Kashmir: Muslims pressure Sikhs to convert or leave

It is a long-standing practice in Islamic warfare to invite the targeted population to convert before attacking. Indeed, it goes back to Muhammad himself:

"When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them. ... If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them...." (Sahih Muslim 19.4294)

Meanwhile, jihadist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is urging the Sikhs to relax and ignore the letters. Easier said than done. More on this story: "Kashmir: Islamic groups pressuring Sikhs to convert," by Nirmala Carvalho for AsiaNews, August 20:

Srinagar (AsiaNews) - Some Sikhs living in Kashmir have received anonymous letters recently, urging them to "embrace Islam, join the protests against civilian killings or pack up and leave the Valley." In one letter, the anonymous writer said, "Since you are benefitting from the joys here, why can't you share the grief and sorrow of Kashmiris as well? We know you are afraid of bullets" but "hold protests inside your gurdwaras [Sikh temples] or leave."
For decades, Pakistan and India have been at loggerheads over the mountainous region. The Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir now occupies the eastern half of the territory. For years, it has been the scene of a Muslim insurgency dedicated to the reunification of the greater Kashmir region under Pakistani rule.
Yesterday, hard-line separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani tried to reassure Kashmir Sikhs. He told them to ignore the letters, and not feel threatened....
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" Meanwhile, jihadist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is urging the Sikhs to relax and ignore the letters".

A clever ploy to lull the Sikhs into false sense of security. Among Indians it is only Sikhs who are plucky enough to fight them. Obviously Geelani does not want the Sikhs to be vigilant enough.

Indian Home Minister a very genteel person is scared of mentioning even the word ' jihad '. Hence his assurances to Sikhs ' have no fear ' sound so hollow.

This is not new. A report in Times of India of today (21st August) page 11 says that a Jain Temple has been burnt down in kashmir.

The intolerance level in Muslims is phenomenal. If they live in peace and allow others to live in Peace, then everything would be fine.

While they do not want Sikhs, Pundits or Buddhists & Jains in the valley or destroy their temples, they want as a right a mosque at ground zero.

The question here is not of the American Constitution; yes, the constitution does provide that right, but do you have conscience? How you can be so utterly insensitive. The attack of 9/11 had impacted Americans as nothing else. Then why this insistence of building the mosque there. This is like rubbing salt into the wounds.
An old structure, Babri masjid, in Ayodhya was razed down. There was and there are riots & what not? Now when a Jain temple is razed, Bamiyan Buddhas are destroyed, Dhakeswari Temple in Dhaka is defiled and vanadlized, where are the protests? What the moderate Muslims have to say about this?

"The question here is not of the American Constitution; yes, the constitution does provide that right, but do you have conscience?"

You may be wrong. May a religious group invoke religious freedom that rejects religious freedom? Does the label religion immunize a group from scrutiny?

If Hitler had claimed that he was talking to god and acting with divine authority, then Nazis would be a religious group. Would this give Nazis the right to "practice" their religion as they please in the US?

The practice of the Nazi religion includes slaughtering jews and subjugating all non-arians (whoever that may be). Would that be protected under freedom of religion?

Would replacing the constitution by a totalitarian dictatorship be protected by the constitution because of freedom of religion?

Does a group of people merit the protection of the constitution which seeks to destroy the constitution?

The imam Rauf is a proponent of sharia law. Sharia law is unconstitutional. Does he have the right to practice his religion, i.e. replace the constitution, because the constitution protects freedom of religion?

If you replace Nazi with Islam and non-arian with non-muslim, then the above questions apply equally to Islam.

http://milkman.cc/2010/08/burka-verbot-in-deutschland-verfassungswidrig-nein.html

This is a German Professor of constitutional law. He explains:

" Individual muslims have the right to their religious denomination, which cannot be denied to them. But, the practice of Islam is restricted because the religion Islam is not protected by the constitution. Islam is unconstitutional because it is essentially a system of law, which is irreconcilable with a democratic constitution.... Islam contradicts with democratic government, men and women are not equal before the law, ... but first and foremost Islam does not respect the concept, which is the basis for religious pluralism and that is secularization, that is the separation of political power and religion. Therefore, Islam may not invoke the freedom of practicing its religion under Art. 4(2) of the German constitution. This would give Islam rights, which would contradict with the essentials of the constitutional order..."

