| Next, let us
compare how the Hindu minority is treated in Islamic countries with the treatment of the
Islamic minority in India. Pakistan eliminated its Hindu minority long ago through
forceful conversion or genocide. There are almost no Hindus left in a land which before
partition had a significant minority of them. Yet hardly any one even cares to mention
this fact. The Hindu minority in Bangladesh has been
continually oppressed and dispossessed of its property, and is therefore dwindling in
number. Yet the global press does not mention this either. While it has been
recognized that the genocide in Bangladesh in 1971-72 was one of the worst in history and
numbered over three million people, the press seldom mentions the fact that it was mainly
who were killed.
Hindus in work in Arabic countries are not allowed to
practice their religion in public and yet no country, including India, protests this,
though non-Hindus working in India are certainly not prevented from public worship (and
would certainly protest fiercely if this were attempted). |
