“In July of this year, violent jihad – holy war in the service of Islam – reached two groups of Hindus in South Asia,” writes the Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut. More on these attacks can be found here: “The Massive Transformation of India and the Middle East,” by Uzay Bulut, Gatestone Institute,
In the first attack, on July 16, a 150-year-old Hindu temple in Karachi was “razed to the ground.” According to the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn:
“[T]he operation took place while the area was without electricity late on Friday night. That’s when the diggers and a bulldozer arrived to do their work.
“The residents have also reported that they saw a police mobile there to provide ‘cover’ to the men operating the machines.”
The second attack, on July 31, Islamists unleashed “a pre-planned attack… against thousands of Hindus” in India. The attack, on a Hindu pilgrimage made to “revive holy Hindu sites and Hindu religious tourism,” left six dead and around 60 injured.
A report in the Indian media outlet, OpIndia, noted “unbridled violence against [the] Hindu devotees.”
“So far, over 100 FIRs [first information reports] have been filed, 202 people have been arrested and the death count stands at 6. The Islamists, in a pre-planned attack, hurled stones at the devotees, fired shots, and burnt cars, creating hostage-like situations where several thousand devotees were trapped in a Temple, only to be rescued hours after the Islamists were raining down bullets on the temple and more.”
Such jihadist incidents in India are often either ignored by Western mainstream media or blamed on India or Hindu people without taking into account either the motives of the perpetrators, or the importance of India’s religious diversity and its secular democracy – both of which exist nowhere else in the region.
Islamists, according to the Indian media, injured, robbed and held hostage Hindu people:
“[R]ioters started pelting stones at them from buildings. Then they [Hindus] saw a mob of Islamists charging towards them while raising slogans of Allah-Hu-Akbar. The rioters attacked them with swords and with the aim to kill.”
Other Indian reports noted that 22-year-old Abhishek Chauhan, along with four others, were killed in the violence that erupted. “His cousin, Mahesh (25), who accompanied him, said he saw Abhishek get shot.”
“Just as we came out of the Shiv Mandir in Nalhar, we saw a mob, armed with swords, guns and stones, running towards the temple. They started beating people, firing and setting cars on fire. A bullet hit my brother and he fell. I cried for help, but there was no one around there… I was trying to get Abhishek somewhere safe, but a man with a sword slashed his neck and fled.”…
Hindus, a widely diverse populace, comprise a little less than 80% of India’s 1.3 billion people, whereas religious minorities encompass more than 20% of the population. In addition, India has the world’s second-largest Muslim population (approximately 176 million or 14.4%)….
India first faced Islamist violence, dating as far back as the 8th century to the time of the Muslim Mughal invasions and rule through the mid-19th century. Countless Hindus and other non-Muslims were murdered or forcibly converted to Islam. Hindu women were raped and turned into sex-slaves. Many Muslims in India today are descendants of those Islamized Hindus….
Prior to the Islamic invasions, most of the entire Middle East and North Africa – countries such as Syria, Algeria, Egypt and Iraq [as they are known today] — used to be majority-Christian. Today, indigenous Christians and other minorities — such as Assyrians, Yazidis and Alawites — in almost every majority-Muslim country where they remain, are severely persecuted.
Zoroastrianism, founded in ancient Persia during the sixth century BCE, under the Sassanian Empire, was, until the Arab Muslim invasion in the seventh century, the state’s official religion. The rise of Islam in Persia led to severe persecution and the Zoroastrians’ demographic collapse. Today, in Iran, they are a tiny, oppressed minority. More than a thousand years of Islamist persecution have resulted in the gradual disappearance of Zoroastrianism from its homeland.
There are only 25,000 Zoroastrians left in Iran, which has a population of 80 million.
