Re: 16,000 Kashmiris Languishing in Indian Jails on Dubious Charges
Bravo....and in all these countries minorities aree free to follow and propagate their religion!
Yes, they are. A right that they don't have in many Indian states.
Re, India....may be Muslims are remaining behind in Kashmir, but all over India the Kashmiri Muslim are flourishing well, making money by any means.
16,000 of them are rotting in Indian jails on cooked up charges...not that you care. You'll just continue to make up "facts" and try to pass them off as gospel truth.
But there was a preceding binding United Nations resolution that called for complete withdrawal of troops by Pakistan which the government of Pakistan has so far refused to do. Therefore India was unable to conduct the said plebiscite.
India rejected over a dozen UN proposals on the demilitarization of Kashmir and the implementation of the plebiscite. The fact of the matter was that India never had any intention to hold a plebiscite, as it became very clear, very early on that the outcome of any attempt to give the Kashmiris the ability to exercise their basic democratic rights wouldn't be favorable to India's imperialistic goals in the region.
@others - Even though the Godhra incident has blemished India's record, in general it is well known that minority religions are better off in India than in almost all other countries in the region.
@ question about a single Hindu dominated country - I do not think there is any Hindu dominated country. Even India is not Hindu dominated due to the secular principles enshrined in our constitution.
You act as though Godhra was a rare, isolated incident of religious intolerance.
What about the destruction of Babri Masjid, and the ensuing celebratory massacre of Muslims across India? Or the slaying of over 1,000 Muslims during Bhagalpur riots of 1989. Or the massacre of over 3,000 Sikhs in Delhi back in 1984? Or the regular violence against Christians? The list goes on and on.
Or we can talk about discriminatory laws...like the ones albeit banning missionary work to appease your Hindu fundamentalist parties. Or the counter-terrorism laws, which are almost exclusively used to round up Muslims without any evidence or charges, stripping them of all their constitutional rights, so they can be tortured in your draconian prisons.
No one is claiming that the entire Muslim world is a wonderfully hospitable place for minorities...and I think most Muslims freely admit that. Indian Hindus, on the other hand, are laughably deluded...having convinced themselves that their country is some sort of a Gandhian utopia, rather than recognizing miserable state of minority rights there.