This document was was submitted by me as assignment for the coursera course Soul Beliefs and consequences
The Holocaust of Islamic conquests in India
March21, 2017
Ayodhya Ram Mandir Issue: Supreme Court Suggests Out-Of-Court Settlement -
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/settle-ram-temple-dispute-outside-court-supreme-court-advises-1671700
The Moghul Empire established in India by Invading Islamic forces between 1000 AD to 1800 AD has reportedly destroyed 1856 temple complexes in India and built Mosques on that site. One such Complex is the Ram Janmabhoomi Complex in the City of Ayodhya in the State of Uttar Pradesh. Ayodhya is the birthplace of Avatar of Lord Vishnu as Rama. The unused Mosque that was built by Emperor Babar in the 15th century after destroying the temple of Lord Ram there, was pulled down by Hindu volunteers in the year 1991. A Case has been filed in the Supreme court of India by the opposing parties on their right to build their place of worship. Supreme court has suggested an out of Court settlement.
Background on Islamic Invasion of India
The world-famous historian, Will Durant has written in his Story of Civilization that "the Mohammedan conquest of India was probably the bloodiest story in history".
India before the advent of Islamic imperialism was not exactly a zone of peace. There were plenty of wars fought by Hindu princes. The non-combatants were never killed or captured. A human habitation was never attacked unless it was a fort. The civil population was never plundered. War booty was an unknown item in the calculations of conquerors. The martial classes who clashed, mostly in open spaces, had a code of honor. Sacrifice of honor for victory or material gain was deemed as worse than death.
Islamic imperialism came with a different code--the Sunnah of the Prophet. It required its warriors to fall upon the helpless civil population after a decisive victory had been won on the battlefield. It required them to sack and burn down villages and towns after the defenders had died fighting or had fled. The cows, the Hindu Priests, and the Bhikkhus invited their special attention in mass murders of non-combatants. The temples and monasteries were their special targets in an orgy of pillage and arson. Those whom they did not kill, they captured and sold as slaves. The magnitude of the booty looted even from the bodies of the dead, was a measure of the success of a military mission. And they did all this as mujahids (holy warriors) and ghazls (kafir-killers) in the service of Allah and his Last Prophet.
Hindus found it very hard to understand the psychology of this new invader. For the first time in their history, Hindus were witnessing a scene which was described by Kanhadade Prabandha (1456 AD) in the following words:
"The conquering army burnt villages, devastated the land, plundered people's wealth, took Priests and children and women of all classes captive, flogged with thongs of raw hide, carried a moving prison with it, and converted the prisoners into obsequious Turks."
For the Hindus, Islamic jihadi invasion was like an Alien invasion or an Artificial Intelligence turning on its creators to eliminate them as imperfections.
List of Temples Destroyed in India by Islamic forces.
From the above we see that Islamic invasions and empire building of India that started around 1000 AD and lasted for about 800 years was not only conquest of land and wealth but an attempt to convert to enslave people belonging to Hindu religion. Since Muslims did not believe in idol worship, they destroyed temples and idols of Hindu gods, looted the gold and precious stones, and built mosques on the temple land.
The link below lists about 1856 temples in India that have been been destroyed and Mosques built on the temple land, oftentimes using the debris of the temple destroyed.
The link below lists the major Hindu Temples that have been destroyed and mosques built on that land
Hindus in India were persecuted by Muslim rulers in several ways. Murder, rape and pillage during war, conversion to Islam (forced conversion using the sword), Slavery of Muslims, destruction of temples and places of worship and conversion of them into Mosques, Additional tax on Non-Muslims, Cow slaughter (which is not allowed in Hinduism) and Minority Islamic rule over the majority Hindu population.
Rebuilding of Ram Temple for Hindus is bringing back some much-delayed justice for the atrocities pretreated by Islamic rulers and reclaiming their land from the hands of Muslims and pseudo secularists (those who would recognize even basic rights of the majority and support the atrocious rights of minority) and communists who collaborated after the independence to retain power. But the Islamic hardliners are pig headed, relentless and unreasonable in not granting reasonable wishes of Hindus who want to rebuild their temple for beloved Ram in one of the holiest of places, Ayodhya (and not in Mecca).
This situation can be warning to the rest of the world that is just waking up to Islamic terrorism, as to what might happen to their folks, beliefs, human rights and religions and places of worship should Islamic forces dominate the world politics. (or should any one religion dominate the world politics either by fear or greed).
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