Thread # 'Shia G€noc!de' Persecution in the Seljuk/Ottoman Empire:In response to the growth of Shiism,the Ottoman Empire killed Shias in Anatolia. 100s of 1000s of Shias were k!|led in the Ottoman Empire,including the Alevis in Turkey,the Alawis in Syria and the Shi'a of Lebanon
Sack of Shamakhi:The Sack of Shamakhi took place on 18/09/1721, when 15,000 Sunni Lezgins,of the Safavid Empire, attacked the capital of Shirvan province,Shamakhi (in present-day Azerbaijan Republic),massacred between 4,000 and 5,000 of its Shia population and ransacked the city.
Wahhabi sack of Karbala:On 21 April 1802, about 12,000 Wahhabi Sunnis under the command of Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad, the second ruler of the First Saudi State attacked and sacked Karbala, killed between 2,000 and 5,000 inhabitants and plundered the tomb of Husayn ibn Ali, ⤵️
Grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and son of Ali ibn Abi Talib, and destroyed its dome, seizing a large quantity of spoils, including gold, Persian carpets, money, pearls, and guns that had accumulated in the tomb, most of them donations.⤵️
The attack lasted for eight hours, after which the Wahhabis left the city with more than 4,000 camels carrying their plunder.↔️
Indian Subcontinent:In the medieval period, the Middle East saw bloody clashes between both sects but the Indian subcontinent remained safe and peaceful because of the secular policy of Mughals.⤵️
Until the end of the 17th century AD, only 2 anti-Shia books were written in India: Minhaj al-Din by Makhdoom-ul Mulk Mullah Abdullah Sultanpuri and Radd-e Rawafiz by Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi. Sirhindi also wrote this treatise in order to justify the slaughter of shias by Abdullah↔️
persecution in Kashmir:The region of Srinagar in Kashmir is an exception in Middle Ages with ten bloody Taraaj-e Shia campaigns Shias faced severe persecution in India in Kashmir for centuries, ⤵️
by the Sunni invaders of the region which resulted in the killing of many Shias and as a result most of them had to flee the region Plunder, looting and killing virtually devastated the community.⤵️
History records 10 such Taraajs between 15th to 19th century in 1548, 1585, 1635, 1686, 1719, 1741, 1762, 1801, 1830, 1872 during which the Shia habitations were plundered, people killed, libraries burnt and their sacred sites desecrated.↔️
Pakistan’s Shia genocide:It is believed that since the early 1990s, nearly 4,000 Pakistani Shias have been murdered in sectarian attacks, and at a pace which has rapidly accelerated in recent years.aljazeera.com
Pakistan: Rampant Killings of Shia by Sunni €xtremists:hrw.org
Pakistani Shias live in terror as sectarian violence increases.
genocidewatch.com
genocidewatch.com
Pak Army involved in 'g€nocide' of Hazara Shias in Balochistan: PoK activist after killing of 11 miners.
aninews.in
aninews.in
Afghanistan prospective:Hazaras are not Muslim, they are Shia. They are kof₹????
aljazeera.com
aljazeera.com
Full video link of 'Strangers in thier own land'. I literally cried loudly after watching this full video. Yaha tumare bhai yahi soch rakhte h shiao k bareme par thanks to majority secular govt unki himmat noi hoti auv humari taraf aankh uthake dekhne ki.
youtu.be
youtu.be
Another one 👇
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