A glimpse into the future of Europe.
The Kalasha aren’t being forcibly converted to Islam, but the pressure upon them is high: “When a Muslim teacher warns you that you’re an infidel and will be burned in hell, a kid can’t evade this threatening influence. I was told by my Muslim teachers to read [Islamic verses] that say it is compulsory to become a Muslim. But we don’t pressure our youths about our Kalasha beliefs.”
“An ancient community in Pakistan fades as conversions to Islam rise,” by Haq Nawaz Khan, Washington Post, November 12, 2018:
BUMBURET, Pakistan — For centuries, a small community of fair-skinned, blue-eyed people known as the Kalasha have inhabited a remote valley in northwest Pakistan, farming and raising animals.
Legend has it that their roots go back to Alexander the Great, whose forces passed through the mountainous region in the 3rd century B.C. But scientific studies describe them as having “enigmatic” and “complex” origins, possibly being the first migrant group to reach the Indian subcontinent from Asia.
The Kalasha people, who speak a unique dialect, have no religious texts or places of worship. Instead, they hold ritual celebrations of seasonal change every spring and fall, with colorful costumes and dancing that have long attracted visitors to their alpine home.
In recent years, however, a new outside influence — Sunni Islam — has started seeping into the valley, changing its way of life and dramatically reducing the number of non-Muslims. In the past three years, according to local surveys, 300 Kalasha people have converted, reducing the number of non-converts from about 4,100 to 3,800. Local leaders fear that their culture may be swallowed up and vanish.
The pace of conversions has accelerated, especially among young people, with Kalasha girls marrying Muslims, and Muslim teachers urging students to convert. There also has been a boom in the construction of mosques, with at least 18 now in the valley.
“After hundreds of years, we have been turned into a minority on our own land,” said Shah Feroz, 27, a volunteer teacher in this hillside town of wooden chalets and steep lanes, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province….
Other Kalasha activists said they were historically disdained by Muslims as “infidels,” along with a separate group of Kalasha in Afghanistan’s Nurestan province across the border.
Akram Hussain, 34, a social worker, described himself as “the sole Kalasha survivor in my family” after his mother died and his father married a Muslim woman.
“When a Muslim teacher warns you that you’re an infidel and will be burned in hell, a kid can’t evade this threatening influence,” he said. “I was told by my Muslim teachers to read [Islamic verses] that say it is compulsory to become a Muslim. But we don’t pressure our youths about our Kalasha beliefs.”
Feroz, the teacher, noted that all students in mixed schools are taught Islamic studies. On a recent morning in the sixth-grade girls’ class at one local school, all Kalasha and Muslim students were reciting Koranic sayings. Feroz said community leaders want a substitute subject, such as ethics, to be taught.
“If you start reading Islamic subjects as compulsory from beginning through university level, then you will be influenced by Islamic teachings,” he said.
In recent years, the Kalasha have attracted European researchers and support, resulting in community benefits including a school that teaches the Kalasha dialect. But some visiting foreigners also have been victims of criminal and insurgent attacks.
According to local leaders, in 2002 a Spanish researcher living in the valley, Jordi Magraner, was found dead with his throat slit, along with two local residents. In 2009, a Greek scholar who helped build the Kalasha school, Athanasion Larounis, was kidnapped by Afghan Taliban forces but eventually freed and returned to Greece.
There have been other episodes of violence attributed to cross-border Taliban intruders. One farmer said two goat keepers had been brutally killed and thousands of goats stolen. “When we ask, we are told that the militants came from Nurestan,” he said….
One Kalasha farmer complained of hate speech broadcast through local mosque loudspeakers.
“We don’t make wine to sell, and we don’t force people to drink,” said Shahi Gul, 50, a mother of six. “We are blamed by the local clerics as using wine to tempt Muslim youth, which is not true. We do this as it is allowed in our religion and culture.”
Gul, whose sisters and niece converted to Islam, said she worries about the conversion of so many Kalasha young people, especially through marriage. She said girls are “easily converted” by Muslim visitors who woo and marry them.
“We don’t force our children over marriage,” Gul said. “When a Kalasha girl wants to marry a Muslim, she accepts Islam and shifts to a Muslim family.”
Jamroz Khan, a Muslim cleric in the valley whose grandfather converted to Islam 70 years ago, considers Kalasha customs to be wicked, but he said no one in the valley has been converted by force.
