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Gujarat Riots: Muslims brutalized Hindus for 80 years, then played victim

Apr 27, 2020 11:00 am By Radhika Singh

The mainstream media abets Islamists globally, hiding stories about Islamic brutalities while highlighting, underscoring, and exaggerating instances that have a Muslim victim, even if he or she is a thief or a suicide bomber. The 2002 Gujarat riots of India is one such instance. It enjoys global recognition because Muslims were supposedly victimized; the real story, however, remains untold.

Situated at the center of Panchmahal district, Godhra bears a communally charged chronology. Its first recorded incident of communal violence was the murder of P M Shah in pre-Independence India of the late 1920s. P M Shah was a leading Hindu representative of his time. Communal attacks by Muslims were not targeted at Hindus alone. When the country was going through a blood-spattered partition, pro-Pakistan leaders Sadva Hazi and Chudighar plotted an attack on the Parsi Solapuri Fozdar. This duo also conspired to carry out an ambush attack on the District Collector, Mr. Pimputkar, in 1948, a year after the Brits left and Pakistan was formed. The same year, a Hindu man was stabbed to death near a local mosque. 2000 Hindu houses were set ablaze, and temples were razed to the ground. The only way to save the remaining Hindus was to impose a six-month-long curfew.

Hindu shops became targets of Islamists again in 1965, when explosives thrown from Muslim houses turned the shops into ashes. The dispute happened just minutes away from the local Police Station, and the Incharge was hit by anti-social elements as well.

In October 1980, another onslaught started with the vandalism of a local bus stand in Godhra. The Sikhs weren’t spared, either, and the Gurudwara in Shikri Chal went up in engulfing flames. The fire lit by the radical mob devoured 40 shops belonging to the Hindus in the station area. Five Hindus, including two children, were burnt alive. To bring the situation under control, a curfew had to be imposed again, which led to massive industrial losses.

Ten years later, children in Godhra witnessed four Hindu teachers, including two women, being hacked to pieces in Saifia Madarsa. A Hindu tailor was also stabbed to death. The entire bloody episode is often attributed to a local MLA belonging to the Congress party, known for its unabashed appeasement of the Muslims.

In 1992, over 100 Hindu houses near the Godhra Railway Station were set ablaze, with the motive of snatching this land from the Hindus. This land lay vacant, to act as the setting of the Godhra carnage ten years later.

On February 27, 2002, the delayed Sabarmati Express carrying Hindu pilgrims returning from the holy city of Ayodhya was stopped by a massive mob of Muslims less than one kilometer from the Godhra station. The strength of this mob ranged between 500 to 2000. Baying for Hindu blood, the Muslims had chalked out a plan of setting this train ablaze.

The jihadis were armed with swords, bombs and other explosives. After barging into the train’s coach (number S-6) by cutting the connecting vestibule, they doused the compartment  with petrol and set it alight.

A Muslim stand up comedian in India recently attracted a lot of flak by making a joke about the arson. “Aren’t Hindus cremated after death?” was Munawar Faruqui’s punchline, for he found setting Hindus on fire while they were still alive to be funny, much like the armed jihadis of his faith lining up to guard the boggie so as to ensure that no Hindu escaped the horrid death planned for him by the Islamist mob. They attacked the police and prevented vehicles of the fire brigade from reaching the train. The land emptied by Muslims after burning down Hindu houses some ten years before echoed with shrieks again, and the sky blackened as smoke carrying the stench of burning human flesh ascended. 59 people were charred to death, including 15 children.

Gayatri Panchal, a survivor of the Godhra carnage who lost two sisters and her parents in the incident, recollects her ordeal:

“People were carrying weapons like Gupti, Spears, Swords and such other deadly weapons in their hands and were throwing stones at the train. We all got frightened and somehow closed the windows and the doors of the compartment. People outside were shouting loudly, saying ‘Maro, Kato’ and were attacking the train. A loudspeaker from the Masjid closeby was also very loudly shouting ‘Maro, Kato, Laden na dushmano ne Maro.’ (‘Cut, kill, kill the enemies of Laden’) These attackers were so fierce that they managed to break the windows and close the doors from outside before pouring petrol inside and setting the compartment on fire so that nobody could escape alive.”

These were the victims who found no mention in the most-read newspapers of the Western world, or in the best-sellers penned by accomplished authors. These were the incessant attacks that the Hindus of Godhra had tolerated for eight decades before deciding to revolt.

Thirty-four Muslim men have been convicted for the hatching of the conspiracy to torch the Sabarmati Express. Key conspirators including Farooq Bhana and Haji Bilal, who met at a guest house near the station and procured 140 litres of petrol from a nearby petrol pump. This petrol was used to set the Sabarmati Express afire. On July 24, 2015, the prime accused, Hussain Suleman Mohammad, was arrested from Madhya Pradesh. On May 18, 2016, Farooq Bhana was caught in Mumbai, and on January 30, 2018, another conspirator, Yakub Pataliya, was taken into custody from Godhra.  It has been over eighteen years, and eight of the accused are still on the run.

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 27, 2020 at 11:09 am

    What people in the West do not see is the daily grind of Islamic petty crime and discrimination against Hindus, Sikhs and other religious communities within India. If the birth rate of Muslims in India does not drop by half, Muslims will be the majority in India by the end of the century.

