Citing Taliban Strife, Afghan Sikhs And Hindus Ask UN For Asylum -- Stars and Stripes
KABUL — Living in a deeply religious, overwhelmingly Muslim nation, Afghan Sikhs and Hindus have suffered their share of hardships: taunts, attacks, desecration of cremation sites, marginalization and poverty. Many possess a bottomless collection of grim tales.
Few of their stories, however, are from the five years of fundamentalist Islamic theocracy imposed by the Taliban, who made Hindus and Sikhs wear yellow badges, or even the brutal wars of the 1980s and ’90s.
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My Comment: What can I say .... intolerance against other religions has been a part of the human condition for as long as records indicate .... and for the 21rst century the focus is now on Muslim communities and their intolerance to non-Muslim groups as well as within the different sects of Islam.
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