Indian Democracy: The Envy of Islamic Supremacist Pakistan

Amjad Ayub Mirza

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The constitution of Pakistan bars anyone who is not a Muslim from becoming the head of the state. Ahmedi Muslims were declared non-Muslims by a parliamentary amendment in the constitution in 1974 and are not allowed to participate in the general elections unless they sign an oath proclaiming the finality of the prophet Muhammad. Hence a Hindu, or an Ahmedi or a Christian or Sikh cannot hold the highest civil office in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Yet every other Pakistani TV anchor, populist politician, and an array of Islamic demagogues point their finger towards India criticising her for an imaginary religious discrimination, claiming that Muslims in India face widespread persecution and discrimination on the basis of their faith.

The constitution of the Republic of India guarantees equal rights for all of her citizens without any kind of discrimination, hence, Dr Zakir Hussain, RK Narayan (a Dalit), and Abdul Kalam became presidents of the Republic of India in 1967, 1997 and 2002 respectively. The systemic persecution of Hindu community and other religious minorities in Pakistan is an everyday occurrence.

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan report released for 2019, every year, 1,000 Hindu young women are kidnapped, forcefully converted to Islam and married off to their kidnapper. Most recently, the case of a 14-year-old from Jacobabad in Sindh caught attention of international media. The girl was kidnapped while on her way to school and was forcefully converted and married to a Muslim.

When her family filed a case against the culprit, she was brought to face the court. Despite her refusal to change her religion and refusal to consent to marriage, the court, fearful of the Islamic clergy, sent her to a children care home and refused to give her back to her family.

Scores of churches are burnt down or destroyed in the name of Islam in Pakistan. In 1997, thousands of Muslims descended on Shanti Nagar, a small village in Punjab, and destroyed 785 houses, demolished four churches and forced 2,500 Christians to flee the village.

In 2009, fanatics attacked the town of Gojra near Toba Tek Singh in Punjab and burned down Christian homes, killing eight Christians, including four women and a child. Blasphemy law is used as a tool of repression to settle scores with helpless Hindus and Christians.

Asiya Bibi, a Christian, was one such case in which she was accused of blasphemy after a petty argument with Muslim women from her village. She had to spend 10 years in prison before she was acquitted and secretly flown to Canada where she has been granted asylum. Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer, who visited Asiya Bibi in jail and promised to help her find justice, was himself gunned down in Islamabad by his own Muslim security guard.

Jihadi Islamic doctrine was originally born out of the wedlock between western powers and Pakistani military to fulfil the necessity to contain communism from taking hold in Afghanistan. It was conceived by the dollars provided by the CIA and in the evil womb of the Pakistan secret service ISI. Today, Jihadist Islam has become a Frankenstein monster.

Currently, it is exclusively the Pakistani military establishment and the ISI who are in actuality the very evil entity that manufactures, nurtures and exports Jihadi terrorism. From Afghanistan to the Vale of Kashmir and from Morocco in North Africa to the Philippines in the Far East Pakistan, roots of Islamic jihadist terrorism can be traced back to the military General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.

Any attempt to condemn Islamic jihad or the Islamic cultural invasion of non-Muslim societies is conveniently labelled as Islamophobia. The most recent example of which is the city of Hamtramck. No sooner did Hamtramck, a city in Wayne county in the US State of Michigan, became the first American city to elect a Muslim majority council that the residents got a taste of what it is like to live under the domination of an Islam-centric political administration.

In a controversial move, the council has allowed the use of loudspeakers five times a day for Muslim call for prayers causing anxiety among the locals. The loudest noise a normal human ear can bear is 140 decibels and anything above that will incur in pathological damage to one’s health. At average, the mosque loudspeakers generate a noise between 110 and 120 decibels. So when Hamtramck residents complained of the loud noise blasting five times a day in their neighbourhood, they got accused of ‘being against Muslims’.