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April 26, 2025, a profound and heartfelt candlelight vigil brought together hundreds of Hindus, Jews, and Iranians in a powerful display of unity and compassion. Organized by several Hindu Canadian organizations, this gathering in Mel Lastman Square, Toronto, honored the innocent souls brutally massacred by Islamist terrorists on April 22. Despite the chilling winds and somber atmosphere, the air was filled with a shared sense of grief, resolve, and hope as hundreds of (500+) people from diverse backgrounds stood shoulder to shoulder, their candles flickering as symbols of remembrance and resistance against hatred. With heavy hearts, the crowd offered prayers for the departed, their voices rising together in a chorus of condemnation against the religiously motivated killings that tore families apart. The vigil was more than a moment of mourning—it was a call to action, a reminder that humanity must stand united against such atrocities. After deeply moving prayers, the group embarked on a candlelit march, each step a testament to their collective strength and commitment to justice. The message was clear: we must speak out against violence, hold those responsible accountable, and work tirelessly to protect the values that bind us as human beings. This vigil was a beacon of solidarity, but the work continues. We invite you to join us in this fight for humanity by taking action: 1. Engage, empower, and protect our shared humanity against forces that seek to divide and destroy. 2. Organize a candlelight vigil in your community or temple to honor the victims and raise awareness. 3. Urge local politicians to publicly condemn this horrific attack on Hindus and advocate for justice. Let’s carry forward this spirit of resilience and unity, ensuring that love and compassion prevail over hatred. Together, we can make a difference. #hinducanadian #hindu #hinducanadianfoundation #pahalgamterroristattack #pahalgamattack #kashmir #hindu #canada @CBCNews @baps_toronto @TorontoStar @globalnewsto @CTVNews @CTVToronto @TAGTVCANADA

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Today in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Hindu Forum Canada and Hindu organizations, joined by the Jewish, Iranian, Baloch, and wider Canadian communities, stood together in unwavering solidarity against the Islamist-Jihadi terror unfolding in Kashmir, India. Together, we honoured the victims with a solemn candlelight vigil. As Prime Minister @netanyahu warned, "What happened in Israel can happen anywhere" — and now, Kashmir bears witness to the same Islamist-Jihadi brutality. Terrorism does not stop at borders — it spreads wherever it is ignored. Yet, where is the outrage from those who raised their voices for Palestine? Indian Muslims who organized massive protests in support of Gaza have now gone silent as their fellow Indian citizens — Hindus — are slaughtered by the same radical ideology. This is not merely a national issue; it is a global issue rooted in religious extremism. The double standards are glaring: when Hindus are the victims, the so-called secular voices disappear. For decades, Hindus and other minorities have faced an ongoing campaign of massacres, forced displacement, and cultural erasure. Today, we say clearly: silence is complicity. We stand united — for peace, for justice, and for humanity. @narendramodi @CIJAinfo @bnaibrithcanada @Tafsikorg @BALOCHHRC @gghamari @tirarepublic @liberal_party @PierrePoilievre @theJagmeetSingh @MaximeBernier @RebelNewsOnline @DanielBordmanOG

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@BonnieCrombie @fordnation Silence on anti-Hindu violence is not neutrality—it's complicity. Please raise your voice for the victims of the Kashmir terror attack. #JusticeForHindus #EndExtremism

Taliban has condemned the attack in Kashmir. But Canada has not.

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#BREAKING: Taliban Government of Afghanistan condemns the Pahalgam terror attack in Kashmir by the Pakistani terrorists.

