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Pakistan: Hindus flee Muslim mobs after burned Qur’an found

Aug 26, 2016 8:40 am By Robert Spencer

Islamic spokesmen in the West often complain that their community is being held collectively responsible for the crimes of a few jihad terrorists. No one is actually doing that, but their victimhood game plays well in the establishment media and helps deflect counter-terror efforts.

You want collective responsibility? Here it is.

Pakistan burned Quran

“Hindus flee Muslim extremists after Koran burned in Pakistan,” by Amar Guriro, ABC.net.au, August 24, 2016:

In the provincial town of Ghotki near Pakistan’s border with India, Ashok Kumar is packing his bags.

He’s reached breaking point. Like many of his neighbours, and other Hindus in Sindh province, the small trader is fleeing to India.

“I have four daughters and I fear that one day they will be kidnapped and will be converted to Islam forcibly and will be forced to marry Muslims,” he says.

“In such conditions I don’t feel safe here, so I will move to India.”

For many years, Muslims and Hindus lived here peacefully. They share a common culture, language and traditions. But fanaticism has taken root, and increasingly hostile acts are shattering the harmony.

The tensions now forcing Mr Kumar to leave his country were sparked several weeks ago, in the small village of Mehrab Samejo.

There, in late July, when Muslim worshippers arrived at the mosque for morning prayers, they were horrified to find copies of the Koran burned to ashes.

A culprit was quickly identified: a man known as Ubedullah, a Hindu who’d converted to Islam some months ago. He is reportedly a drug addict with a psychotic mental condition.

The following morning Ubedullah was arrested by police for blasphemy, but crucially, he was formally charged under his old Hindu name, Amar Lal.

It’s unthinkable that a Muslim could be guilty of such a crime, and it put Hindus front and centre for blame.

News of the desecration spread like wildfire, inflaming Muslim anger.

Loudspeakers at local mosques relayed the message that night. Shops were shut the following day, and a large, hostile mob drawn from all round the district blocked the National Highway — the country’s most important transport artery — creating a chaotic traffic jam.

They decried Hindus for burning the Koran, and descended on Reharki Darbar, an important Hindu temple complex in the town of Reharki.

The unruly crowd waved religious party flags and chanted slogans against the “enemies of Islam”.

Hindus hid in their homes. Contingents of police and paramilitary were rushed to protect them, and their religious centres, from attack.

The mob eventually dispersed, but the hostility wasn’t over.

That night, two armed men on a motorbike opened fire on a group of young Hindu men sitting at a roadside teahouse. Sateesh Kumar, 17, was killed, while his friend Avinash was seriously injured.

Dr Sheva Ram, the local president of a Hindu community organisation, claims the Korans were burned by accident, after a joss stick was knocked over. He’s outraged police charged Lal using his Hindu name.

“It doesn’t mean Hindus have torched the Holy Koran, but due to this incident, local Hindus are scared for their lives,” he says.

They believe much of the tension stems from agitation at the Bharchundi shrine, a significant Islamic centre in Reharki. Shrine leaders exert a powerful influence in the district, and had seized the burned Korans and buried them in the shrine grounds.

The shrine has previously been mired in controversy after allegations it was responsible for kidnapping Hindu girls and forcing them to convert to Islam. It’s a claim shrine leaders have denied saying the girls were willing converts.

Now the shrine is being blamed for inflaming tensions, and forcing Hindus to flee. However, leaders of the shrine reject these allegations.

Mian Abdul Malik, one of the custodians of the shrine, admits the Korans may have been burned by accident, and claims the shrine does not act against Hindus.

He blames unseen “hidden hands” for stirring tensions between the communities.

Police have assured the Hindu community it will protect them. But Hindus are scared, and many are planning to move….

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Filed Under: Featured, Hindus, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery, Non-Muslims in Muslim countries, Pakistan, Qur'an Tagged With: Ashok Kumar, Ghotki


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  1. Moses says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 8:51 am

    KORAN aka the DEATH MANUAL very useless piece of garbage.

  2. David says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 9:07 am

    Their all pissed of cause someone merely BURNED their UNHOLY BOOK?
    My Grand Dad keeps one in the out house!
    Burning up the unholy words of SATAN sounds like the right thing to do. If I could, I would burn one every week! And put all the videos on the WEB for all to enjoy and CHEER!

    • Kay says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 10:11 am

      Redditt wouldn’t let you.

    • LR says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 3:19 pm

      David,

      It is within your free speech rights to do so.

      Just stay anonymous. : )

  3. Angemon says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 9:50 am

    There, in late July, when Muslim worshippers arrived at the mosque for morning prayers, they were horrified to find copies of the Koran burned to ashes.

    I’m horrified when I hear about jihad attacks, or raging mobs, not that someone burned a book (although I hate book burning as much as anyone else). To each their own I guess…

    A culprit was quickly identified: a man known as Ubedullah, a Hindu who’d converted to Islam some months ago. He is reportedly a drug addict with a psychotic mental condition.