“We do our preaching and convince them they should come to the right path,” he said. “We teach them that they are practicing infidelity by mixed gatherings, dancing and using alcohol. We ask them to stop these infidel practices.”
Khan noted with pride that several decades ago, “there was not a single Muslim family here, but now half of the village has accepted Islam.”
“All praise to Allah, we are preaching to convert all,” he said.
To Lali Gul, a Kalasha woman who sells traditional costumes and caps, the spread of Islam across the valley will be hard to stop. Muslim tourists, she said, bring money and take brides. When her daughter met a Muslim visitor and converted to marry him, she did not try to dissuade her.
“We are free and open-minded people. We don’t interfere in our children’s decisions to be a Kalasha or Muslim,” Gul said. “But our community is shrinking. I fear that very soon, there will be no Kalasha left in this valley.”
That’s the plan.
Andy says
Talking about a minority in your own land.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jl-Hi5RQ_A
mortimer says
White males need not apply, but increasingly, companies are discriminating against HIGH-PERFORMING, HIGH-ACHIEVING Asian males such as American citizens of Koreans, Japanese and Chinese heritage!!!
The leftards believe: ‘It isn’t racism WHEN WE DO IT.’ It’s a method of hiring more Muslims.
BTW… what ‘race’ is Islam?
How does an ideology transform into a human and then into a race? If a person JOINS Islam, does he/she become ‘brown’? If a person LEAVES Islam, does he/she become ‘white’?
Guy Forester says
If you are older, Caucasian, and conservative, you will not get a job, nor a promotion, nor accepted into any advanced training program. If you are a person of color and a conservative, you are shunned by your community, let alone given a job,, promotion, or admitted into an advanced program of study.
This started years ago when the so called elite universities refused to admit people for doctoral programs that held creationist views or traditional orthodox religious views. I knew quite a few very intelligent men and women that struggled against this prejudice years ago. No matter how hard they worked or applied, they were denied entry at most places.
Andy says
+1
carpediadem says
Yes indeed, and for some reason conservatives have not built even a small university to accommodate and educate each other.
Andy says
‘I Now Hate White People’ Prof Gets Let Off The Hook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HFiLgYcN1Y
gravenimage says
This is true, Mortimer–Asians are increasingly being discriminated against in colleges and workplaces, because they excel too much. Insanity.
“Harvard admissions trial opens with university accused of bias against Asian Americans”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/10/15/harvard-admissions-goes-trial-university-faces-claim-bias-against-asian-americans/?utm_term=.7d06a7dca845
b.a. freeman says
well … all things considered, it feels really good to see these a**holes get sued, but we must remember that they *are* a private institution, and *should* be allowed to be an institution of a**holes if that is what they want. after all, it is the *LEFT* that wants to force people to do things with their businesses and property that they do not wish to do. therefore (and i *REALLY* hate to say this), i hope these p***ks win. on the upside, the trial should be open to the public, so i imagine that their twisting dance to avoid losing virtue (rather like losing face, isn’t it?) will be really entertaining. i love it when nazis are forced to disavow their nazi beliefs, especially in front of all the other nazis!
b.a. freeman says
mortimer, if a person *leaves* islam, he very well may become white … from bleeding to death from a slit throat!
Andy says
Pakistani Christians fear for their lives under Sharia law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q4SIV0Z94w
Andy says
Stop Foreign Aid To Pakistan!
Sign The Petition
https://www.therebel.media/stop-uk-foreign-aid-to-pakistan-jack-buckby-rebel-media
gravenimage says
It’s already been cut heavily by the US:
“Trump: ‘We give Pakistan $1.3 billion a year…I ended it because they don’t do anything for us’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/11/trump-we-give-pakistan-1-3-billion-a-year-i-ended-it-because-they-dont-do-anything-for-us
mortimer says
The Kalasha people are Indo-Europeans who often are blond living in the mountains of Pakistan. Some think they are the descendants of the ancient Macedonians. They are, however, the indigenous people of Pakistan and their rights should be watched and protected.
Muslims hate pagans especially and they hate ALL non-Muslims ‘for the sake of Allah’.
Prabh says
Thank you for your comment. I learn a lot from your comments. Knowledge is a potent weapon in the fight to save the Islamization of Earth.
Islam wipes out racial and ethnic integrity. This is probably the single worst attribute of Islam.
The second worst attribute of Islam is prohibiting virtually all forms of art. (except their unsightly zigzags and diagonal lines or whatever that only rabid leftist feminist academics admire.)
