Twitter’s verification process has always been a bit inconsistent. While they took Milo Yiannopoulos’ blue check away for saying mean things to people, they gave one just recently to white nationalist leader Richard Spencer.
Now Twitter is digging toward the bottom of the barrel by verifying an extremist Bangladeshi student group known for murdering secular professors.
https://twitter.com/rayhana/status/829112836538380289
The group Islami Chhatrashibir, known as Shibir, has a long history of killing freethinkers in the name of Islam. The group’s predecessors were involved in the 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Shibir members are also responsible for the brutal murders of secular college professors and when fighting with rival groups some in Shibir are known to cut the tendons of their enemies.
In 2013 the US think tank IHS Jane ranked Shibir third among most active non-state armed groups. Many members of the student group filter into other terrorist organizations upon finishing school.
So lovely group to verify Twitter. Keep up the good work fighting harassment!
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