The professor was then asked the following:

A group within the munich CSU (conservative political party) is planning to make Islamic associations sign a pledge, in which they disclaim the shariah. Would such a religious group have green lights (be constitutional)?

His answer was yes, that would be the step to secularization of Islam, but he didn't believe it was possible because such a group would no longer be considered an islamic association.

@Bhigr, I agree with the German Professor's views.

Very well put.

Thus proving, again, extremists rule the battle field, which is located anywhere on earth where more than a dozen Muslims live.

Mohamed was the first Muslim extremist. Today a small percentage of this bloodthirsty cult follow his example, religiously -- that's all that's necessary. All the rest give us a Muslim smiley-face and say "Islam means peace" every two minutes, like mindless talking dolls (made in China).

Fact: When Muslims rip off native lands, multicultural appeasers-of-Islam (traitors), Hollywood and the Big Media (BM) totally ignore it, but if Jews try to hang on to land they've lived on since 2,000 years before the First Muslim Extremist was even born, it's front page news, 24/7/365.

I post my comments in reply to Fitna from another article on JW on the same subject:

"Alas, you are so right. Indian leaders when they had a chance of getting rid of these peple forever, they opted to let them stay just to show to the world th at Hindus can be secular and can live in harmony even with former butchers of Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists. Mind you Muslims demanded and get a separate nation and in that case all Muslims should have been totally expelled from India.

Now the situation is so bad - the Muslim population has grown four folds since independence from 40 million to 150 million and as usual their demands for more rights are growing. also Muslims were allowed to practice sharia in civil matters but not in criminal matters where the Indian courts take over.

Well the opportunity was lost and India will become Islamic just by the force of demographic bomb( or should I say womb).

Muslims slaughtered 80 to 100 million Hindus,Sikhs, Buddhists, etc and yet Hindu leaders in their infinite wisdom let the Muslims stay in India and the present day Indians will pay the price.

Just look at the audacity of Kashmiri Muslims - they are threatening Sikhs to convert. As of last time I checked Kashmir was still part of India. Non-Muslims in India are being threatened by Muslims to convert to Islam. Shame on this India government that panders to Muslims in India and doesn't care for the rights of Hindus and others.

There has to be uprising of Hindus and Sikhs and other non-Muslims in India to face the threat of Muslims right in their own country."


>"While they do not want Sikhs, Pundits or Buddhists & Jains in the valley or destroy their temples, they want as a right a mosque at ground zero."

Isn't that the truth about Muslims all over the world!!! They just can't tolerate any other religion besides Islam.

In India they demolished hundreds of thousands of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, temples or build mosques over them using the same building material from demolished temples. Most glaring examples of building over or next to the most sacred Hindu temples are: Babri masjid over Lord Rama temple in Ayodhya, mosques next to Lord Krishna temple in Mathura and Lord Shiva temple in Varanasi. Somanth temple(Shiva temple) in Dwarka, Gujarat was demolished seven times and it was rebuilt by Hindu kings every time. There is a mosque right next to it. In addition Muslim invaders looted gold and jewels from these temples. that was a looting and stealing from these temples was a big attraction for Muslim invaders as Mo/allah promises them to loot and share the spoils, so long as they give 1/5 of the loot to Mo/allah.

Muslims wiped out the old Persian culture in Iran to the extent that these morons now think Islam was the best thing that ever happened to them. The same is true for Afghanistan where Hindu and Buddhists cultures and temples were almost erased from the face of the earth. A few years back we all saw demolition of those giant Buddha statues(a world heritage site declared by United Nations) by Taliban(Muslims) in spite of pleas from all over the world not to do it. This is Islam for the world - people keep saying millions of Muslims are peaceful people and they have nothing to do with - a laughable argument)

So these barbarians will never learn nor change and should be treated the same way as they are treating us!!!

Instead of leaving Kashmir under the control of a country that functions,India, muslims want to drag it into the NON-function domain of Pakistan.

And what will that get them? Muslim control over everything. Which is the goal everywhere. (Plus maybe more foreign aid.)

After they get control they will be able to make the area SO bad, that many will leave, traveling to another area of India where soon they will start being 'restive' again and seeking control.

That is always the pattern.

That professor is right.

