Hindus face new challenge over razed mosque
You are assuming that it’s a temple, just like the RSS and Shiv Sena are.
There is evidence to suggest that what was found was not a hindu temple at all, and may well have simply been an earlier mosque site upon which a grander mosque was contructed.
A group of independent archaelogists and historians is to challenge a report by the archaeological survey of India that a Hindu temple existed at the holy city of Ayodhya beneath the ruins of a mosque destroyed in 1992.
At a news conference in New Delhi yesterday, the group said it would file its objections in court. “It is all a figment of the imagination,” said historian Irfan Habib, who claimed that **the government archaeologists had “monkeyed” with the structure they excavated to establish that they had uncovered a Hindu shrine.
Suraj Bhan, a professor of archaeology, who visited the site during the archaeological dig, maintained that there was enough evidence to show that the burnt-brick structure uncovered under the razed Babri mosque was actually another mosque dating from the Sultanate period, another phase of Muslim rule before the Mughals. **
The ASI’s report, following a five-month court-ordered excavation, claimed to have found evidence of a large, 11th century temple beneath the site in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya. Such a finding would establish the legitimacy of the area as a Hindu shrine rather than a Muslim site.
**Yesterday, the independent archaeologists pointed out several discrepancies - glazed pottery and lime mortar has been found at the excavated site, both having been introduced in India after the Muslim invasions, and the site of the buried structure corresponds exactly to the plan of the Babri mosque. Moreover, the report glosses over the unearthing of animal bones, unthinkable at a Hindu temple site. “It was normal for Muslims to construct a new mosque at the site of an old one to claim merit in the eyes of God,” said Mr Habib. **
“This may well be a tampered report, which has no legal significance, only political significance,” said lawyer Rajeev Dhawan. “No expert evidence has any value in court unless subjected to cross-examination. And that will happen.”
i’m sure india mein masjidon kee kami naheen hae…aik masjid kee zameen jis pe kab se khoon kharaba ho raha hae wo musalman sabar kar ke hindus ko de deyn to mere khayal se Allah naraz naheen khush ho ga..Allah o Alim
