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Press Statement
MAPIM DEMANDS UNITED NATION TO ACT: INDIA’S COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IN KASHMIR MIRRORS ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES IN GAZA
Date: 10 May 2025
The Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations (MAPIM) strongly echoes the concerns raised in the Islamic Renaissance Front’s (IRF) article titled “Nuclear Threat Looms Large in the Himalayas…” by Osman Softić, which meticulously documents the rising human rights crisis and alarming geopolitical escalation between India and Pakistan, particularly centered around Indian-occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
MAPIM categorically condemns the collective punishment being inflicted by India on the innocent Kashmiri population following the Pahalgam incident. As highlighted in Softić’s analysis, India’s retaliatory campaign—comprising mass arrests, home demolitions, media suppression, and Islamophobic harassment—amounts to war crimes under international law. These acts mirror the atrocities Israel commits against Palestinians, most evidently in Gaza, where collective punishment has become a normalized, internationally-condemned practice.
We affirm the following key points raised by the IRF article:
- Collective punishment is illegal and immoral. India’s targeting of ordinary civilians—including children, students, and political dissenters—under the pretext of counter-terrorism is a gross misuse of state power and constitutes a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
- The rise of Islamophobia in India is unmistakably weaponized to justify state violence. As the article notes, anti-Kashmiri and anti-Muslim sentiment is escalating, with civilian harassment and threats becoming rampant. These developments resemble apartheid-like tactics used by Zionist Israel to maintain control over occupied Palestine.
- Accusations against Pakistan without evidence for the Pahalgam incident reflect a deliberate geopolitical diversion from India’s internal security and intelligence failures. Instead of addressing the root causes of unrest in Kashmir—occupation, disenfranchisement, and oppression—India is externalizing blame.
- The threat of India suspending the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), as noted by Osman Softić, is a dangerous provocation. This treaty, brokered by the World Bank in 1960, survived four wars between India and Pakistan and is a vital lifeline for millions in Pakistan. India’s unilateral action here would constitute an act of ecological aggression and war, destabilizing an already fragile region.
- The nuclear risk in South Asia cannot be underestimated. Any escalation stemming from miscalculated retaliatory actions or state-sanctioned provocations could plunge the entire region into an irreversible catastrophe.
MAPIM therefore calls upon:
The United Nations, to immediately appoint a fact-finding mission on the human rights situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir;
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), to convene an emergency session on India’s increasing Islamophobic policies and its actions that mirror Israeli apartheid tactics;
The World Bank, as a guarantor of the Indus Waters Treaty, to immediately investigate India’s threat to suspend water flows—a form of hydrological warfare;
Civil societies and international trade unions, to join the global movement to boycott Hindutva-aligned institutions, just as the Norwegian Trade Union Confederation has courageously acted against Israel;
Scholars, faith leaders, and activists, to collectively reject the normalization of oppression and publicly denounce the ideological affinity between Hindutva and Zionism.
As global Muslim movements, we cannot remain silent while Kashmiris and Palestinians bleed under fascist regimes. Silence now means complicity in genocide.
Kashmir is not India’s internal matter. It is an international issue of justice, dignity, and self-determination.
Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid
President
Majlis Perundingan Pertubuhan Islam Malaysia (MAPIM)
