But remember: if you take any notice of these ongoing human rights abuses, you’re a racist, bigoted hatemonger, to be shunned by all decent and right-thinking people. No one cares about Christians, Sikhs and Hindus being forced to flee areas where their families have lived for centuries. After all, it’s not a case of “Islamophobia,” now, is it? So why should anyone care?
“Terrorism forcing minorities to settle abroad,” by Shamim Shahid, Pakistan Today, April 27, 2014:
The ongoing terrorism has forced a large number of Christians, Sikhs and Hindus to settle abroad.
In recently held workshops and seminars in Peshawar, representatives of minorities have discussed the reasons behind increasing trends of exodus. It is ironic to mention that Christians are living in Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency since 19th century, but they are not eligible for domicile certificate which is essential for admission in colleges. Likewise, due to lack of personal and family laws, Hindus and Sikhs are facing hardships in getting birth and death certificates and distribution of inherited property.
Haroon Sarabdiyal, a Hindu elder from Peshawar, said the Hindus were not trusted as true and patriotic Pakistanis and same goes for Sikhs. Atmosphere was once conducive for Christians, but they have also suffered a lot due to terrorism.The South Asian Partnership (SAP) plays a key role in arranging of seminars, workshops and gatherings for creating inter-faith harmony. Soon after the Partition in 1947, thousands of Hindus abandoned property and houses and settled in India. Their property was occupied by others, but later the government established a trust for its protection and utilization. But the trust failed to help Hindus living across the country.
Giving details of such property, Sarabdiyal said that 133,000 acres of agriculture land of Hindus was estimated across the country. For the last several years, they are demanding the government to surrender the land to them but the latter has shown reluctance in this regard. He said that they made a plan for further utilisation of the land for the welfare of poor members of the community. He said that in 1947, there were 428 Hindu temples in Pakistan, but currently only 20 existed and the rest of them have been converted into commercial plazas, hotels and markets.
In Dera Ismail Khan, 700-year-old Kali Bari Temple is converted into a hotel. He alleged that different portions of the temple were being used for immoral acts, which they consider as an insult to their religious norms and beliefs. Similar is the status of Hindu temples in rest of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, especially in Peshawar, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi, Bannu and Kohat.
He said that there is no Hindu temple in Peshawar, Nowshera and Kohat. Haroon along with members of Sikh and Christian communities are working to get their property back. They are also making efforts for restoration of temples and other worship places.
Angemon says
“The ongoing terrorism has forced a large number of Christians, Sikhs and Hindus to settle abroad.”
What? The terrorists don’t target the islamic communities? That’s discrimination! That’s islamophobia!
Wait, who said “I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims” and “Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Two deens shall not co-exist in the Arabian Peninsula” “?
Jay Boo says
Does Obama have any shame left at all?
Pakistan – Obama no comment
Nigeria – Obama no comment
Egypt – Obama no comment
Meanwhile during his visit to Malaysia he offers (veiled threats)
“Myanmar won’t succeed if the Muslim population is oppressed.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/27/us-myanmar-obama-idUSBREA3Q05220140427?feedType=RSS
thomas_h says
“Does Obama have any shame left at all?”
“Shame left”? He never had one to begin with. But he compensates with a lot of self-esteem. The two traits of classic narcissism.
dumbledoresarmy says
A comprehensive report recently produced, on what is done to all minorities – to non-Muslims of all kinds, and to those who are deemed to be the wrong sort of Muslim – in Sunni-Muslim-dominated Islamic Pakistan.
http://britishpakistanichristian.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-targeting-of-minority-others-in.html
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
The Targeting of ‘Minority Others’ in Pakistan: Report Executive Summary and copy of our report.
RonaldB says
I guess the lesson of this is that the Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians in Pakistan during the partition would have been far better off if they had left their property and migrated into the Hindu portion of India. The real wealth of a person is his skill, his work ethic, and his set of values.
It’s known that corporations and groups work best when there is a common culture and a common set of values. Diversity is not of any intrinsic value. My work experience is that Indians, Arab Christians, Vietnames, Chinese, and Japanese can indeed adapt very well to a productive corportate ethos and be valuable assets. There were Muslims who were productive and kept their religious views unasserted, for the most part.
So, I’m not arguing that a country should be maintained as an ethnic enclave (although it’s fine with me if they do so, without prejudicing the right of citizens who obey the laws). I am arguing, though, that a country must maintain it’s societal and cultural identity and norms. A country must be judged by its predominant ethos. So far, it seems more than abundantly clear that a country dominated by Muslims will eventually fall into oppression and suppression of human traits such as art and religious beliefs (or the lack thereof).
The conclusions seem to be that there is no upside for non-Muslims viewing a Muslim country as their home, and that for the sake of their posterity, they should get out while the getting is good. Similarly, there should be absolutely no Muslim immigration into non-Muslim countries.
A third, probably more controversial conclusion, is that once Muslims initiate a war of conquest, and are losing, such as the 1947 invasion of Israel, or the 1990’s aggression against the Bosnian Serbs, the Muslims SUPPORTING THE AGGRESSION should be expelled, and the territory reclaimed. President Clinton came into the Bosnian conflict on the side of the aggressor Bosnian Muslims and forced the Serbs to tolerate an incomplete victory. Muslims not directly or indirectly supporting aggression and who are already citizens should be left alone.
defcon 5 says
@RonaldB
“the Muslims SUPPORTING THE AGGRESSION should be expelled”
How are you planning on separating the wheat from the chaff? What
if your scuzzlum population doesn’t substantially get directly involved
in islam0nazi terrorism but merely supports it (financially or otherwise)?
The fact that Israel and India have experienced 75 years of unending islam0nazi
terrorism makes me think NONE of the f’ing scuzzlums can be trusted.