Congress has declared a war on us through CBI, we will fight it out. - Nitin Gadkari by Sandhya Bhardwaj

Congress has declared a war on us through CBI, we will fight it out. - Nitin Gadkari by Sandhya Bhardwaj

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by Sandhya Bhardwaj on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 10:00am
 

Under the UPA rule, terrorists are treated with Biryani and those patriotic police officials and their political bosses who deal with terrorists are humiliated like hardened criminals. By fabricating false and frivolous charges through its pincer, the CBI, and by arresting Amitbhai Shah, the Home Minister of Gujarat on that basis, the central government has declared a hostile political war on the best performing state government in the country led by Narendera Modi. The BJP regards this as equally a war on itself. The BJP accepts this political challenge and will meet this political hostility and also meet the legal challenge posed by the prosecution. The CBI, which has over the last few decades come to acquire the infamous identity of Congress of Bureau of Intimidation, has been leaking false allegations to the media against the Gujarat Home Minister in the last couple of months linking him with the encounter death of Syed Sohrabuddin. The Congress strategy, being implemented through CBI is clearly to vitiate the atmosphere against him and to facilitate his eventual arrest.

Imprisonment without Interrogation

The manner in which the CBI treated Amitbhai itself betrays its not so hidden intentions. First, the CBI began planting a news item in the media that they just wanted to question Amitbhai on the Sohrabuddin encounter; when he wrote to them saying that he was willing to meet them to answer their questions, they took a step back and did not send any summons to him. Then they began planting news items day after day saying that the arrest of Amitbhai Shah was imminent. Last week, this rumour mongering peaked. On Thursday the CBI sent a summon asking Amit shah to appear on an hour’s notice saying that it wanted to question him as he was aware of the facts relating to the encounter, but at the same time briefed the media that they were about to arrest him. As Amit shah was advised to ask for a day’s time to find out what was the CBI’s real motive, on Friday they again sent summon giving an hour’s time to appear to be examined in the context of offence relating to destruction of evidence and at the same time they had briefed the media that he would be arrested forthwith. As Shah was advised to wait to know whether they wanted to examine him or arrest him, and also move an anticipatory bail, the CBI suddenly filed a charge sheet on Friday charging Amit Shah with murder and conspiracy and leaked out the details of the charges including alleged extortion, and began to send out teams to arrest him. Yesterday Amitbhai Shah had gone to the CBI office and asked to be questioned; but he was not – repeat NOT at all questioned – and was taken to the court where the CBI told the court that it was not interested in examining/interogating him, and asked for judicial custody of Amitbhai. So it is evident that the whole story of examining Amit Shah to know his version was a farce and theatrical, and it was evident that the CBI had decided to arrest him rather than examine him. This itself shows what was the true intent of the CBI action.

Congress Bureau of Intimidation

The CBI, which was entrusted by the hon’ble Supreme Court with the task of investigating the Sohrabuddin encounter death of Soharabuddin and killing of his alleged wife Kausarbi , began to target the Gujarat government from the word go. When the Sohrabuddin case was specifically brought before it, the hon’ble Court had necessarily to resort to the central agency as the state police officials were suspected of involvement. But once it received the mandate, the CBI acted not as the chosen agency of the Supreme Court, but as the instrument of the Congress party and the government at the centre.

One need not labour to emphasise that the CBI had been a tool of the ruling Congress Party since long. Relationship of the concerned political parties with the ruling coalition has been the sole criteria of dealing with cases against politicians. UPA has been using CBI against the political adversaries as a weapon of vendetta, for political friends as a protective umbrella and for those in between as a threat to make them fall in line.

Just take three well-known, almost un-denied, instances of the criminal complicity of the CBI with the Congress: first, the prosecution for the assassination of LN Mra in 1970s [still pending in trial for 36 years] with the media investigation supported by Jagannath Mra, the brother LN Mra, pointing to the fact that the CBI has suppressed the larger conspiracy, shielded the real culprits and charged the innocent with the crime; second, the infamous Bofors case in 1990s involving Rajiv Gandhi and Quattrocchi in which the Congress President Sonia Gandhi was suspected to be protecting Quattrocchi who was deliberately allowed by the CBI to escape India first and then again deliberately allowed by the CBI to smuggle away the bribe money kept frozen by India; and third, the latest cases involving opposition leaders in UP and Jharkhand where the Congress party shamelessly used the CBI to procure votes for its survival in Parliament. The congress party has always used the CBI against political opponents, some recent examples of which are the politically motivated handling of cases against Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mayavati and Jayalalithaa. Is any further proof needed to say that CBI had always been virtually a political instrument of the Congress party?

Gujarat Government is the Target
That the Sohrabuddin encounter investigation by the CBI was to target the BJP and to keep the Congress out is evident from the fact even though the Andhra Pradesh government led by YS Rajasekhara Reddy was equally involved in the arrest and encounter death of Sohrabuddin, the CBI has completely left out the AP government from the radar despite the fact the fact that the Supreme Court had specifically observed that the identity of the seven police personnel of Andhra Pradesh who had accompanied Sohrabuddin was not known in the probe conducted by the Gujarat government and that was one of the reasons for the Supreme Court handing over the matter to the CBI. The CBI has not bothered to interrogate the Andhra Pradesh government or its police officials at all. What other proof is needed to show that the CBI did only what the Congress would have like it to do.

