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Kashmiri Pandits: “We were given a choice of ‘Raliv, Galiv ya Chaliv'” (join jihad or perish or leave)

Jan 20, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

“That night there was no government in the region. It was Islamic terror at its worst….Kashmir was the first laboratory of Islamist terror and it must be defeated.”

But instead, the world continues to pretend that none of this is happening, or if it is, that it is the fault of non-Muslims.

“30 Years of Exodus: Kashmiri Pandits recall ‘laboratory of Islamist terror’, express strong desire to return home,” India Blooms News Service, January 19, 2020:

New Delhi/IBNS: Kashmir Pandits on Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of their mass exodus from the Valley by protesting in New Delhi and even several of them expressed their firm desire to return to their homeland and demanded for the restoration of human rights of the community one day.

As 30 years passed since the Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave the Valley in 1990 at a time when Islamic militancy was rising in the region, noted political commentator Sunanda Vashisht, who is a Kashmiri Hindu, described the situation in Kashmir as the first ‘laboratory’ of Islamist terror.

Remembering a night in the Valley when Hindus were targeted, she said in a video: “That night there was no government in the region. It was Islamic terror at its worst.”

“Kashmir was the first laboratory of Islamist terror and it must be defeated,” she said.

Recalling the night of Jan 19, 1990 and the experience she had that day, Sunanda Vashisht said: “My 70-year-old grandfather stood with kitchen knives and an old rusted axe ready to kill my mother and I in order to save us.This is that moment I lost my childhood.”…

Another Kashmiri Pandit, US-based journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh said the circumstances under which Pandits were forcibly driven out from Kashmir are often ‘distorted’ by political parties.

She wrote: “Beware young people! Today, on January 19, the 30th anniversary of Kashmiri Pandit exodus day, anyone telling you that militancy in Kashmir, 30 years ago, was a mass uprising for a secular independent Kashmir, is LYING to you. From Allah Tigers, Al Fatah to JKLF, each terror group issued Islamist threats and targeted Hindu minority in the name of Islam.”

“The circumstances under which Pandits were forcibly driven out from Kashmir in 1990 are often distorted by political parties. The Islamist attacks on Pandits—the trigger for their exodus in 1990 actually began in 1989, when the country was headed by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Jammu & Kashmir was ruled by chief minister Farooq Abdullah. Those attacks, the triggers for the exodus of Pandits, continued under Rajiv Gandhi’s successor VP Singh who ran a coalition government with the support of the BJP,” she said.

“The 1989 Kashmir was a different place from the Kashmir of earlier times. Suddenly that year, Kalashnikov wielding Kashmiri Muslim youth swarmed into our streets. We heard the boys high on testosterone chanting ‘azadi’ (freedom from India), ‘Pakistan se rishta kya… la ilaha illa allah’ (relationship with Pakistan is that of with Allah) and ‘nizam-e-mustafa’ (Sharia rule) in the same breath. 79 innocent, unarmed civilians were killed that year by these ‘freedom fighters’,” she said.

“Before governor Jagmohan took over and the governor’s rule was imposed and the army deployed in January 1990, 21 Kashmiri Pandits, a tiny minority of Hindus in the Muslim valley, were killed. Of the 2,150 incidents of violence, 2100 attacks were against civilians,” she said.

“In 1989, Sheela Tikoo a housewife who was shot dead while crossing the Habba Kadal bridge, made no headlines in the newspapers. NK Ganjoo, Tika Lal Taploo, PN Bhat, Mohammad Yousuf Halwai and many others who were killed evoked no outrage from Indian intellectual class. But most of the fraudulent politicians and ‘intellectuals’ wrongly blame governor Jagmohan for the exodus of Pandits,” she said.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits on Sunday morning held a silent sit-in at the Jantar Mantar region in Delhi to mark the occasion.

The protest was led by Jammu Kashmir Vichar Manch (JKVM), Kashmir Samiti Delhi, Roots in Kashmir (RIK) and Panun Kashmir, reported The Times of India.

RIK tweeted: “We were given a choice of ‘Raliv, Galiv ya Chaliv’ (join jihad or perish or leave). We chose tricolour over jihad. We chose India over Pakistan. We chose righteousness over evil #HumWapasAayenge #30YearsInExile.”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 20, 2020 at 11:31 am

    What this Kashimiri jihad campaign highlights is the normative use of genocide and ethnic cleansing by Islam as a tool of its expansionism.

    Koran 21:11
    How many were the populations we utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their place other peoples?

