Embrace Islam or leave Valley, Sikhs threatened

[seedhi]

Ok .. so is this going to be a replay of 20 years ago when the Pandits were thrown out of Kashmir. For heaven's sake is it not time yet to rethink article 370 and integrate Kashmir valley with India once and for all?

Embrace Islam or leave Valley, Sikhs threatened SRINAGAR: Sikhs in the Kashmir Valley have received anonymous letters from Islamic militants asking them to either embrace Islam and join the protests against civilian killings or pack up and leave the Valley. The 60,000-strong Sikh community is the single largest minority group in the Valley. An organisation of Kashmiri Sikhs said that several community members have received these letters. "Community members have received unsigned letters at various places," said All Party Sikh Coordination Committee (ASCC) coordinator Jagmohan Singh Raina. He said the community has decided to stay put and fight these "evil designs" at a meeting in Srinagar on Thursday. Raina quoted a letter as saying: "When you are enjoying the joys here, why can't you share the grief and sorrow of Kashmiris as well? We know you are afraid of bullets... Hold protests inside gurdwaras or leave Kashmir." He added, "Some letters have asked Sikhs to embrace Islam." Raina urged both factions of the Hurriyat, JKLF and PoK-based United Jihad Council to take serious note of the threats to maintain amity and brotherhood in the Valley. Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has reassured the Sikhs saying they shouldn't feel threatened and should ignore the "fake letters". He assured the community that nobody would force them to join the protests. Earlier, Geelani has made an emotional appeal against forcing minorities to join the protests and said harming them would be like "inflicting a wound on his (Geelani's) body". The state unit of Akali Dal (Badal) president Ajeet Singh Mastana described the threats as acts by anti-social elements. "The threats can't break us and reduce our love for our motherland," he said. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Embrace-Islam-or-leave-Valley-Sikhs-threatened/articleshow/6346853.cms#ixzz0x6z6y1XE

[Sir john]

poor thing.

[yoda]

The bigger issue here is the separatists themselves as their "leader" has at least assured that these letters aren't to be taken seriously. All of them need to be rounded up and put in. If you don't want to be part of India, no point staying free. Alternatively they can choose the option of being deported to our beloved neighbor.

[seedhi]

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: dude time to wakeup .... what they are saying is this : "This is our land now and you will live as per our rules(if you want to stay alive)" . You still "considering" Kashmir as a "integral" part of India means diddly squat to them. There is a bigger issue here which I dont think you or your comrades are even willing to look at for obvious reasons so wont waste my time.

I can see what the "bigger issue" is but nothing can be done about it now. What ever could have been done was in 1947, but since our leadership was perpetually in pursuit of the moral high ground we are stuck with it. But practically at least in the case of Kashmir I cant see how people cannot recognize the pernicious nature of article 370. I dare say even Nehru, had he been alive, would have repealed the act in 1989 itself. Inexplicably we have chosen to keep this wound festering for God knows what.