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Afghanistan: The nation’s last Sikhs and Hindus plead for U.S. help amid persecution and murder by jihadis

Apr 24, 2020 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Last month, Islamic State jihadis murdered 25 people in an attack on a Sikh gurdwara in Afghanistan.

Similar to the fate of Christians across the Middle East and Africa, the remaining Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan continue to be persecuted and slaughtered in the name of Islam. They have declared that they have been “left with two choices: to leave for India or to covert to Islam.”

Now both Sikhs and Hindus have called out in desperation to the U.S. for help. There are only about “650 Sikhs and Hindus left in Afghanistan.” Meanwhile, mainstream Islamic groups in America and in other Western countries are charging “Islamophobia” at every turn, ignoring the massive suffering their coreligionists continue to inflict upon disbelievers and even upon fellow Muslims whom they reject as “apostates,” in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

“The Last Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan Plead for U.S. Help,” by Jessica Donati and Ehsanullah Amiri, Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2020:

The last community of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan is seeking asylum in the U.S. after suffering an attack by Islamic State extremists, posing a test of the Trump administration’s pledge to protect and support religious minorities world-wide.

The Islamic State attack targeting a Sikh temple in Kabul last month killed 25 people, while dozens of others were taken hostage in a six-hour siege ending in a gun battle with Afghanistan’s commandos, the elite army unit that works closely with U.S. Special Forces.

There are about 650 Sikhs and Hindus left in Afghanistan. The fear in the community is a reminder of the uncertainty facing the country after the U.S. reached a February deal with the Taliban to withdraw all of its troops next year.

“When the U.S. leaves, life for us will become impossible. It’s only a matter of time that all of us will be eliminated. We want refugee status and protection in a U.S. Army base here. We want this soon,” a Sikh community leader who lost three immediate relatives in the attack told The Wall Street Journal….

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 11:23 am

    Welcome to Ramadan, the month of jihad, battles and persecution of the dirty KUFAAR whom Muslims hate and oppose ‘for the sake of Allah’.

    Over 60% of the Koran is a diatribe directed against ‘WRONG WORSHIPERS’ (mushrikeen). The Koran is one of the most bigoted of all documents. Muslims are supposed to read this bigoted book during Ramadan.

    What could go wrong?

    India’s new law welcoming persecuted religious minorities from nearby Muslim areas is intended exactly for this sort of situation.

    • Templer says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 11:24 am

      Tell that to the santic Muslim

  2. Templer says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 11:23 am

    thats islam all over should all get together and wipe this vile cult out all 1.8 million off them

    • Ned Kelly says

      Apr 25, 2020 at 10:34 am

      I would welcome ALL Hindus + Sikhs into my country. They dont want to kill us.

  3. Jaladhi says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 11:24 am

    Ha, ha,… “we will bring democracy to Muslim lands such as Afghanistan and Iraq”!! What a waste of sacrifices by the US t and other Western troops. The Neocons of the Bush era had no idea and still have no idea of the power of this evil cult over its followers and they proceeded to reform them. Good luck! Twenty years later, we are still there and they are still killing their minority, Hindu and Sikh citizens.

    It is best to leave them alone in their own lands and never allow them to come here – alas its too late even to think like this or you will be dubbed you know what!

  4. mortimer says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 11:29 am

    Afghanistan is still one of the most fanatical and bigoted countries on earth. This is why the Taliban still has traction in Afghastlistan.

    Islam contains a doctrine of the ‘near enemy’. Muslims should begin jihad by ethnically cleansing their neighborhood of disbelieving kafirs in order to create a base for jihad operations on a wider scale.

    Koran 9:123 – “O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.”

    K.33:60 “Truly, if the Hypocrites stir up sedition (resist Islam), if the agitators in the City do not desist, We shall urge you to GO AGAINST THEM and set you over them. Then they WILL NOT BE ABLE TO STAY as your neighbors for any length of time. They shall have a curse on them. Whenever they are found, they shall be seized and SLAIN WITHOUT MERCY – a fierce slaughter – murdered, a horrible murdering.”

    (Comment: not exactly the ‘religion of peace’ in K.33.60, is it?)

    Egyptian jihad theorist, Muhammad abd al-Salam Faraj, wrote in “The Neglected Duty” (Al Faridah al Ghaibah) about the necessity of attacking the ‘near enemy’ first in order to create a strong Islamic BASE from which to attack the ‘far enemy’. (Al Qaeda means ‘the base’.)

    Jihadists have theorized about the issue of first attacking the ‘near enemy’ (adou al-qareeb) versus the far enemy (adou al bayeed) in order to remove jahiliyya (non-Islamic thought) and create an Islamic state based on Islamic ideology from which they may attack the ‘far enemy’.

    Afghastlistan is now in the final stage of total ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims.

  5. Avenger says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    The US State Department thought that once they helped throw the Soviet backed government out of Afghanistan that they would become a model Muslim ally like that POS nation Saudi Arabia. So much for deep thinking in our State Department.
    Since we (the USA) created this fallen state of Afghanistan we should allow asylum to all people being exterminated by the Sunni Muslim winners. Then we should never allow the people of Islamic beliefs who perpetrates this killing to ever be allowed into the USA.

