The mainstream media and the international human rights community pays little attention to this. They would only be interested if the roles were reversed. Then it would be the subject of daily headlines about the “genocide” against Muslims.
“‘5,000 Hindus flee Pak every year due to persecution,’” by Omer Farooq Khan, TNN, May 14, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
ISLAMABAD: Around 5,000 Hindus migrate from Pakistan to India and other countries every year due to religious persecution, ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) lawmaker Ramesh Kumar Wankwani has told the Pakistani National Assembly.
“During last two months, six incidents of religious desecration happened only in Sindh province. In all incidents, religious books of Hindu minority and their places of worship were burnt,” said Wankwani, who also heads the Pakistan Hindu Council.
He said the government has so far neither made arrests nor taken action against any extremist group involved in attacks. “No one from the minority community feels safe in Pakistan,” he said on Monday while commenting on law and order situation in the country.
He blamed the government for failing to control frequent attacks against Hindus and maintained it was the community’s constitutional right to practice its religion freely in Pakistan.
“But the rights of Hindus have never remained a priority here. The problems of Hindus are multiplying in Pakistan instead of decreasing. Are we not part of this country?” he questioned.
He said it was the teaching of all the religions to respect other faiths but the minorities had failed to get equal rights in Pakistan.
The lawmaker informed the house that scores of Hindu women have been abducted in last few years in Sindh province and later married to their kidnappers after forcible conversion. He urged the government to take steps to counter it.
Wankwani asked why issues of minorities never came up for discussion in the house. “When Jinnah’s residence was attacked and destroyed in Ziarat town of Baluchistan, the National Assembly had debated on the issue for four consecutive days,” he said.
“I request the house to spare some time for taking up the problems faced by minorities.” He said Hindus are also equal citizens of Pakistan and their holy books should also be considered equally respectful.
Wankwani suggested the government to set up a parliamentary committee to discuss issues related to minorities in this regard.
There was a pin-drop silence in the house as all legislators attentively listened to his emotional speech.
Later, minister of state for parliamentary affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmed said the government will ensure the protection of minorities at all cost as it is mentioned in the Constitution.
Of course!
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
What the Hindus will find when they run from Dar al-Islam to save themselves now depends on the wisdom of a Hindu, Narendra Modi, who was just elected to run India.
Ironically, Modi is on the State Dept’s persona non grata shit list of those who can’t come to America because of charges that he sat back and let the Gujurat riots run their course. Investigations into the facts of Modi’s actions during the riots don’t back that charge up, but it’s good enough for State. Apparently the Indian people disagree with all those Princeton grads at State.
If State has such high standards, then why did we let Ahmadenijad into our country after what he did to State employees at the agency’s embassy in Tehran? We let Dar al-Islam leaders on American soil all the time, many with direct ties to Jihad mass murder operations and Sharia governance. So why the high standards for Modi? Could it be because it’s safer to sanction a Hindu than a Moslem?
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Don’t believe the CIA’s estimate that India is just 13.4% Moslem. The real number is much higher, and Moslems in India are pushy people, just like everywhere else. Islam is perhaps the biggest single problem in India.
There was a reason for the Gujarat riots, and there was reason for Modi to let nature take its course, the Hindu rioters motivated by the idea of getting even with the Gujurat Moslems and holding their world takeover program in check. I’m not saying Modi did that; I’m saying more power to him if he did.
Jay Boo says
Side note:
Gujurat is home to perhaps the largest refinery in the world in Jamnagar operated by Reliance Industries.
Jay Boo says
That is a lot of Islamo-phobic misunderstanders leaving.
If only Hillary would move to and then live in Pakistan for a while to reassure them that Islam really means them no harm.
Awani Kumar says
Pakistan means ‘the land of pure’. It was carved out in the year 1947 because majority of the population in this region was Muslim. Now, it is Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Keeping these facts in mind, the non-Muslims should decide whether to stay in Pakistan (with all the persecution) or convert to Islam or leave the country.
Life of Hindus in Bangladesh (part of Pakistan before the year 1971) is same as that in Pakistan. But who cares for Kafirs?