Plight Of Kashmiri Pandits: Is Anyone Listening?
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Hindustan Movement Member
Plight Of Kashmiri Pandits: Is Anyone Listening?
http://hindustan.org/forum/showthread.php?p=2247
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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.
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