1. Articles in category: Terrorism

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    1. Islam’s War of Annihilation Against Hindus

      A thought-provoking essay written by Narain Kataria, president of the Indian American Intellectuals Forum, sounds a familiar alarm. “Hinduism Faces Eclipse” reveals that “the anti-Hindu forces within and without India are working in tandem on an insidious mission to destroy our civilization and culture, and obliterate Hinduism from the Indian soil.” Kataria further contends that Indians are not facing terrorism, but worldwide jihad, which he calls a “fully globalized franchise ...

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    2. Sunil Tripathi: missing student wrongly identified as Boston Marathon bombing suspect

       Many hours later, the Boston police said both the marathon blast suspects, one dead, the other on the run, had both been identified as men from Chechnya. 
       
      Apologies followed. And the demand for apologies. "Sunil "Sunny" Tripathi, 22, is still missing... I send my deepest regrets for falsely identifying him as a suspect," said a Twitter user, who had earlier tweeted repeatedly about Mr Tripathi as a suspect.

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    3. Blast outside BJP office in Bangalore; 16 injured

      (Reuters) - At least 16 people were injured after a blast near the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Bangalore on Wednesday, police said.

      "Eight policemen who are on duty and by the site of the blast place are injured, and eight civilians are injured," senior Karnataka police official L R Pachuau told reporters in Bangalore.

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    4. Pakistan's Ambitious Program To Re-Educate Militants

      For the most part, these men — like Farooq — aren't driven by religious fanaticism. They stayed with the Taliban because they didn't know any better.

      "The Taliban told me that the Pakistani army was just a puppet of the United States," Farooq says. "They said that we should fight the Pakistani army, wage a jihad against them. And so we did."

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    5. Bangladesh minorities bear brunt of violence

      Bangladesh minorities bear brunt of violence

      Homes and places of worship targeted as violence sweeps country in aftermath of controversial war crimes verdicts.

      A few weeks ago, after Friday prayers, a mob of more than 3,000 people attacked the house of Sadhanchandra Mandal, a Hindu, in southwestern Bangladesh.

      “They attacked our houses shouting slogans such as ... ''We are the Taliban, this Bengal will be Afghan', and looted everything," said 60-year-old Mandal, who said the attackers ...

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    6. Over 1500 Hindu Temples & Homes Damaged by Muslim Mobs in Bangladesh During January to March of 2013

      Upon receiving continued reports of widespread anti-Hinduviolence, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) called upon the U.S. State Department and international community to urgently address the escalating crisis in Bangladesh. According to local Hindu community leaders, over 50 temples and 1,500 Hindu homes have been either damaged or destroyed by Muslim mobs since late January. The latest violence began when the first of three Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) leaders was ...

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    7. Jamaat leader held for inciting anti-Hindus attacks in Bangladesh

      DHAKA: Bangladesh police today arrested a sub-district chairman and local leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for inciting attacks on Hindus and temples in southeasternChittagong as minorities appeared to be targets of past two weeks of violence over 1971 war crimes trial

      "Police and (elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion) RAB teams jointly arrested Banshkhali upazila chairman Alamgir Kabir Chowdhury on charges of inciting violence against Hindu community and attack on their ...

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    8. 'Temples, Hindu houses attacked in Bangladesh'

      Islamic activists have attacked dozens of Hindu temples and homes across Bangladesh since an Islamist leader was sentenced to death last month, a Hindu group said Wednesday. The Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad, an ISKCON-affiliated group that looks after Hindu temples, said 47 temples and at least 700 Hindu houses had been torched or vandalised since the verdict against Delwar Hossain Sayedee.

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    9. Protect Bangladeshi Hindus, says Amnesty

      The report said attacks on Hindus and other minorities were often reported from Bangladesh, especially from the far-flung areas. The latest attack took place on March 6 at Daudkandi in Comilla, where a Hindu temple was vandalised and burnt down. It said on Feb 28 a minority village of Rajganj Bazar in Noakhali was set on fire by the Jamaat supporters. According to Amnesty, Bangladesh’s Hindu minority constitutes only ...

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    10. Inclusive political process, communal harmony a must: Pranab's message to Bangladesh

      His remarks assume significance as Bangladesh has been buffeted by days of violence unleashed by activists of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the trial of its top leaders on charges of war crimes during the 1971 liberation war and attacks on Hindus, their houses and temples in several parts of that country.

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    11. Bangladesh's war-crimes trials - Bloodletting after the fact

      Members of Shibir, the Jamaat’s student wing, and their supporters reacted furiously to the sentence against one of their leaders. Within 24 hours at least 35 people were killed, including four policemen. The police fired into the protesters, shooting dead at least 23 of them. In southern Bangladesh, attacks on the homes and temples of Hindus were reported. By the night of February 28th the government had deployed the ...

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    12. Twenty-one killed in Bangladesh after Jamaat leader ordered hanged

      Police also reported attacks on several Hindu homes and temples by Islamists in the southern Noakhali district.

      Security forces had been braced for trouble ahead of the verdict against Sayedee, who reacted to the judgment by saying it had been influenced by “atheists” and pro-government protesters who have been demanding his execution.

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    13. Jamaat men attack Hindus in Noakhali

      After Jamaat executive council member Delwar Hossain Sayedee was awarded death sentence for 1971 war crimes, the attacks there were carried out from a Jamaat procession protesting the verdict.

      The International Crimes Tribunal-1 earlier in the day had judged that the Jamaat policymaker was to hang for his crimes against humanity including genocide, murder, rape, arson, loot and persecution during the Liberation War. - See more at: http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh ...

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    14. A poignant account of Kashmiri Hindus’ plight

      Rahul Pandita’s book Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits narrates the displacement of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir valley. It is the account of an ethnic community that was forced to leave home and hearth behind and take refuge in an unknown land. The book describes the ethnic cleansing of Pandits from Kashmir at the behest of Islamic extremists/terrorists.

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