This is the reason for India’s much-maligned Citizenship Amendment Act: to provide refuge for Hindus and other non-Muslims who are experiencing persecution in the neighboring Islamic states. But because that persecution is supposed not to exist in the dominant Leftist mythology, the CAA is widely vilified.
“Sindh: Violence Against Hindu Women, Temples, Culture,” by Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter, January 7, 2021:
A group of South Asian human rights group, the South Asia Collective (SAC), in a report available through the Web site of the U.S. Department of Justice, focuses among other issues on the violence perpetrated against the Hindu community in the second largest province of Pakistan by population, Sindh.
The most serious problem is the rape, and abduction followed by forced conversion to Islam and marriage to Muslim men, of Hindu girls, “often underage.” Marriage in Sindh is illegal when it involves persons under the age of 18. However, abducted Hindu (and Christian) girls are either submitted to common law marriages under sharia law, or transported to the nearby province of Punjab, where the minimum age of marriage is lower.
To their credit, some local legislators tried to act against this practice, whose victims may be as many as 1,000 girls every year. However, opposition by Muslim religious parties killed a bill that would have made conversion of minors a crime in Sindh. A draft law that would have raised the minimum age for marriage to 18 nationwide, including in Punjab, also met with opposition.
Abductions and forced marriages continue. SAC reports that, “Hindu girls who have been forced into such marriages rarely get justice and the perpetrators of the crime go unpunished due to strong political influence of religious lobbyists and networks whose leaders are also members of the Parliament and include influential clerics.”
There have been also cases of Hindu girls who have been raped, some of whom have committed suicide. In the well-known case of medical student Namrita Chandani, who was found dead in September 2019, a judicial panel concluded that she had committed suicide after she had been raped—her family, however, believes she was murdered….
The situation in Sindh has resulted in a continuous influx of Sindhi refugees from Pakistan into India, where there was already a large community of Sindhi Hindus, more than 700,000 of whom had escaped to India after the Partition….
TruthSeeker says
The woke left (?) led by the commie media are crying about how unfair it is to the Muslims if persecuted Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs are given refuge in India. In fact the Church in India opposes the CAA even though it includes persecuted Christians. Go figure
Infidel says
So of the churches in India, this is what I think the denominations are – feel free to correct me:
– Anglican church, followed by Anglo-Indians and others who got it from the Brits
– Catholic church in Goa, courtesy the Portugese
– Syro-Malabar church in Kerala, which has the remnants of Nestorian Christianity from early times
– Southern Baptist, Presbyterian and other churches in India’s northeast states of Mizoram, Nagaland and Meghalaya
Of the above, the Anglican church – whose head is the Queen, and whose potentially future head is Imam Charles, is the largest in India. Their views ain’t much different from Prince Charles. The second largest is the Catholic church, and of course, there we have the celebrated Imam Francis!
So the churches in India whose worldwide leaderships are not known to have publicly groveled to islam are those Syro-Malabar churches, and the US churches in the north east. Note that in the north east, the CAA is opposed b’cos the locals don’t want Bengali anybody coming to their states and diluting their tribal profile the way they’ve done Tripura, so there, the opposition to CAA is not due to muslims being excluded. Which is fair, and it’s also whats being demanded in Assam. But I don’t know that the Southern Baptist church or the Presbyterians or the LDS or any other churches have been kissing up to islam the way Prince Charles and Pope Francis have: anybody know?
Anyway, that’s the answer to why churches in India do what they do: the biggest ones are the Anglican and the Catholics. The ones in the north east don’t seem to have a stand, and at any rate, the people of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram are opposed to other people coming in and changing their states, since they are small to begin w/. Kerala has always been pro-communist and pro-muslim, although w/ the marriage jihad now spreading to include Kerala Christian girls as well, finally even that community is cozying up to the BJP, which is the only party doing anything about this issue
latha says
Then there is the Protestant Church, New Age Church, Jacobites & Pentacosts who make a hell of a lot of noise pollution in their weekly congregation which is in my immediate backyard. They are all hand in glove with muslims. That’s was they are taught. These stupids do not know that they are also kuffars & that they should join with Hindus in the fight against the Jihadists. How idiotic & politically correct can people get ! They don’t understand that Hindu’s victory is their victory & Islam’s victory will torture, castrate, abduct, rape & impose Jizya upon them. They are blindly listening to the politically correct Vatican in this matter & votes against MOdi en mass.
Infidel says
When you say ‘Protestant’, you’re talking Anglican, right? There are several Protestant churches – Anglican (Church of England), Lutheran (followed in Germany and Nordic countries), Baptist, Presbyterian and so on. The Jacobites are Catholic, not sure what the Pentacosts or the New Age churches are
But in Kerala, the marriage jihad has finally caught up w/ Christians, and for the first time, they’re working w/ the BJP to stop muslim encroachments on their girls
Onesaffronladoftherisingsun says
Yet this sack of shit prime minister of Jihadi porkystan loves to give lecture on secularism . While these inbed orangutans continue to abuse and chase away anyone who would talk about secularism in their own shariah shithole. They constantly mobilise jihadi rats against secularism as it is an insult to their inferior pedo tribal god allah. They absolutely hate Jews and Hindus to the core and have wiped out whatever traces of Hindu past that they had. Hindus and every non moslem is very badly treated in pakistan.Every vermin pakis believe that even if their ancestors were converted by torture or were raped, it was good because they were brought to the path of islam . They have a pathetic mindset and any reasoning is always in veins.
ANIL GOEL says
Pakistani Hindus and their Temples are not safe in any Govt over there. They are ‘Maal O Asaab’ (Property) of Muslims…
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim violence against Hindu women, temples, and culture on the rise
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Grimly true. There is no future for the smattering of surviving Hindus–or for Sikhs and Christians–in Pakistan now. They should take India up on her offer of citizenship.