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Donald Trump promised to bring peace to global conflicts, and here we are. On Saturday morning at 7:55 a.m. ET, Trump posted this on Truth Social:
After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE. Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
This was a swift and unexpected end, or at least pause, to a conflict that had threatened to spiral into nuclear war. On Friday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated: “The President has expressed he wants to see this de-escalate as quickly as possible. He understands these are two countries that have been at odds with one another for decades, long before President Trump was here in the Oval Office.”
Indeed they have. India and Pakistan have been at odds ever since there has been a Pakistan, and in some ways, even before that. As “The History of Jihad” explains, after World War II, as the sun was setting on the British Empire, India was partitioned into a majority-Hindu area, known as India, and two majority-Muslim areas, known as East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) and West Pakistan. The name Pakistan was an amalgamation of the names of the regions that made it up: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan. “Pak,” however, also means “pure” in Urdu and Persian, and for many Muslims, Pakistan, a land created specifically for Muslims, was to be the land of the pure expression of the faith.
The seeds of the partition were planted with the first jihad invasion of India in the eighth century, which was a manifestation of Islam’s hatred of and contempt for the infidels. Centuries of bloody oppression led to significant levels of resentment of Muslims among the Hindu population of India. In the aftermath of World War I, the Khilafat (caliphate) movement among Muslims in India protested against the secular Turks’ marginalization, and subsequent abolition, of the Islamic caliphate in 1924. In doing so, it promoted the idea that the Muslims of the world should be united in a single state, although this had not actually been the case at any point in history except, arguably, in the age of the “Rightly-Guided Caliphs” before the Sunni/Shi’a split became formalized, but the new propagation of this idea undermined prospects for Indian unity.
Although Pakistan’s founding leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah was not a doctrinaire Muslim and did not found Pakistan as a state ruled by Islamic law, the proponents of jihad and Sharia backed the partition because it was unacceptable to them for Muslims to live under infidel rule. The partition itself was acrimonious, with over a million people killed and fifteen million made refugees.
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WPM says
So the Trump administration will try to broker a peace deal between Pakistan and India two countries that have been at violent conflict from the start of the formation of the “pure ” Islamic state of Pakistan. Will foreign Moslem students on visas start joining forces in ivy league college with woke idiot American born students to block classes, trash libraries do general violence on the” injustice” push on Pakistan by India and the “west”?
Hugh Fitzgerald says
I don’t consider this ceasefire to to be an achievement. I wanted the Indian Army to be given the time to pound the Pakistanis until they agree to disarm Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Now they will continue with their terrorist attacks inside India, aided and abetted by Pakistan’s ISI.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Please do some coverage of the Pakistani (and Bangladeshi) jihad against Hindus, Christians, Sikhs & Buddhists in your daily columns, before getting back to the campus antisemitism and European moves against Israel in diplomatic circles
commonsense says
Clearly, you are right, Hugh.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That ceasefire has already been violated some 3 hours after it was announced. Only thing that remains to be seen is whether the Indians militarily respond to that violation, instead of issuing perfunctory statements in the media and via diplomatic channels
The smart thing for India to do would be to violate the ceasefire themselves, and target Pakistan’s nuclear sites and their entire air force. Also, put their navy, which is far superior to Pakistan’s, to work, and also use their Brahmos missiles to take out all of Pakistan’s air bases. All that while saying that the ceasefire is in effect, and that they’re just responding to violations
commonsense says
+1
Daniel Triplett says
Yes. The Pak nuke arsenal must be neutralized, stat. The World, and particularly India, should’ve killed that baby while still in the cradle, never allowing Pakistan to build the warheads in the first place. It’s just a matter of time before those devices are stolen or sold, or a shahid Pak PM decides to fasttrack his self and his people to Jannah.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There were some reports – still unconfirmed – about Indians hitting Pak nuke sites at Sargodha, Jacobabad, Kahuta & others. It’ll be interesting to know once the dust settles whether any of their nuke facilities were touched
James Lincoln says
Great point, Daniel.
The United States should be as worried about Pakistan’s nuclear program as we are about Iran’s.
Why the double standard?