|
Plight Of Kashmiri Pandits: Is Anyone Listening?
Aug 30,2007 00:00
by
vastir
Today, Kashmir is on the brink of being separated from India. It is the beginning of a comprehensive plan to bring about the total disintegration of India - a fact not realized by most of the Indians. Hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits who were forced to leave their sacred land because of the war waged by Islamic terrorists must now live in despicable conditions in their own country and are on the verge of extinction as a race.
The present plight of the community, once given to academic, philosophical and spiritual pursuits, is now rootless and without identity. Over one thousand members of the community have been killed by the terrorists and the thousands are dying in the miserable camps for want of basic amenities, shelter, medicare and family support; and thousands of its youth are getting scattered in search of livelihood. It is feared that at the present rate of dispersal the community is disintegrating beyond redemption and facing total extinction. Islamic fundamentalists have declared Jihad, holy war, upon India to validate Pakistan's indefensible aggression against her neighbor in the playground of Gods now turned into a graveyard of innocents. In Kashmir, Islamic terrorists have been unleashing forces of death and destruction against Kashmiri Hindus (also called Pandits), a minority community, to force a change in the demographic composition in their favor by squeezing them out of their homeland of the last five thousand years. The terrorism in Kashmir has resulted in: Mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits - about 95% of their population Murder of over one thousand Kashmiri Pandits Forced conversions to Islam Burning and looting of thousands of houses belonging to Kashmiri Pandits The Muslim and Hindu peoples of Kashmir have lived in relative harmony and friendliness since the 13th century when Islam first became the majority religion in Kashmir. The Sufi-Islamic way of life that ordinary Muslims followed in Kashmir complemented the rishi tradition of Kashmiri Pandits (Hindus), leading to a syncretic culture where Hindus and Muslims revered the same local saints and prayed at the same shrines. Periodically however, there have been rulers and leaders who have had a narrow view of Islam, and have subjected Hindu minorities to great cruelties and discrimination. The current armed secessionist movement in Kashmir mostly derives its inspiration from these people. The fact is that Kashmiri Pandits were driven from their homeland after a campaign of intimidation and harassment was launched against them by the military-wing of the secessionists. Kashmiri Pandits were forced from their hearths and homes at the point of gun. The objective of this ethnic cleansing was to create a minority-free Kashmir valley where the goal of Islamization could be easily forced on the ordinary people.
Called "migrants" by the administration, the Kashmiri Pandits are in fact refugees in their own country due to total failure of the Indian State to provide security and safety to them when they were ruthlessly persecuted, threatened, tortured and murdered by the Islamic terrorists.
By Anchor a senior member of Hindustan Movement Raise your voice to reach to the right people http://hindustan.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2039
|