“The most recent attack was a six-hour siege by Islamic State militants on a Sikh temple and housing complex in Kabul that left 25 people dead, including young children.”
But in the international establishment media, India, not Afghanistan, will get criticized for this. Giving these persecuted people refuge is “Islamophobic.”
“India Offers Safety to Afghan Hindu and Sikh Minorities Facing Attacks,” by Matilda Coleman, Upnewsinfo, July 19, 2020:
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Indian government has said that it will expedite visas and the possibility of long term residency for Hindus and Sikhs who have been the target of bloody attacks in recent years amid Afghanistan’s raging war.
In a brief statement on Saturday on the rescue of an Afghan Sikh leader who was abducted in eastern Afghanistan last month, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said, “India has decided to facilitate the return of Afghan Hindu and Sikh community members facing security threats in Afghanistan to India.” It did not provide further details.
An Indian official in Kabul said the decision meant that any of the roughly 600 Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan would be given priority visas and the opportunity to apply for long-term residency once they arrived in India.
In interviews, many welcomed the emergency option, but said that they found themselves between a rock and a hard place. In Afghanistan, they have livelihoods — shops and businesses passed down through generations — but spend their days dreading the next attack. Making a new start in India would most likely mean living in poverty, they said, particularly during an economic slump that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Lala Sher Singh, a 63-year old amulet writer near a Kabul temple that was attacked in March, said the community had shrunk so much that one of the concerns that occupied his thoughts “day and night” was that the next assault might not leave enough people who can perform the final rituals for the dead.
“I may get killed here because of these threats to Hindus and Sikhs, but in India I will die from poverty,” Mr. Singh said. “I have spent my whole life in Afghanistan. In this neighborhood close to the temple, if I run out of money and stand in front of a shop and ask for two eggs and some bread, they will give it to me for free. But who will help me in India?”…
The Hindu and Sikh communities in Afghanistan once numbered in the tens, if not the hundreds, of thousands, with well-established businesses and high-ranking positions in the government. But most have been forced to flee to India, Europe, or North America over decades of war and persecution. In the eastern province of Nangarhar, only 45 families remain from thousands before. In Paktia, another eastern province, only a single herbal doctor, Jagmohan Singh, is left, living with his wife and two of their children. Their other two children have already decamped for Kabul.
“A few decades back there were around 3,000 families of Hindus and Sikhs in different areas and districts of Paktia,” Dr. Singh said. “Except my family, all of them fled.”…
Just over 600 Hindus and Sikhs now live across Afghanistan; two major attacks in the past two years have killed about 50 — essentially wiping out nearly a tenth of the population, and leaving practically every family scarred.
The most recent attack was a six-hour siege by Islamic State militants on a Sikh temple and housing complex in Kabul that left 25 people dead, including young children.
After the attack, as community leaders expressed alarm, Afghan officials, including the national security adviser, promised new safety measures. But Narendra Singh Khalsa, the community’s representative in the Afghan Parliament, said the temple had remained shut and unrepaired. Except for a few additional police officers in the area, they had not received any support that would ease their concerns.
Warjet Singh, 22, who runs a shop outside the temple, where his mother, father and brother were killed, said, “They have made some checkpoints where a number of police officers are present. But the officials know that they cannot prevent any attack with a police officer standing in front of the temple.”
“There is no change in our situation,” he added. “I am still risking my life when I come out every morning for work; I am still worried about another attack on our compound.”…
“When India provides a long-term visa, I will go and live there until the security situation is better in my own country so I can return,” Mr. Singh said. “No one will take my country from me, but it’s important for me to survive so I can come back when things are good.”…
J Morgan says
Terrible. Having to flee from murderous Muslims. Thanks to India, but it is a bad decision to have to make for these people.
VarAway says
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauretania, Chad etc.
Do you see a pattern?
All failed states….
ALL are muslim ” states “!
Go figure….
Red Pill says
+1
We will need add more countries to that list in the future, sadly.
The Hindu Kaffir says
There were huge protests in India fuelled by the Red-Green axis in Feb-March which encompassed huge loss of property, disruption of life and ended with anti-Hindu riots claiming scores of life…..and the worst part, these people were protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act which guaranteed citizenship to such persecuted minorities in the neighbouring barbaric Islamic nations. Their dissent: give citizenship to Muslims too coming as refugees from Islamic countries!
India was split into 3 parts, and two were given to the Muslims just because they can’t live with Hindu kaffirs. And now they bicker among themselves in Pakistan and Bangladesh and want to flee to India, just to break it up into more parts for themselves.
Talk about Ghazwa-e-Hind….
Resurgence says
Well explained.
Islamists in India are no less radicalised than those in afganistan, pakistan, and Bangladesh. Hindus and other minorities are killed in India everyday at the hands of 200 million (mostly maverick) muslims residing in India.
Our majestic country Bharat(india) has bled for centuries due of islamic invasion, it was torn into three countries because of Islam.
And even after all of this, we are forced to live with the muslims who explicitly show their hatred for our country and Hindus. Yet, it’s we who are intolerant.
gravenimage says
India offers safety to Hindus and Sikhs who are victims of jihad attacks in Afghanistan
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Good for India! All Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians surviving in Afghanistan should take India up on her offer.
Sadly, there is no future for any non-Muslim in Afghanistan now.
Proud kafir says
India should play a proactive role in international affairs and especially in issues where kafirs are at the receiving end. It is high time the kafir world gangs up against Islam.
Giacomo Latta says
MSM: ”Thousands of a persecuted minority are being forced out of their country, namely Aghanistan, and are on thei …? What? These aren’t muslim Rohingyas? Forget it then!”
”In interviews, many welcomed the emergency option, but said that they found themselves between a rock and a hard place.”
Exactly! Afghanistan and Pakistan. Better not be afraid of flying or the sea.
janwog says
Two to three million of Pakistani Christians are ready to move out of the country, fleeing discrimination and persecution. But nobody wants them.
Seenu Subbu says
To this day cities across USA are passing resolutions against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that was passed to help these hapless Sikhs, Christians and Hindus stuck in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where to this day 10-13 year old Sikh and Hindu girls are kidnapped to be “married” to older Pakistani men and forcibly converted. Yet the left cabal, sponsored by George Soros, has protested violently across India and the UK, and now all these US Cities, who have no business in this internal matter of India, and who doesn’t dare pass similar resolutions against Afghanistan or Pakistan, have been trying to stir feces in this situation. Shame.
SLM says
THE CULTURE OF DEATH, SLAUGHTER, SLAVERY, IGNORANCE, FEMALE OPPRESSION, HATRED WITHIN, DEMONIZING DEVELOPMENT, MASTERS OF DECEPTION & BETRAYAL & HYPOCRISY . Did I miss anything.
Khushi says
India is a decent and good country. It has given refuge to thousands of persecuted people. Zorastrians from Iran, Buddhists from Tibet, Sikhs from Afghanistan and Hindus from pakistan and bangladesh.