Islamojihadists fantasizing about a Global Caliphate would make it illegal to draw a flower if they had full power – what a nightmarish dystopia.
Dance is the Primal Art – Dancer and Dance cannot be separated – Music is part of dance – ultimate instrument is human voice – all of Creation in every sphere has been created through Divine Sound and Celestial Light.
Drawings/paintings and artist- painter are separate But dancer and dance are One –
Islam is Genocidally Dysgenic and extremely dangerous and must be stopped by the UNO – but the UNO favours Islam, Communism-Socialism etc.
Islam hates sports competitions and the natural quest to answer questions relating to advancement of Science is also forbidden by Islam.
Pakistan was designed to be an Islamic melting pot – utterly repulsive.
I long for the post-Islamic age to commence.
Pagan Pride in All the Realms of Creation,
Prabh108
b.a. freeman says
Prabh, i urge U to set aside shelf-stable food and water, and use them in a first-in, first-out basis (so that your resources aren’t lost to rot). also, buy arms to set aside as well, because almost all free nations are run by traitors and uneducated fools. these folks are using the pious muslims who arrive with every group of muslims allowed into the nation as a proxy army to destroy society. once things get so bad that everyday life is no longer possible, they can declare martial law and then impose a people’s republic (that belongs to the Party, not the people, and is *anything* but a republic). before we can get to that post-islamic age, we’ll have to undergo attacks from both the hard left *and* pious muslims!
Prabh says
B.A. Freeman:
Thank you for your valuable comment. Thank you for caring. I will copy and save your comment.
Prabh108
Brian hoff says
You are wrong to think all Islam is the same. Not all muslim think the same on all issue. The hige majority of muslim donot believe in murdering homosexual or christian.. In Pakistan there some muslim in than village helping christian rebuilt than church burn down by outside radical muslim mob. Muslim in Indonesia Malaysia in south east asia are different from middleeast muslim and yet they are considered muslim by the middleeast muslim. The southeast asian muslim have singing of songs about islam.
kouldb says
Yeah, we can see just how tolerant Muslims in Pakistan are right at this moment with Asia Bibi & her family being hounded from house-to-house by Islamic hoards who want them strung up. No thanks. Keep moderate & tolerant Muslims where the belong. In their own lands. I’ve had as much as I can take of the lot of them. The paradox of tolerance is real.
gravenimage says
What crap from “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”. He himself has said there when there are enough Muslims in the US that they will vote out the Constitution and replace it with savage Shari’ah law.
Walter Sieruk says
In Pakistan ,the people who are known as the Kalasha because of the Muslim , the Kalasha feel that they have been turned into a minority on their own land . At the beginning of this above article a ,sort of ,prediction was given in a glance Which reads “A glimpse into the future of Europe.”
Sadly the “prediction” just might come true because of the mass influx of Muslim migrants into Europe and the European people who are being enticed and proselytized in the “The House of Islam” might lead to further problems in the future .
As for those those Muslim migrants who have entered European countries and then show only contempt .dishonor and reproach towards the people of those Western nations who were kind yet foolish enough to allow them, those Muslim migrants to enter, invade, their home countries of Europe in the first place. This type of situation is f reflected in the Bible .Which reads “When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; with dishonor comes reproach.” Proverbs 18:3. [N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore, those jihadist/ Muslims with their Islamic way of thinking by their well thought Islamic schemes for the action of involvement in their violent and sheath jihad for the advancement of Islam in the many different Western nations. Those sly scheming jihadists are, somewhat, of a reminder of the information reveled in the Bible in Proverbs 15:26. In which the reader is informed that even “The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord…”
The future of Europe is a good question of much debate.
Sharyati says
A lesson for Hindus in India too. India is “secular”. This itself is a lie, India is not a secular country. as the government does not touch the funds nor the place of worship nor festivals of the Abrahamics but interfere in Hindu festivals, funds and temples now as Hindus are in the Majority. But the balance is slowly tipping to the other side. If this happens India will be no longer secular but a sharia paradise
Prabh says
Never accept defeat Sharyati ji – we have lost many battles, but we WILL win the War. The Fuehrer of Deutschland was correct when he stated “Maximum possible number of children” – forget the overpopulation nonsense spewed by IslamicLeftist sympathizers- we AryaDharmics regardless of where we reside must replenish our numbers – and soon – otherwise we will become extinct upon Earth – Mithra,Vishnu and Paramtaman will not give us a prize for being losers – To all Dharmics and our friends: please get married, stay married and give birth to Good children who will be a boon to Earth and to the noble cause of ensuring Light of Dharmic (ethical) Freedoms always shines brightly upon BhumiDevi (Earth). Practise Ruhani-Dharmic Eugenics.
