AWAKE, MY BRETHREN, TO THE PERFIDIES OF THE PAST
Why should Hindus convert from their grand philosophical religion to an intolerant Islam of their own choice? It is a lie, a blatant lie that it was so and has been incorporated into history to make it appear that we were under Islamic reign a relatively happy people enjoying cultural freedom largely and that our maladies started only when we became a subject nation under the British. But it is not so.
Ever since the annexation of Sindh by Muhammad Bin Qasim in the second decade of the eighth century, India started losing her independence to the Islamic conquerors progressively and her civilisation became 'wounded', to pilfer the term from Naipaul. Subjugation was followed by mass conversion to Islam, imposition of the jizya, desecration and destruction of Hindu places of worship and learning, mass murder of populations estimated at a total of 80 million, molestation of Hindu women, conversion and forced marriage and enslavement for the pleasure of the senses. The progress of Hindu culture and civilisation was so impeded that it slowed down significantly such that India declined, a fate from which she is still recovering.
And to cover up this dastardly brutalisation of the Hindus by Islamic invaders so that the people of India may sleep forever has been the design of successive governments right till today. It is time, therefore, that Hindus wake up to their true history and sleep no more so that they may redress the wrongs done to their civilisation by collective constructive effort.
Vande Mataram !
Written by Sugata Bose
Why should Hindus convert from their grand philosophical religion to an intolerant Islam of their own choice? It is a lie, a blatant lie that it was so and has been incorporated into history to make it appear that we were under Islamic reign a relatively happy people enjoying cultural freedom largely and that our maladies started only when we became a subject nation under the British. But it is not so.
Ever since the annexation of Sindh by Muhammad Bin Qasim in the second decade of the eighth century, India started losing her independence to the Islamic conquerors progressively and her civilisation became 'wounded', to pilfer the term from Naipaul. Subjugation was followed by mass conversion to Islam, imposition of the jizya, desecration and destruction of Hindu places of worship and learning, mass murder of populations estimated at a total of 80 million, molestation of Hindu women, conversion and forced marriage and enslavement for the pleasure of the senses. The progress of Hindu culture and civilisation was so impeded that it slowed down significantly such that India declined, a fate from which she is still recovering.
And to cover up this dastardly brutalisation of the Hindus by Islamic invaders so that the people of India may sleep forever has been the design of successive governments right till today. It is time, therefore, that Hindus wake up to their true history and sleep no more so that they may redress the wrongs done to their civilisation by collective constructive effort.
Vande Mataram !
Written by Sugata Bose
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