[world-vedic] "I destroyed the Idols, killed the worshipers" Firuz Shah

November 2, 2001

the greatest problem in India is its politics.the so

called secular politicians get baffled if someone

even tries to talk about the hindu history.....they

feel that if you talk of hinduism you are getting

communal...how come these politicians will let the

educators to allow to include the atrocities of hindu

kush to come into school texts..we indians are really

pathetic beings.....talking of national pride has no

meaning or to say no importance...isn't it a shame on

our educators???????????

--- Gautier wrote:

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Francois Gautier

The genocide beyond the Hindu Kush

The West seems to have suddenly woken up to Muslim

fundamentalism in

South Asia when the Taleban demolished the Bamiyan

statues, in spite

of frantic appeals from all over the world. But there

is a bit of

hypocrisy in the outrage triggered by this

destruction.

Firstly, Islam is very clear about statues: didn't

Prophet Mohammad

break the first stone Gods himself? Thereafter, it

became a holy duty

for all good Muslims. Firuz Shah Tughlak (1351-1388),

who has an

avenue named after him in New Delhi, wrote: 'On the

day of a Hindu

festival, I went there myself, ordered the executions

of all the

leaders and practitioners of this abomination; I

destroyed their

idols and temples to build mosques in their places.'

As Belgian

historian Konraad Elst points out, 'Muslim fanatics

are merely

faithful executors of Quranic injunctions. It is not

the Muslims who

are guilty, but Islam.' Thus, the Taleban, who want to

restore the

early purity of Islam, really thought they were

performing a

righteous act by destroying the 'heathen' Buddhist

statues.

Secondly, does the West ever protest when Hindu

temples are destroyed

periodically in Bangladesh and Pakistan? The HRCBM, a

Santa Clara-

based organisation that investigates and exposes human

rights

violations in Bangladesh, has recorded a few outrages

against Hindus

in Bangladesh during 2000:

On March 29, 2000, Malarani Roy of Karagola village

was abducted by

Muslims. She was brutally beaten up and gang-raped.

The local police

found her, but refused to register a case. On June 26,

a group of

Muslims directed Smriti Rani Saha of Sirajganj town to

migrate to

India. When she refused, she was abducted, gang-raped

and brutally

murdered. On May 28, Debasish Saha of Poradaha was

fatally shot by a

Muslim gang. On June 4, Mayaram Tripura of Balipara

was shot dead by

local Muslims. On October 6, 2000, Muslim devotees,

after offering

namaaz at the Gajipur Jama Masjid, strolled across to

the Hindu Kali

temple, destroyed the puja pandal, smashed the idols,

and looted

nearby Hindu-owned shops.

Take a look at the figures of the Hindu population of

India's Muslims

neighbours: in 1941, in what would become Pakistan,

there were

approximately 25 per cent Hindus and 30 per cent in

what would later

become Bangladesh; in 1948, only 17 per cent in

Pakistan and 25 per

cent in Bangladesh; in 1991, a bare 1.5 per cent

remained in Pakistan

and less than 10 per cent in Bangladesh.

Thirdly, the West has not yet realised that for the

Muslims of South

Asia, Hindus are kafirs by excellence: the Buddhists

adore only

Buddha, the Christians only Jesus, but Hindus worship

a million gods

and goddesses; and that makes them -- even today --

the number one

enemy of Islam. This is why Kashmir is so important:

it is not about

territory, it is about a holy war against Hindu India

that has been

going on for 15 centuries and it is only the first

step of the

encirclement of India by hostile Muslim neighbours:

Pakistan,

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, with soft nations, like

Nepal, often lending

them a helping hand.

Nothing symbolises more the absoluteness of Muslim

belligerence

towards Hindus than the Hindu Kush. Historically, the

passes across

the Hindu Kush have been of great military

significance, providing

access to the northern plains of India to foreign

invaders, starting

from Alexander the Great in 327 BC, to Taimurlane in

1398 AD, and

from Mahmud of Ghazni, in 1001 AD, to Nadar Shah in

1739 AD.

As noted by Srinandan Vyas on the Hindu.org web site:

'In Persian,

the word "Kush" is derived from the verb

Kushtar -- to slaughter or

carnage, because all Hindus living there were

slaughtered.

Encyclopaedia Americana says of Hindu Kush: The name

means

literally "Kills the Hindu," a reminder of

the days when Hindu slaves

from Indian subcontinent died in harsh Afghan

mountains while being

transported to Moslem courts of Central Asia. While

Encyclopaedia

Britannica mentions that the name Hindu Kush first

appears in 1333 AD

in the writings of Ibn Battutah, the medireview Berber

traveller, who

said the name meant "Hindu Killer," a

meaning still given by Afghan

mountain dwellers who are traditional enemies of

Hindus.'

'Unlike the Jewish holocaust,' writes again Vyas, 'the

exact toll of

the Hindu genocide suggested by the name Hindu Kush is

not available.

However the number is easily likely to be in

millions.' A few known

historical figures can be used to justify this

estimate.

Encyclopaedia Britannica recalls that in December 1398

AD, Taimurlane

ordered the execution of at least 50,000 captives

before the battle

for Delhi; likewise, the number of captives butchered

by Taimurlane's

army was about 100,000 .

Encyclopaedia Britannica again mentions that Mughal

emperor

Akbar 'ordered the massacre of about 30,000 captured

Rajput Hindus on

February 24, 1568 AD, after the battle for Chitod, a

number confirmed

by Abul Fazl, Akbar's court historian.' Afghan

historian Khondamir

records that during one of the many repeated invasions

on the city of

Herat in western Afghanistan, which used to be part of

the Hindu

Shahiya kingdoms '1,500,000 residents perished.'

Why does not the Government of India tell Indian

children about the

Hindu Kush genocide? The horrors of the Jewish

Holocaust are taught

not only at schools in Israel and USA, but also in

Germany. Because

both Germany and Israel consider the Jewish Holocaust

a 'dark

chapter' in history. Yet, in 1982, the National

Council of

Educational Research and Training issued a directive

for the

rewriting of school texts. Among other things it

stipulated

that: 'characterisation of the medireview period as a

time of

conflict

between Hindus and Moslems is forbidden.' Thus denial

of history, or

negationism, has become India's official 'educational'

policy.

It is high time that the West realises that India is

fighting a

lonely battle against Muslim fundamentalism in Asia.

The French for

one, who have a definite problem with Muslim

terrorism, should

support India more openly.

Francois Gautier

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