Uzay Bulut compares the tolerance of Indian Hindus toward others, from Jews and Bahai’s to Tibetan Buddhists and Persian Zoroastrians, with Muslim intolerance for all infidels, whom they regard as the “most vile of created beings.” She wonders what the nearly 200 million Muslims in India today, so keen to crow about the fact that “Islam is India’s fastest-growing religion,” thanks mainly to the polyphiloprogenitive impulse of Muslims, but no longer being appeased as they were when the Congress Party held political power, will do to undermine the BJP and hard-headed Narendra Modi, a leader well aware of what Islam has meant for Indian civilization and for its long-suffering Hindus.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hugh, on the contrary, muslims are even more appeased by the BJP than they ever were by the Congress. One of the things the RSS touts is that unlike the Congress, which used to promise big things to muslims but never delivered, BJP is actually delivering on that. On top of that, BJP has campaigned to replace its public perception from a Hindu party to a nationalist party. A lot of Hindus have gotten that message and are dropping their support for the party, but secular Indians are still locked in the perceptions of 1992. Just like there are Americans who think that Russia is still the USSR
There is a new Hindu party that was founded earlier this year called Ekam Sanatan Bharat (loosely translates as “One Hindu India”). Essentially, it’s a Hindu party dedicated to the interests of “Sanatanis” (Hindus, Jains, Buddhists & Sikhs). They were launched w/ 7 ideals, which is the theme of their vision for India:
➤ Ekam Sanatan Bharat Dal shall amend the Constitution to provide that the State of India shall be Constitutionally Bound to ensure & maintain the Sanatan Majority Character of the Country.
Hindu Genocide & Demographic Invasion (Land Jihad & by all other means) shall be declared Crimes against the State which shall through a proper legislation be made offences punishable by Death.
➤ Amend Constitution to define Minority as a community constituting less than 5% of Country’s total population. Declare Bharat as a “Natural Homeland” for all Sanatanis , enabling full Citizenship rights for them.
➤ Ending State/Govt Control of Hindu Temples/ Mathas . Immediate Reconstruction and Re-Establishment of Ancient Sun Temple, Martand Temple in Kashmir; Shree Krishna Janambhoomi at Mathura and Gyanvapi Teertha Kshetra at Kashi (Varanasi)
➤ Keeping the Sanatani identity of all the Himalayan states intact. Separation of Hindu Majority Jammu Province from Kashmir by dividing J&K into 2 Union Territories & reorganizing Jammu Province as a full-fledged Independent State
➤ Complete Ban on Cow Slaughter & declaring Holy Cow, Maa Ganga and Shri Ram Setu as symbols of National Heritage.
➤ Immediate Repeal/terminate Waqf Act, Places of Worship Act and Sachar Committee Recommendations; Amend Article 30 of the Constitution of India enabling Hindus to establish and autonomously administer their Educational Institutions. Review and repealing articles, laws and clauses that harm Sanatan culture and civilization. Complete ban on love jihad and conversion. Immediate implementation of Uniform Civil Code
➤ Holistic Sustainable Development based upon 6 Pillars of Aadhyatam ( अध्यात्म ) , Sanskriti ( संस्कृति ) , True History ( सही इतिहास ) , Social Values ( सामाजिक मूल्य ) Local Language ( स्थानीय भाषा ) and Environmental Consciousness ( पर्यावरण ) . Keeping the traditional structure of the Indian Army intact and giving due respect to the soldiers, ex-servicemen and their families while empowering and modernizing the army & police
The first two, the way I look at it, is that this party would transform India into a Israel-like country for Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists. (I’m assuming that that doesn’t mean that the entire populations of Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia and Thailand would be welcomed, just that Buddhists too would have a stake since that faith too was founded in India and has several pilgrim centers there)
I particularly laud them for declaring love jihad and conversions as genocidal activities, and their commitment to ban them. I don’t expect them to come to power next year, but I do hope they get enough seats to have a kingmaking ability. That way, they can force whichever party wants to come to power to implement the 7 policy ideals they listed
Wellington says
Thank you for those details, Infidel. I wish India well but India (nor so many other countries) cannot be well if Islam is not accurately assessed for what it is and what it wants to do—and then prevented from carrying out its supremacist dictates.
smb says
whoever trying to tell people not to vote for modi or bjp appear to be a Trojan horse. if modi, yogi, bjp are not voted, it is end for Hindus. because then congress, leftist and other islamists pleasing parties will fome to power, who will be emboldened to ban bajrang dal, rss etc. Hindus will be slaughtered. only because of modi, yogi, bjp that the Muslims are still under some control. already Hindus are divided by caste into different political parties like yadavs and dalits. and Hindus will vote for freebies not concerned about their civilisational existence or even India’s economic destabilisation due to freebies eg congress in karnataka. congress and opposition will even impose syariah law to appease and get Muslim votes. ESB have no standing and will get negligible votes. so don’t try to destroy the hands that save you ie bjp, yogi, modi
Devasur says
But according to media muslims are forever victims in India because India is a Hindu majority.