Jehad against Humanity

The western world has just been exposed to the expansionist and destructive philosophy of radical Islam. The acts and venomous rhetoric of these radical Islamists has shaken the liberal core of Europe. The Europeans and the most of Western world are at loss to comprehend the viral force that they are confronted with. May be they could take some lessons from Punjabis in general and Sikhs in particular.

Radical Islamists in Europe

Background on Jehad

Radical Islamists take their cue from the writings of Quran and Suras that asserts that Islam must be supreme among religions. Members of all religions other than Islam are classified as 'Kuffars' - and their followers as Kafirs or infidels who must be humiliated and in some cases exterminated. Jews and Christians who accept the supremacy of Islam are dhimmis (zimmis) who are allowed to live in subjugation, although the Koran requires that all Jews must be exterminated eventually.

Sharia, Jehad, and Infidels

Sikhs (together with Hindus, Buddhists and Pagans) are classified as Harbis - people who are at war with Islam. (The Harbis don't need to do anything to annoy Muslims. The Harbis' mere existence is itself an act of war. A Harbi has no rights, not even the right to live. Consequently, fanatical Islamists have persecuted Sikhs from the origins of the religion in 16th century India, and continue to attack them to the present day.

Execution of Guru Arjan Dev

Guru Arjan was arrested under the orders of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir and asked to convert to Islam. He refused, was tortured and executed in 1606 CE. According to Jahangir's autobiography Tuzk-e-Jahangiri (Jahangirnama), too many people were becoming persuaded by Guru Arjan's teachings and if Guru Arjan did not become a Muslim, the Sikh Panth had to be extinguished.

Execution of Guru Arjan based on Sharia law

Execution of Guru Teg Bahadur

The Tarikh-i-Firishta records that Sultãn Sikandar Butshikan of Kashmir (AD 1389-1413) persecuted Hindus and issued orders proscribing the residence of any other than Muslims in Kashmir “Many of the brahmins, rather than abandon their religion or their country, poisoned themselves; some emigrated from their native homes , while a few escaped the evil of banishment by becoming Mahomedans. After the emigration of the bramins, Sikundur ordered all the temples in Kashmeer to be thrown down”

Sikh archives note how Guru Tegh Bahadur helped save Kashmiri Hindus from forcible conversion by representing them in a debate against the Muslim clergy in Delhi. He was told to accept Islam at the pain of death. To prove his word the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. tortured to death the members of the Guru's entourage one after the other. But Guru Tegh Bahadur did not lose his composure and calmly demanded a halt to the repressive policies. Wanting to teach a lesson to the obstinate Guru and to set an example to his followers the emperor ordered that the Guru to be beheaded in public.

Attempt to Intimidate and Execution of Guru Teg Bahadur

Jehad against Guru Gobind Singh
When Guru Tegh Bahadur was martyred, his son Guru Gobind Singh was determined to carry out the struggle against Mughal oppression. He undertook a radical transformation of the Sikh religion by estabilishing a new religious order of Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib,Alarm bells were rang in the Mughal empire as well as the orthodox clergy. Sufi Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624), wrote several letters to the courtiers of Mughal empire protesting their “liberal policies towards Sikhs”. Here is an excerpt from letter No. 163:

“…The honour of Islam lies in insulting kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonors the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya (editor’s note: religious head tax) on them is to humiliate them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain terrified and trembling. It is intended to hold them under contempt and to uphold the honour and might of Islam…”

Under Sirhindi’s influence, Emperor Aurangzeb rescinded concessions made to Hindus by predecessors, re-instituted classic jizya tax and  renewed jihad in India.

Siege of Anandpur Sahib by Jehadi forces

Jehad against Sikhs

Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was a Sikh General who avenged the assassination of Guru Gobind Singh and execution of his young sons by the Nawab of Sirhind. He punished the Mughals and established Sikh rule in Northern India. Mughal emperor Farukhsiyar made a call for Jehad against Banda Singh and Sikhs. The Jehadi army besieged then overtook the Sikh fortress of  Gurdas Nangal in Gurdaspur, Punjab.

“3000-4000 were put to the sword, and he filled that extensive plain with blood as if it had been a dish.  Their heads were stuffed with hay and stuck upon spears.   Those who escaped the sword were sent in collars and chains to the emperor.... As to the rest of the prisoners, it was ordered that  200-300 of the wretches should be put to death everyday before the Kotwals office and in the streets of the bazaar...”   The Sikh leader had to kill his son or have him killed in his presence!