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The birth of a Hindu is the wick of a lamp, destined to burn away in a storm of its own making. Lambs dare not sip where predators lap, for the stream divides the meek from the merciless. The unconstitutional arrest of #ChinmoyKrishnaDas stands as a chilling echo of injustice, a crack in the edifice of liberty. Gaze back through the corridors of history, and you’ll find no shadow of Hindus sowing terror against any other sect—only an expanse of quiet, untouched by such blight. Instead, Hindus have been the keepers of sanctuary, the hands that lifted the veils of exile. They embraced Muslims, who came as windswept travelers to the southern shores, offering them a place to seed their dreams. They cradled the Parsis, ancient kin of the Rigveda, fleeing the furnace of desert-born wrath. Christians found haven here, as did the Jews—nomads burdened with centuries of sorrow, who found in Hindu lands not chains but an open horizon of peace. Hindus have endured the storm’s unyielding lash, a fury unleashed by those who sought to carve their truth into Aryavarta’s soul. In this land, where the saffron banner once kissed the heavens, its hue burned like the molten fire of valor and the sacred ash of penance, they sought to dim its eternal glow. They seized countless as slaves—bodies for lust, hands for toil—and butchered millions. Historians estimate 80 million souls perished in the five centuries following a millennium of knowing Christ. Among them came those absolved, so they claimed, by the blood of Jesus—men hailed as saints. Xavier, one such name, carved his gospel into flesh, tearing the breasts of women who dared refuse the “New Testament” as their truth. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu women—queens and maidens, crones and infants—fought their final battle not with swords but through fire, offering themselves to the eternal embrace of Agni. As the barbarous hordes of Khilji, Iltutmish, Babur, and Akbar—the so-called “great”—swept in like storms of ruin, they chose the sanctity of the flames over the unspeakable violation that awaited at the hands of these marauders. The so-called Mughals, the Timurids, unleashed unrelenting cruelty upon the Hindu Sikh Gurus and their sons, staining history with their merciless deeds. The whispers of their torment still linger like a haunting dirge in the corridors of Gwalior Fort. In the early 1920s, the very Mappilas who had found refuge in the gracious embrace of Dravida Hindu land turned their blades against their benefactors. Driven by a distant cause—the defense of the Turkish Caliphate—they unleashed a gruesome genocide upon Hindus. Irony sharpened the blade further, as it was a Hindu, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who, through the Congress, lent them a platform for their rise. Eyewitnesses like the Rani of Nilambur recount scenes that haunt history—wells brimming with the dead, their waters turned crimson, and the earth scattered with the torn remains of pregnant women, their unborn children cruelly exposed to the brutality of man. Bharat was cleaved, leaving two festering wounds hailed as the “New Medina.” Since then, the Hindus’ torment has raged in Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). In a land birthed by Bharat’s sacrifice, to be Hindu is now a sin etched in law. Even after 1947, the plight of Hindus remained unrelenting. They were met with state bullets for seeking the return of temples razed by barbaric invaders to raise mosques. Khalistani terrorists, too, carved their path with the blood of innocent Hindus. It feels as though a horde of the undead surrounds Hindus, thriving only by draining their lifeblood. The global conscience must awaken to this relentless persecution. History warns that if Hindus vanish, the world edges closer to its twilight. What unfolds in Bangladesh today is but the first tremor of the world’s impending demise.

Never forget Never forgive #MumbaiTerrorAttacks

@DanielBordmanOG @patrickbrownont This bylaw is for protecting Gurdwaras, not Hindu temples. What else can you expect from @patrickbrownont

Hindu Forum Canada urges Canadian Hindus, Sikhs, Jains & Buddists to not attend Meet & Greet with ⁦@CPC_HQ⁩ leader ⁦@PierrePoilievre⁩ at #RajdhaniRestaurant Pickering since Canada’s opposition leader was disrespectful towards #Hindus by cancelling #Diwali Event. We urge Canadian Hindus to vote and respect those politicians who respect Canadian Hindus #Hinduphobia is not acceptable - #HinduVote will be respected #HappyDiwali

@BonnieCrombie We, Canadians of Hindu origin, are feeling that we are being unfairly targeted by the LOP with his yesterday's announcement of cancelling Diwali celebrations on Parliament Hill in view of the current Canada-India spat. It is time for you to step up and make a statement.

The question is: What is terrorism? Is harboring terrorists wanted by another country considered terrorism? Or is it terrorism when that other country eliminates a couple of those terrorists you had been harboring? That's the question Canada needs to ask itself - and then come up with an answer. Practically all the standards set by the West tell us that harboring terrorists wanted by another country is what counts as terrorism. If allies don't eliminate terrorists on the soil of an ally country, then an ally also doesn't give refuge to terrorists wanted by an ally country.

