Meanwhile, the international media excoriates India for offering safe haven to these religious minorities, over which Muslims in India are rioting.
“UN body slams Pak over ‘discrimination’ of religious minorities,” ANI, December 15, 2019:
New Delhi: The United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has said that discriminatory legislation by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government has empowered people with “extremist mindsets” to carry out attacks on religious minorities.
In its 47-page report titled, ”Pakistan-Religious freedom under attack”, released in December, the CSW, a commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, has expressed concerns over the increasing “weaponisation and politicisation” of the blasphemy laws and the anti-Ahmadiyya legislation which are being used not only to persecute religious minorities but also to gain political ground.
The commission said that Christian and Hindu communities in Pakistan are “particularly vulnerable”, especially women and girls.
“Each year hundreds are abducted and forced to convert and marry Muslim men. Victims have little or no hope of being returned to their families due to the serious threats and intimidation from abductors against the girls and their families. This is compounded by the lack of police will to take action, weaknesses in the judicial process and discrimination from both police and judiciary towards religious minority victims,” the report read.
The commission has cited several prominent examples to substantiate that minorities in the country are portrayed as second class citizens.
In May 2019, Ramesh Kumar Malhi, a Hindu veterinary surgeon from Mirpurkhas in Sindh, was accused of blasphemy for wrapping medicines in pages containing verses from the Quran. Protestors burned down his clinic and other shops belonging to the Hindu community.
The commission contended that blasphemy laws in Pakistan, which criminalise anyone who insults Islam, are often misused to lodge false cases against the religious minorities and are a “source of controversy and suffering”.
“The prolonged misuse of the blasphemy laws over the last three decades, combined with the rise of extremism, has had a damaging normative impact on social harmony. The sensitive nature of blasphemy cases serves to heighten religious fervour and has created an environment of mob violence in which people take matters into their own hands, often with fatal consequences,” the report read.
The CSW stated that cases of forced marriages and forced conversions are prevalent among Christian and Hindu girls and women, particularly in the Punjab and Sindh provinces. Many of them are girls under the age of 18 years. Hindu girls and women who are systematically targeted because they come from lower economic backgrounds in rural areas, and are generally under-educated.
The CSW in its report said that it had interviewed children from religious minorities in 2017. According to the report, the children admitted that they were “routinely subjected to severe physical and psychological ill-treatment, including being segregated, bullied, teased, insulted and beaten on multiple occasions, by both teachers and classmates”….
The CSW has asked the Pakistan government to take more effective steps to prevent sectarian violence and to hold the perpetrators of religious attacks to account.
Infidel says
Finally, India has stopped taking foreign protests lying down. Yesterday, a woke German SJW student was asked to leave the country after he participated in an anti-CAA demonstration.
Also, India has now pushed back on the woke SJW Dems who’ve been trying to armtwist Delhi. First, they canceled a meeting w/ the House Foreign Relations Committee b’cos Pramila Jayapal, a known critic, was included. That got them a blowback from Bernie, Warren and Harris. Note that this one was more on India’s recent move on Kashmir, rather than the CAA. Only weak point in their argument: while Jayapal is not a member of the committee, Ilhan Omar is, and she’s exactly where Imran Khan is when it comes to condemning India.
The most priceless gem that I saw was this tweet: it didn’t come from Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld or Mark Steyn: it came from a BJP MP clapping back at Pocahontas:
https://twitter.com/rajeev_mp/status/1208049683525844992
Infidel says
Please delete this post: I’ve reposted below w/ the links more cleanly delineated
Infidel says
Also, please consider allowing post edits, so that we can fix mangled HTML links and typos and other such things w/o having to repost
gravenimage says
Infidel, we did once have a system like that some years ago–IntenseDebate. But the system broke down under the volume of post, and that whole period is now lost.
I’ve seen a number of posting systems since 2006 when I first found Jihad Watch, and this one we use now is overall the best. You can reply directly to other posters, and the system is very secure (especially important for an Anti-Jihad blog).
But I do miss the edit function–especially given how prone to typos I am…
Infidel says
gravenimage
I remember IntenseDebate, and actually liked it: too bad it didn’t have a good backend. I like this system, but I would like the capability to edit – not so much for typos, which one can see thru, but rather, when one mangles links like I did above
gravenimage says
Agreed, Infidel.
Infidel says
Finally, India has stopped taking foreign protests lying down. Yesterday, a woke German SJW student was asked to leave the country after he participated in an anti-CAA demonstration.
Also, India has now pushed back on the woke SJW Dems who’ve been trying to armtwist Delhi. First, they canceled a meeting w/ the House Foreign Relations Committee b’cos Pramila Jayapal, a known critic, was included. That got them a blowback from Bernie, Warren and Harris. Note that this one was more on India’s recent move on Kashmir, rather than the CAA. Only weak point in their argument: while Jayapal is not a member of the committee, Ilhan Omar is, and she’s exactly where Imran Khan is when it comes to condemning India.
The most priceless gem that I saw was this tweet: it didn’t come from Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld or Mark Steyn: it came from a BJP MP clapping back at Pocahontas:
https://twitter.com/rajeev_mp/status/1208049683525844992
gravenimage says
Thanks for the links, Infidel. Good for India!
gravenimage says
UN Commission on the Status of Women slams Pakistan for persecution of religious minorities
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Pakistan *certainly* needs to singled out for their terrible mistreatment of women and religious minorities–jsut surprised to see this from the UN.