(historian Kufi Khan in Sookdheo p 265)

Execution of Sikhs in Delhi

Jehad against Maharaja Ranjit Singh

Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi in British India (1786-1831) was Sufi reformer from Bareli in Central India who aimed to purify Indian Islam by developing a reform movement in 1818.  He is regarded as a Mujaddid (even a Mahdi).   Arriving in Peshawar valley in late 1826, Sayyid Ahmad and one thousand followers made their base in Charsadda village in Harinagar. Barelvi preached Jehad among the local Pashtun tribes, demanding they renounce their tribal customs and adopt the Shariat.

Sikh army battling Barelvi's Jehadis

In 1826 he launched a jihad against the Sikh kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Punjab.  He died in battle against the Sikhs at Balakot in 1831. Realizing his Mujahideen forces were encircled by the Sikhs, Ahmed ordered a headlong charge. A bloody slaughter commenced in which the Mujhaideen were rapidly dispatched to their resting graves. It is believed that 1,300 Mujhaideen blindly lost their lives that fateful day, with Sikhs receiving only a few casualties. The fanatic jihad met it's demise in a bloody fashion in two days.  

Jehad during Partition of India in 1947

Hindu/Muslim tension grew over who would rule India after British leave the country. The founding father of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah demanded an Islamic Pakistan (Land of the pure) to keep Muslims safe from the Hindus.  The ethnic cleansing was initiated to rid Pakistan of all "Infidels". The Partition related riots caused over a million deaths. Hundreds of thousands were saughtered in the name of religion and properties burned all over Punjab. Estimated 100,000 predominantly Hindu and Sikh women were raped while  thousands were enslaved and carried away to be married to Muslims.

Sikhs protecting women during parition

Jehad against Sikhs in Pakistan

The Taliban militias in Pakistan appear to have turned their sights on the country's small and vulnerable Sikh minority. If reports appearing in some Pakistani newspapers are correct, Taliban leaders have transformed Islamic sacred jurisprudence into an instrument of oppression. Sikh and Hindu owned businesses are targeted for attack and men kidnapped for ransom. Sikh, Hindu, and Christian children are systematically harassed and bullied in schools and colleges.

Beheading by Taliban

Hundreds of Sikh families living in Orakzai Agency in NW Frontier province of Pakistans have left the agency after the Taliban demanded Rs 50 million as Jazia (tax) from them. To set an example, Taliban last year demolished 11 houses of the Sikh community in the Orakzai Agency for refusing to pay ‘jizya’. “Sharia had been enforced in the area and every non-Muslim has to pay protection money”, Hakimullah Mehsud had announced. Mehsud, who became the chief of the Pakistani Taliban.

Surjeet Singh kidnapped by Taliban for ransom

In 2014, three Sikh youths were beheaded by the Taliban in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) region after they allegedly refused to convert to Islam. The Sikh youths -- identified as Jaspal Singh, Sarabjit Singh and Baronat Singh -- had gone to recover the money owed to them by some people in the FATA region adjoining Afghanistan, when they were abducted by the Taliban militia. They were allegedly told by the Taliban to embrace Islam or face death. When the Sikh youth refused, their heads were chopped and sent to the Bhai Joga Singh Gurudwara in Peshawar.

Sikhs Targeted in the West

Sikhs have been targeted in UK, US, and even in Australia by these Jehadi youths. A gang of racist youths nearly killed a man during an armed rampage in Impex, an Indian owned grocery store in Melbourne's Sunshine district yelling "are you Indian?" as they randomly struck their victim. Indian student Sukhraj Singh, 28, was in a coma for 15 days and will suffer the effects of a severe acquired brain injury for the rest of his life after being beaten during the assault. Seven Muslim youths of Somali, Pakistani, and Lebanese origin were sentenced for this attack. In sentencing one of the attackers, Zakarie Hussein, 21, of Braybrook, Judge Pamela Jenkins said today the group had deliberately targeted victims of Indian ethnicity in the "unprovoked rampage".

Two Muslim boys of Pakistani origin attacked a 15 year old Sikh student in a school bathroom in New York and cut his hair. The attack happened around 12 p.m. in a boy’s bathroom near the Elmhurst school’s cafeteria. Ahmed allegedly went at Harpal with the scissors after a heated exchange.“I have to cut your hair,” Ahmed said before the snipping, according to prosecutors.
“This ring is Allah. If you don’t let me cut your hair, I will punch you with this ring,” Ahmed said.

Harpal Singh whose hair was cut by Pakistani Gang

The 2014 Saharanpur Riots occurred on 25 July in the city of Saharanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. The riots occurred between Muslims, incited by Muharram Ali Pappu, and Sikhs protecting a mob attack on their Gurdwara. Muslims mobs supporting Pappu came together from Saharanpur, Moradabad and Muzaffarnagar, and attacked members of Gurdwara Singh Sabha using guns and swords. The fighting led to the death of 3 people and left 33 injured. Shops of other Sikhs were set on fire by the mob that was responded by burning of Muslim shops in the vicinity.Three people were killed and several were injured.

