Asalamualaikum guys and welcome to Smile 2 Jannah. A lot of people have
been messaging me to make a video about what's going on in Kashmir.
Before I begin, here's a quick background. Indian-administered Kashmir is a Muslim
majority area, which is under Indian rule. This mismatch of leadership and
demographic has led to the people rebelling and wanting to join either
Pakistan or being outright independent, either way being against the Indian rule.
Now this has made the area very unstable causing India to employ a whopping half
a million troops, making it one of the most militarized areas on the planet.
India has repeatedly violated human rights- which is a very mild way of
putting it- and using extreme force to suppress any opposition.
What's going on now?
There's two incidents that we're
gonna focus on. The first incident: this was an annual Hindu 45-day pilgrimage to
a Himalayan cave shrine, and this was taking place. So India claimed that
it received intelligence suggesting an attack on these pilgrimage routes and so
asked all of the pilgrims and tourists to evacuate straightaway.
The 2nd incident was the Indian Army said it had foiled an attempt by Pakistani militants
across the border (of Pakistani Kashmir and Indian Kashmir) killing several
attackers... Pakistan denies this, and accuses India of attacking civilians
across this border line in an area called the Neelum Valley with cluster
munitions, which is in violation of international law, again India denies this.
Now in war the first casualty is truth.
Someone's clearly lying, and using this to further their agenda. Now they know
that the international community can't verify who it is and it's gonna be India's
word against Pakistan's word. So in the end it's gonna come down to the strength
of propaganda and the influence that the country has and that's naturally in the favor of India.
One of the biggest terrorists... we have to counter terrorism... and to
neutralize that terrorist one terrorist has been neutralized... terror threat... some
terrorists may have been filtrated... terror attack from Pakistan... those terrorists will...
Now let's deal with the suspicious acts which point
towards a hostile takeover of some kind from India.
Okay now there's been terrorist attacks that happened in the area before, but
consider the following: There's already half a million troops there but an additional
10,000 have been sent, mobile networks and the Internet has been restricted,
schools have been closed, curfew restrictions have been
added. So people are literally shut out from the outside world, from each other,
local politicians are put under house arrest even if they're pro India.
OK now let's look at the timing of all of this. Considering Pakistan is working with the u.s. to
resolve the conflict in Afghanistan, that could mean a problem for India, as that
would mean Pakistan would be more focused on Kashmir
Number two: you got Independence Day coming up,
so in the light of independence day those
terrorists will need to be neutralized and ensure that this time
every panchiat ghar in the valley will be celebrating Independence Day in a very big way.
Some might say India is acting in self-defence,
but the majority of the evidence says otherwise and points to
India being the aggressor. Number one: India has refused third-party
mediation, even if it be with the US to such a degree that Indians were furious
when Trump gave the impression that Modi asked him for mediation
No 2 and this is the biggy, article 370 has now been revoked, and this is causing the
most outrage, this was what people were worried about the most.
Now this was the condition with which Indian-administered Kashmir agreed to
join with India in the first place. This article allowed Kashmir to have a
degree of freedom and independence from India. But Hindu nationalists have been
fighting against this for a very long time, the Prime Minister being a Hindu
nationalist himself announced this too when he was running for leadership so
now he's just reenacting what he promised.
Number three considering the area is majority Muslim, the best bet for India would be to
change the demographic, because it's more difficult trying to win those people over.
So there's two ways that they can do this: Firstly install illegal settlements
like Israel's done in Palestine- as hinted by a BJP (correction: member) and secondly to
revoke article 35A and that's just a ticking time bomb. Article 35A prevents
people from outside the state from buying land in the territory.
Naturally when this is revoked, this would get like an influx of rich Indians
literally buying out Kashmir and that would inevitably lead it to be a part of
India. When these two things are revoked, naturally there's going to be backlash
from the people, so you got all these troops there that are
there to kind of suppress any outbursts, with the curfews, and you're not
allowed to meet or organize any public rallies and the borders being tightened
up between India Pakistan so Pakistan won't be able to
assist either. So it does seem like a hostile takeover. India is playing a very
smart game, it's not revealing too much, it's putting its foundation in place so
when this hostile takeover happens there's going to be very little resistance.
So in this month of Dhul Hijjah I do ask you guys to make dua for our brothers and
sisters that are in Kashmir. If there's anything that I've missed out or you guys
got any more resources put them in the comments inshaAllah until next time
Asalaamu aleikum