It was laughable to see the excitement caused in the Indian American community over Joe Biden’s choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. As an Indian American immigrant, we feel proud that children of first-generation immigrants can have the same opportunities as others, to aspire for the highest position in this great country we call our home. But character is more important than ancestry. “A watershed moment in the history of United States” is a comment I saw on social media from an Indian American. I burst into laughter as if it were a joke. But it was not a joke, for some innocent Indians really think like that. Just because she happens to be half-Indian (her mother is of Indian origin), some get a sense of belonging. But will Kamala Harris even be sympathetic and considerate towards her mother’s country, and worse, to her own country? The answer to these questions are, evidently, no, as you will see below.
Kamala Harris spoke about her Indian-born mother as “a woman born with a sense of justice imprinted on her soul” and claimed that “concepts of human rights and activism seem to be genetically passed in our household where your maternal grandparents were freedom fighters.” Kamala Harris has every reason to be proud of her lineage, but as an Indian American who originally came from Kashmir, I was shocked to hear her statements on Kashmir.
When she was directly asked during her presidential campaign in September about her message for Kashmiris who are suffering from human rights abuses, and the role the US could play in alleviating the situation, she said: “It is about reminding people that they are not alone, that we are watching. Because, so often when we see human rights abuses, whether it be in this country or around the world, the abuser will convince those that they abuse that nobody cares and nobody is paying attention, which is a tool of an abuser.”
Who is the abused and who is the abuser? The abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution and the reorganization of Jammu and Kashmir in India, which Kamala Harris calls an “abuse” or violation of human rights, is in truth the restoration, not the suppression, of human rights. The Constitution of India, with the fundamental human rights enshrined in it, would not be applicable to Jammu and Kashmir if that temporary provision of Article 370 were in force. These provisions were used by those in Muslim-majority areas of Kashmir to render my family and over half a million members of my community homeless for the last 31 years. It treated the rest of Indians as second-class citizens in Kashmir.
What is indeed disappointing is that Harris said, “If the United States in any meaningful way will have any influence on what is happening in Kashmir, we need to have a representative on the ground in Pakistan.” Pakistan is the country that sponsored the cross-border terrorism against Kashmiri Hindus and India. It is also the country that supported and abetted 9/11 and brought about the loss of many American lives, American soldiers.
Would Kamala Harris say that as Muslims’ demography changes in US states such as Minnesota, that they have right to drive away all non-Muslims from the state, and while Muslims in Minnesota have the right to buy land anywhere in America, Americans outside Minnesota have no right to buy land or even settle in Minnesota? Worse, what would Harris say if the law stipulated that if a Muslim woman in Minnesota marries an American outside Minnesota, she will stand to lose her rights in the state!
I will explain what happened, what I personally experienced, which Kamala Harris chooses to completely ignore. More than 30 years ago, in 1989, half a million Kashmiri Hindus were ethnically cleansed and driven away from Kashmir by Kashmiri Muslims supported by Pakistan, solely because they were not Muslim. I heard the blares of the mosques across Kashmir, asking Hindu men to leave the state and leave our women behind. I vividly remember coming home from work when I heard that a Kashmiri Hindu leader Tikalal TapLoo was murdered outside his home in broad daylight, just blocks away from my own home. Another victim, Sarla Bhat, was kidnapped and later gang-raped and killed. A schoolteacher, Girja Tickoo, was abducted and raped, and her body was cut apart on a bandsaw machine while she was still alive. Information director Poshkar Nath Handoo was sprayed with bullets outside his home while leaving for work. Sarwanand Kaul Premi and his 27-year-old son were taken away from their home; Sarwanand Kaul Premi was later found with his forehead pierced by an iron rod and his skin peeled off. These are just a few examples. Many such brutal killings terrorized the entire population of my community and forced us to abandon our homes.
For the last 31 years, not even one of us could go back to our ancestral home in Kashmir, our home for thousands of generations. Our temples were systematically destroyed, our homes occupied. Even the street names were changed, to wipe away any traces of our existence. We had been refugees in our own country. Some lived on the charity of relatives. Many are still living in squalid camps or overcrowded rooms (sometimes 8 to 10 people in one room). Thousands died just from snake bites in the camps. Many died due to the stress of living in cramped places after being uprooted from their homes. We have many such stories to tell, if someone cares to listen. But Kamala Harris does not believe that our human rights are being violated. Perhaps she would not even acknowledge us as human beings.