Let it be brought to the fore as to who exactly was Sohrabuddin. He was not only a criminal; he was a terrorist. He was part of the D-Gang in Gujarat. He had confessed to Court about his terrorist links. There were 21 serious criminal cases pending against him in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan – 2 offences under TADA, 9 offences under Arms and Explosives Act, 1 offence under the Customs Act, and 20 offences under the Penal Code. From his farmhouse 24 AK 56 rifles, 27 hand grenades, 5250 cartridges, and 81 magazines were seized the Gujarat police. Yet, this terrorist was being described as a ‘businessman’ in couple of media reports! Since charging any one with encounter death of such a criminal may not arouse sympathy, the CBI has gone about fabricating stories of extortion by the Gujarat police officials in collusion with Amitbhai Shah so as to give the impression that it was not an action against terrorists, but an operation for money! For this purpose the CBI seems to rely on the evidence of land grabbers and criminals who had been arrested, prosecuted and thrown in jail by Amitbhai Shah himself. Would they not be willing witnesses to the CBI against Amit Shah? The CBI has invented and fabricated the charge of extortion by the Minister and the police officials to obfuscate the truth that it was an action against a hardened terrorist.

What about Encounters elsewhere?

Now take the encounter killings as a national issue. According to data provided by the National Human Rights Commission [NHRC] there were 712 instances of alleged encounter killings in the country from 2002-3 to 2006-7. Out of this the number of the alleged encounter killing in Gujarat was 17 – nil in the year 2002, 2 in the year 2003, 4 in the year 2004, 6 in the year 2005, 4 in the year 2006 and nil in the year 2007. The NHRC report also mentions that out of the 440 cases of encounters pending with the NHRC as on 31 March 2006, only 5 – just 5 – related to Gujarat. The balance is accounted for by UP [231] Rajasthan [33] Maharashtra [30] Andhra Pradesh [22] Assam [12] amongst others. Yet only the encounters in Gujarat are being highlighted and are under investigation by the CBI. If every encounter killing is suspect, then there must be an overall national policy on how to handle encounter killing. The NHRC exists for this purpose. But it is difficult to understand why only the Gujarat government is chosen for a different, hostile treatment by some of the human rights activists and by the central government. The very interests which want the Sohrabuddin--case accused to be puned, are fighting cases to get reprieve for terrorists – be they Afzal Guru who attacked the Parliament or the accused in Rajiv Gandhi case. We believe that it is high time we evolve a national debate on how to handle encounter killings in various parts of the country.

Ishrat Jehan Case

The startling facts disclosed by David Coleman Headly about rat Jehan, who was killed in encounter by the Gujarat police, clearly proves what the motives of the central government and the human right activists who are targeting the Gujarat government in several cases and also in the Sohrabuddin case. rat Jehan was killed in an encounter in Gujarat along with three others including two Pakistanis suspected to be LeT terrorists. Now doubts are being cast on the encounter and CBI investigation is being demanded. The very conduct of the central government in this case bears testimony to what its intentions are in the Sohrabuddin. First the central government filed affidavits saying that Jehan and her accomplices were LeT suspects; the LeT hasd also owned up celebrated Jehan as the first LeT lady Jihadi; when the demand for CBI probe against Gujarat police into the killing was made, the LeT suddenly disowned Jehan as a Jihadi, and forthwith, acting in tandem with the LeT, the central government filed affidavit in the Supreme Court disowning its earlier version that she was a terrorist. This donest and anti-national volte-face by the central government in partnership with the LeT was to facilitate a CBI probe into the encounter to do a Sohrabuddin case-like probe on the killing of and her terrorist accomplices against Gujarat government! Now come the anti-climax. Headley, who is one of the principal suspects in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and later on in Pune, spilled the beans saying that rat was indeed an LeT recruit. The central government has got mud and egg on its face. Its attempt along with the LeT to protect the terrorists in the rat case has boomeranged on its because of the Headley confession.

Even without these specifics, in the absence of a national policy on encounter killing, singling out Gujarat encounter speaks for itself. The BJP demands that there has to be a national policy on encounter killing which will clearly spell out the norms for encounters as well as probe into them, as otherwise the officials will stop acting against terrorists even if they need to, which will put the nation at risk.

The BJP has an apprehension that Amitbhai’s arrest is not the end of the story. There are stories again floated by the CBI, which shows that it has further agenda against more BJP leaders; the CBI seems to be planning to involve some BJP leaders in Rajasthan and also target Narendra Modi himself who, Congress knows, cannot be defeated in a democratic elections. The terrorist Sohrabuddin was made into a national hero by the Congress in the Assembly elections in Gujarat and Narendra Modi was also abused as ‘Maut - ka Saudhagar’. The people of Gujarat gave a fitting response to the treacherous falsehood. Now the Congress it taking revenge on Gujarat and Narendra Modi by employing the CBI in a desperate attempt to prove the false charges it had made against Narendra Modi in the last elections.

