Genocide and Jihad

Submitted by RK (United States), Jan 16, 2003 at 23:21

Dear Dr. Pipes,
Thank you for your honesty. Please write about the dirtiest open secret of our time : Genocide justified & glorified by Militant Islam in South Asia. Everyday in Bangladesh and Pakistan, an almost nonchalant genocide proceeds against Hindus and Buddhists. Think about it : In 1947 AFTER India was partitioned (and AFTER the ensuing ethnic cleansing in East and west Pakistan ), almost 15% of the population of Pakistan was Hindu. Today, less than 2 % is Hindu.

In the same 55 years, the Muslim population of India has more than quadrupled to 110 million and in percentage terms is about 10-11 % of the population- a healthy if unspectacular growth. Should not the Hindu population in Pakistan and Bangladesh at least kept pace in the absence of catastrophic intervention?

The Hindus of Bangladesh and Pakistan dare not speakup because reprisals are instant- and the voice of any "moral" Muslim is stilled when he reflects that this is the will of the god Allah thru the Mohammed - the killing of Kufurs as they call it.

Please write about it because it is the story of numerous "secular" Indian governments that never made an international issue of this crime in order to prove their "secular" credentials (at home and abroad) -since they knew that inevitably this will point the finger at ISLAM itself, and alienate its Muslim votebanks. But also because they thought it would GO AWAY. Write about it lest the US govt do the same.
regards,
RK

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