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May 7, 2013, 7:27:47 PM5/7/13
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Let them come to India and those Muslims who want to live in
an Islamic majority country under sharia laws go to Pakistan.
Islam wont let non Muslims -Jews , Xtians , Hindus stay in Islamic
countries , driving them out with oppresive rules on blasphemy etc
against cruel non existent allah.
There must also be a one child limit for the next fifty years
, even then the population will double and famine is inevitable

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/a-hindu-hell-on-earth-families-are-being-torn-apart-by-their-desperation-to-flee-persecution-in-pakistan-8606774.html

They had waited for years. So when the opportunity came they took it,
even if it meant leaving behind friends and neighbours, brothers and
husbands. Even a three-day-old baby boy. Seven weeks ago, almost 500
Hindus from Pakistan crossed into India on the pretence of visiting a
religious festival. In reality, they had come to escape religious
persecution and poverty. Some said they would rather commit suicide
than go back.

�Pakistan is worse than hell for Hindus,� said one of those who
managed to flee, Laxman Das, a fruit trader from Hyderabad.
Though Pakistan was established as a state for Muslims, the original
vision of its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was of a place of
tolerance and inclusion.

Today, as Pakistan prepares for a historic election on 11 May, its
Christians and Hindus, which together comprise perhaps 3 per cent of
the population, face persecution and assault. Some have fled.
�If people have any resources, they want to leave here,� Dr Ramesh
Kumar Vankwani, of the Pakistan Hindu Council, said from Karachi.
The Pakistanis who have made their way to the village of Bijwasan, not
far from Delhi�s international airport, all belong to the same low
Hindu caste and come from the same part of Sindh province. They have
applied unsuccessfully for visas to India for years and hit upon the
idea of asking to visit the Kumbh Mela festival, the most auspicious
date in the Hindu calendar. Though the festival is held every three
years, it is only every 12 years that it is held at the confluence of
the sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers in Allahabad. This year the
festival was held in February and March.
�Getting a passport is not so difficult. But getting a visa is very
hard,� said 35-year-old Hanuman Prashad, another fruit trader from
Hyderabad, explaining how they told the Indian authorities they wished
to attend the festival.
The Hindus, who came in three groups, said their biggest motivation to
leave was the challenge of educating their children. There was
discrimination in government schools, where they were referred to as
�kafirs�, told to go and work in the fields and obliged to recite the
six kalimas, or tenets, of Islam.
For girls, it was even more difficult, so much so that few of the
families bothered sending their daughters to school. �For the wealthy
Hindus it is easier � they can send their children to better schools
or else abroad,� Mr Das said.
They said the situation had become worse since the rule of the
military leader General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who seized power in 1977
and for the next decade oversaw an increased Islamisation of Pakistan.
Following the notorious destruction of India�s Babri mosque by a Hindu
mob in 1992, the Hindus of Pakistan were often the victims of revenge
attacks.
While hundreds of Hindus received visas to attend the festival, not
everyone did. Almost everyone at Bijwasan � where they are squeezed
more than 20 to a room in a former school, the air filled with flies �
can tell a story of leaving someone behind.
Hanuman Prashad, who came to India with his wife and six children,
said his parents had not been successful. When it came to leaving,
with the knowledge he would not return, everyone wept. But his parents
were insistent. �Whatever happens to us, go and save your life. Take
your kids,� they told him.
Bharti Sulanki had travelled to the crossing at the Pakistani border
town Khokhrapar with her husband and seven children, the youngest
being only three-days old. She said the Pakistani authorities demanded
a passport and visa for the newborn, too young even to have been
named.
She said she pleaded with the guards to let her cross with the boy she
was still breastfeeding but they refused. Dazed and tear-stained, Ms
Sulanki said she believed she had no alternative but to hand the child
to a relative who had come to the border with them. Since then she has
been unable to make contact to discover what has happened to her baby.
She said she had prayed they would get their visas earlier so she
could have given birth in India.
�I had no option,� she sobbed. �I sacrificed the baby for the sake of
the other six children, so they can have an education.�

A 30-year-old pregnant woman called Laran Keswari was equally
distraught. She had crossed with her five children but her husband,
who is disabled, had not obtained a visa. She told him she did not
want to go without him but he insisted she go ahead for the sake of
their children. �God is on your side,� he told her.
Ms Keswari is anxious about how she will manage by herself with her
children, hoping against hope that her husband will be able to join
them. �We speak on the phone but we are both always crying,� she said.
An irony of the group�s exodus from Pakistan, a journey to escape
discrimination, is that it was made possible by people with
fundamental and, in some cases, extremist views. Their host in
Bijwasan was Naher Singh, a former customs officer and policeman, who
accommodated another smaller group of refugees in 2011. He asked his
rent-paying tenants to leave his property and housed the Pakistanis
instead. �These people are my God and Goddess. I worship them,� he
said.
Mr Singh said the cost of feeding and housing the 483 people was met
by various hardline Hindu groups, including the Vishva Hindu Parishad,
the Bajrang Dal and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Some of their
members have been linked to confrontations with minority groups across
India.
Mr Singh, who has been rousing his refugee guests at 3am to lead them
in yoga and religious chants, said he wanted to forcibly drive Muslims
from India. He made a series of inflammatory remarks.
Mr Singh was accompanied by a Hindu priest. Asked if Mr Singh was not
displaying the sort of bigotry from which he claimed to be saving the
refugees, the priest replied: �This is God talking through him. And I
agree with him.�
The government of India has yet to publicly comment on the refugees or
its plans for them. Sending them back to Pakistan would be politically
fraught. Pakistan has not commented on the matter.
Mr Singh said he would fight any attempt to repatriate the refugees
and claimed they would be accepted by the local community. He
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