>"While they do not want Sikhs, Pundits or Buddhists & Jains in the valley or destroy their temples, they want as a right a mosque at ground zero."
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Allow, if you will, the simple-satire girl to pop into the middle of this heady discussion for a moment and point out that what you say "While THEY do not want Sikhs, Pundits or Buddhists & Jains in the valley or destroy their temples, THEY want as a right a mosque at ground zero"

This is key.

That Valley and Ground Zero are a world away from each other, yet they are actually intimately connected, as we here well know.

THEY is the operative term. The PROBLEM for most Americans (and Westerners in general) is that they do not see this as a WORLDWIDE CONCERTED EFFORT by a SINGLE GROUP to remove the obstacles to sharia in all places.

Those of us who have taken the time to learn about Islam know this simple truth, yet it totally escapes those talking heads in the MSM.

Ummah is a term they don't know, and they wouldn't put much stock in it even if they were told.

Your average Westerner doesn't connect Kashmir with New York, or Manila to Kabul. To them, no two jihad attacks are linked, it's just seperate groups of "fringe extremists" misunderstanding their religion, someplace far away.

Your post popped out at me and I just thought I'd hightlight what I see as a major understanding/perception issue.

Imagine how well the Allies would have fared had each Nazi Army group in a different region not been recognized as part of a WHOLE. There would have been the France war, the Belgium war, the Italy war, the Holland and Denmark wars, the North Africa War, the Russian war, the Iceland war and on and on.

Until the average Westerner understands that concept, and stops thinking of Muslims as no different than a bunch of different groups of, say, Lutherans, they will never truly understand what's happening.

Thanks eleanor for elucidating the point further.


>"Your average Westerner doesn't connect Kashmir with New York, or Manila to Kabul. To them, no two jihad attacks are linked, it's just seperate groups of "fringe extremists" misunderstanding their religion, someplace far away."

you are so right. westerners don't see that all Muslims of the world are connected by ummah. One group takes a cue from the other and they all start acting the all over the world. it is the same reason we have seen increased number of Muslim women donning Islamic dresses all over the western and eastern world. the number of hijab wearing Muslim women in New York afterr 9/11 has suddenly increased. It is not that the number of Muslims in NYC increased suddenly - it is just that they started showing off their religion "in your face". same is seen in other parts of the world. Muslim terrorism has also increased tremendously since 9/11. However, our PC leaders, PC MSM do not see any connection in all these events - they simply think they are all unrelated individual events.

>"Until the average Westerner understands that concept, and stops thinking of Muslims as no different than a bunch of different groups of, say, Lutherans, they will never truly understand what's happening."

I think they think Muslims as different than other groups is because Islam is considered as another one of Abrahamic faiths. Mohammad simply hijacked Abraham's name made himself successor of strings of prophets of the time. Not only he fooled Muslims(followers) but also others??

I think they think Muslims as different than other groups is because Islam is considered as another one of Abrahamic faiths. Mohammad simply hijacked Abraham's name made himself successor of strings of prophets of the time. Not only he fooled Muslims(followers) but also others??
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It's been said a thousand times, and another 100,000 probably won't even start to make a difference, but here goes:

Islam is no different from any other fascist, totalitarian ideology, except for three things: 1) It has a "god" attached. 2) It's 1,350 years old [it's "grandfathered" in] and 3) It's considered to be one of the three "Abrahamic" faiths.

It's gonna be one tough nut to crack. We could use a little "help from above" actually. I keep wondering when/if there will ever be another "Tunguska Event", and would it make me evil to hope, just a little, that this time it might happen a bit closer to Mecca?

http://geology.com/nasa/tunguska-blast.shtml

Islamism is a very slow but stubborn grinding machine of 1400 years. It is grinding humanity. To stop this , the machine needs to be 'broken' first . Otherwise it will continue & destroy whole humanity in due course of time.

I'm an anti-theist, but I have always, from a scientifically-minded perspective, HOPED that perhaps instead of a "God", we humans might have a scientifically-minded progenitor somewhere, out there.

We know now how vast the universe is said to be, but we can never really UNDERSTAND that vastness for what it is, as we are, stuck on Earth (for the most part).

In my fantasies on this subject, I picture a race of beings, millions of millions of years more advanced than we, who at some point in the past seeded various life-supporting planets for their own purposes, be they benevolent or for profit or what have you.