And what does Kamala Harris have to say about the small attempt by the Indian government to correct these injustices? She said, “And part of our value is that we speak out about human rights abuses and where appropriate, we intervene. So that is how I would lead as a commander in chief, with that as a value, that would be an important value with which I would lead and immediately restock the State Department.” Driven by blind ambition for power, sold to certain interests, she has lost her moral compass (or, perhaps, she never had one) to the point of threatening the Indian government for daring to attempt to redress these injustices.
I am an Indian American who made this country home for the past 20+ years, and I believe that Kamala Harris is an opportunist and a hypocrite, just another pawn running on the agenda of Marxist socialism and Islamism. She represents a political party that has been radicalized and taken over by anarchists with an anti-American agenda. As a senior journalist rightly said, the radical elements in the Democratic Party want Stalin’s ghost brought back from the dead. It couldn’t be worse.
Deepak Ganju is a displaced Kashmiri Hindu, founding Director of the Kashmir Hindu Foundation, and managing Editor of the monthly online Shehjar magazine, a leading publication reaching over ten thousand readers. An engineer by training and an entrepreneur by profession, Ganju and his family were forced to leave their home and hearth in Kashmir in the wake of an Islamic terrorist onslaught from across the border. Deepak has undergone the traumatic experience of being a refugee from Kashmir, and is now settled in the US.
revereridesagain says
Kamala Harris is a creature who, when she looks at fellow human beings, see only skin color, tribal affiliation, and potential for increasing her personal power. According to her view of humanity I should be dressing up as an Irish washerwoman while clubbing seals in Newfoundland because that’s my “heritage”, and if the fools who make up the voting base of the DeMarxocrat Party elect her to high office she will proceed to do her utmost to push us in the direction of the savagery described by Deepak Ganju.
While Candidate Reparations may not be successful in being able to see her opponents butchered alive, the preliminary waves of the damage she will inflict can now be seen on the streets of American cities from Washington DC to Seattle. And I hurt for Americans such as Ganju, who see the nightmare they escaped closing in on them once more as they try to make us understand that There Is Nowhere Else To Run.
gravenimage says
+1
curious george says
revereridesagain
+1
Kamala And The Mob – Burning The Country To The Ground
https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/08/17/kamala-and-the-mob-burning-the-country-to-the-ground/
Sam says
Kamala haris is number one fool or hypocrite in the US.
gravenimage says
This seems to be a different Sam from the Muslim apologist who has been posting here recently.
Brian Ozzy says
Very well stated!
abad says
Skin Color Matters to Democrat Leaders (TM Pending)
Jaladhi says
Very courageous, Deepak! I hope and pray one of these days you and your family will be able to go back to your ancestral home in Kashmir! The invaders occupied Kashmir and now they claim the land belongs to them! What a joke! But this is what they have done everywhere they have invaded. If we apply their logic to them they should all be in Saudi Arabia and nowhere else!
Kepha says
Or, failing to make it back to Kashmir, stay here.
mortimer says
Bangladesh is now almost as fanatically Islamic and bigoted as Pakistan.
mortimer says
Fanatical Muslim nationalists still believe they will one day take over India again. If their birth-rate doesn’t slow down, they will turn India into an Islamic republic one day.
tgusa says
“Bangladesh is now almost as fanatically Islamic and bigoted as Pakistan.”
The truth, as it was, which wasn’t much in 1971 regarding islam and the Bangladesh “Liberation” War. You have to dig to find the players and their roots who were involved in the conflict. The reporting back then was at best useless and uninformative.There was no reporting on the origins of the war, the platers, their beliefs. You might as well have said, these guys hate those guys without any reference or question as to why.
Bangladesh Liberation War 1971
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War
mortimer says
Kashmir entered the Union of India freely under the terms of the constitution. There was no conquest of Kashmir by India.
Pakistan never had a valid claim to Kashmir.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer. And if India *were* to surrender Kashmir and Jammu, the demands would not stop there.
tgusa- says
Exactly and no doubt Pakistani muslims were were deeply involved and yet after all these years, unreported
peter says
Thanks for a very timely and enlightening article about Kamala Harris . From what I gather not many Indians in India are enthused about her choice. Even here all right thinking Indians whether they are Democrats,or Republican will think twice voting for Harris who is ready to say anything or do anything to win the elections .By the way it is common knowledge that Harris ancestors were slave owners .Beware of Wolf in Sheep’s clothings!
