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[–] punseye@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While Britain did make the matters worse but we must not forget that Hindus and Muslims have been at war with each other for a millennium now.

Same for Jews and Muslims.

People also want to indulge in political correctness and give free pass to Islamic scriptures which promotes hatred against Jews and Polytheists (Hindus).

That's why you'll find Muslims in Israel and India living largely peacefully but Hindus in Pakistan and Jews in Palestine continue to face atrocities.

In fact Hindus don't even have freedom of religion in India as many of our sacred Hindu sites were destroyed by Islamic invaders and mosques were built upon them.

Today's conflict between India and Pakistan is basically Hindus in conflict with ex-Hindus who converted to Islam to escape from Jizya (Islamic tax) and other forms of atrocities.

Another thing that makes India unique is that it has somehow retained some bits of it's culture even after the repeated Islamic invasions, that's not the case with other 50 odd Islamic countries. Spain might be the only other exception.

So, these are centuries old conflicts which Britishers exploited well.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hindus in Pakistan

Lol no. They keep close relations with the army for protection because they're such a small minority. Meanwhile muslims in India face the stupidity of the BJP and muslims in Israel face the wrath of whosoever turn it is to go raid Al Aqsa again.

Also it wasn't Britain's idea to split the country. That was a stance of the Muslims. Britain did exploit the tensions between them to prevent them from rebelling against the British Raj. Then they did a 180 when they no longer had a need to keep India under brutal occupation.

All in all Pakistan and India came out far far better than Israel and Palestine.

Hindus in conflict with ex-Hindus Straight outta r/Chodi lmaooooo

[–] punseye@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lol you do realise that every pakistani was once a hindu? like literally some Pakistanis have hindu surnames! Pakistanis have hindu surnames like Choudhary, Rajput and Army Cheif also has a Hindu surname "Bajwa".

The only reason why Pakistanis are Muslims is because their Hindu ancestors surrendered, and couldn't pay jizya to invading Turks/Arabs.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

lol you do realise that every pakistani was once a hindu?

Punjabis and SIndhis sure, probably not Balochis or Pashtuns.

Also you're exclaiming this like it was a bad thing and people actually regretted converting. Trading a shitty caste system for not paying tax is a win-win.

Like I said, something straight outta r/Chodi lol.