When most Westerners, especially the secular ones, think of religion they think of something they have seen in their own cultures and societies, i.e., Christianity, Judaism, also Hinduism, and Buddhism. Quite naturally, since most of them lack the insight and knowledge to understand Islam properly, they tend to lump it in with the other religions. That is a big mistake. Islam can be properly described as a totalitarian way of life and a highly effective system of conquest, disguised as a religion. Islam is totalitarian, not just in the sense of theocratic and dictatorial regimes, but also in the sense that there is virtually no part of a believer’s life that is not touched or influenced in some manner by it. Virtually everything a Muslim does is influenced or guided by his faith, by Sharia law, or both. In this sense, free will as Westerners and other non-Muslims understand it, is anathema to those inhabiting Dar al-Islam, the “House of Islam.” Likewise, there is no real analog to the Western notion of liberty or freedom. The Arabic word most closely corresponding to “freedom” is typically said to be “hurriya,” but this is false for the term does not correspond to “liberty” or “freedom” in the sense that an American, for example, would understand it. It instead means “freedom” to do as “Allah wills” for that individual. Many traditional religious faiths and systems have laws or codes of law which attach to them. What makes Sharia (Islamic) law unique, however, is that in theory, it applies not only to Muslims but to non-Muslims as well. At least that is what the Koran, the Hadith, and the Sira command. Non-Muslims or kafirs, also known as infidels, ~ are denied the most basic of human rights under Islamic suzerainty. They are most often akin to slaves, serfs, or supplicants, and even those non-Muslim dhimmis who serve a useful purpose to the sultan or caliph and survive on that basis, are still treated with inhuman brutality and can be beaten or slain at the whim of any Muslim male. Most Westerners are familiar with the history of slavery, but how many know that Muslims have been the greatest slavers in history? Which is to say, the most prolific takers, buyers, and sellers of slaves in history. Even today, in many parts of the Islamic world, the Arabic word for slave, “Abd,” is synonymous with the slang or informal word for a black man. Although the Muslims took many millions of black Africans as slaves, they likewise took many millions of Europeans and other peoples as slaves from temperate climates further north, venturing as far north as Ireland and Iceland on slave-taking raids. As some of you may know, the very first war fought by the United States as an independent nation was the Barbary War of 1801-1805 (with a brief flare-up in 1815), fought against Islamic raiders and pirates off the coast of North Africa. These nautical jihadists had been seizing American shipping and holding the passengers and cargo for ransom. President Thomas Jefferson grew tired of their demands and sent the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to Tripoli to teach them a lesson. Various Islamic potentates, rulers, and warlords have infamously slain infidels by the multitudes down through the centuries. According to the work of historians and political scientists who have studied such phenomena, the greatest or largest single genocide in human history was committed by the Islamic Mughal Empire in what is now the Indian sub-continent over a period of years in the 15th century. During that time, an estimated 270 million Hindus and other non-Muslims were put to the sword. So many were slain that the streets ran with blood and giant pyramids of human skulls were erected by the soldiers of Allah. Of course, many other empires and nations have committed acts of genocide, but such wanton bloodletting is impressive even by the standards of the worst tyrants of the 20th century, who had modern industrial warfare and weapons at their disposal but did not manage to even approach the totals of the Mughal Empire. Historians consider the Armenian genocide (1915-1921) to be the first “modern” genocide since it was the first such atrocity that was recorded by still and motion-picture photography. The Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire in what is now modern-day Turkey was responsible for it and even today, under the government of Recep Erdogan, the president of Turkey, it is still a crime to speak or write of the extermination of the Armenians and Greeks, most of whom were Christians. Anyone who has seen the haunting photos of young girls, Christian virgins, crucified by their captors and slowly dying in the hot sun in the desert, will never forget them. These basic historical facts about Islam used to be widely known and taught across the West, but they have been politely airbrushed out of our history in recent decades, and now few people know of them …. or the danger presented by the soldiers of Allah.

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Among top BJP leaders, Modi is the only genuine seeker. He is the only one with a spiritual aura that transcends barriers of language, caste, creed and region, and connects with people deeply. Even though Advani led the Rath Yatra, it is ordinary people who turned it into the greatest mass movement in post-Partition India. Advani was himself not much into spiritually. IIRC, even during the Rath Yatra, his reading companion was "How to Win Friends And Influence People". That is one reason why the movement remained in freeze even after BJP came into power in 1998. Sushma Swaraj actually went to the extent of calling the Temple a cheque that has already been encashed. For other BJP leaders too, Ram Temple was a political project. For Modi, deeply devoted to Shri Ram, it was a spiritual and civilisational goal. It is Modi alone who, on 14 January 1992, took the प्रण that he would return for darshan of Ram Lalla only when Ram Temple was built. Even after SC judgment of 2019, no one else could have put everything in place, and pushed everyone concerned, to get the grand Temple ready so quickly. As the date for the pranpratishtha gets closer, terrible comments are being made against it, by a few revered religious heads, some of whom are rank casteists who should be shunned by Hindus. Politicians of some parties are also going to insane levels to berate Modi and the Temple. But Modi remains calm. There is not a ripple in his ocean of devotion. Like Arjun, he is focused only only the eye of the fish. Chosen by Shri Ram, Modi will not let anything or anyone deflect him from completing the epochal civilisational task he has been given. We are all blessed to be a part of this once-in-a-millennium moment. Let us only add to the spiritual energy that is enveloping our great nation at this time. Jai Shri Ram🙏

@vinod_sharma I visited Kashi about a year back and the change was astounding. Well written. 👍

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@irfhabib They call themselves refugees, even after 75 years and dream of return, these are not their homes anyway. From one camp to another...

