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2019-10-31 India-Pakistan
India moves to divide occupied Jammu and Kashmir amid harsh security clampdown, protests
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Posted by Fred 2019-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [19 views ]  Top
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#1 Have demonstrated that they're incapable of self-rule...
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-31 02:10||   2019-10-31 02:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The disempowerment of islamists became a realistic target, by equalizing the unfair distribution of representative power in the state. Splitting it up also isolates the majorly muslim part from the un-troublesome secular ones, and the removal of special status allows non-salafist candidates to represent the region.

The silencing of insurgent and secessionist leaderships was more important than the islamophile whimsies of liberals and global media. 26 elements of varying fealty have already been offed in the valley, some of the tricky ones are disguised as regular folks or embedded with families for some years.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-31 05:59||   2019-10-31 05:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I could be wrong but I'd understood Kashmir had Hindu leadership but a primarily Muslim population and the other article indicated Jammu had a high hindu population. If true division would seem logical although it might make it harder for India to justify Kashmir as being Indian property if a super-majority of the population wants to be poor militant Pakistani.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-10-31 11:40||   2019-10-31 11:40|| Front Page Top

#4 ...if a super-majority of the population wants to be poor militant Pakistani.

That's just it, rjschwarz. They don't. And the ones who do, their voices don't matter to us. No, Kashmir doesn't have any hindu leadership as yet, and establishing that will be very hard, not to mention violent.

Some background.

Before the adventurism of Pakistain in the 80s, the two communities were intertwined such as to be inseparable. The 'Stain's attacks were fought off by muslims as well as hindus until '71. In the 80s, the clerics of the Jamaat, emboldened by CIA largesse began to take liberties in the subcontinent. They fueled secession through islamism and jihad, wiping out the hindus from the Kashmir portion and occupying their properties and businesses. They could not maintain a foothold in the Jammu region simply because there were more masjids in Kashmir and more temples in Jammu. Are we learning, world ?

They could not dilute the solidarity of most localities, even within Kashmir. The Kashmiris just lay low under imposed sharia for years, while their children grew in that environment. Their causes and themes were tutored by the Jamaats who borrowed from the 'paleostine' cause of Arab youth. The majority on the Kashmir side today are a different people, educated on the internet by Paki mullahs, aided and abetted by Qatari and Saudi money (college fees, scholarships, NGOs etc). These elements grew richer and more connected, as the nationalist generation grew older, the voices of reason faded into the background. Which is why if you talk to any old resident of the valley they'll just shrug and give you a hopeless look; but you talk to a 'yute' from kashmir they'll launch into a spittle rain about everything from islamophobia to Che Guevara.

It is these rebels that have the loudest voices, web presence, jobs in globalist media, aides and campaign staffers of western politicians. And that's why the narrative is skewed toward 'India is oppressing Kashmiris'. According to them we should leave them alone to build a caliphate there.

And we'll kill every last one if necessary but all Kashmir will one day chant stupid hindu chants, by Gawd.☺
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-31 12:38||   2019-10-31 12:38|| Front Page Top

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