[cardigan]

It's promoting terrorism if you're politically aligned with India.

If you're instead politically aligned with most people living in Kashmir, it's not promoting terrorism, you see it instead as showing solidarity with the cause of freedom. It may be hard to understand, but most of the hundreds of thousands of people protesting in Kashmir right now are not in favor of terrorism. Instead they are incensed by what they see as the decades of Indian oppression and aggression, and Burhan Wani is only used as a symbol of something like "a young son of Kashmir who was driven to madness and made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom".

Facebook's removal of posts is perceived as political censorship by a lot of people politically aligned with Kashmiri independence who are disgusted by terrorism in the same way the US public is.

The Facebook censorship team probably just doesn't have anyone from Kashmir working there, and does not have a good enough grasp of Kashmiri public opinion.

It is really not in line with Facebook's mission of promoting openness to be censoring these posts, and especially to be banning accounts who are posting what they see as legitimate political opinion (when their beliefs and feelings about terrorism are in line with US public opinion)

[selimthegrim]

What was Burhan Wani doing partnering with Islamist groups who supported expulsion of Pandits among other things? Is it like as long as the group uses enough Arabic words there are no red lines on behavior?

[cardigan]

Sorry I don't understand your question. Obviously very few people living in Kashmir support those groups, see polls.

[devdas]

> If you're instead politically aligned with most people living in Kashmir

That should really read as most Muslims in the Kashmir Valley (Jammu and Ladakh have clearly opted to stay in India, and the Kashmiri Pandits have been driven out under threat of genocide by Muslim terrorists, and the state is considerably bigger than the valley).

[cardigan]

I did say most people living in Kashmir. Last time I checked, Kashmir wasn't Jammu or Ladakh.