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History of slavery in the Muslim world: In his book, "Slaves and Slavery", Duncan Clarke defines slavery as “the reduction of fellow human beings to the legal status of chattels, The word ‘slave’ and its cognates in most modern European languages is derived from ‘sclavus’ meaning ‘slav’, the ethnic name for the inhabitants of the coast of Bosnia on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea. For the Islamic world, Slavs provided the major source of slaves in the 250 or so years between the defeat at the battle of Poitiers in AD 732 that forced the consolidation of their dramatic conquests across North Africa and the Iberian peninsula, cutting back the flow of war captives and the expansion of the import of black Africans across the Sahara. Paul Lovejoy estimates that some 9.85 million Africans were shipped out as slaves to Arabia and, in small numbers, to the Indian subcontinent as follows. Between AD 650 and 1600, an average of 5,000 Africans were shipped out by the Arabs annually. This makes a rough total of 7.25 million. Then, between 1600 and 1800, another 1.4 million Africans were shipped out by the Arabs. The 19th century represented the highest point of the Arabian trade where 12,000 Africans were shipped out every year. The total figure for the 19th century alone was 1.2 million slaves to Arabia. David Livingstone, the British missionary/traveller/explorer was so upset by the way the Arabs treated their African slaves that he wrote back home in 1870: “In less than it takes to talk about it, these unfortunate creatures — 84 of them, wended their way into the village where we were. Some of them, the eldest, were women from 20 to 22 years of age, and there were youths from 18 to 19, but the large majority was made up of boys and girls from 7 years to 14 or 15 years of age. “Each of them had his neck in a large forked stick, weighing from 30 to 40 pounds, and five or six feet long, cut with a fork at the end of it where the branches of a tree spread out. “The women were tethered with bark thongs, which are, of all things, the most cruel to be tied with. Of course, they are soft and supple when first striped off the trees, but a few hours in the sun make them about as hard as the iron round packing cases. The little children were fastened by thongs to their mothers. “As we passed along the path which these slaves had travelled, I was shown a spot in the bushes where a poor woman the day before, unable to keep on the march, and likely to hinder it, was cut down by the axe of one of these slave drivers. “We went on further and were shown a place where a child lay. It had been recently born, and its mother was unable to carry it from debility and exhaustion; so the slave trader had taken this little infant by its feet and dashed its brains out against one of the trees. “For various reasons, including the harshness of the terrain and endemic warfare among local clans, Bosnia proved the most convenient and long-lasting of these slave-supplying regions. Whichever clan gained a temporary upper hand was always willing to sell its captured rivals in exchange for the goods of the Mediterranean world in the markets of the ancient Romanised city of Ragusa (present-day Dubrovnik). From there, Slavs were shipped as slaves by Venetian merchants, to supply new markets in the Islamic world.” The trade in slaves ended when the Ottoman Turks conquered the region in 1463. “The effective closure of the last major source of slaves on the European continent,” says Clarke, “thus co-incidentally took place at the same time as the Portuguese explorations of the West African coast which were to open up the second and most devastating route for the exploitation of Africans as slaves.” Such was the brutality meted out to the Africans by the Arabs. Like the Atlantic trade, the Arabian trade’s “middle passage” was equally as horrible and terrifying. The “middle passage” describes the harrowing journey lasting several months from Africa’s west coast to the Americas during which millions of Africans, packed like sardines in the slave ships, died of thirst, hunger, rough seas, and sometimes from the sheer brutality inflicted by the European slavers. In the Arabian trade, the trudge across the Sahara, in leg and neck chains, and as Livingstone describes above, necks in large forked sticks and hands tied with bark thongs, was particularly harsh on the African slaves. The Arab slavers did not only march their African captives to Arabia, they also sometimes sold them to European slavers. In modern times, the popular image of African slavery springs from the vision of a tormented male suffering under the lash of unceasing labour on some “New World” sugar plantation. Yet the real face of servitude finds its focus in the forced migration of millions of girls and young women across the Sahara and the Horn of Africa into the institutions of Islamic concubinage. Why they preferred women? While in the European “New World ”, the measure of a man’s stature was mapped out and calibrated on the physical dimensions of an empire built upon the sinews of forced masculine labour. In the Islamic