Former US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard took to Twitter on Friday to flag the non secular persecution of Hindu non secular minorities of Bangladesh. Calling upon the world to work in the direction of Islamist extremism, the previous US presidential candidate additionally condemned the systematic homicide, rape of Bengali Hindus by the Pakistani Army.
Raising issues in regards to the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Bengali Hindu in consequence of their faith and ethnicity, Tulsi stated that March 25, 1971 marked the day when concentrating on of Hindus in Bangladesh by the Pak military started.
“It began in Hindu neighborhoods and villages, first at Jagannath Hall, which was a Hindu dormitory in Dhaka University, where five to ten thousand people were killed on that first night alone,” Tulsi was quoted saying in the video.
Hindus & non secular minorities in Bangladesh proceed to be focused & persecuted, as they’ve been since 1971 when the Pakistani military systematically murdered, raped & drove from their houses hundreds of thousands of Bengali Hindus as a result of of their faith & ethnicity. pic.twitter.com/4DVWibzrkT— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) April 2, 2021
She additionally recalled how this persecution went on for 10 months ensuing in 3 million deaths, uncountable rapes, and a scenario that pressured virtually 10 million folks to flee the nation.
In her video, Tulsi Gabbard talked about US Senator Ted Kennedy’s go to to refugee camps who noticed the genocidal marketing campaign in opposition to Hindus.
She stated that persecution of Hindus and different non secular minorities in Bangladesh didn’t finish with Bangladesh’s independence, it continued far past and led to the autumn of the Hindu inhabitants in the nation from 33 to a mere 8 p.c.
She stated the current assaults in opposition to Hindu temples in Bangladesh in the wake of Prime Minister Modi’s go to to the nation, whereby scores of extremists destroyed trains, set buildings, and press golf equipment ablaze.
Making her case, she lastly appealed to the leaders of the US and different international locations to look at corrective measures in opposition to such extremists whose ideology holds that each one non-Muslims and different heretical Muslims must be purged from the face of the earth. She warned that if well timed measures usually are not taken then the jihadist would proceed to unfold terror all through the world.
Earlier in an interview with Fox News, Tulsi Gabbard had linked “cancel culture” a time period used to explain the backlash confronted by individuals who say or do offensive issues to extremist teams like Isis and Al Qaeda.