I fantasize that someday they'll come back to check on our progress, for if they created us they surely understand our POTENTIAL as human beings, even if we don't understand THEIR intentions for us.

I wonder, as they arrive and make themselves known, what reaction from various groups of humans they'll receive?

For the West, the secular, enlightend, scientific West this will be the greatest of all things! The religious folks (non-Muslims) might have a bit of an issue with the whole "God" thing going out the window; for here, before you, is your CREATOR. And they can PROVE they are, you don't have to just take it on faith that they are.

I think the West would do very well if a Progenitor showed up, provided they are not back to do humanity harm, but instead created us for peaceful, benevolent purposes.

Then my fantasy gets really INTERESTING when I think about how the Muslim world would take this news!

It goes on and on in my mind for awhile, different scenarios, but it ends up with the Progenitor informing the defiant and increasingly violent Muslims that their resistance will not be tolerated further and that they have three choices:

1- Denounce Islam and submit to humanity.
2- Live as Muslims, but all contained on one seperate continent where they will have zero interaction with humanity.
3. Die.

Hey, a girl can DREAM of awesome things, can't she??

(I'm sure that someone, somewhere has already written this scenario before, I just have yet to find it, so I had to make up my own)

Just to clarify, #3 cannot be "do battle." It is "die."

There is no resisiting the Progenitor, nothing can stop it, and its will is final. There is no fighting it, and it cares not about the human loss that will come with so many deaths of those who defy its will.

Its will just is.

You see, it visited earth before, some 5,000 years ago in order to check up on our progress, and its creations, in succeeding generations, distorted (for various innocent/not so innocent reasons) its overall image and message, and thus created what we in the Judeo-Christian world know as the Old Testament "God."

It is not angry or vindictive, it was just misunderstood. And it will take no particular pleasure in making clear to certain people that it was never, EVER, known as "Allah."

OK I'm done. Sorry!

Would North America and Europe learn lesson from Indian experience?

Actually they are even more dumb. The Kashmir valley people are Shias, while Pakistan's 85% Sunni. And we all know of the Friday bombings of Shia mosques in Pakistan, for Sunnis see them as filthy Kafirs. So the best thing that should happen in that part of the world is for India to agree to part with Kashmir valley, preferably along with an exchange of populations. With that the Kashmiris would have finally cooked their own goose. Halal, of course.

Good, creative thinking! Something positive will come out of it. Thanks for sharing.

Roughly half a million peaceful Hindu Pandits, whose ancestors had lived in the Kashmir valley for thousands of years, were forced out in the early 90's by the well-armed Muslim thugs, in one of the worst acts of ethnic cleansing in modern history. The Indian government has not been able to ensure their safe return to the valley and these peaceful, law abiding and intelligent people are languishing in makeshift camps in India.

The martial Sikhs,however, are a different proposition from the docile Pandits. That's one reason they have stayed on in the valley despite the Islamic terrorism. It's a matter of historical record that Kashmir (and Afghanistan) was under the Sikhs in the middle of 19th century. They thus have a first hand understanding of Islamic and Muslim perfidy. And that's the only non-Muslim group in India which has kept its history of oppression and cruelty by Muslims truthful, unlike the others who have glossed over the Islamic period. Muslims in south Asia have learned the hard way to respect and fear them. The Muslim thugs will take on more than they reckoned, if they mess with the Sikhs. Even the hardliner Geelaney understands that.

If you mean you've been inspired to write a novel by the idea, I'll ask for 20% (if I don't beat you to the publisher). LOL!

If not, then just:

Thanks! :D

An important hint to the fact that Kashmir crisis is more of a Jihadi agenda than the honest fight of Kashmiris against Indian establishment:

http://news.rediff.com/interview/2010/aug/17/interview-kashmirs-most-wanted-woman-speaks-out.htm

The punch line of the article is

``It is absolutely Islamic. Prophet Mohammed himself has thrown stones. If anyone says stone-throwing is un-Islamic, it is they who don't know their Islam.''

``It is absolutely Islamic. Prophet Mohammed himself has thrown stones. If anyone says stone-throwing is un-Islamic, it is they who don't know their Islam.''
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LOL! And they're absolutely correct.

