Pakistan: Muslim landlord demolishes Hindu houses, temples; burns down entire Hindu village

The Hindu community in Pakistan has been facing the wrath of Islam since the creation of the country in 1947. It appears that every day, for the past 75 years, they have been paying a penalty to the people and the government of the country for being Hindu and deciding to stay in their ancestral land instead of fleeing to India during the partition.

The Hindus are grappling with constant persecution most vehemently and continuously in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Their houses are razed, their temples are vandalized, and worst of all, their women and little girls are abducted by Muslim men, forcibly converted to Islam, and married off to elder Muslim men, who are often their abductors.

The latest episode of the brutalization of Hindus in Sindh was reported earlier last week, when the Hindu Kachhi community had to face the wrath of their Muslim landlord. The landlord, accompanied by his men, tore down their houses, demolished their temples, and still did not stop. He set the entire Hindu village, which had been home to the people of the Kacchi community for forty years, on fire. His accomplices also snatched away the poor villagers’ motorbikes, which were among the last resources these marginalized people had. This further added to the hardships of the villagers, as now they didn’t have a place to live or a vehicle with which to commute.

The deliberate setting on fire to the entire village couldn’t be just a hate crime; it is proof of the horrid intentions that even some of the regular and seemingly moderate people in Pakistan nurture.

A video documenting the plight of the villagers after the arson attack serves as a heartbreaking testament to the intense torment the Kachhi Hindus have endured as a community in Sindh. As the women, clad in traditional Hindu attire, go on to narrate the organized attacks on them and how these repeated attacks have left them robbed of their last means, it paints a grim picture of the rising violence experienced by religious and ethnic minorities in the Islamic nation. This also highlights the immediate call for protection and justice for these vulnerable, impoverished, and landless communities in Pakistan.

However, no Pakistani or foreign agency has shown any interest in rescuing these unfortunate people from the communal clutches of their Muslim persecutors in Pakistan. At the same time, the world is falling for loud Arab narratives of the fake victimization of Palestinians, and the less frequently represented predicament of the Hindus in Pakistan finds no place in international debates. They have been left at the mercy of the merciless. We fail to recall the last time the United Nations took a stand for the Hindus of Pakistan, who are the real victims of intense hate and extreme discrimination.

The global indifference towards the marginalized non-Muslims of Pakistan, including that of Pakistan’s Hindu-majority neighbor, India, is appalling and tragic.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/pakistan-muslim-landlord-demolishes-hindu-houses-temples-burns-down-entire-hindu-village

[TBC: The Jizyah is a tax that the Dhimmi (non-Muslin) had to pay, including the Hindus noted in the article. Its origins are found the Quran’s Surah Tauba 9:29, which showed the subjugation of conquered non-Muslims, making the tax a tribute.

While Muslims in the West speak often of the freedom other religions (including Christians and Jews) have, A Saudi Arabian writer notes, “In a country ruled by Muslim authorities, a non-Muslim is guaranteed his freedom of faith....Muslims are forbidden from obliging a non-Muslim to embrace Islam, but he should pay the tribute to Muslims readily and submissively, surrender to Islamic laws, and should not practice his polytheistic rituals openly.” Any member of any religion who have paid their Jizyah soon discover their freedom of worship is only illusionary.]