India caste council blamed for five suicides

[makikirkiri]

^^^^^
Look the people who kind of waged a war against pakistanis for not treating minorities well in there country what they say when it comes to themselves....

Who is absolving the current opression of lower caste people by the higher caste guys?
I was only refuting the one I quoted, who was saying that this is part of hindu religion.Don't let your need to feel good by seeing India in bad light get in the way of your comprehension.Read what I quoted and then whom I replied to and what my reply was.

 

[kugga]

Just to clearify the point of view Islam about lower castes and other human beings I am quoting this hadeeth from Holy prophet (PBUH) this just to tell you people that if someone does wrong its not Islamic at all

Volume 1, Book 2, Number 17:

Narrated 'Ubada bin As-Samit:

who took part in the battle of Badr and was a Naqib (a person heading a group of six persons), on the night of Al-'Aqaba pledge: Allah's Apostle said while a group of his companions were around him, "Swear allegiance to me for:

1. Not to join anything in worship along with Allah.

2. Not to steal.

3. Not to commit illegal sexual intercourse.

4. Not to kill your children.

5. Not to accuse an innocent person (to spread such an accusation among people).

6. Not to be disobedient (when ordered) to do good deed."

The Prophet added: "Whoever among you fulfills his pledge will be rewarded by Allah. And whoever indulges in any one of them (except the ascription of partners to Allah) and gets the punishment in this world, that punishment will be an expiation for that sin. And if one indulges in any of them, and Allah conceals his sin, it is up to Him to forgive or punish him (in the Hereafter)." 'Ubada bin As-Samit added: "So we swore allegiance for these." (points to Allah's Apostle)

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

wow, so now religious sect or family ancestry entails caste


you indians make me laugh.



my sympathies to the dalits and other low-caste people who are discriminated against.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

United Nations To Declare Discrimination Based on the Indian Caste System a Human Rights Abuse​

By Dean Nelson in New Delhi


The UN's Human Rights Council, meeting in Geneva, is expected to ratify draft principles which recognises the scale of persecution suffered by 65 million 'untouchables' or 'Dalits' who carry out the most menial and degrading work

Many of them work as lavatory and sewer cleaners and in remote villages as "night-soil carriers".

They are considered unclean by many higher-caste 'Brahmins' who regard their presence, and sometimes even their shadow as 'polluting'.

Many Dalits have been badly beaten or killed for 'polluting' Brahmin wells by drinking from them.

The UN draft, which has been opposed by India, pledges to work for the "effective elimination of discrimination based on work and descent".

The Indian government had lobbied heavily for the Human Rights Council to remove the word 'caste' from a draft earlier this year.

India's opposition was undermined however by Nepal, the former Hindu Kingdom, which has supported the move. Its foreign minister Jeet Bahadur Darjee Gautam said Nepal welcomes UN and international support for its attempts to tackle caste discrimination.

The UN has now called on India to follow Nepal's example, but New Delhi remains opposed to international interference on the issue.

Navanethem Pillay, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, who is a South African Tamil, said Nepal's response marked a "significant step by a country grappling with this problem itself" and urged other states to follow its lead.

The caste divisions have become institutionalised by quotas for Dalits in government jobs and university places, which has in turn angered higher caste groups.

Dr Udit Raj, of the Dalit-based Indian Justice Party, last night welcomed the move, which he said would focus international attention on the issue and lead to an increase in aid and government spending to improve Dalit opportunities in India.

"It's very good. We almost lost the battle last April, but now it seems we will have our victory. This will get attention at a global level and that will focus resources from bodies like the European Union. Aid will flow to India.

"But the Indian government should have the courage to accept there's discrimination," he said.

UN says caste system is a human rights abuse - Telegraph