But, the word on the street is that he threw stones like a scared little girl. THAT's funny!

Word also has it that he preferred to wear the clothing of a scared little girl. That's PATHETIC!

Some "perfect man" for all to emulate. That's ISLAM!

I don't think US and Europe will ever learn anything from India's Islamic experience. If they wanted to do it they would have done so before allowing Muslim immigration from Africa and Middle East on a mass scale. Tragedy is US is not learning anything even after seeing how Muslims in Europe are behaving - demanding their "rights" to do this and that Islamic. The US politicians are sleeping in the Capitol while Islamic Trojan horse has come in this country. will they wake up in time to save the country?

The British loved Muslims in pre-independent India and after independence they allowed mass immigration of Muslims from Pakistan and India. Now the Brits are paying the price. Muslims would be soon demanding a separate country from Britain - another Pakistan in Britain.

Would US learn anything from Europe and UK's Muslim experience let alone learning anything from Indian experience???

Crows&cows says: "A clever ploy to lull the Sikhs into false sense of security. Among Indians it is only Sikhs who are plucky enough to fight them. Obviously Geelani does not want the Sikhs to be vigilant enough."

No doubt, Sikhs have been fearsome fighters against the slimey greens (muslims), they are not the only ones. My ancestors--Marathas-- from Western part of India (present day State of Maharashtra) gave these barbarians a bloody nose time after time. Our greatest ancestor was the warrior king Shiva ji who NEVER allowed islam any space in that part of India. It will again be Marathas who will show islam its place in the garbage bin.

It is high time the Hindus organized themselves and tell these slimes "embrace/revert back to Hindu fold or get out of India".

Our greatest ancestor was the warrior king Shiva ji who NEVER allowed islam any space in that part of India.

Really? Maratha empire was no reconquista. Some of Shivaji's generals were actually Muslims. One of the reasons why the Confederacy died on the battle fields of Panipat is because Peshwas started acting like Mughals and were in bed with Indian Muslim powers esp. Rohillas. Anyhow if you ever visit Kashmir, you'll realise that Maratha Light Infantry played a huge role in actually quashing the jihad there...

LOL. I'll look forward to your novel.

LOL. Looking forward to your novel!

Our greatest ancestor was the warrior king Shiva ji who NEVER allowed islam any space in that part of India.

Greatest ancestor, yes. But he never recognized the fundamental evil of Islam. He fought Islamic rule, defeated Islamic armies, but never threw away Islam itself.

Hindus always regarded the barbaric practices of Islam, as a 'misinterpretation', and relied on the mumbo-jumbo of a few sufis to (mis-)understand Islam. Shivaji fought Islamic empires, but 'respected' Sufis. Clearly, he didnot understand that he was fighting a war against Islam.

Regardless, present day India exists, thanks to Shivaji's pioneering resistance. Else, we would have had a few more Af-Pak Jihadistans in the subcontinent today.

If I may make an observation.

Above, different posters from India have mentioned different Indian groups and individuals who - whether they fully knew what they were doing, or not - resisted the Jihad.

Shivaji and the Maratha fought against the Muslims.

The Sikhs fought against the Muslims.

I understand, too, that the Gurkhas fought against the Muslims.

What matters today is 1. to honour all of them - at least they tried. Then, 2. to look at how they *all* did - not to quarrel over who was more important, but just to look at what *works* and what doesn't, when you're fighting against the Jihad.

India needs all her warriors: she needs them to be well informed (and there is no reason why they shouldn't be, the information is now there, thanks to all kinds of people), and all pointing in the same direction. And so do all the other kafir countries!

Furthermore, today we non-Muslims on five continents (Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, Americas) can look at each other's histories and study all the Infidel resisters of the past, not just in India but across the world. We can look at what was done by all the peoples that had to defend themselves against Islam, or perish. In Africa, the Ethiopians. In Europe, the Greeks and the Spaniards and the Portuguese, the Serbs and the Bulgarians, who were conquered, and ruled for centuries by viciously cruel Muslim masters but, slowly, grimly, fought back and freed themselves, at tremendous cost. The Chinese in the 1860s and in the 1930s, and how they dealt with three massive jihad uprisings from within - the Dungan rebellion, the so-called 'Panthay' rebellion among Muslims in Yunnan, and the 'Gobi jihad' of the 1930s. Today, the IDF defending Israel: 1948-49, 1953, 1967, 1973, 1982 in Lebanon. And that's only some.

