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*Originally posted by shahzadqu: *
yes, offcourse i would. when someone is wrong, someone is wrong, let it be a Muslim, Hindu, Christian or wutever.
but the questions is, do you condemn wutever happened to Babri Mosque and very recently wut happened in Gujrat? i haven't met a single hindu who condemns that, they all put it on ISI (nice excuse we've got for our problems)
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What a coincidence...I haven't met a single muslim who condemned
the killings of innocent Hindus in Godhra!
Furthermore I have not yet heard any condemnation against the "Bombay Riots." The same thing happened during the 1993 Bombay riots engineered by Muslims: It was - thus claim many Indian intellectuals - "because they were outraged by the destruction of the Ayodhya mosque" (but whatever the rightfulness or wrongfulness of the razing of Babri Masjid, nobody was killed there, whereas hundreds of innocent Hindus were killed by the bombs planted by Indian Muslims, with the help of Pakistan and the connivance of Saudi Arabia.
In the same way, after the Akshardham temple massacre, that the massacre of innocent Hindus would not have taken place if there had not been pogroms by the Hindus against Muslims earlier in Gujarat.
It is thus good from to time to be reminded of the truth: In India, because of the staunch resistance of the 4,000-year-old Hindu faith, the Muslim conquests triggered one the worst genocides in human history. Entire cities were burnt down and their populations massacred. Each successive campaign brought hundreds of thousands of victims - similar numbers were deported as slaves. Every new invader often made his hill of Hindu skulls.
Thus the conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 AD was followed by the annihilation of the entire Hindu population there; indeed, the region is still called Hindu Kush, "Hindu slaughter". The Bahmani sultans in central India made it a rule to kill 100,000 Hindus a year. In 1399, Timur did better: He killed 100,000 Hindus on a single day! Professor KS Lal in his book, Growth of Muslim Population in India, has estimated that the Hindu population decreased by 80 million between the year 1000 and 1525.
Witness the persecution of Hindus in Kashmir, whose 250,000 Pandits have fled their homeland, or the present genocide of Hindus in Bangladesh. No collective memory should be erased for appeasing a particular community.
But, at the same time, their historical crimes should not be denied by conveniently using the Gujarat riots, the one time in recent history when Hindus retaliated against Muslims for atrocities committed. The real question is: Can Islam ever accept Hinduism? Can the Indian Muslim minority ever agree to be governed by the Hindu majority, even though they have more rights and freedom than in most Islamic countries? Can Pakistan ever accept India? Read Sri Aurobindo who said 60 years ago: "You can live with a religion whose principle is tolerance. But how is it possible to live peacefully with a religion whose principle is, `I will not tolerate you?' How are you going to have unity with these people? The Hindu is ready to tolerate; he is open to new ideas and his culture and has got a wonderful capacity for assimilation, but always provided India's central truth is recognised."
We will never be able to fully assess the immense trauma caused to India by the Muslim invasions. Even more difficult would it be to estimate the moral and spiritual damage done to Hindu India as a result of the invasions. But once again the question is not of vengeance or of reopening old wounds, but of not repeating the same mistakes. Unfortunately, the harm done by Muslims conquest is not over. The seeds planted by the Mughals, Ghazni, or Aurangzeb have matured: The burning of the Sabarmati Express, the continuing destruction of temples in Kashmir, Pakistan or Bangladesh (see Prafull Goradia's remarkable book, Hindu Masjids), or the Akshardham massacre are proof that many of India's and Pakistan's Muslims have forgotten that they were once peaceful Hindus, forcibly converted to a religion they hated.
When will the good muslim acknowledge the damage their religion has cause to the hindus and condemn these crimes against humanity?