How Hindus treat others with love
Hinduism == Terrorism. Convert to Islam today. Go to your friendly
neighborhood Mosque and say the kalma, and forget kalima for good. Only
Allah gives Shakti, not kalima.
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On February 19, a group of Thakurs (an upper-caste community) in Lucknow,
Uttar Pradesh, assaulted a Dalit laborer following a wage dispute. The
perpetrators entered the victim's home and pinned him down while the
employer urinated in his mouth. On June 12, assailants beat a Dalit man and
then pushed his wife into a fire, burning her to death. The incident was
quickly followed by a spate of violence, including a June 14 rampage led by
seven Thakurs who killed five members of a Dalit family, including three
women and a ten year-old girl. In Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh in June a Dalit
woman and her five children were burnt alive, allegedly by the staff of a
brick kiln operating unit which had employed the woman and her husband as
bonded laborers.
Conditions in Bihar continued to be marred by a caste war involving rival
leftist factions and upper-caste private militias. In January, fifty houses
were set ablaze and four Dalits were killed in a gun battle. On February 3,
rival gangs gunned down twelve Dalit youths, killing nine of them, and
subsequently set their homes on fire; on April 18, militants belonging to
the Maoist Communist Center killed four**** Dalits. In August, a village in
Patna was attacked, killing six Dalit women and children.
Dalits also continued to face considerable opposition in exercising their
political rights. On October 16 in Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu, an
entire Dalit village was razed after Dalits dared to nominate their own
candidate to the post of village council president. More than 140 houses
were destroyed by members of the upper-caste community in the area,
rendering eight hundred Dalits homeless. Many were also physically assaulted
during the attacks. One pregnant woman was kicked in the stomach, aborted
her child, and died later that day. Police charged protesting Dalit
villagers with batons and arrested more than twenty-two Dalits while the
upper-caste attackers remained at-large.
Social prohibitions on marriages between higher and lower-caste community
members remained in place and were often reinforced through the threat of
social ostracism and punitive violence. On August 6, 2001, an upper-caste
Brahmin boy and a lower-caste Jat girl in Uttar Pradesh were dragged to the
roof of a house and publicly hanged by members of their own families as
hundreds of spectators looked on. The public lynching was punishment for
refusing to end an inter-caste relationship. Also in August, a
forty-year-old Dalit woman was paraded ***** in Bellary, Karnataka after
being accused of helping a fif****-year-old upper-caste girl elope with her
lower-caste fiancé.
Dalits were often beaten or fined for participating in religious ceremonies.
On April 3 in Bargarh, Orissa, for example, a Dalit was fined Rs. 4,000
(U.S. $83.42) and beaten for entering a Hindu temple. On June 2 in
Bhadkiyan, Rajasthan, an upper-caste man beat to death a sixty-five-year-old
Dalit man with an iron bar for daring to pray outside the temple of the
village deity.
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