Foolish Sikhs are rebuilding destroyed mosques in Punjab. They will never learn.
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R. Singh
Sikhs under attack in Pakistan: "It was a war situation, we were screaming to
each other, 'let's go, run, now. We have to go'."
This report notes that the Taliban have demanded an exorbitant payment of jizya,
the punitive protection racket run against dhimmis -- non-Muslims who have been
subjugated under Islamic rule and are supposedly "protected" as long as they
stay in line with respect to the whims of their overlords.
But this article refers to this practice as "the medieval tax levied on
non-Muslims in an Islamic state." While the demand for the jizya tax is
"medieval" in the colloquial sense of being as backwards as it is severe, this
description most importantly implies the jizya tax is an innovation, some relic
of the past that came well after Muhammad and is out of step with his wishes for
tolerance.
It is not. The jizya is demanded of unbelievers in Qur'an 9:29, which commands
Muslims:
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden
which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the
religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay
the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
Allah never told them to stop. This is Islam's "tolerance" of unbelievers. This
demand has always been part of Islam since the moment the "revelation" of the
verse was announced, and it always lies in wait to be implemented once again, as
is now happening to the Sikhs in Pakistan.
"Pakistan: The Embattled Sikhs in Taliban Territory," by Rania Abouzeid for
Time, December 4:
In Peshawar's noisy and manic Dabgari bazaar, bearded men weaving in and out of
the curbside stores are a ubiquitous sight. (There are few women in the market).
Most of them wear round, white Pashtun hats, a fixture in these parts. But there
are a substantial number of merchants who, though also bearded and dressed in
the traditional shalwar kameez, are adorned with the intricately wound and
colorful turbans of those who profess the Sikh religion. Many of them live just
a few streets away from the market, where the noise and rubbish-strewn streets
fall away and are replaced by a warren of winding narrow alleyways, swept clean,
and lined by brick homes, many of which despite being caked in decades of dust
and disrepair still maintain a haughty grandeur. This is Jogan Shah, the Sikh
neighborhood of Peshawar.
Sikhs and Hindus are tiny and embattled communities in Pakistan. As small,
non-Muslim populations, especially in the volatile, religiously conservative
northwest, they were easy prey for the Taliban. That's why the population of
Jogan Shah has spiked in recent years. Sikhs like Darsha Singh, displaced from
his village of Orakzai in the war-ravaged tribal territories further northwest,
have sought refuge with their co-religionists in Peshawar, which now hosts some
500 families, the largest Sikh population in Pakistan.
9:29 in action: Conversion, subjugation, or war:
In Darsha's hometown, which was once Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud's base,
the insurgents demanded that the small indigenous Sikh community either convert
to Islam, leave the land of their forebears or pay a 12 million rupee ($140,000)
jizya - the medieval tax levied on non-Muslims in an Islamic state. The Taliban
then provided incentive: forcibly occupying Sikh-owned shops and houses,
demolishing almost a dozen homes and kidnapping several men, beheading two. The
community banded together and managed to come up with about a quarter of the
amount demanded by the Taliban.
Darsha and a handful of Orakzai's 50 other Sikh families, escaped from their
homes, fleeing a Sunni region to friendlier Shi'ite area. Although Orakzai is
the only one of the seven federally administered tribal areas that doesn't
border Afghanistan, that didn't shield it from the influence of the war across
the border. The local Taliban quickly capitalized on the agency's simmering,
decades-old sectarian conflict between the majority Sunnis and the 10% of the
population that are Shi'ites, widening the rift. The Sikhs knew who their
friends were. "The Shi'ites let us into their community because Sikhs aren't
involved in terrorism," Darsha says. "Our grandfathers lived here. They know us.
We have lived together for generations."
But they don't live together anymore. Singh, along with all of Orakzai's Sikh
population, hastily fled just days after the military moved in to take on the
militants last spring. "We left at 5 a.m.," Darsha says, leaning forward away
from the marble wall of the Sikh temple, his crossed legs sinking deeper into
the ornate ruby red and deep navy patterned carpet adorning the wide, empty
floor of the main hall. "It was a war situation, we were screaming to each
other, 'let's go, run, now. we have to go'. We didn't even bring any clothes
with us."
Now Darsha, who used to be a businessman, is unemployed and spends most of his
day meeting friends near the temple, walking through the bazaar and "waiting for
peace." He hasn't received any government assistance. The Gurdwara has provided
displaced families with accommodation, three daily meals, and a one-off payment
of 3,000 rupees, all funded through private donations, says Sahab Singh.
A few weeks ago, Darsha was buoyed by news that he had been waiting almost two
years to hear. In late October Nadir Zeb, the inspector general of the
paramilitary Frontier Corps, told a news conference that almost 90% of Orakzai
had been cleared of Taliban, and that the 32,000 families that were forced to
flee the agency could "return tomorrow." Despite it being the second time in as
many months that the security forces had announced that Orakzai had been
pacified, Darsha and others Sikhs were reassured by the agency's political
representative that this time it really was safe enough to go home. So in early
November some 26 vehicles, each car ferrying the menfolk of a particular Sikh
family, headed out from Peshawar to Orakzai. It was so safe that the convoy only
needed an armed Pakistani military escort of more than a dozen jeeps to secure
its path.