For every Dharmic girl ruined by Islam, we will return the favour in kind: Islam is doomed to extinction – it is just a matter of time..People complain of Semitic overkill – I look forward to Arya overkill – Might of Hindu arm is not just me bluffing.
Prabh108 Pagan Bliss and (non-egotistical)Pride In All Realms of Creation
as always excuse any typos or any other errors (I’m a perpetual student in the school of life – learning is a lifelong affair..)
Sharyati says
Wow Prabh108 real heavy weight stuff you talk about. Happy to see this kind of Kshatriya attitude on display. We need the calmness and deep thinking of a Vashishta and the aggressive action of a Parashurama who as legend has it, destroyed 22 generation of Kshatriyas who were tyrants and persecuted the innocent and weak among their subjects.
As the Veda says “Unite the Brahma(Intellect) and Kshatra(Physical prowess) for the intellectual and physical well being of the whole society”.
Enough is enough already!!!We have had a soul crushing Non violence(AKA utter impotence and meekness and utter powerlessness) being imposed on us by M.K.Gandhi which crippled the erstwhile bubbling kshatra dharma within Bharata desha, This has resulted in bad foreign policies being formulated based on utopia, when dealing with bullies like china like the “Panch Sheel” which became a “Punctured seal” with China’s aggression on us. The same stupidity with Pakistan too. There should be a grand revival of the Kshatriya that can defend us within the parameters of reality
Prabh108 says
Thanks for your comment Sharyati ji -What inspires me most is Beloved Bharat’s (India’s) motto, “Truth Alone Triumphs”. These three words give me hope and courage that our future is bright.
Prabh108
gravenimage says
Prabh wrote:
For every Dharmic girl ruined by Islam, we will return the favour in kind
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Is Prabh saying that we should counter the savagery of rape by engaging in it ourselves? Civilized people don’t act like this.
Prabh says
Anything to avoid extinction of Dharma and AryaDharmic communities no matter where we reside.
Mere survival is not enough. We must thrive.
Please understand that no Dharmic human being
(practitioner of 5 Vedantic creeds – Jain, Hindu-Vedantic, Buddhist, Sikh, ISKCON &related sects/cults) would ever of their own accord, of their own volition – i.e. free will- would ever even speak to a
non-Dharmic, let alone physically touch a mlecch. To do so violates Telegony and other key elements of Dharmic Eugenics. Veda prohibits out of caste-creed marriage. Semi-arranged love marriage with focus on lineage, character and compatibility is best.
GravenImage: Atharva Veda has enough Shakti to create brand new Dharmic girls – did you know that?
When our Girls are tormented are you seriously thinking their pain will not be avenged? Because I assure you it will be. No cry goes unheard. I’d like to know why we serve langar to mlecch who then turn around and abuse our girls – stupid mlecch hijacking of Dharma is sign of Kaljewg.
Engaging in immoral activities violates Dharma – but- failure to punish the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Dharmic Law (Divine Law) is above all worldly laws. We condemn all atrocities, but when atrocities against our Dharmic girls take place, believe me, at some point in the time-space continuum there will be suitable punishment administered – KARMA is not a joke.
Those who protect Dharma are in turn protected by Dharma.
Do you think we Dharmics accept our worth being less than a moslem woeman? No.
Prabh108 as always excuse all errors
Guy Forester says
“We are free and open-minded people.” Both are contrary to the beliefs and values of your masters. You are actually slaves in your own country, yet do not see it. You are there to serve your masters. Even if you convert as demanded, you will still find yourselves in perpetual servitude as you are not from the right tribe nor do you have a history of being from the right branch of the religion we dare not name.
Green Infidel says
Hundreds of years? It’s happening in Europe around ten times quicker…
Wellington says
Indeed, and the fault for this lies not first and foremost with the deluded followers of Mohammed’s warped creed, but rather with all the foolish dhimmis in leadership positions in politics, the media, the entertainment industry, academia, et al.