I don't know whether our Foreign Affairs diplomats or our journalists or the people who teach our soldiers and policemen in their training academies know much about this stuff at the moment; so it's up to us, to what Hugh Fitzgerald calls 'the unsung history boys', to learn the lessons, share our stories, compare notes, and spread what we learn so that sometime soon our politicians and our soldiers and policemen *will* know what works when you're fighting Mohammedan insurrection and Mohammedan invaders.

Shivaji was indeed an inspirational figure for all Indians. But sadly very few non-Marathi Indians care to study our history. And given Bombay based media's (which shapes national perception) condenscent attitude towards Maharashtrian people, culture and history in general, story of Shivaji has been reduced to a mere footnote in Indian national history. He was our bonnie prince charlie, joan d'arc and charles martel all rolled into one.

Sadly his legacy has been pretty much usurped by every two bit politician/intellectual in Maharashtra over last 300 years. It's no surprise that other Indians are apathetic to Shivaji. That Fabian idiot Nehru even went as far as to write that Shivaji and his Marathas were just two bit barbarians. As a part Maratha i have indeed been raised on ballads of Shivaji, his quest to carve out an empire from his small fiefdom, how a man and his people derided as mere Deccan rats would go on to destroy the very foundations of Islamic rule in India. But if you ever objectively study his story, his was an ethno-nationalistic struggle, it may have helped other Hindus as well, but reversing Islamisation was never his concern. The confederacy he birthed would go on to try and defend Mughal India at Panipat 150 years later, wiping out 10% of Maratha population in the process.

P.S. People should actually read up on his little known son Sambhaji a man who refused to convert to Islam after being captured by the Mughals. His tongue was cut off, and body was skinned at the stake with salt rubbed into his wounds, yet he refused to submit. His death now, is a truly inspirational story.

Be they Shias or Sunnis. When pitted against us the Infidels they bury their differences & gang up together.

Land or Territory called Kashmir never asks for seceding from India. It is the muslims who want to. That way muslims in any part of the world or India want to hold themselves in superior relief citing some reason or other & sharpen their knives.

Hence the best solution is to deport them all to Saudi Arabia / Iran. They can live in close proximity to their own people , share all the riches , cultural affinities & feel fulfilled.

Kashmiri Shias actually WANT to remain with India. No Shia in his right mind would submit to a Sunni dominated Islamist state!

Well , send them to Iran which is Shia.

kashmiri or keralite muslims want to remain in India not out of love towards Hindus. Only because they are pampered the most in India. Everything is atrociously subsidized for people in kashmir by Indian taxpayers. No hindu can own property there. By the same logic is not the Infidels' money tainted / kafir ?

My Friend's enemy is invariably my enemy too. Shias might fear sunnis. But they don't like Jews. Hence deport them to Iran.

Those Iranian ayatollahs are probably the only reliable Muslim ally India would have. Do you think those Israelis have a special place in their hearts for Hindus? You'd be surprised my friend. World doesn't work that way, all India must care about is its self interest. You can't just wish away Indian Muslims, they are far too many in number to be "sent packing". All India can do is reach a compact with them for a truly secular state with a common civil code.

Hurriyat leader himself says they don't belong to India. Self interest is too vague a term. All said and done it is their ideology which is always inimical.Do you think after decades of pampering they are going to submit to a common civil code ? Kashmiri Pundits are languishing as refugees elsewhere. Why no punishment at all for their mass slayings by the kashmiri muslims ?

Read the following by Chandan Mitra :-

" Last week I also participated in a laudable effort ...to initiate a dialogue with young Kashmiri students and teachers. In collaboration with the Islamic University of Science and Technology, Avantipora, more that 60 Kashmiri youth, including some Hindus studying outside the Valley, came for a two-day dialogue with intellectuals, politicians, Ministers and other members of the Establishment in Delhi. In my brief interaction with them I was distressed to find their minds were rigid and unwilling to accept even logical explanations from non-Kashmiri Muslim interlocuters. They talked of azadi, plebiscite, unconditional withdrawal of Indian security forces and other demands that are anathema to people outside the Valley.