But there was little to celebrate upon arriving in Orakzai. "There's nothing
left of my house," Darsha says. "It's destroyed and everything has been looted.
I couldn't retrieve anything and I don't have enough money to start a new
business." It was the same story for the other Sikh families. "We wanted to stay
but we had nothing to stay for," says Ameer Singh, 30, a textiles merchant and
the father of two. "Nothing is left of those eight rooms," he says, referring to
his home. "Nothing."...
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10 Comments
sean | December 4, 2010 11:31 AM | Reply
Muslims have persecuted the Sikh religion from its beginning.
exsgtbrown | December 4, 2010 11:44 AM | Reply
"nothing" is what Islam has to offer..."nothing" is what Islam will leave you
and "nothing" is what Islam will allow you to have and to keep....and that
includes your life...
dumbledoresarmy | December 4, 2010 11:55 AM | Reply
Can somebody please explain what differentiates the Ummah from an Organised
Crime 'Family'?
Because, frankly, I find it very hard to see any distinction at all.
exsgtbrown | December 4, 2010 12:02 PM | Reply
Isn't it about time for the Sikhs to break out the weapons and fight back...
traeh replied to comment from dumbledoresarmy | December 4, 2010 1:10 PM | Reply
dumbledoresarmy,
The only distinction is that it's an organized crime family AND insane cult in
one. As you know.
Sikhs and other non-Muslims should be admitted to the United States and Europe.
Europe needs immigrants, so long as they are non-Muslims.
Muslims, whose politico-religious system is fundamentally seditious to free
societies, should be kept from immigrating to the West.
liberty.or.death replied to comment from exsgtbrown | December 4, 2010 1:46 PM |
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I do not think they should attempt at all to fight the Taliban, who vastly
outnumber them. That would be suicide. I mean, think about it. If the US+NATO
forces have not been successful in wiping out the Taliban in eight years, what
are 50 Sikh businessmen families.
Secondly, the [almost entirely muslim] population of the area would not be
accepting of Sikhs fighting their co-religionists even if they are Taliban.
IMO, the Sikhs should leave Pakistan for India. Let the muslims sort things out
among themselves in their Islamic way.
Thinking_One | December 4, 2010 1:49 PM | Reply
Push back the Ummah. Otherwise they will attempt to make us dhimmi. This is not
a religion. It is a dstructive criminal syndicate robbing their neighbors under
the guise of religion. It has the code of Omuerta (not sure), ie., death to
anybody who leaves the family and loyalty only to the family. The law of the
land does not apply, only their codes. Really the more one thinks about the
parallels are all their. And to call this a religion under a boss (pus be upon
him)..... Yikes.
gravenimage | December 4, 2010 2:07 PM | Reply
The Jihad against Hindus and Christians in Pakistan is becoming more widespread
and violent all the time—no reason to believe that Sikhs would be spared.
From the article:
Sikhs and Hindus are tiny and embattled communities in Pakistan. As small,
non-Muslim populations, especially in the volatile, religiously conservative
northwest, they were easy prey for the Taliban. That's why the population of
Jogan Shah has spiked in recent years. Sikhs like Darsha Singh, displaced from
his village of Orakzai in the war-ravaged tribal territories further northwest,
have sought refuge with their co-religionists in Peshawar...
...................................
Anyone who has read history should be deeply alarmed by this. This is the
pattern of every persecution and pogrom against vulnerable minorities.
The same thing is happening in Iraq, with Christians congregating in Baghdad or
fleeing to the (formerly) somewhat more tolerant area of Mosul; with Christians
in Egypt leaving villages where they have lived for 2000 years for the marginal
safety of Cairo; with the miserable remnant of Jews in Yemen being removed to
Sa'naa by the government "for their own safety"; with Chinese and Hindus in
Indonesia pulling up stakes from outlying areas for Jakarta; with Christians in
the "Palestinian territories" first crowding into neighborhoods in Bethlehem as
the villages become too dangerous, then finally fleeing the region altogether in
every increasing numbers.
I could go on and on citing examples all over the "Muslim world".
Islam is increasingly spreading throughout sub-saharan Africa and infiltrating
the West. At the same time, there is a growing effort by the Ummah to render
greater and greater swaths of Dar-al-Islam empty of any other faith.
Afghanistan and Somalia are two states—formerly lands of many faiths—that are
now virtually entirely Muslim except for a handful of imperiled converts. They
are also—no coincidence—probably the most violent and backward of "nations",
along with virtually all-Muslim Yemen.
Pakistan seems well on its way—in stark contrast to multi-faith India—to
murdering or pushing out all non-Muslims.
I would say they are rendering such areas "Juderein"—except that it applies not
just to Jews, but to Christians, and Hindus, and Sikhs, and Jains, and Baha'i,
and anyone else who doesn't belong to the "Religion of Peace".
The terrible pattern is quite clear, and yet I don't believe I have heard any
Western politician or pundit refer to it.
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