by Lt Gen NS Malik
"If
Muslims in India constantly
crib to have no say and no power, they should come to Pakistan to see
the plight of
minority Hindus with their own eyes. They'll never complain
and learn to live peacefully with their Hindu brethren in India ." Asma
Jahangir, Human rights activist, Pakistan
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Asma's
right. When pitted against the oppressed Hindus in Pakistan ,
the Muslims of India are indeed far better. A few days back there was news that
Hindus in Baluchistan region
are abducted and converted to Islam. The family members
of those who've been abducted often avoid lodging complaints
for fear of dire consequences. Many Hindus in Pakistan 's
Baluchistan , Sindh and NWFP regions, embraced Islam
for survival.
Has any Muslim in India
The
Marathas, who fought against Ahmadshah Abdali in 1761 and
couldn't return, are now languishing in Pakistan doing
menial jobs. Most of them are sweepers and Pakistan Military
Academy
June,
2000, Time carried an article (later banned and deleted
from the net) written by Craig Gaverns. He
interviewed a few Hindu-Marathas (most of those Marathas are now forced Muslims) working as cleaners and attendants at PMA.
interviewed a few Hindu-Marathas (most of those Marathas are now forced Muslims) working as cleaners and attendants at PMA.
One
of them told him that once a Pakistani captain continuously
slapped him and made him eat human excreta for not polishing his shoes
properly.
He
fearlessly told Gaverns to disclose his name (Nanji Ubale)
despite Gaverns had grave doubts about that man's safety.
His name was carried and within a couple of days, he
was hacked to pieces. Even those Hindus who got converted
to Islam are treated very badly. They're always reminded
of their humble and infidel roots.
One
such Hindu doctor Ratan Chitkara, who later embraced Islam
and became Saeed Khan, was always denied promotion to
become the C M H O (Chief Medical & Health Officer) at a
hospital in Pakistan's Chitral province.
The
reason was that he willy-nilly accepted Islam. 'Dil se
nahin liya' (not accepted from the core of his heart) observed
his born Muslim friend.
My point is: Did the
ancestors of the sub-continental Muslims ever accept Islam DIL SE ? Were
they not converted
to Islam by coercion?
BBC,
London 's Roger
Amlett's big essay ' Conversions on the sub-continent ' (1998) puts it
bluntly " Why do all the 'converted Muslims' of the
sub-continent behave in a manner as if their Allah directly
dropped them as Muslims from an imaginary heaven? Why do they
(or their forefathers)
forget that they were cajoled, coaxed and coerced into embracing Islam?
"
The
Hindus in Pakistan
constitute 2.67 % of its population, which is now close to 18
crores. According to
Pakistan-born Ibn Warraq, an ex-Muslim, " By 2015 this ratio will drop down to almost one percent as very many existing Hindus will have accepted Islam to save their skins, precisely necks."
Pakistan-born Ibn Warraq, an ex-Muslim, " By 2015 this ratio will drop down to almost one percent as very many existing Hindus will have accepted Islam to save their skins, precisely necks."
Here
in India ,
Muslims cry foul that they're discriminated against. This happens
indeed. But don't
they also get their rights and rightful positions in India ?
In
India ,
Muslims have become the heads of the state. There'd been so many top brasses in the
Armed Forces of India,
who're Muslims. Can one show a single really big and
influential Hindu in Pakistan ?
Why wasn't Pakistan 's second Chief Justice Bhagwan Das, a Sindhi-Hindu
from Shikarpur, Sindh, made the CJP (Chief Justice of Pakistan
Why was Neeraj Chawla
(actress Juhi Chawla's uncle, who chose to stay back in Pakistan following partition) abducted
in spite of being a high official on Pakistan
Despite
his seniority, he was not made the chief of the Censor
Board of Pakistan.
Has any Muslim been
deprived of his rank in the sensitive army because of his religion?
Didn't India
It's
very easy to condemn sitting on the fence and when you're
getting everything without much efforts. Look from a
broader and deeper perspective and you'll realize that you're
much better and well-ensconced here than the poor Hindus
in Pakistan ,
who get no representation at any level.
They
cannot even register their marriage in Pakistan . Karachi and Islamabad
universities abolished their Hindi departments and even certificate
courses in Hindi because it's the language of the Kafirs
(infidels).
Except
for Danish Kaneria, no Hindu ever played Test cricket in Pakistan , though Anil Dalpat came
closest to playing
and getting included in the final eleven.
Why
was Nirmal Mukherjee, a Bengali Hindu of PIA, never selected
for the Pakistan
national hockey team? He was PIA's vice captain in the early
seventies.
Veerbhadra
Seksaria, the only Hindu industrialist from Pakistan ,
never got an opportunity to set up a cement factory in Pakistan 's
lone industrial city, Faisalabad (erstwhile
Lyallpur ).
Indian
media and some so-called secularists like Teesta Seetalvad
(her husband's a Muslim), Arundhati Roy (a Syrian Christian) and Mallika Sarabhai
(a Gujrati Hindu) scream
from their rooftops when something 'wrong' happens to
the Muslims in India .
Why
can't these influential secularists raise their voice in
unison against the treatment meted out to the Hindus in Pakistan
who live there as gentiles and lepers?
Courtesy: Various Sources
