The steady extermination, and/or conversion of Hindus in Pakistan has been a steady feature since 1947. On this side, we have exhibited characteristic apathy, in the same period. This news report is a continuation of the same status quo.
In the past four years, some 5,000 Hindus may have crossed over from Pakistan, never to return. It has not been easy abandoning their
homes, sometimes even their families, but they say they had no choice: they had to flee the Taliban.
It started as a trickle in 2006, the year the Thar Express was flagged off. The weekly train starts from Karachi, enters India at Munabao, a border town in Barmer, and runs up to Jodhpur. In the first year, 392 Hindus crossed over.
This grew to 880 in 2007. The next year, the number was 1,240, and this year, till August, over 1,000 have crossed over. They just keep extending their visas and hope to become Indian citizens.
Their plight is heart rending for you and me.
The fear of Taliban is just another facet of the issue. The larger issue is the real plight of Hindus in the Land of Pure. They have, and will continue to remain worse than Dhimmis, ripe meat for the picking–their wives and daughters carried away and ravished at will. But their condition will not be highlighted or even mentioned in any international “Human Rights (sic)” forums, the media, or talk shows. The “plight” of an Afzal Guru, and Kasab, the new star-in-the-making is far more rewarding than the thousands of Hindu families that prefer to abandon everything and become refugees just so they can continue to live as Hindus.
Without exaggeration, these people are true Hindus, unafraid and unashamed of calling themselves so and I salute them. They’re neither the “safe” nor the “liberal” Hindus who think of their Hinduness as only a subject for intellectual masturbation. And they have had a very bitter taste of what the Religion of Peace does.
Now, just picture the hollering that’d surely erupt if Indian Muslims had similarly fled to Pakistan citing the same reasons. Oh and according to Renuka “Pub” Chowdhury, we do have a Hindu Taliban (sic sic sic).
Endnote: What surprised me most was the fact that the Slimes actually reported this. In their scheme of things, the lives of Hindus don’t matter.