08-13-2008, 07:31 AM
http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idIN...-34984520080813
Interesting psyops. The article starts with this..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Homes burn as Hindu-Muslim anger grows in Kashmir
By Alistair Scrutton
GARKHAL, India (Reuters) - When a mob shouting praises for a Hindu god torched this Muslim hamlet, any hopes of religious peace in India's Kashmir state may have been destroyed along with these charred homes and scarred drums of ruined wheat.
"We never had a problem like this before," said Bashir Ahmed, a farmer from the Muslim Gujjar community. In oppressive humidity of a dark cattle shed with scorched brick walls, he revealed crescent-shaped scars on his back from the mob's beating.
"I had heard from parents about '47," he said, referring to Partition in 1947 when India and Pakistan were formed and hundreds of thousands were killed in religious clashes.
"But this is the first time I have seen anything like this."
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You would think this is all related to the current situation over Amarnath Shrine. There is even more if you read further to confirm your fears..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Standing only a few hundred metres from the Pakistani border, Gujjars in Garkhal told how Hindus shouted "Burn them all!" and chanted slogans for the Hindu god Lord Shiva. Due to the intervention of security forces, no one was killed.
"Both our regions are poles apart, with daggers drawn," said state government spokesman K.B Jandial.
That was easy to see in Garkhal.
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By now one would conclude about the rest. But then this tiny bit..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The attacks by several thousand Hindu villagers were sparked, villagers say, by rumours a Muslim boy had attacked a Hindu girl.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Alistair mahashay then shrugs it off and continues ...
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But this kind of religious conflict has been extremely rare for decades in Jammu, and few have doubts to why it happened now.
"This is all hundred percent linked to the shrine issue," said Hamid Choudhary, leader of Muslim Front Jammu, a group formed by Muslim leaders to sooth religious tensions.
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Interesting psyops. The article starts with this..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Homes burn as Hindu-Muslim anger grows in Kashmir
By Alistair Scrutton
GARKHAL, India (Reuters) - When a mob shouting praises for a Hindu god torched this Muslim hamlet, any hopes of religious peace in India's Kashmir state may have been destroyed along with these charred homes and scarred drums of ruined wheat.
"We never had a problem like this before," said Bashir Ahmed, a farmer from the Muslim Gujjar community. In oppressive humidity of a dark cattle shed with scorched brick walls, he revealed crescent-shaped scars on his back from the mob's beating.
"I had heard from parents about '47," he said, referring to Partition in 1947 when India and Pakistan were formed and hundreds of thousands were killed in religious clashes.
"But this is the first time I have seen anything like this."
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You would think this is all related to the current situation over Amarnath Shrine. There is even more if you read further to confirm your fears..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Standing only a few hundred metres from the Pakistani border, Gujjars in Garkhal told how Hindus shouted "Burn them all!" and chanted slogans for the Hindu god Lord Shiva. Due to the intervention of security forces, no one was killed.
"Both our regions are poles apart, with daggers drawn," said state government spokesman K.B Jandial.
That was easy to see in Garkhal.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
By now one would conclude about the rest. But then this tiny bit..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The attacks by several thousand Hindu villagers were sparked, villagers say, by rumours a Muslim boy had attacked a Hindu girl.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Alistair mahashay then shrugs it off and continues ...
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But this kind of religious conflict has been extremely rare for decades in Jammu, and few have doubts to why it happened now.
"This is all hundred percent linked to the shrine issue," said Hamid Choudhary, leader of Muslim Front Jammu, a group formed by Muslim leaders to sooth religious tensions.
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