ElderlyZionist says
“If the United States in any meaningful way will have any influence on what is happening in Kashmir, we need to have a representative on the ground in Pakistan.”
No American is safe in Pakistan. Even diplomats enjoy little protection in Dar ul-Islam.
Roland says
We are indebted to Deepak Ganju for his seering testimony and analysis. Unfortunately, most American children of immigrants, such as Kamala Harris, are ignorant about their parents’ homeland. And, unfortunately, most leftists, both here and in India, believes every story told by Muslims, whether out of ignorance or of political calculation.
GreekEmpress says
+1
Thank you Mr. Ganju.
Daniel Triplett says
Sad, frightening, and infuriating story. Thank you for sharing and pulling back the curtain to show the truth about the Kashmir atrocities.
More evidence that Muslims refuse to coexist. We’ll add this to the last 1400 years worth of evidence. Everywhere they grow in sufficient numbers to force their will, this happens.
As Robert Spencer says; only India, Israel, and Spain have successfully rolled back tide of Islam and sharia, and it came through violence. Diplomacy, words, and reason always fail. Same can be said for Tours, Lepanto, Vienna, and every other example: Kafirs were victorious only through violence, never by dialogue, diplomacy, or cooperation.
Europeans, Americans, and the rest of Dar al-Harb must know and believe this truth as we contemplate our own futures. It’s rather arrogant to believe we’re somehow morally and intellectually superior to 1400 years of “un-woke” forebears, so we can coexist and resolve this zero-sum conflict peacefully through solutions they were just too stupid and ignorant to think of and try.
All the “non-violent” ideas and solutions we’re thinking up now were of course first tried by everyone else over the last 1400 years. They didn’t work then and they won’t work now. The “Stages of Jihad” are as perpetual and predictable as a Swiss watch.
James Lincoln says
Daniel Triplett says,
“The “Stages of Jihad” are as perpetual and predictable as a Swiss watch.”
Perfectly and succinctly stated, my compliments.
But somehow, many Western countries believe that “it will be different this time if we’re just more inclusive “…
Daniel Triplett says
Right, and ironically, the woke “inclusiveness” campaign backfires counter-productively. We appear weak in the eyes of the conqueror, which validates to them their own superiority and righteousness.
gravenimage says
A few others have been able to fight free, Daniel–Portugal, southern France, southern Italy, Sicily, Greece, the Balkans–but most places conquered by Islam have never become free again.
Daniel Triplett says
Agreed. I did mention Tours and Lepanto (and there are many others), but the key word, as you said, is “fight.”
gravenimage says
So true, Daniel.
curious george says
Daniel Triplett
+1
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Appeasement does not work, never did, never will.
Appeasement: The European Sickness
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16393/appeasement-europe
Islam can and should have been included in this article.
Daniel Triplett says
Right. Especially with Muslims, appeasement backfires and begets many orders of magnitude more aggression and righteousness.
Good link.
We need to realign our loyalties in the Middle East region. The Sino-Russo relationship with Iran and Shia is disturbing. Objectively speaking though, the West’s relationship with all Sunni Gulf states and Egypt must be equally disturbing to China and Russia. So, maybe we’re all just doing so as a counter-balance to each other, so we should acknowledge this madness and stop doing it.
We’d all be better off if we could set our differences aside for the bigger goal of winning the Islamic War, and recalibrate the picture to put US, China, and Russia on the side of all Kafirs, against all Ummah states on the other. Guess who would win? The Ummah makes nothing, and without oil money they’d all be living in mud huts. They depend on the West, Russia, and China not only for weapons, but also for everything else that is modern — cars, airplanes, computers, cellphones, Internet…you name it. What have the Muslims ever invented? It’s always amusing to watch them condemn Kafirs and fight us while using all the tools and technologies that we developed, which they could never do on their own.
