February 22, 2015
The Muslim Takeover of West Bengal
Riots,
restrictions on speech and religion, and the takeover of politics and law
enforcement are just a few of the unwelcome changes that can be expected in
non-Muslim societies as Muslim immigrants increase in number, according to Dr.
Peter Hammond. A Christian missionary based in South Africa and author of
40 books, Hammond delineates how Muslims change societies in his book, Slavery,
Terrorism and Islam. Citing examples of countries worldwide, Hammond outlines typical
activities that occur as the Muslim percentage of the total population
increases. It is a warning bell about the gradual, step-by-step changes
that can be expected in other countries still undergoing significant Muslim immigration.
These
societal changes occur because devout Muslims are bound by a 1,400-year-old
doctrine of immigration originating in Islamic scriptures and based on
Mohammed's migration from Mecca to Medina. Under the religious edict or Hijra,
Islamic expansionism and submission of all non-Muslims to shariah or Islamic
doctrine must occur. Islamic expansionism and its counterpart, jihad, are
first expressed as Muslim demands for special status and privileges within the
host country. A higher percentage of Muslims in the host country can soon
translate into Muslim control of political processes, law enforcement, media,
and the economy, as well as restrictions on freedom of movement, speech and
religious practices. The appropriation of goods and property, as well as
violence with impunity, can also occur.
The
situation in at West Bengal in Hindu-majority India, bordering Muslim-majority
Bangladesh, illustrates the inherent problems to non-Muslim societies of a
growing Muslim population.
West Bengal
Bengal, an
ethno-cultural region, was politically divided in 1947 during the partitioning
of British India into independent India and Pakistan. Under this
arrangement, the Bengal province was carved in two: the predominately-Hindu
West Bengal, a state of India, and the predominately-Muslim East Bengal, which
became a province of Pakistan and, in 1971, the Muslim-majority country of
Bangladesh.
At
partitioning, the Muslim population of West Bengal stood at 12% and the Hindu
population of East Bengal 30%. Today, with massive Muslim immigration,
Hindu persecution and forced conversions, West Bengal’s Muslim population has
increased to 27% (up to 63% in some districts), as per the 2011 census and
Bangladesh’s Hindu population has decreased to 8%. While the situation
for Hindus in Bangladesh is certainly dire, life has become increasingly
difficult for Hindus in West Bengal, home to a Muslim-appeasing government and
a breeding ground and safe haven for terrorists. For several years, West Bengal
has suffered under apparent Muslim-planned riots designed to implement shariah,
extract government concessions and grab more territory.
Kolkata
Riots
In 2007, a
violent protest broke out in Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) against
Bangladeshi feminist author, physician and human rights activist, Taslima
Nasreen. The demonstrations against Nasreen were a thinly veiled attempt to
institute Islamic blasphemy laws and curtail freedom of speech.
Nasreen, who
was born a Bangladeshi Muslim but chose atheism, had witnessed the horrific
treatment of Islamic women in her medical practice, and advocated for freedom
of expression, women’s rights, non-Muslim rights and abolition of shariah
law. In 1993, she published a novel, Lajja (Shame)
about a Hindu family persecuted by Muslims. The novel ignited a furor in
the Muslim community, which called for a ban on the book and offered a bounty
for her death. The novel was subsequently banned by Indian
authorities. Nasreen was physically attacked, went into hiding and
escaped from Bangladesh to Europe. After 10 years’ exile, she returned to
the east and settled in Kolkata. Her Bangladeshi passport had been
revoked and she waited several years for a visa to be able to visit
India. While in Kolkata, she continued to write articles critical of
Islam despite renewed threats and calls for her beheading.
In November
2007, a protest organized by militant Muslims against Nasreen led to riots as
Muslims blocked traffic, pelted police and journalists, torched cars and
damaged buses. Similar to the justification for the Charlie Hebdo murders
in Paris, West Bengali Muslims protested the violation of shariah blasphemy
law, which mandates death for anyone who dares to criticize Islam. The
army was forced to intervene, Nasreen was placed under house arrest and later
forced to leave the area. The banned Student Islamic Movement of India
(SIMI) and the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) were believed to have
fostered the mayhem.
Canning
District Riots
In 2013,
Muslims in West Bengal were actively lobbying for a second partition of India
to create an Islamic super state – Mughalistan – that
would incorporate Pakistan, Bangladesh and parts of India. Meanwhile,
ethnic divisions were also stirred up by an upcoming local election. Into
this charged situation, the murder of a Muslim cleric by unidentified
assailants sparked outrage among Muslims, as thousands mobilized for rioting in
the Canning District. An article in a popular weekly publication, Organiser, called the
attack “a well organized and meticulously planned attack on Hindus.” Over
200 Hindu homes were looted and firebombed, hundreds of temples and idols
destroyed, and vehicles set on fire amid shouts of “Allah-hu Akbar!”
Repeated calls for help by Hindus went unanswered by the police. Local
residents claimed authorities were complicit with the Muslim mobs.
Violence in
Usti
This January
29th, in a market in the Kolkata suburb of Usti, more than 50 Hindu shops were
ransacked, looted and gutted by rampaging jihadists. Police mostly
watched as bombs were hurled at Hindus indiscriminately. They fired a few
random shots into the air and detained victimized Hindu shop owners while their
attackers roamed free. A legislative assembly member and the state minister for
minority affairs reportedly demanded that local police release the few rioters
held in custody. There was limited reporting by the mainstream media that
didn’t specify the Muslim identity of the perpetrators and West Bengal’s Chief
Minister, Mamata Banerjee, issued no statement about the violence.