The exculpation of evil (and Islam is the subtlest, most extensive and longest-lived evil ever) is the greatest error mankind can engage in, even worse than evil itself. And which is the principal reason why freedom in Western Europe and the West in general is in deep trouble right now. People like May, Merkel, Macron, Trudeau, Pope Francis, the editors of The New York Times, the Democratic Party of the United States, the BBC, the CBC, et al. fill me with contempt. They should anyone who prizes liberty and truth above all and who must therefore have nothing but loathing for those covering up for, making excuses for, malevolence. And if Islam is not malevolent, then nothing is.
b.a. freeman says
as usual, when reading about islam, i get more and more fired up as i read on. i understand *EXACTLY* how U feel, and agree wholeheartedly, Wellington; these people are traitors and fools.
+1
gravenimage says
Non-Muslim community in Pakistan: “After hundreds of years, we have been turned into a minority on our own land”
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And this is not just true of the Kalasha in Pakistan, but also Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs, who have been steadily driven out, pressured or forced to convert to Islam, and murdered outright since 1947.
Angemon says
I want to say “you could stop being so open minded as to let your brain fall out of your head and, instead, take pride in your values and culture and stand up for them” but that kind of attitude in a muslim-majority country historically doesn’t end well…
b.a. freeman says
😀
thanks for the belly laugh,Angemon; it’s sad that black humor is about all that free people can do about that benighted region of the planet, and i need relief from the despair.
+1
infidel says
These are like weeds that overcome a beautiful garden in NO TIME… and contribute NOTHING OF VALUE….
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mithraist christian colonialists did more than that in Nigeria, especially in the south west where schools were ran by church and Muslim children were forced to attend mithraist church services as professor Aliu noted in his book “History of education in Nigeria “.In the 80s one mithraist christian fanatic governor in oyo state south western Nigeria called Bola Ige made mithraist christian studies compulsory for all students in that state with 85% Muslim population. presently, all military Uniforms and lawyers and judges attires in Nigeria have pagan crosses engraved on them despite the fact that muslims are 65% of Nigeria. The Muslims in osun and Lagos with 90% and 70% have to file a court cases to get right to use Hijab in schools exactly like what women demanded and got in Turkey with over 99% Muslim population.
So, mithraist christians have no gut to accused Muslims of imposing their culture on others. scums of lies!!
Prabh says
Ibrahim I am getting really fed up with your constant virtually ceaseless maligning of Mithra Deva, the Deity of Friendship.
Ibrahim, anything and everything you see or feel or touch or hear – any fragrant scent you experience around you, any gorgeous dream you have at night when sleeping, any vision you may have or supersensory experience such as Telepathy — that is to say all that is good and beautiful and true and sacred and holy (sweetness and light of honey and candles gifted by honeybees for example) is a direct result of Friendship, Cooperation and Sharing and Caring between individuals and amongst peoples (just like the adorable Care Bears Teddy Bears for children- Tenderheart Teddy Bear for example.)
Ibrahim please grow up – there is space on Earth for everyone. Live and Let Live. I really feel deprogramming and internal reform of Islam could occur in theory but with your comments disparaging and insulting Mithra Deva I feel like this will never happen in real life. Ibrahim – you are a rank materialist – Spiritualism is far superior because the material only exists due to the spiritual. Do you sort of understand what I am saying?
Best wishes Ibrahim but I really hate and despise anyone who does not adore the Ideals of Friendship that are deified in Mithra Deva.
I will never address any comment to you ever again Ibrahim as beloved Satguru (True Teacher) prohibits Sikh from having any contact with a Muslim. I wish you luck – luck orgin is Lakshmi Devi – divine Consort of Vishnu in Narayan form.
Ponder on this Ibrahim if you will please ji:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. your philosophy ] i.e., philosophy (or learning) in general. (The Bard)
emphasis here should be on “dreamt of”, as Hamlet is pointing out how little even the most educated people can explain.
Prabh108 – excuse any typos please and any other errors – I have briefly skim read for errors – time does permit close proofreading. Apologies.
PS Ibrahim – Kindly note that your almost broken English full of half-truths and flat out falsehoods is disrespectful of the English language and to the ethnically (racially) and ancestrally as well as culturally English peoples for whom English is their mother tongue. Mother, Mother Tongue and Mother Land are all sacrosanct – inviolable according to Dharma. Long story short:
Earth is NOT property of bloody Umma!
Sharyati says
Prabh you are just wasting your time. Expecting to straighten him out is like expecting a prostitute to become “Chaste” or expecting to straighten out a dogs tail. So please do not waste your energy on these guys. We for 1200 years have known how these kind of Jihadis behave.