Mike says
you know I keep reading that BLM says that the community needs opportunities.
what they want shit handing to them?
no self graduated if someone hands it to you
How stopping them from going to school
if the earlier education is the issues
that not DJT’s issue look no further the Obama and the democrats keep the blacks down
mortimer says
Genocide Perpetrated by Pak Army in Bangladesh/Bengal/East Pakistan: 3 million killed in 1971
Genocide
Quotes:
“…… we were told to kill the Hindus and Kafirs (non-believer in God). One day in June, we cordoned a village and were ordered to kill the Kafirs in that area. We found all the village women reciting from the Holy Quran, and the men holding special congregational prayers seeking God’s mercy. But they were unlucky. Our commanding officer ordered us not to waste any time.”
-Confession of a Pakistani Soldier
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During the Bangladesh Liberation War, it is estimated that between 400,000 and 600,000 women and girls were sexually assaulted by the Pakistan armed forces and the Al-Badr (“the moon”) and the Al-Shams (“the sun”) militias that supported them.
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1971 FATWA TO RAPE BENGALI WOMEN = 400,000 RAPED BY PAK ARMY
“During the war, a fatwa in Pakistan declared that the Bengali ‘freedom fighters’ were Hindus and that their women could be taken as the ‘booty of war’.[ Herbert L. Bodman, Nayereh Esfahlani Tohidi 1998, p. 208.] Imams and Muslim religious leaders publicly declared that the Bengali women were ‘gonimoter maal’ (war booty) and thus they openly supported the rape of Bengali women by the Pakistani Army. (“BANGLADESH GENOCIDE 1971 – RAPE VICTIMS Interview”. YouTube. 15 December 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2013.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iGn_ziM9EA – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDYVejJ7OGg
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REPORT OF AMERICAN CONSUL
On May 14th, (American) Consul Archer Blood sent a telegram to Washington entitled “The Hindu Slaughter.” He wrote that “the army’s standard pattern in its operations is to have soldiers enter villages, question the citizens as to where the Hindus live, and execute the males.”
On May 19th he informed Washington that “a young Western Pakistani officer (a fighter pilot by profession) admitted that the army is conducting a systematic killing of the Hindus.” The officer justified the actions, saying, “the Hindus are enemies and we must cleanse East Pakistan,” and that, “the killing is conducted under the auspices of jihad, a holy war.” Blood added that “in some instances Pakistani soldiers boasted that they came to East Pakistan to kill Hindus.”
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Rape in East Pakistan – Confession:
West Pakistanis thought they were a ‘pure’ breed (or pure Muslims) that’s why the people from West Pakistan did a lot of discrimination in East Pakistan.
They (Bengalis) weren’t given high positions anywhere; they were treated like second grade citizens in their own land.
When protests started which were actually happening from late 60s. Pakistan army made harems for mass rapes so that the girls give birth to ‘pure’ offspring.
Whether a 7-year-old girl or an 80-year-old, no one was spared. Some young girls were kept tied to trees and they raped them many times a day.
The women, who were married, were disowned by their families and they did mass suicide. I could add the pictures but that would be chilling.
When the Red Cross reached to aid after India won 1971 war, they did abortions on many girls and they were given respect in society as brave ladies.
What Bangladesh has seen is nerve wrenching. Rape of 250,000 women.
gravenimage says
Kamala Harris — It Couldn’t Be Worse
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This from Kamala Harris on Kashmir specifically and India in general is deeply troubling–but, sadly, not all that surprising.
And welcome to Deepak Ganju–I believe this is his first story here at Jihad Watch.
tgusa says
“But will Kamala Harris even be sympathetic and considerate towards her mother’s country, and worse, to her own country?”
If Harris the recent immigrant thinks that Americans will roll over and accept her Kashmiri form of repression or abuse she has no idea who and what we are. Throughout our history we have come face to face with many a formidable foe and all of them thought us weak and easily beaten only to find out later that was not the case at all. The truth is Americans that love the USA do not need her her sympathy or her lackluster intellect in our fight for our country culture and values.
The truth is that if America and American history had been filled with Harris types there would have never been an America to begin with.
L Mayor says
Harris has an endless capacity for mendacity.
Khushi says
Thank you, Deepak Ganju, for this article.
What happened in Kashmir in 1989/1990 was a holocaust against the indigenous Hindus living there for centuries. And all the more chilling because it was done in the open, through the connivance of the mosques and muslim religious leaders. It was done by normal muslim citizens living in Kashmir for centuries as neighbours of the Hindu population. It was perpetrated by the civilians and not by an enemy army.
kamala harris without knowing anything about this history of Kashmir, wants to shoot her mouth off. I hope USA doesn’t elect her to any position of power.