    A drug addict with a psychotic mental condition? Prime muslim material.

    The following morning Ubedullah was arrested by police for blasphemy, but crucially, he was formally charged under his old Hindu name, Amar Lal.

    It’s unthinkable that a Muslim could be guilty of such a crime, and it put Hindus front and centre for blame.

    It’s almost as if the accuser was looking to incite hatred of Hindus…

  4. Jaladhi says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 10:09 am

    If this world has to survive, it has to get rid of Quran, Hadiths and Sira from this world. Or its followers will be emulating the example of ths murderer Mo/allah until nobody survives. This guy hated everyone non-Muslims and women without exception. How can any sane person follow his example is beyond me. This tells you the level of intelligence of Muslims who can’t see and distinguish evil from good.

  5. abel & solomon says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 11:58 am

    “History teaches us that through the ages Islamic rule has brought many pogroms and genocides and this continues to our day.

    Some have maybe even taken place without any real evidence being left, but many have taken place since the advent of news reporting, so today we have some accurate details of what happened in the cases below; –

    Assyria 1843-46, Syria; Aleppo 1850, Damascus 1860, Armenia 1873-76, Bulgaria 1876, Persia 1894, the Balkans 1912-1913, the Ottoman Greeks 1913-1923, Armenia 1915, Assyria 1915-1918, Iraq 1933, Syria 1947, Ottoman Greeks 1955, Cyprus 1960, India (Pakistan/Bangladesh) 1971, Uganda 1971-1972, Cyprus 1974, Afghanistan 1979, Syria 1981-?, Iraq 1986-89, Afghanistan 1986-2001, Kashmir 1990-?, Libya 2011-?, Nigeria 2014-?, Iraq 2014-?
    You can find details of all of these on the web including news reports from the time which tell us it often wasn’t soldiers who did the killing and raping, it was often ordinary Muslims.

    Many Islamic countries even refuse to acknowledge some of these atrocities carried out just a hundred years ago, despite the photographs, despite the journalistic records.

    This last year 2015, there was controversy on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, in which about 1.5 million Christians were killed, because, despite all of the evidence, some Muslims refuse to acknowledge it really happened.

    And today the Islamic State is extinguishing Christian communities in the Middle East that have been there nearly 2,000 years, beheading the males and enslaving the females.

    When will it all end?

    Many of these massacres were the result of religious fatwas such as that issued in November 1914 by the Ottoman Caliphate proclaiming it “a sacred duty” to kill all infidels, in this case specifically Christians, which led directly to the Armenian and Assyrian genocides the following year.

    In Pakistan in 1971 as many as 2.4 million, mostly Hindu, were killed and 200,000 women raped. The photographic records of this genocide give evidence of some of the most horrific things ever seen.

    This is all fruit of the Mohammed and his Koran; millions dead, millions of others displaced from their homes, grieving lost loved ones or taken as sex-slaves.

    It will only end when the Koran is no longer viewed as being the word of God.”

    The above is an extract from our full length e-book Islamic Apocalypse, get the whole truth here;- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AS09LYW

  6. Hindu American says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    This overlordship pattern is set, almost enshrined in the muslim psychosis, by now. Almost like rinse/wash/repeat. Here’s how it plays out:

    1. Discover a “sacrilege” when no one is looking. Must be “discovered” by a muslim, of course.

    2. Identify a culprit (must be an infidel) (a true muslim could NEVER be guilty of such a crime).

    3. Blame the culprit (does not have to be in his/her presence) and charge him/her of the blasphemy.

    4. Spread the news. Inflame passions among the believers.

    5. Use loudspeakers – louder the better (use social media, news papers, civil protests if you are in the west – stupid dhimmis will marvel at your belief in free media and expressions)

    6. Shut down shops and other visible means of economic activities.

    7. Collect a muslim mob (with kids in the front) and other useful dhimmi idiots.

    8. Block public transit for maximum exposure. (Why should you drive when we can’t?)

    9. Attack visible targets of infidel ownership such as their temples, churches, synagogues, city halls, banks….

    10 Call these places “enemies of Islam” and invoke “islamophobia”.

    11. Expect normal dhimmi behavior from the government agencies such as cops and peace keepers

    12. Pretend to accept truce (only temporary) after the effect has died down

    13. Kill an infidel or two when no one is looking. Reason? Hurt sentiments, passions, insults….anything the liberal media will support as a valid reason. hey, you may even be invited on TV shows.

    14. Repeat at another location and time.

    15. Watch the dhimmis fold.

    • Allan says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 10:04 pm

      #7 is almost funny with that parenthetical remark

  7. roxy says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 2:20 pm

    Maybe if the Hindus just stopped supporting Israel, the Muslims would stop attacking them. (Sarcasm)

  8. Crusades Were Right! says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    Interesting that we keep hearing of Korans being burned, not mosques. Strange that “Islamophobes” never seem to think big….
    ….unlike Muslims who never cease to incinerate churches and other non-Islamic places of worship!