    • Kepha says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 5:10 pm

      I had a short and inglorious diplomatic career back in the 1990’s. I served in Thailand and China, and had a stint in Washington before leaving.

      I recall in training and from internal documents that Islamic “fundamentalism” was a Shi’ite disease to which Sunnites were supposedly immune; that Sufi’ism was sweet and gentle, and the Sufi’ism of “Monsoon Islam” sweetest and gentlest of all. Nobody did any thinking about the Saudis, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, or the run-for-the-money Moro Sufis gave our own troops in the Philippines back in 1902 (shows how little historical sense existed). While I was in China, the supposedly “moderate” Sunni Uyghur of Eastern Turkistan had a lwo-level guerrilla war for separatism going, while the Sinophone Hui of Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, Yunnan, and such places were agitating for greater religious liberty and rioting when the government-run press ran articles and books disrespectful of Islam and Muslims. I actually knew someone from Qinghai who observed that in that province, when the Hui rioted, they pointedly ignored their ethnic Tibetan hereditary enemies, Wetern experts whom everyone knew to be sub rosa Christian missionaries, and went straight to the Party headquarters and police stations to trash them (but then again, Buddhist and Daoist peasants in southern China sometimes murdered and ate public health officers who got too zalous about the one-child policy, too, in those days).

      In short, I came to see that when it came to Islam, State is sometimes very aptly called Foggy Bottom.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 24, 2020 at 9:34 pm

        True–Avenger’s pretending that the Shia–like his pals the Mullahs in Iran–are just fine and the only problem is Sunnis is absurd. The fact is that both Sunnis and Shia embrace Jihad, because it is a core part of Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 9:33 pm

      The idea that Afghanistan was a spiffy place until the mean old Americans got involved is simply grotesque–but I would expect little else from Avenger.

      • N D Gaur says

        Apr 25, 2020 at 4:12 am

        It certainly was, till the time it was ruled by Hindu, Buddhist and Indo Bactrian kings. The last Hindu king ruled Kabul around a thousand years ago. Then islam took over.Since then, it has been all downhill!

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 28, 2020 at 12:31 am

          N D Gaur, Afghanistan was not Hindu and Buddhist in the 1980s.

  6. OTTER says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 3:02 pm

    This report should be sent to CAIR for a point by point rebuttal as to why we, non-Muslims, should not take it as representative of their mainstream beliefs as can be demonstrated statistically based on the contents their war manual, the Koran.

  7. tgusa says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    “Now both Sikhs and Hindus have called out in desperation to the U.S. for help.”

    Sorry all. Not much we can do for you as at this moment we are too confused to help ourselves right here in the USA. We are becoming progressively ineffective.

    Our leaders believe in the magic dirt theory and it will all be different here. It wont.

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    Afghanistan: The nation’s last Sikhs and Hindus plead for U.S. help amid persecution and murder by jihadis
    ………………….

    We should give these people asylum, or they should be helped to get to India. Muslims are not going to stop until they have slaughtered every last Infidel there.

  9. Lilith Wept says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    While I do believe the US should give asylum to those non moslems living in Islamic lands who are being persecuted….It does help the moslems cleanse their lands of non moslems .
    And as Mortimer said they first concentrate on the near enemy then the further enemy.

    So if moslems don’t have any non moslems in their lands , they will be able to devote their energies completely to eliminating the further enemy….that’s us.

    We, need to wake up and reconize the truth of Islam. And by “we” I don’t mean we the people , but politicians, our elected representatives, the people who have the power to affect how the US deals with Islam and moslems,….both international policy as a country and as national policy inside America.

    I am sick to death of hearing someone that We the people ( many of whom DO understand the truth of Islam ) elected spout the Islamic propaganda that moslems want us to hear, part of the same old Stealth Jihad that is gradually transforming America!

    We desperately need politicians who have the courage to push back against islam and moslems constant demands for religious accommodation and special treatment.
    And we need politicians who refuse to give in to Islamic bullying when someone dares criticize Islam.
    And we need politiicians who will stand up for their constituents and say
    “ We are free to critisize and question islam in America and we will continue to do so .We will fight for that freedom and not allow Islam or any ideology to place limits or eliminate our freedom to question and question anything .
    We will question and critisize the Islamic doctrine that is the cause of so much violence and intolerance …..and we will not allow that Islamic doctrine to cause violence or intolerance here in America”

    We need to elect politicians who are anti Islam and understand that its the mainstream core Islamic doctrine that is the problem between the West and moslems.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 9:36 pm

      Lilith, I don’t believe that 650 threatened Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan are going to serve as some sort of shield for the West.

  10. Relic says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    Sikh community leader – “When the U.S. leaves, life for us will become impossible. It’s only a matter of time that all of us will be eliminated. We want refugee status and protection in a U.S. Army base here. We want this soon,”

  11. peter says

    Apr 25, 2020 at 10:09 am

    Why not India air lift these families as Israel did to Falashas(Ethiopian Jews) in 1980 or so .

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 28, 2020 at 12:32 am

      +1

  12. OLD GUY says

    Apr 25, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    The liberals will disregard the deaths of christians, while defending the rape, murder, and atrocities committed by muslims. Why are we not helping these people in their own countries instead of making them refugees, in another country. Most of the countries where these atrocities against christians take place receive US foreign aide, we should be able to control where that aide goes and who gets it or shut it off.

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