Amidst rising tension between the two south asian neighbours Pakistani Punjab’s Information Minister Fayaz-ul-Hasan Chohan made derogatory remarks against all Hindus in a press conference.
“Hey you cow urine-drinking people, listen up,” he said at a recent press conference. He was presumably addressing India. “We are Muslims and we have a flag, the flag of Maula Ali’s bravery, the flag of Hazrat Umar’s valor.”
You don’t have that flag, it isn’t in your hands, he said. What this flag has to do with anything is beside the point.
Don’t operate under the delusion that you’re seven times better than us, he added. He also told India, they also shouldn’t operate under the delusion that their “geography” is bigger than Pakistan’s. “What we have, you can’t have, you idol-worshippers,” he said in a video that has gone viral on social media.
A minister in Pakistan Punjab @FayazChohanPTI denigrating #Hindus as "cow piss" drinkers and "worshippers of stone gods" while extolling Pakistan's supposed Arab heritage of Islamic valour. pic.twitter.com/jfyXOPPAqx
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) March 4, 2019
The derogatory phrase – cow urine drinkers – is commonly used for Hindus in Islamist parlance and was used by terrorist Adil Ahmad Dar before he rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama in the name of Islam.
Another Pakistani minister Ali Muhammad Khan has also gone on record to invoke Muhammad bin Qasim and Mahmood of Ghazni on India and has been openly calling for ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ (holy war against India).
At a show aired on Pakistan’s Geo News channel won 28 February (two weeks after Pulwama attack), Pakistan’s Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan called Pakistanis descendants of Islamic invaders in India. “Ghazwa-e-Hind is bound to happen. Are you too eager for it?” he said.
Shocker!
— Ritu (सत्यसाधक)🇮🇳 (@RituRathaur) March 1, 2019
Listen to Pak minister for Parl Affairs Ali Muhammad part of @ImranKhanPTI 's cabinet!
He invokes Mohd BinQasim & Mohd Ghazni to warn Indian Hindus of their brutality
He even claims that many in india will stand by them for Islam
& Assures of "Ghazwa E Hind"@PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/UP6Vd43spS
Pakistani railways minister Sheikh Rasheed has also gone on a communal rant against India and Hindus, threatening a nuclear war and declaring that no bells would sound in Indian temples.
“If anyone will stare at Pakistan with an evil eye, his eye will be gouged out, and then no grass will grow, no birds will chirp, and no bells will sound in temples, as Pakistan is that bastion of Muslims that Muslims from the world over look up to,” said the senior minister in a video uploaded by him.
On 28 February in his speech in Pakistan parliament where he opposed the release of Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman Rasheed appealed to every Muslim to join “Jihad”. “Doing Jihad is mandatory in Islam. If a Muslim does not do Jihad, he is no longer a Muslim,” he said.
The idea of Jihad against India, and the jihadi goal of liberating Kashmir and eventually the entire India from Hindus and other non-Muslims is a deep rooted one.
Orya Maqbool Jan is a ‘renowned intellectual’ in Pakistan and has received numerous national awards, including the best Urdu columnist in 2004. He regularly appears as analyst and commentator on Pakistani television news channels.
In a discussion on Pulwama last week (28 February) on Neo TV Network, Jan called Hindus as enemy of Muslims, saying it's described as such in the Islamic holy book of Quran and Hadith.
Another “renowned public intellectual”, Orya Maqbool Jan
— Swati Goel Sharma (@swati_gs) March 4, 2019
His profound analysis of Pulwama and LS polls in India is - “it’s written in Hadith that Hindu and Jew will be your enemies” pic.twitter.com/pND1sjUmf3
"Muhammad has said in Quran and Hadith to Muslims that you will have two enemies - those who do Shirk openly and the Jews. We already know that Jews are our enemies. And which community does Shirk openly? It is the Hindus. Even Buddhists don't do Shirk this openly. Today, Hindu is the only one who does Shirk openly," Jan said.
Shirk in Islam is the sin of practicing idolatry, polytheism and the association of God with other deities.
Another pakistani "intellectual”, Orya Maqbool Jan says
— प्रदीप शर्मा (@pks7272) March 4, 2019
“it’s written in Hadith that Hindu and Jew will be your enemies” . pic.twitter.com/AGFmPb7e9T
Hinting at a confrontation with a Hindu India, Maqbool further said, ‘...The main issue is that it is bound to happen. It hasn't happened until now, but when it shall happen, twenty-three crore Muslims will cease to be Indian nationals.” When asked about the option, he said, “There is no option but war.”
Hassan Nisar, a ‘veteran’ journalist and analyst on Pulwama also said: “If nuclear war happens, we will survive as we have 50 countries. But you will cease to exist”
It’s not just the political class. Analysis by well known public intellectuals too is filled with Hindu hate.
— Swati Goel Sharma (@swati_gs) March 4, 2019
Hassan Nisar, a ‘veteran’ journalist and analyst on Pulwama: “If nuclear war happens, we will survive as we have 50 countries. But you will cease to exist” pic.twitter.com/Mt0LEdhqA3