    In 1971, the Pakistan government invaded East Pakistan which had declared independence and slaughter about 3 million mostly Hindu Benghalis. This was one of the biggest genocides in the 20th century, yet it is largely forgotten today.

  2. Hindu American says

    Jan 20, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    RS – A slight clarification. “Raliv, Galiv ya Chaliv” does not mean “Join jihad or perish or leave”. The exact translation is “convert, die or leave”. This directive was followed by “…And if you choose to leave, then leave without your womenfolk”. Hand written signs were nailed on to Hindu homes.

    My Kashmiri Hindu brothers and sisters had to leave their homes overnight fearing for their womenfolk and their lives. Local muslim Kashmiris took over the Hindu properties as spoils of the Hindu exodus. It is well known that the top politically-connected rich muslim families in Kashmir today “own” most of these Hindu properties.

    This is the reality of Kashmir.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 20, 2020 at 10:00 pm

      These are the standard choices offered by Islam, Hindu American, Thanks for the clarification.

    • Raluca Voda says

      Jan 21, 2020 at 2:34 am

      This was also the reality of Hitler’s rule: The top politically connected nazi families “owned” Jewish properties, and the state, too. Which again goes for Russia and all other Eastern Bloc communist countries. Islam is not a “religion of peace”, but it is what it has always been: A criminal cult, bent on conquering the world by sword and succeeding, 270 million, and rising, victims of Islam, should send a clear message to the free world, yet, strange as it is, it doesn’t.

      There must be a reason for it: Either the free world is stupid and/ or weak, or delusional. The free world gets in a fit of human rights indignation when somewhere in the world some leader has the cojones to fight Islam, forgetting that Islam itself is bent on destroying the free world.

      The free world offers an environment of religious freedom unheard of in Islam, yet the same muslims who would be persecuted on their own countries “defect” to the free world and start destroying it as soon as they arrive, be it because they believe in jihad or because they, delusional, too, believe that Islam is a religion of peace. It is, actually, but only if you are a muslim, which brings us to the beginning of this message: Islam is exactly the blueprint for communism and national socialism. Bravo, free world, but don’t ever forget: No good deed goes unpunished. To put it even more bluntly see how this Romanian saying expresses the same bit of wisdom: He whom you don’t let die doesn’t let you live.

  3. gravenimage says

    Jan 20, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    Kashmiri Pandits: “We were given a choice of ‘Raliv, Galiv ya Chaliv’” (join jihad or perish or leave)
    ………………….

    These are indeed the choices Islam offers. *Ugh*.

  4. DDMisra says

    Jan 21, 2020 at 3:25 am

    Glad to see the story of the sad plight of Kashmiri Pandits who were brutally murdered and their women brutally raped before being murdered 30 years back if they could not flee from their homes fast enough.

    It is a pity that they themselves have hardly been vociferous about it

  5. ainu says

    Jan 21, 2020 at 8:23 am

    Thank you honorable Robert Spencer for sharing the plight of Kashmiri Hindus. The liberal media in India and the world over has turned a blind eye of the plight of these people due to the narrative of perpetual victimhood of the other side.

    So intense is the censorship that you become hated and people stop talking to you if you mention it. Since the enlightened left will ignore a pogrom that takes place before them if it does not agree with their world view. Were we not supposed to draw conclusions from the data rather act on presuppositions?

    While many accuse you of being a polemicist, you have highlighted the plight of the persecuted people on numerous occasions in your website.

    Thank you for it.

  6. janwog says

    Jan 21, 2020 at 8:27 am

    Leave is the best solution. Pakistan has been violently cut out of India for Muslims, so go to Pakistan.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 21, 2020 at 8:58 pm

      Muslims want to take over Kashmir and eventually all of India.

  7. toomanyhobbies says

    Jan 21, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    and that is a certifiable CULT and CULTS are not protected under US law!

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 21, 2020 at 8:13 pm

      A cult is not actually different from a religion–although one definition of cult is a small religion:

      https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/cult

  8. latha says

    Feb 3, 2020 at 4:48 am

    Sunanada also said about a young lab assistant, Girija Tikoo who was abducted, blindfolded, gang raped and was sliced alive in a saw machine and much more. See how the leftist panelists jeer at her when she talks about Article 370 :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYjER9oauaY
    Ilhan Omar added salt to her injury by saying that she was grossly exaggerating and she does not believe her. One comment about her or any muslim in any website and it is removed with immediate effect while all their unspeakable comments about us are retained. They are the holy cows to be protected. Other lives do not matter.

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