Page 225 - Islam and Far Eastern Religions

223

a biased fashion with comments like: “An uprising in an
Indian district has been suppressed”. For instance, The New
York Times published an article on the 22nd of January, 1990

in which Pakistan was accused of supporting Muslim rebel
groups in India, thereby “destabilizing the country”.
Pakistan protested. 106 Certain western media groups fre-
quently publish such biased views.
In recent years, the oppression and assimilation cam-
paign aimed against the Muslim population of Kashmir has
intensified. Fanatical Hindu movements seeking to exter-
minate the Muslim population in Kashmir, as well as in the
rest of India, has been demonstrated by their involvement
in the destruction of the Babur Mosque, and as the
Ahmedabad massacre in Gujarat proved. The tyranny to
which the Kashmiri Muslims are exposed to is indescrib-
able. However, as always, what is happening in Kashmir
and around the region is portrayed through various propa-

ganda tactics in an altogether different light for public con-
sumption. The tyranny, torture and oppression of people
are concealed, and the whole world remains silent about it.
The world acts as if the reports by human rights organiza-
tions simply do not exist. The only thing the Kashmiri peo-
ple, terrorized for over fifty years by India, wish for, is to be
able to live in a secure environment in which they can prac-
tice their faith without obstruction, where they are not vio-
lated because of their faith, and where they can raise their
children in peace and security.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)