Independent sites, Indiafacts and Hindu
Samhati, reported
the incident with numerous photographs.
Political
Implications
With a 27%
Muslim population, enough pressure exists to tip the scales for elected
officials precariously toward advancement of an Islamist agenda and make
Muslims the most privileged class in West Bengal. In some areas, such as
the border district of Murshidabad, which is over 63% Muslim, de facto shariah
is imposed on all residents. The vast majority of political candidates,
elected officials and law enforcement leadership are Muslim and the economic
prospects for Hindus dim as Muslims refuse to patronize non-Muslim businesses.
Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has received official visits from Hillary Clinton
and several U.S. ambassadors, offers a prime example of a political leader who
expediently favors Muslim constituents, capitulates to their many demands and
entices them with special benefits and privileges. The reality of Muslim
vote bank politics, whereby an entire Muslim community votes along lines
dictated by the local imam or religious leader, adds to the problem and
furthers Muslim control of the state. Banerjee has gone so far in her
Muslim sympathies as to publicly recite the Kalima Shahadat, the Islamic conversion prayer,
in front of an audience of imams.
Because West
Bengal’s Muslims were largely responsible for her election as chief minister,
Banerjee has made substantial payback. She approved and validated the
academic degrees of 10,000 previously unrecognized Saudi-funded and controlled
madrasas (Islamic colleges) four minarets (Muslim towers), honorariums for
imams and an exclusively Islamic township. Banerjee called for the
establishment of Muslim medical, technical and nursing schools with special
subsidies for Muslim students, as well as Muslim-only hospitals. She has
favored Muslims to the extent of distributing free bicycles and rail passes to
female Muslim students and laptops to Muslim boys. Banerjee’s political
party, the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), will most likely send more
Islamists to serve in parliament in the future. Reportedly, jihadist
sleeper cells inhabit the area under her protection. Meanwhile, the needs
of Hindu refugees from Bangladesh are ignored, even as they continue being
victimized in West Bengal.
In June of
2014, Mamata Banerjee made a highly questionable appointment, Rajya Sabha, to
the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Despite multiple warnings from the District Intelligence
Bureau that had red-flagged him for instigating violence against Hindus,
including alleged participation in the Kolkata and Canning riots and sheltering
known terrorists, she selected Pakistani Hassan Imran to serve as MP. Imran is
a founder and self-admitted member of the radical student group, the Student
Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), a recognized terrorist organization banned by
the Indian government. He founded and edited a radical weekly magazine,
Kalam, which he later turned into a daily newspaper, Dainik Kalam, and sold to
the Saradha Group, a financial conglomerate with ties to West Bengal government
officials. The publication has advocated for the establishment of
Muslim-controlled areas in the state under shariah. Hassan has close ties
to local Islamist leaders and has worked with Jamat-e-Islami (JI), a pro-Saudi
jihadist group supported by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
He also has ties to a chief official of the Islamic Development Bank, a Saudi
entity that has financed Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood affiliate, the
Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in
the Holy Land Foundation terrorism funding trial in the United States. JI
and the ISI have been linked to efforts to take over the Indian state of Assam
and separate it from India.
The
Saudi-funded terrorist group Jamaat-ul-Mujahadeen, also linked to MP Hassan
Imran, has a major base in West Bengal, including bomb-manufacturing units, and
has used Wahhabi money to build mosques throughout the state. The Muslim
call to prayer is blasted by loudspeaker from early in the morning to late at
night and some thoroughfares in the Muslim districts of Kolkata are closed to
all traffic for Friday prayers.
Recently,
Hassan and other associates of Mamata Banerjee were implicated in a financial
scandal – a Ponzi scheme with the Saradha Group – and things are starting to
unravel for the chief minister. A major investigation of a consortium of
200 private companies that collected between $4 – 6 billion from over 1.7
million depositors before it collapsed, may bring down her reign in West
Bengal. Her MP appointee, Hassan, is believed to have acted as a liaison
between Jamaat-e-Islami and the money launderers.
Bangladesh
Hindus of
West Bengal need only look across the border to Bangladesh to see their future
if Muslim immigration continues and the Muslim population exceeds the current
27%. In Bangladesh, with an 89% Muslim population, ethnic cleansing persists
unabated, Hindu land is forcibly captured and Hindu homes and businesses
looted. People are commonly beaten with no police intervention.
Hindus have been tortured and forced to pay the jizya, a tax that non-Muslims
are required to pay for protection against Muslim terrorism. Hindu girls,
even married women, have been raped, mutilated, kidnapped, enslaved and forced
to marry Muslim men. Law enforcement authorities are often complicit in
the activities and provide no protection or recourse. Victims are
typically threatened if they report incidents to the police. Often, in the case
of abduction, police refuse to register complaints and make claims that
consensual intercourse has taken place even if the girl is 9 or 10 years old, a
non-minor under Islamic standards.
Kidnapped
Hindu girls who manage to escape report that they were taken to Muslim families
in which relatives and friends were invited to rape them over several days
while Muslim women facilitated the encounters.
This dire future could possibly be avoided in West Bengal, where some
speculate that the Saradha financial scandal could go far in exposing Mamata
Banerjee’s dangerous ties to Islamists who seek to wrest control of West Bengal
from Hindus. If her government falls as a result, it could be the wake-up
call needed to turn the current situation around. It could also serve as
an example to other countries facing increasing Muslim immigration and
increasing imposition of Muslim values on non-Muslims.
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