Iraq is not the only place where jihadists are trying to derail elections with violence. Also, note the throat-slitting -- a remarkably common practice (cf. Qur'an 47:4 and 8:12) among Muslims for something that is supposed to be "against Islam." From AFP, with thanks to Twostellas:
SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Twenty-six people were hurt when suspected Muslim rebels hurled grenades at an election office in a new bid to derail next month's civic polls in Indian Kashmir, police said....Militants have killed one candidate and two senior ruling party officials and bombed an election rally, killing three and injuring a dozen. They have also launched suicide raids on federal income tax and passport offices and attacked several security patrols....
In the other violence, suspected Muslim rebels killed an elderly Muslim man and his son overnight by slitting their throats in central Budgam district, police said.
"They were suspected of being police informers," a police spokesman said.
Oh, Kashmir!
Once labelled heaven on earth, its today become hellish. I know indigenous kashmiri hindus ('pandits' they're called) who've been forced to flee from their ancestral homes, lands and property to now eke out a meagre living in squalid camps in jammu - refugees in their own country.
But unlike the palestinians (no, the comparison between the 2 situations is skin-deep only), the pandits refused to play perpetual victim and have since gone on to work and earn their living anew with dignity and honor. They receive scant state suppoprt and at least the young among them are now increasingly in a position to support themselves. Bravo!
After some contemplation on the plights of non-muslims in their ancestoral homes caused by the Imperialism of (predominantly Arab) Muslims (one thinks of Copt, Assyrian, Chaldean, Lebanese, Armenian, and Ethiopian Christians along with the ancient cultures throughout northern Africa, India, Iran and present day Turkey which encompasses the location of nearly all the New Testament churches), would it not behoove Western Civilization to begin to pressure the imperialistic muslims to end their reign of terror amongst the rightful descendants of those lands?
If the West is condemned for the "colonialism" resulting from the aftermath of WW I, what about the Arab/Muslim imperialism in the areas that were once self-ruled by the ancestors of the people who have largely been pushed out or diminished in those areas?
The happiest in this matter must be the Muslims themselves. What fools these Hindus are, they must be telling themselves: We killed them by the millions, we wrested a whole nation out of them, we engineer riots against them, and they still defend us!... But don't the Hindus know that many orthodox Indian Muslims still cling to the Deoband school, which says that India was once "Dar-ul-Islam", the house of Islam, and should return to that status. Maulana Abul Kala Azad, several times Congress President, and Education Minister in free India, was a spokesman for this school. The Aligarh school on the contrary, led by Mohammed Iqbal, propounded the creation of Pakistan. What particularly interests us in the Aligarh school is the attempt by Muslim historians, such as Mohamed Habiib, to rewrite the Chapter of Muslim invasions in India. In 1920, Habib started writing his magnum opus, which he based on four theories: 1) that the records (written by the Muslims themselves) of slaughters of Hindus, the enslaving of their women and children and razing of temples were "mere exaggerations by court poets and zealous chroniclers to please their rulers". 2) That they were indeed atrocities, but mainly committed by Turks, the savage riders from the Steppe. 3) That the destruction of the temples took place because Hindus stored their gold and jewels inside them and therefore Muslim armies plundered these. 4) That the conversion of millions of Hindus to Islam was not forced, "but what happened was there was a shift of opinion in the population, who on its own free will chose the Shariat against the Hindu law (smriti), as they were all oppressed by the bad Brahmins"...!!! (Negationism p.42)
Unfortunately for Habib and his school, the Muslims invaders did record with glee their genocide on Hindus, because they felt all along that they were doing their duty; that killing, plundering, enslaving and razing temples was the work of God, Mohammed. Indeed, whether it was Mahmud of Ghazni (997-1030), who was no barbarian, although a Turk, and patronised art and literature, would recite a verse of the Koran every night after having razed temples and killed his quota of unbelievers; or Firuz Shah Tughlak (1351-1388) who personally confirms that the destruction of Pagan temples was done out of piety and writes: "on the day of a Hindu festival, I went there myself, ordered the executions of all the leaders AND PRACTITIONERS of his abomination; I destroyed their idols temples and built mosques in their places". Finally, as Elst points out, "Muslim fanatics were merely faithful executors of Quranic injunctions. It is not the Muslims who are guilty but Islam". (Negationism in India, p. 44)
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