Re: 18% of this world’s population is Muslims
Pull your head out of the Pundits rear mate and get off your Hindutva high horse.. Clean your own backyard first, racist caste system, widow burnings, human sacrifices, xenophobia towards outsiders…
The forefather religion of Hinduism; Pure Vedantism was brought to South-Asia by invaders and conquerors who imposed it on the locals but assimilated local gods such as Shiva and Krishna to form presentday Hinduism.
Sikhism and Buddhism developed because their leaders were disillusioned with orthodox Hinduism and they reject the authority of the Vedas… Hindus will worship anyone so they worship Guru Nanak and Siddharth Gautama but the followers of these people reject this practice… There is a movement in India to Hinduise these religion but the followers of these religions don’t want this, a Sikh I know was complaining about a picture he saw of a cow with the Gurus on it because the cow is not sacred in Sikhi, he said it was a Hindu conspiracy like many other things in India to assimilate them into Hinduism, he also said if Hindus respected Sikhs as fellow Hindus would they attack Harminder Sahib and destroy the Akal Takht?
You guys say you don’t proselytize because you respect all religions, that might be true in some instances because Hindus themselves don’t know what their religion is but I believe the main reason is Hindus consider every outsider/foreigner to be filthy and not worthy of conversion, in fact foreigners/low-castes don’t even have the right to study your scriptures and if they do there is a severe punishment (want quotes/reference?)..
Outsiders are not even worthy of being allowed to enter your Temples (not that I’d want to), if it was a main pilgrimage site then I can understand as its not holiday destination and those that don’t understand its value shouldn’t be allowed but even in regular temples such as in Karachi/Pak they don’t allow Muslims in, recently in India a White guy went into a Mandir and thousands and thousands of rupees worth Prasad food that had been prepared went in the garbage whilst millions starve to death in India because he was a filthy foreigner and polluted the temple, they had to purify everything.. When Mushy went to India, I remember the fundamentalist Hindus “purified” the Taj Mahal with urine because he was considered a filthy foreigner/Muslim… We hear of this sort Muslim-phobic attitude from our elders about the Hindus who lived in our villages before partition. I once remember reading about a Hindu singer who was ostracised from his community because a Muslim king offered him a paan and he accepted so he had been impurified by his contact with a Muslim…
So the main reason you don’t proselytise is because you consider outsiders filthy and not worthy of your religion, not that nay of us would want to convert… Religions like Islaam welcome everyone with open arms and our Prophet :saw: had white Caucasian Romans, African black Ethiopians, Persians, Hebrews, Arabs etc. as his disciples.
As for conquering lands outside South-Asia, I don’t think they had the balls to do that but many devote Hindus did slaughter and spill blood in South-Asia (Ashoka before he rejected Hinduism, Raja-Raja etc.)…