland where, a mob of Polish soldiers, police officers, and civilians murdered at least 42 Jews and injured over 40 in the worst outburst of anti-Jewish violence in postwar Poland; July 14, 1953 - First US national monument dedicated to a black American, to preserve the boyhood home of agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver; July 14, 1977 - US House establishes the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; July 16, 1790 - The District of Columbia is established as the US Capitol.

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