Afghanistan is 99% Muslim and is the home of the Taliban, the “Students,” who call themselves that because they are students of Islam. The Sikhs in Afghanistan have been persecuted and continue to be vulnerable to Islamic jihadists. Islamic supremacists in the West, meanwhile, attempt to co-opt the Sikhs into their victimhood narrative (which is designed to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror), and to their shame, some Sikh leaders have gone along. On the other hand, Sikhs stood with us for freedom at our Ground Zero Mosque rally in 2011 and again yesterday at our rally for Israel and persecuted religious minorities. “Afghan Sikhs: one of the most vulnerable minorities in the world,” by David Blair, the Telegraph, August 17, 2014 (thanks to Gupt Singh):
The Sikhs of Afghanistan are one of the world’s smallest and most vulnerable minorities.
Numbering no more than a few hundred families, they have endured persecution both from the Taliban and wider society in a country that is 99 per cent Muslim.
If the migrants who were discovered at Tilbury Docks on Saturday are indeed Afghan Sikhs, as Essex Police claim, then they would have a clear motive for leaving their homeland.
But that still leaves some unanswered questions. On the face of it, the Sikhs of Afghanistan would have enough fear of persecution to be able to make a formal application for asylum in Britain. Why this group chose to arrive illegally inside a shipping container is unclear.
In addition, only a handful of Sikhs are left in Afghanistan: the vast majority live in India, particularly in Punjab. If, for the sake of argument, the arrivals at Tilbury are actually from India, they might choose to claim to be Afghans to reduce the risk of being deported.
The group is highly unlikely to be carrying passports or any other identity documents, so it will be far from simple for the UK Border Agency to establish their true nationality….
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profitsbeard says
Afghanistan was once a Buddhist nation.
I think that they were a bit more persecuted than the Sikhs.
Since they are now non-existent in the country.
The concept of “Bushido” ( the Buddhist “way of the warrior”) came along a little too late to save the Afghan adherents of Siddhartha Gautama.
Cicero says
As in Spain initially. The Muslim population in Afghanistan were foreigners ( maybe mercenaries) .The entire Afghan population were previously Hindu and then. Became buddhist. however the small band of foreign Muslims were able to ensconce themselves in positions of power through the land and then began to enact the law of Shariah. it is unclear how many generations it took for the entire Afghan population to convert to Islam..
however it is a testament to the powerful brainwashing power of Islamic ideology that not an iota survives of the grace, integrity, compassion and tolerance of Afghanistan.s previous Dharmic faiths in the psyche of the. Afghan population.
Dr.A.Anburaj says
Dr.Alisina has answer for all the questions.Mohammed is a mentally challenged Arabian. He is an advocate of the supremacy of Arabian Culture. So men and women of Non-Arabian culture are looked down and persucuted. So long as Mohammed and Quran exist in the world, persecution of innocent people will continue.