“Sindh’s Stolen Brides” – Excerpts

Now surley some muslim-lover will come up with a theory that equal number of Muslim girls ( if not more ) are also abducted by Hindus in India ! Many will try to prove that islam actually respects women. But won’ be, because islam does not.
Mohammed openly expressed his contempt for women on several occassions. He ordered men to ‘discipline’ them severly ( whatever that means ). He married a six year old child ! ( his fans try to save his face by telling you that ‘okay, but remember he did not lay her until she was nine…’. What a logic ! ) On the context of marrying a woman far younger than him itself, the oft-said defence of the faithful is : he also married a far older women in the beginning !
Using ‘kafir’ women for demographic benefits is an established weapon of islam, a part of Jehad. Islamic countries apart, even in Indian towns they behave in this way. In advanced countries like UK the mulla, even the common muslims openly encourage their boys to ‘marry’ Hindu and Sikh girls. It has been noticed that dinars come all they way from Saudi Arabia to encourage and reward such acts ! Many Hindu and Sikh girls are crying tears of blood and telling the others not to repeat the mistake. Because it is one way street, one can go inside Islam but cannot come out live, she will spent the rest of life working in a kitchen cooking stinking halal meat and producing a whole new team of suicide-bombers !
Mohammed clearly sanctioned such kidnappings, on one of the numerous occasions when a group of his fans snatched a non-muslim woman and asked for his advice on if they could fuck her, Mohammed tactically warned them to have patience, his reason : it will be difficult to get ransom out a deflowered woman !

If you thought forced conversions of Hindu girls happened only in Pakistan, think again…

Read this post: http://hindudharma.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/hindu-girls-targeted-for-islam/ and in particular, this harrowing story: http://www.hinduvoice.co.uk/Issues/2/Silence.htm

Well said Raja.

An article from 14 years ago.

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“Brides of contention” by Hasan Mujtaba
(Source: Monthly INDUS-VANI, New York, U.S.A., August 1994)

PLIGHT OF HINDU WOMEN IN SINDH, PAKISTAN

On January 19, 1994, a Hindu girl named Daya Bai disappeared from her house in Daharki, District Ghotki (Sind, Pakistan). She surfaced 10 days later outside the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, wearing bridal clothes, and accompanied by several hundred strong gathering, many of whom were armed with automatic weapons and led by Pirs of Bharchundi, chanting ‘Allah-o-Akbar’. During the ‘nikah’ (wedding) that followed, Daya Bai’s mother wept inconsolably, repeatedly striking her hand on the floor in anguish. “Let me meet my daughter, even if she is getting married”, she implored, but her pleas fell on deaf earn.

For the Hindu community in Sukkur and Larkana, Daya Bai’s disappearance, conversion to Islam and subsequent marriage with a Muslim in suspicious circumstances is not unprecedented occurrence. Between January and February, at least three Hindu girls (Daya Bai from Daharki, Shakuntala from Pano Aquil, and Bhagwanti, the daughter of a Larkana Professor) were allegedly kidnapped from their homes at gunpoint. Of the three, Daya Baiand Bhagawanti were converted to Islam and married Muslim men whereas Shakuntala’s whereabouts are not known and was married to some on other than her abductor. Speculation abounds that she may have been sold.

The story of the daughter of Koromal, Hindu leader from Larkana, is similar. There are several such instances in which girls, believed to have eloped with her Muslim lovers, are not marked to them, but were either married off to some on else or killed.

The increasing incidences of forcible conversion and marriages of Hindu girls have compelled some Hindus to migrate to India to protect their daughters and family honour. “The parents of girls who have met this fate are like the living dead”, says Ghanshyamdas, a social worker in Kashmore.

Similarly, as Mukhi Nihalchand, a Hindu community leader in Rohri, points out, forcible conversion of Hindu men continues unreported and unabated. The conversion at Bharchundi of a Hindu boy from a wealthy Umarkot family sometimes back is a case in point. After a while, the boy got reconverted to Hinduism and migrated to India with his family.

The history of forcible conversion of Hindus dates back to the pre-Talpar period when a Hindu was considered converted to Islam on the flimsiest of pretexts; for instance, if he pronounced the word raso (string), bystanders would swear that he had said Rasool (Prophet) and had become a Muslim. Excesses during Talpur era increased against the Hindus. Any Hindu seen riding a horse would be immediately converted by force because it was believed that the horse was an Islamic of transportation.

Naunmal, one-time loyalist of the Talpurs and traitor in the eyes of the Sindhis, encouraged the British to attack Sind because he and some of his relatives had been forcibly circumcised by the Muslims. The first British spy, James Burnes, in fact wrote in ‘The Court of Mirs’ an account of his travels in Sind, “I fail to understand how Hindus still prefer living in Sind despite all kinds of atrocities perpetrated against them.”

Some shrines in Sind, such as those of Makhdoom Muhammed Hashim and Hafiz Mohammed Siddiqui, the mosques in Thanvi and the Madrasaas in Matiari and Amrot, have acquired reputation as centres for corcible conversion. The Pirs of Bharchundi have continued to patronize excesses committed against Hindus by the majority Muslim populace. In the early 70s, a man who murdered seven Hindus in a temple in Sukkur was acclaimed as a hero by the religio-political parties in the area.

Communist activist Sobho Gyanchandani recalls an incident during the early 50s when he was summoned by an Intelligence Officer for his political views “The Officer told me, ‘You have committed three crimes: you are a Sindhi, you are a Communist, and, above all, you are a Hindu, and there is no place for Hindus here'”. Sobho was jailed along with Faiz Ahmed Faiz and others in the infamous Rawalpindi Conspiracy case.