A Sikh confronting the mobs attacking Sikh Gurdwara

In April 2016, German Police arrested two North Africam Muslim teenagers in connection with a bomb attack on a Sikh temple in the western German city of Essen. The bomb exploded at a temple belonging to the Sikh Gurdwara Nanaksar congregation on Saturday at around 7 pm, wounding three people – one of them, a Sikh priest, seriously. These teenagers were linked to the Salafist Movement, an Islamic fundamentalist scene in Europe.

Jehadi attack on Sikh Temple in Essen, Germany

Three British Muslim men have appeared in court accused of the murder of Chatham pensioner Harjit Chaggar. The body of retired machinist Mrs Chaggar, 69, was found at the Sani Globe food store in Luton Road, Chatham, on Saturday, September 14, 2014. Mohammed Islam, 29, from Gillingham, and Murshed Miah, 38, from Maidstone, attacked Harjit Chaggar at the store in Chatham, Kent.

69 year old Harjit Chaggar

Love Jehad and Grooming of Sikh Girls

Young "Love Jehadis" pose as Sikhs and dupe Sikh girls into love affairs, prostitution, and ultimately conversion. These motivated young men are encouraged to use whatever means necessary (taqiyya) to convert Sikh and Hindu girls to Islam, in order to provide more wombs for the demographic jihad.
Sikh and Hindu girls have been taken to Pakistan by their boyfriends and forcibly converted. Those resisting are passed on to other Muslim men who keep the girl under lock and key, In some cases these unsuspecting Sikh and Hindu girls are photographed or filmed naked by their boyfriends, and are told to convert or else the photos will be published on internet and sent to the girls family.

A TV documentary has exposed the grooming of Sikh children for sexual abuse allegedly by mainly Muslim gangs. The BBC's Inside Out broadcasted a 30-minute investigation into the abuse of Sikh girls, following the jailing last week of a grooming gang for a raft of child sex offences.

The message circulated by 'Students of Muslim Youth Forum' in India encourages Muslim boys to trap girls from other communities in love and tie the knot. The message says: “If a Muslim youth marries a Hindu Brahmin girl, he would be awarded with Rs 5 lakhs, similarly if someone gets hitched with a Sikh Punjabi girl, he would be given Rs 7 lakhs.”

Pakistanis Youth accused of grooming Sikh Girls

The Derby sex gang was a group of pakistani men who sexually abused up to a hundred British and Sikh girls in Derby, England. After an undercover investigation by Derbyshire police, members of the group were charged with 75 offences relating to 26 girls. Nine of the 13 accused were convicted of grooming and raping girls between 12 and 18 years old.

Sikhs struggle against Jehad

Unlike the complete Islamization of Persia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Turkey, North Africa, the Islamization of India was never complete. After more than one millennium of Muslim Tyranny from 715 up to 1761, more than 70 percent of the population of India remained faithful to their native religions - Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism.

Unlike the Persians, the Sikhs never surrendered to the Jehadi tyrants. They waged a relentless and armed struggle against the forcible conversions. It was the valiant Sikh resistance that put an end to the tyrannical rule and forced conversions in Northern India. The Sikh Gurus successfully confronted the Islamist clergy on the concept of supremacy of one religion and initiated inter-faith dialogue for secular harmony.  The reason for Indians survived thirteen centuries of savage tyranny was that they gave back almost as much as they got from the Jehadis. A train full of Sikh and Hindu bodies mutilated and copped in religious frenzy arrived at Amritsar railway station for twelve consecutive days. Then this frenzy suddenly stopped when a train full of innocent Muslim bodies was dispatched to Pakistan.

Here is must be clearly stated that Sikhs have nothing against Islam and they respect the liberal Sufis who advocate love for god and denounce Sharia. In fact, the writings of some of these Sufi saints is preserved in the Sikh scriptures. We bow everyday to the sacred writings of these Sufis alongside the writings of Sikh Gurus The differences only emerge on the concepts of Jehad and Sharia. The Sikhs do not accept the biased and unequal terms of Sharia that degrades Non-Muslims, women, and advocate supremacy of one religion over the rest. The concept of Jehad is also flawed as it encourages hate, discrimination, and annihilation of people of different religion.

I invite the Muslim readers to respond by publicly denouncing the radical Islamism, Jehad, and hatred for other religions. These concepts have no place in a plural, multi-cultural, multi-religion, and diverse population of modern world. They may start by disowning of radical Islam, reforms in how religion is being taught in mosques and madrasas, and progressive amendments to scriptures and laws of Sharia.

A Muslim mosque rebuilt by Sikh neighbors in Punjab, India