Excerpt from "The Nowhere People" by Uday Mahurkar, India Today

(September 24, 2009) - "According to news reports, thousands of Pakistani Hindus have fled to India in the past few years following religious persecution by the Tabligh Jamaat, the missionary wing of the Deoband school. The Deoband school is the South Asian version of Wahhabism of Saudi Arabia which calls for an exclusive form of Islam.

One of the victims is Ranaram Bhil, 28, who fled from his village on the Punjab-Sindh border with his two children to escape the threat of forced conversion.  It took him a year to get a visa to cross to India, but he had to leave for India without his wife Samda who was abducted by a group associated with the Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) and forced to convert to Islam."  

 

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