All Patriotic Indians and Pakistanis, Arise!

For the last few years, intolerance, extremism, and oppression of women and minorities in India and Pakistan have been rapidly growing. People there are being pushed back centuries to lifestyles, which are not appropriate for the 21st century world.

The extremists humiliate women, kill people, and destroy places of worship, schools, theaters, libraries, and other icons of culture.

They denounce science and technology. They condemn them as instruments of Satan. Yet they do not hesitate to use scientific instruments to heal, when they are ill or injured. They use technology freely to propagate their beliefs.
They hate those who come from other places. They accuse them of stealing their jobs. They manhandle them to demonstrate their “superiority” to their victims.

They are unwilling to control their own evil thoughts. For their behavior, they blame clothing, grooming of their victims.
They claim to defend their culture and religion. But what really want is power.

All patriotic Indians and Pakistanis, arise, and to do your duty. You cannot just watch from the sidelines the victimization of innocent people. Neutrality is not a viable option.

Act now. Act decisively, effectively, and in a deliberate, planned, sustained, and organized manner.

Let the extremists know, that your faith, your religion, and your community have thrived for centuries, without their kind of “protection.”

Let them know that they do not represent you, and cannot speak or act on your behalf.

Tell them not to kill, rape, humiliate or oppress anyone in your name. Tell them not to destroy any house of worship, regardless of who prays or to whom or how they pray.

You may be a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Jain, Jew, or a non-believer, your faith lives in your heart. The Power you believe in is all-encompassing, compassionate, benevolent and forgiving.

Start your nonviolent resistance campaign against extremism by respecting, defending and promoting the rights of

-Girls and women to express their natural abilities and interests;
- People to dress, groom, live and pray according to their own beliefs; and
-The poor and the oppressed to have a decent life with enough to eat everyday and to provide for their families;

Additionally it would be nice if you also actively support a peace or human rights organization of your choice.
All Patriotic Indians and Pakistanis, Arise, and Act!

Pritam K. Rohila, Ph. D.