Many were openly supportive of stone-pelting as a legitimate weapon in the hands of “oppressed and unarmed” people. .. The dialogue allowed us to get a perspective of their minds and they too were happy at the chance to vent their pent up grievances. But it also brought home to me the extent of the gulf that has opened up between the Valley’s New Generation and the rest of India — a gulf that now seems almost impossible to bridge.

Exaggerated and imagined grievances are feeding real angst and the collapse of the political leadership in the Valley has created a vacuum that is fast being occupied by separatists fanning an Intifada-type uprising. Militants have managed to raise a hysteric pitch that glorifies ‘martyrdom’; housewives are prodding their young children to take on security forces; individual State police officials are being subjected to social boycott in their villages. The ISI and other masterminds across the border are delighted by the turn of events. Politicians of all hues are scurrying for cover....

Cross-border sponsors of militancy do not need to smuggle in assorted Afghans, Sudanese and Chechens to do their dirty work in Kashmir. Misguided, vocal and violence-prone young people in the Valley have become the vanguard of separatism, even if they are actually in a minority.

Given this grim reality, is there a way out? ... The rest of India will have to reconcile itself to the fact that the Kashmir Valley is now an internal conflict zone where a mini-Intifada is in progress ".

Elanor, Both Budhhist & jain thoughts do not believe in a single "creator". Budhhists believe in 'Shunya' (literally zero, or great void). Jains believe that the soul & karma are attached from the begining and every soul's mission is to be free of this Karmic matter & be pure energy. There is energy pervading the universe & this Karmic energy ( holy spirit) is controlling everything. It is neutral.

When one think of vastness of the universe(our sun is a small star in a small galaxy called milky way,our neighbouring galaxy andromeda is much much bigger than us)we may realize that all this useless ideas of the "conquerer of the world" etc. are useless. & hence most of the scientists are deeply spiritual.
The only way forward is what Jesus taught; that is love. But this does not mean that if we donot have that infinite capacity as Jesus, then we should not oppose the oppressor. Many have failed to understand Gandhi here. He said that non violence can be practiced by very brave. He believed that it is better to have violence than a coward's non violence. He had agreed to Vallabhbhai Patel's proposal of sending troops to Kashmir to save the Valley from attacking Pakistanis.
In Jain thought there is a saying," I ask all the world for forgiveness,& I forgive them." But Mahavir (Great Warrior) also said the "Forgiveness is the ornament of brave only".
The leaders of India are confused. Hence their "forgiveness" is taken as "weakness" by Kashmiri extremists & Pakistan.

Agree with DDA. We all non muslims of the entire world should learn from each other's history.Only then a comprehensive action plan can emerge.But for that to happen,first an awareness in our political leaders is required & that is where people like Robert Spencer are doing a very important service.
& yes, Shivaji, Sikhs, Rajputs like Prithviraj,Maharana Pratap, Gorkhas fought these devils and they all form the glorius chapters in the Indian History.

I came across this information on the Kashmir valley riots:

BG Varghese, The Deccan Herald (July 13) warns not to mistake what is happening in a small part of the Valley as happening all over Kashmir. Nothing of the sort. Verghese says "there is by now fairly well-documented evidence of intercepts, that separatists and cross-border mentors are instigating, funding, recruiting and organising your stone pelters through agent provocateurs".

And that "mosques are being used as political platforms, giving murderous agitation a righteous Jihadi halo from touch-me-not sanctuaries".

I have known a few Sikhs, they will not bow to threats. I hope the UK will support them in any event, as Sikhs have a history of supporting them.

Eleanor wrote:

Your average Westerner doesn't connect Kashmir with New York, or Manila to Kabul. To them, no two jihad attacks are linked, it's just seperate groups of "fringe extremists" misunderstanding their religion, someplace far away.
..............

Very important point, Eleanor.

In a more recent article posted at JW, the AP journalists can't even fathom how circumstances in Islamic hell-hole Somalia can possibly be so similar to Taliban-era Afghanistan.

If supposedly intelligent Westerners can't grasp this simple concept, how can they possible understand that Jihad in the Kashmir valley and New York City can possibly have any similarities?

"Oddly enough, 'Somali rebels increasingly resemble Taliban'"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/08/oddly-enough-somali-rebels-increasingly-resemble-taliban.html

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