Orient wealth was a reflection of prestige, young girls were the vessels of males' hubris, the mats of male pleasure ground, the malleable material to be shaped to the master’s will. Thus, women slaves in the Arab world were often turned into concubines living in harems, and rarely as wives, their children becoming free. A large number of male slaves and young boys were castrated and turned into eunuchs who kept watch over the harems. Castration was a particularly brutal operation with a survival rate of only 10%. “The combined effect of all these factors,” says Duncan Clarke, “was a steady demand for slaves throughout the Islamic world, which had a cover story to be met from wars, raids, or purchases along the borders with non-Islamic regions. Although some of these slaves came from Russia, the Balkans, and central Asia, the continuing expansion of Islamic regimes in sub-Saharan Africa made black Africans, the major source.” So invasive was the practice of slavery into the economic, political, demographic, cultural, social, and religious life of Africa and persisted for so many centuries, that while its effects varied both geographically and temporally in intensity, slavery out-distances in scale and scope any single or combination of disasters — natural or man-made, which descended upon the continent. Slavery unquestionably checked population growth in Africa and consequentially placed tremendous pressure on gender and marital relationships during the three critical centuries of European expansion to global domination. In this sense, the feminine-oriented Arab slave trade, though neither motivated nor executed with economic benefits as the prime objective, caused far greater demographic damage and consequently greater economic decline, with its excessive poaching of the reproductive potential of the harvested areas. The Arab slave trade began long before the Islamic conquest of Africa, remained at a relatively low level compared to the Atlantic slave trade did not become illegal or abolished, and was maintained till well after the colonization of Africa. The Arabian trade was outlawed in Ethiopia only in 1935 in order to gain international support against the Italian invasion. In the Atlantic trade, the slaves came predominantly from Africa’s west coast with a male/female ratio of two-to-one. In the Arabian trade, the slaves were exclusively from the Savannah and the Horn of Africa and favoured females over males at a ratio nearing three-to-one. When slavery in the Black Sea area (the traditional source of the best-grade female slaves for the Arab market) dried up, it triggered an even greater demand for Ethiopian “red” slaves, in particular the Galla and Oromo on account of their unquestioned beauty and willing sexual temperament. While the Europeans paid a higher price for male slaves than females, the reverse was the case with the Arabs. Moreover, while the European/New World slavers profited mainly from male labour, the Arabs saw profit in sexual satisfaction/reproductive potential. (The offspring of the union between Islamic master and female slave was born free, out of respect of the child’s Islamic paternity. Any offspring of the Atlantic trade were born into slavery). “The laws of Islam,” as the historian Hugh Thomas attests, “were in some ways more benign in respect of slavery than were those of Rome. Slaves were not to be treated as if they were animals. Slaves and freemen were equal from the point of view of God. The master did not have power of life and death over his slave property.” But to the Africans shipped across the Red Sea, the “benign” Islamic laws provided little comfort — they were still slaves of Islamic masters who had unfettered sexual access to them (if they were female) or castrated and turned into eunuchs (if they were men). The upshot of this gender profile of the respective slave-classes in the Atlantic/New World and the Arab/Oriental world explains the large and visible population of African origin in the New World where sexual relations between white and black was the exception while in the Arab world where miscegenation was the practice, the slave trade has left few visible traces. Five years ago, a British TV documentary showed how poorly the descendants of African slaves in Pakistan were treated by the authorities. The racial discrimination was so bad that one of the African descendants recounted on camera how, even in sports, they were not picked to represent Pakistan at national and international levels no matter how good they were. The Arab slave trade began long before the Islamic conquest of Africa, remained at a relatively low level compared to the Atlantic slave trade did not become illegal or abolished, and was maintained till well after the colonisation of Africa. Deprived of ideology, ritual, and the African rite of passage to adulthood and social membership, female slaves were uncommonly vulnerable to conversion to Islam (the benefits of manumission aside). Manumission describes a child born of a female slave and a free Islamic father is thus born free. Even to this day, Arab slave traders are still at work in Sudan and Mauritania, buying and selling black Africans.