Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 1 August 2014 – 10 August 2014.
1. Location: Murshidabad , West Bengal.
Incident: Hindus living in Murshidabad are not being allowed their rights to perform cremation for the deceased in a 200 yers old Samshan Ghat (that is funeral site) by bellicose elements from the Muslim community.
Read more in this link.
2. Location: Kashmir.
Incident: Hardline Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Geelani and his followers are causing disturbance in the state in order to stop a small group of Kashmiri Pandits to undertake the historical Konsar Nag yatra, ((which is a pilgrimage) in the Pir Panchal mountain range, south Kashmir.
Read more in link 1 and link 2.
3. Location: Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh
Incident: Local Muslims of Chandpur Jogiyan village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district attacked a group of Kanwariyas (devotees of Shiva) who were gathered at the local Shiva temple for the jalasbhisek programme. (Jalabhishek is ceremony of holy bath given to a deity.) The reason for the attack was the opposition of Muslim groups to the distribution of sweets in the temple.
Read more in this link.
While your effort to alert Hindus to the persecution of the community is laudable,I would also request you to highlight the incidents where the community has successfully resisted and overcome such challenges,which Will be a morale booster to the community in general as well as it will enable the community to learn as to how to meet such challenges.