[world-vedic] Make Book of conference Highlights

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Raghu,

 

Why not find means of expanding the number of list members and making the

archives available for all?

 

Dharmapada

 

 

 

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<Anudasa

<vediculture >

Wednesday, June 21, 2000 10:21 AM

[world-vedic] Make Book of conference Highlights

 

 

> Excellent report on the orgins of Bagdad. thank you. The years of

exceptional

> material posted on this conference should be taken together and printed

into

> a book. Everyone on this conference should take an order for at least 10

> copies. It's time we begin to share the gifts we've learned here with our

> friends and aquaintences in hard copy.

>

> Does anyone want to 2nd that. Any ideas how we can go about putting such a

> book together.

>

> Raghunatha anudasa

> In a message dated 6/20/00 10:13:11 PM Hawaiian Standard Time,

> vediculture writes:

>

> >

> > Message: 2

> > Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:45:44 -0300

> > "dino" <dino

> > Baghdad

> >

> > Posted by Dharmapada from the book Our World Vedic Heritage by P.N.

Oaks,

> > page 633:

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > " Siddiqi's article informs us that the name of the city Baghdad,

which

> > was a center of Hindu, Vedic learning ), itself is of Sanskrit

derivation.

> "

> > Bagh " means God and " dad " means given by, hence, Baghdad means a city

> > given by God. This derivation belies the Muslim claim that Baghdad was

> built

> > by Caliph Al-Masur in 762 - 763 A D., and that it was scientifically

> planned

> > by him with the help of Indian engineers and architects. It is circular

in

> > design and claimed to be the first of Muslim cities. What is meant by

the

> > term first Muslim city is is that it was the first big, reknowned Vedic

> city

> > captured by Islam outside of Saudi Arabia.

> >

> > If Baghdad was among the first few cities of Islam it should have been

> named

> > Islamabad, Allahabad or Mohammadabad. How come that it was given a

Sanskrit

> > name commemorating the Vedic name for God, Bhagavan?

> >

> > Secondly, if it was a city built with the help of Hindu engineers and

> Hindu

> > science and has a Hindu name, how could it be a Muslim city?

> >

> > Thirdly, we are told that the city was founded in 762 - 763 AD. Can a

> whole

> > city be planned, built, inhabited and named all in one year?

Especially

> > back then! ] How many years does it take to plan a city, survey and

acquire

> > land, develop it, order building material, raise buildings and populate

the

> > city?

> >

> > And if Baghdad was newly created as a Muslim city, how was it an

ancient

> > center of Hindu learning?

> >

> > All such cross-questioning reveals the utter falsity of Muslim claims;

and

> > the utter gullibility of modern historians in just swallowing any Muslim

> > claim without even the least examination. Another very important

conclusion

> > which emerges from the above Muslim version is that Baghdad, far from

being

> > built in 762 - 763A D, was subjected to a terrible sack and general

> massacre

> > in that year. Almost overnight the entire populace was terrorized into

> > accepting Islam and from that day Baghdad was proclaimed a Muslim city.

> > Consequently, all its Vedic temples were advetised to be Muslim mosques

and

> > tombs. This is a graphic instance of how, in Islamic terminology, '

built a

> > city ' implies conversely its plunder and ravage.

> >

> > History itself has been concocted. As everybody was forced to become a

> > Muslim not a sould was left to write about the terror and torture with

> which

> > Baghdad was transformed into a Muslim city. This is true not only of

> Baghdad

> > but of all land overrun by Islam. Everyone has been forever silenced and

> none

> > is ever allowed to tell the story of how entire regions were overnight

> turned

> > Muslim as though by a magic wand. This is proof that falsification of

> > suppression of history has ipso facto become a basic Muslim tenet.

> > Individuals and realms have been trained never to probe into how or when

> they

> > became Muslim, but merely to keep repeating the fanciful glories of

Islam."

> >

>

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