    • Del says

      Apr 28, 2020 at 12:33 pm

      Where there is violence there is likely Islam. Where there is Islam, there IS violence.

      • DANIEL says

        Apr 28, 2020 at 1:09 pm

        Exactly right no matter what country they are in they cause violence the Quran is a terrorist and paedophiles hand book.

  2. Mural says

    Apr 27, 2020 at 11:11 am

    One of the saddest chapters of Modern India. The muslims still claim victim-hood here too, aided and abetted by left leaning media.

  3. TruthSeeker says

    Apr 27, 2020 at 11:36 am

    It was bad enough that the MSM did not talk about this carnage of Hindus by the Muslim mob. The Chief Minister of Gujarat State at that time was the current Prime Minister Modi and he was black listed by the George W Bush govt for – you guessed it- atrocities on Muslims. Even now Godhra riots is spoken of in the MSM as a perpetuation of violence by the Hindus on Muslims. No talk about the planned live burning of a bogey full of innocent unarmed Hindu pilgrims by an armed Muslim mob. Prime Minister Modi’s visa to the US was rejected by the Bush govt. Cannot any dictator or army chief being unable to visit the US. Even after Tianamen square killings, the Chinese got a red carpet welcome to the White House.

    • RKGarg says

      Apr 28, 2020 at 5:51 am

      on your last comment. that is representative of the financial / economic / trade muscle that china has built over the years and can flex to its advantage. it will take india some time to get there.

  4. Battle says

    Apr 27, 2020 at 5:36 pm

    The usual MSM fake news.

  5. gravenimage says

    Apr 27, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    Gujarat Riots: Muslims brutalized Hindus for 80 years, then played victim
    …………….

    Yes–Arab proverb, “Tammaskan Tatamakan” (show a victim’s face and take over).

    • Zaheer says

      Apr 28, 2020 at 11:07 am

      Hello graveninage … I can’t find any info about this phrase except that the first word mean a breed of dog (wolf+dog). Can you give a reference and further explanation of the ohrase Did you mean: “Tamaskan Tamaskan” arabian proverb or as you say “Tammaskan Tatamakan

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      • gravenimage says

        Apr 28, 2020 at 8:41 pm

        No, this has nothing to do with a Finnish breed of dog.

        The Rev Dr Mark Durie–who often wrote about the horrors of Islam–cited this telling Arab proverb.

  6. JAY says

    Apr 28, 2020 at 7:44 am

    Problem is “The One source people” will never talk why gujrat Riot happen in first place. When Group of muslim people burned 59 innocent people live in train including children and women and than they want other side to quite and saying nothing.

  7. Curious Observer says

    Apr 28, 2020 at 11:34 am

    One only needs to look around the world to see what the religion of Islam has bred into its adherents so as to realize that if it goes unchecked, this political system masquerading as a religion will destroy everything good and worthwhile that stands in its path. One possible reason that Globalists (and their mouthpieces the MSM) everywhere are promoting Islam is that Islam exalts Muhammed (read “the State”) over the individual, making it easy for the Globalists to control the population once “One World Government” is established. A second possible reason is that a vast number of Muslims are willing to kill and die if they perceive their religion to be in danger. This attitude makes it easy for Globalists to unleash violence against its dissidents by bamboozling Muslims into believing that these dissidents pose a grave danger to Islam. This approach pits Muslims against Non-Muslims ultimately weakening both and making the entire population easily controllable. A third possible reason is that it is easy to placate Muslims and keep them in dire poverty and ignorance by pretending that they (the Globalists) really care about Islam. A fourth reason is that Islam with its extremely intolerant and insanely abusive treatment of women may succeed in shoving the “genie” of women’s freedom back in its bottle. My comments are as much a message to Muslims as they are to Non-Muslims: Wake up and realize you are being completely manipulated and hoodwinked by the Globalists.

  8. Ashok says

    Apr 29, 2020 at 12:42 am

    The democratic countries(US, E.U, India, Japan etc) must align with each other and stop Islam and Commie China…..
    Otherwise we all are doomed!

  9. schwami says

    Apr 29, 2020 at 8:09 am

    Truth be told – Indian republic has no future because the guards have been corrupted.

    No country has been subjected to such, massive Social engineering as this one. In 5-10 years, it will become another Syria.

    Take this example – I wanted to learn hinduism systematically. Initially, I could not find a course. Then someone referred me to Hindu Scholar Program, aka Better Hindu Course. http://www.facebook.com/betterhinducourse

    It was an excellent course, but the problem was whenever I asked about Islamic history and Islam, they said diplomatically that it is only about Hinduism, and I can search internet for what I want.

    The course teacher was a dedicated, superb teacher, but wasn’t willing to comment on this. When I insisted much, he just told me some academic differences between Hinduism and Islam.

    When intelligent people start self censoring, consider the bad times aren’t far away.

  10. José Atento says

    Apr 29, 2020 at 11:59 am

    A portuguese version of this article is found here: https://infielatento.org/2020/04/motins-em-gujarat-muculmanos-brutalizaram-hindus-em-godhra.html

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