During the 1995 and 1971 wars, Hindu government, living or posted along the Pak-Indian border in Sind, were transformed to far-flung areas.

The darkest period for Sindhi Hindus in recent history, however, was when dacoits held the province to ransom and forces of religious ethnicity and religious fanaticism predominated. Vitriloic tirades against Hindus, such those by Dr. Israr Ahmed, published in leading daily, helped to spread the message of hate. General Zia’s patronage of the Mullahs encouraged the Jamaat-i-Islami to launch organized campaign against the Hindus in Sind. As a result, in recent years, there has been the largest migration of Hindus to India since the exodus at Partition.

Hindus were also primarily on the receiving end from dacoit-gangs ingesting Sind at this time. The first victim of kidnapping was a Hindu trader from Daharki. Hindus were easy prey because they had no access to State machinery. Says a Sindhi feudal, who is suspected to be ‘patharidar’, “Wealthy Hindus had to pay protection money to the dacoit gangs and their patrons, to avoid being kidnapped”. “Some Sindhi nationalist organisation were also hand in glove in kidnapping them or receiving protection money”, says a bitter young Hindu whose father was kidnapped.

Recently, in the backlash of the Babri incident, the M.Q.M. procession, led by Shabbir Hashmi, attacked a temple at Pucca Qila and looted a considerable quantity of gold from there. “There is irrefutable evidence of abetment by religious and ethnic organisations, Intelligence agencies and local influentials of those who attacked the lives, properties and temple of Hindus”, states Sobho Gyanchandani.

Unlike many parts of Sind, Hindus living in Sikkur and Larkana dominate grain and agriculture market. Until Partition, many of the Hindus lived in surrounding rural areas. Those who did not migrate to India relocated to the urban centers. Their uneasy relationship with Muslim neighbour is manifested by the fact that instead of residing in individual residences scattered over a large area, they usually live in sprawling havelis comprising of a hundred or more dwellings. “We feel isolated and insecure”, says Darshanlal, a young businessman in Ghotki. Even young boys are rarely seen walking alone.

In the Friday sermons in many towns across Sind, Jehad is often declared against the Hindus and Muslim are exhorted to convert Hindu women to Islam by marrying them. “Such words influence the thinking of even simple Muslims”, says Rochiram, a senior lawyer and Human Rights activist in Mirpurkhas.

Haresh Kumar, a Hindu Economist, maintain that “This is an entirely new phenomena which never existed during my schooldays”. He says that his eight-year-old daughter Kalpana and ten-year-old nephew Mohan complain that they are asked by their classmates as to why they don’t become Muslims. “Mohan’s classmates don’t even let him drink water from the same glass”, he says.

For the common Hindu of Sind, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. In Tharparkar and Mirphurkhas districts, where more than 90 percent of Pakistan’s Hindus live, they are prime targets of the Intelligence officials. All the mail from Hindus between India and Pakistan is censored. Intelligence officials extort monthly bribes from Hindu who regularly communicate with their relatives in India.

Confronted with sustained harassment, humiliation and victimisation, many Hindu families in Sindh have migrated to India and continue to do so. Says a Hindu in Tharparker, “Among those applying for visas at the Indian consulate in Karachi are a considerable number of Hindus from the interior Sind who plan to permanently settle in India. In a crowd of 700, at least 300 are Hindus of whom 75 percent have no intention of returning to Pakistan”.

“Many of us have not even seen India nor do we have any relatives there”, says Pyarelal from Sukkur. Another Hindu from Larkana points out, “Not a single Hindu has ever been proven guilty of being an Indian agent in any court of law”, and still the persecution continues.

@Raja, I aapreciate your thoughts and support you.
I dont want to be called a secular myself as well.
But what can we do? Saying something is easy, we can say out of anger, frustration. But how to change the things? Any plans? Willing to collaborate?
Then lets unite and fight aginst these devil folces.

Jai Hind.

I am grateful to this website for opening my eyes to the GOI official position on the plight of Hindus from Pakistan. In a wider and general sense that has been the postion as regards all expatriate Hindus. We should not forget that India only has the ears of NRI Americans because they are a political constituency that GOI cannot ignore. Of course as has been evident in these blogs, GOI cares even less about the Hindus of India which begs the questions why and how the Hindus of India themselves came to be enslaved. It is not hard to see that the modern Hindu construct is fundamentally flawed and deserves to be comprehensively diconstructed of the accumulation of milleniums of garbage.

Placing these links here for the record: Blasphemous Oppression In The Name of Islam: Hold Pakistan Accountable For Persecuting Religious Minorities by Doug Bandow, 14 July 2014 in Forbes and by the same author, Hold Pakistan Accountable For Blasphemous Oppression, published on 16th Jul ’14

From MEDIA WILL SUPPORT YOU ONLY IF YOU’RE MUSLIM BY RAVI SHANKER KAPOOR, JULY 29, 2014, a brief excerpt:
A few days before the force-feeding controversy erupted, The Dawn of Pakistan had carried a news story highlighting the plight of Hindus over there. It described in detail the problems Hindus face in a village near Chakwal, a city 90 km from Islamabad. While a large number of people are gentle, the Hindus told the Dawn reporter, there are also hostile glances and desecrated temples. The news story was not even discussed by any politicians, even from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the so-called Hindu fundamentalist outfit.

“An estimated one thousand Christian and Hindu women are forced to convert and marry Muslim men in Pakistan every year,” the same newspaper reported in April this year. “According to a report by the Movement for Solidarity and Peace in Pakistan, up to 700 of these women are Christian and 300 are Hindu,” said the news story. It quoted the authors of the report, saying, “The true scale of the problem is likely to be much greater, as a number of cases are never reported or do not progress through the law-enforcement and legal systems.”