  9. marina says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 4:07 pm

    Good! The world got rid of one filthy war manual aka koran. Many more to go.

  10. Blangwort says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    When the last non-Muslim people have left and all that remains are Muslims, the town becomes a “target-rich environment.”

    Every creed must learn to live with others because the alternative, intolerance, is cause for hostilities.

  11. More Ham Ed says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 6:37 pm

    “This hurts sooooo much”
    Both victims and monsters at the same time.

  12. Max Publius says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    How can these disgusting Islamobots seriously hold up burn paper while the Hindus they attacked hold up their death babies?

  13. Larry A. Singleton says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 8:39 pm

    The Call to Jihad (fighting for Allah’s Cause) in the Qur’an (Or the politically correct title used for public consumption: Jihad in the Qur’an and Sunnah) by Sheikh Abdullâh bin Muhammad bin Humaid. (Found in my Summarized Sahih Al-Bukhari almost as an Introduction. Published by Sound Vision’s “moderate” Muslim Abdul Malik Mujahid and Dar-Us-Salam.) Kicking myself because he reiterated somewhere the exact views of Humaid somewhere but didn’t save it when I saw it.

    If you want an example of genuine Muslim “Interfaith”. If you want a perfect illustration of what defines Muslims and Islam, it’s past and its present, and counter the claims that Muslims “promote peace and tolerance” with those outside the Muslim Community, and the claim that “radicals pervert the Koran through omission and false interpretation” read the following:

    The 4th Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research: Arab Theologians on Jews and Israel. Sept. 1968. Translated by D.F. Green/David G. Littman (Support Secure Freedom) Front to back; 95 pages of outrageous lies, inversion and vile Jew-Hatred. I’ve read this whole thing. I invite you to find any comparison with Jewish, Christian or Buddhist “Conferences” or similar events. See the Declaration of War titled “Resolutions and Recommendations” on page 73. I use Sheikh Humaid’s article on jihad, and it’s place as an “Introduction” in my Summarized Bukhari as “Exhibit A” when it comes to refuting the “religion of peace” claim. “The 4th Conference…” could easily be Exhibit B.
    http://supportsecurefreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/Arab-Theologians-on-Jews-and-Israel-4th_Ed_082011.pdf

    Hajj Amin Husseini’s Anti-Semitic Legacy by Boris Havel (Middle East Quarterly)
    http://www.meforum.org/5318/hajj-amin-antisemitism#_ftn3

    The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitsm by Andrew G. Bostom

    “The First and Last Enemy: Jew Hatred in Islam.” by Andrew G. Bostom
    http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28549

    • Larry A. Singleton says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 8:42 pm

      Damn! Meant to put this on the top of above comment as the lead-in:

      “Islamic spokesmen in the West often complain that their community is being held collectively responsible for the crimes of a few jihad terrorists. No one is actually doing that, but their victimhood game plays well in the establishment media and helps deflect counter-terror efforts.”

  14. desidude2 says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 12:45 am

    This is so typical of places where the muslims forms a majority and the non muslims are basically 3rd class citizens, right after animals. there is no dialogue with muslims, no muslim tolerance, no peace, no security, and no feeling of togetherness. there are only muslims and those others are apostates, hypocrites, and people who are equivalent to dogs because they are refusing to convert to the true religion.

  15. bhartiya says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 1:13 am

    This is all fabricated.
    Do you think in Islamic countries infidel would dare go near mosque?
    Hindus live in fear in Pakistan and Bangladesh
    Christians live in fear in Egypt.

    Surprisingly these are all concerts who had left their ancestral faith because of these Muslims and their atrocities.
    How suddenly people change as soon as they convert!! This explains lot about Koran.one don’t even need to read Koran.
    It’s always burnt pages of Koran. In India these incidents are recurrent, the mob comes out on streets with lethal weapons after Friday prayers and shout, Islam Khatate mein hai’ even in Hindu majority nation they create Chaos. So what is it after prayers these psychopaths go berserk? I wonder what kind of prayers bring ferocity, hate and desire to kill infidels?
    After prayers one would have inner peace but obviously not with muslims

    • Joe says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 4:26 am

      During the beginning of the war in Syria, it always after Friday prayers that the violence would start. Your thoughts were mind at that point. What is it with these Friday prayers?

    • desidude2 says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 12:57 pm

      I think when relations become too comfortable among muslims and non muslims in a location the muslim cleric or others will always find something to bring the masses to a boil. a burnt koran is one of their favorite tactics to bring muslims out into the street with cries of allahu akbar.

  16. Pigs be upon Him says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 8:21 am

    the genocide of Hindus just accelerated, by the porkis

  17. ninetyninepct says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 11:20 am

    We can pretty well guarantee that Muslims burned their own Koran so they can use that as a pathetic excuse for their traditional cultural violence. A Christian would never ever desecrate a Koran or even a bible, but Muslims would do that easily as an excuse for violence. They actually think the world believes them. Taqiyya.

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