CONVERSION, A CRIMINAL OFFENCE AGAINST HUMANITY

CONVERSION, A CRIMINAL OFFENCE AGAINST HUMANITY

Religions that convert are archaic tribal institutions that are dying. Conversion is anti-human, immoral, unspiritual and criminal. Religions that indulge in it are culpable to these moral offences against humanity. Mere utterance of some words by way of conversion is laughable.

In Kashmir three alternatives were offered the Hindus by persecuting Muslim rulers, even so-called Sufi Muslims. These were 1) convert and assimilate into the body of the Muslim community there 2) die and be gone thus 3) leave the land and vacate. This has been the history of Hindu-Muslim harmony in Kashmir fostered by the intolerant Muslim rulers and now the Muslim majority there that has witnessed a total of seven exoduses of Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland besides being force-converted en masse, taxed upon, persecuted in every way possible while the fake narrative of communal harmony continues its inglorious run as Hindus suffer.

The latest exodus was on Jan 19, 1990 when approximately 350,000 Kashmiri Hindus were forced to flee their homeland overnight after brutalities were unleashed on them by Islamic extremists.

In another such instance Emperor Aurangzeb was instructed by the Sufi leaders of Kashmir to finish off the Hindus by beginning their conversion right from Kashmir downwards. When the Kashmiri Hindus sought protection from the ninth Sikh Guru, Tegh Bahadur, the latter was summoned by the Mughal Emperor to Delhi where he was mercilessly executed. His son, Guru Gobind Singh, then took up the defence of the Hindus and formed the Khalsa whereupon he continuously waged war on the Mughals even as the latter tried to fruitlessly crush him. Guru Gobind Singh died in 1708 of wounds suffered in combat with a Mughal assassin at Nanded and left behind a legacy of martial valour and a community dedicated to it who have defended our motherland ever since. That we choose to remain oblivious of the contributions of these two last Sikh Gurus is proof of our ingratitude as a nation and our massive ignorance of our valorous historical past. It is now bounded on us that we study their lives and follow in their footsteps towards building our nation.

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : top -- Guru Tegh Bahadur ; middle -- Guru Tegh Bahadur with young son, Gobind Rai, holding council ; bottom -- Guru Gobind Singh.