Wednesday say ISIS gunmen attacked a Sikh temple in central Kabul . At least 25 people were killed in the temple, and Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry reported that they’d ultimately killed all the attackers.
Afghanistan has a small population of Sikhs, an estimated 8,000, mostly in big cities like Kabul. ISIS and other militants are keen to attack religious minorities, and the Afghan government has struggled to provide security for them.
During Taliban rule, the Sikhs were largely tolerated, if not treated equally. ISIS has attacked them often in the past few years, and many Sikhs have sought asylum in India as a result.
The gunmen who infiltrated the temple included one dressed in a police uniform who shot the guard outside the temple, forcing his way in. Once inside, ISIS gunmen were shooting pretty much everybody, and all the deaths are apparently civilians.
The Afghan Sikh and Hindu population have repeatedly said that they were much better off under the Taliban.
The same as Christian populations are/were better off under Syria’s Assad.
Relatively small potatoes–nearly 2k Muslims were killed by Hindus in India in the destruction of a mosque in 1992. And, more recently, more than 1k Muslims were killed in the state of Gujarat while current PM Modi was it’s chief minister, and the police stood aside during the carnage.
Well, I guess that makes it OK, thanks for keeping score.
Bozo, the point was little coverage was given in the western media to the killing of muslims.
PS: considered moving to isreal. LOL
This is why Khalistan remains a valid movement. The Sikh’s are a stateless people without autonomous democratic representation.