The BJP will face the legal challenge presented by the fabricated prosecution in court of law. I declare that the BJP also accepts the political challenge thrown by the Congress and will take the issue to the people of India. I hold the Congress party responsible for creating this hostility between the government and the principal opposition party for promoting its vote bank politics on the eve of the polls in state of Bihar. The BJP is sure that the Congress game will fail and its nefarious designs will be exposed before the people of India

Muslim radicals often mistaken for friends By Paul Sperry

Muslim radicals often mistaken for friends

Muslim radicals often mistaken for friends 

By Paul Sperry
Thursday, November 11, 2010

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1295506&srvc=home&position=emailed

Official Washington has a dangerous knack for misreading Muslim friend and foe. Exhibit A is Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda leader suspected of masterminding the FedEx bomb plot and who in a video is calling for Muslims around the world to “kill the Americans.”

Shortly after 9/11, the Pentagon invited the U.S.-born imam to a luncheon with military brass even though he was an FBI suspect in the attack that had just killed almost 200 Pentagon workers.

Pentagon documents explain that the official who invited al-Awlaki was impressed by his “moderate” rhetoric. Years later, after al-Awlaki was linked to the Fort Hood massacre, the same official said she regretted arranging the meeting - her excuse being that al-Awlaki is “either a good liar or . . . later something happened . . . I don’t know.”


This happens far too often in Washington.

Indeed, the prosecution’s list of unindicted co-conspirators in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror trial showed that virtually every major Islamic organization in America had raised funds that had landed in the hands of terrorists.

The list of 246 Islamic entities and leaders features the three largest Muslim groups in the country: the Islamic Society of North America, the North American Islamic Trust (which owns most U.S. mosques) and the Council on American Islamic Relations - the No. 1 Muslim advocacy group in Washington.

The Holy Land revelations prompted the FBI to sever ties with CAIR. Yet the bureau is still doing business with its sister group, ISNA.

There are moderate Muslims, but it’s not as simple as the “religion of peace” propagandists would have us believe. The 19 hijackers, for example, were deeply religious.

At least some of the media elite are still looking to find excuses for al-Awlaki. A New York Times [NYT] profile suggested he went bad only after America attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, he had closed-door meetings with at least two of the 9/11 hijackers in his mosque. He also had contacts with a procurement agent for Osama bin Laden.

CAIR loves to talk about “Islamophobia.” But the more dangerous problem is the “Islamo-schizophrenia” of our anti-terror policies.

We’re fighting Islamic terrorists in two Islamic countries, and we’ve seen a wave of homegrown Muslim terrorists within our own borders. Yet neither the Pentagon nor Homeland Security mention “Islam” or “Islamic terrorism” in their latest strategy papers.

In Cairo, President Obama “explained” that terrorism is at odds with Islam, since “The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he killed all mankind.”

But jihadists don’t consider us “innocent.” Obama left out a key part of the verse (5:32) that permits the Muslim faithful to kill anyone who spreads “mischief in the land” - which is defined in the next verse as “those who wage war against Allah.”

According to former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, the likely source of that misleading quote was then-White House aide Rashad Hussain. Hussain is a Muslim activist with ties to fronts for the radical Muslim Brotherhood. He was caught on tape defending convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian.

Despite all that, Obama appointed him to be a U.S. envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Nine years after 9/11, we’re still not good at sorting out who the real moderates are.
Paul Sperry is a Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “Infiltration.” This column first ran in the New York Post.

ronstackhouse
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Muslims will always be looked upon with great suspicion, hopefully we in the US will wake up and abandon the ridiculous ideals of Political Correctness and call Muslims out for what they are, sneaky, deceptive zealots. Even the "moderates" cannot be trusted as their silence in the wakes of terrorism is deafening.

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How come the President doesn't object? Do you think his time in Indonesia as a boy may play a role in his love affair with Muslims?

The President yesterday approved $150 million dollars, which we will have to borrow from China, be sent to the Palestinian Liberation Authority. Do you think that money could have been better spent extending unemployment benefits?

Does anyone see a pattern of behavior here by the President of disrespecting Israel and defending and funding the Muslims?

Take back our country from Obama, the Muslims, the Progressives and the Democrats in 2012 if it's not too late.

First Barbary War From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

First Barbary War
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War 

My Name is Khan and I Am a Terrorist by Rishad Shaikh

My Name is Khan and I Am a Terrorist
by Rishad Shaikh

Rishadullah Shaikh is the New-Media Manager at Dawn.com
on 11 8th, 2010 |

http://blog.dawn.com/2010/11/08/my-name-is-khan-and-i-am-a-terrorist/


That’s right, my name is Khan and I am a terrorist, but I wasn’t always one. In fact I wasn’t even that religious before, though born in a so-called Muslim family. According to my current understanding I was actually a “Kafir” although I preferred to call myself an atheist or agnostic at best. So what happened? How did a liberated soul like mine get warped into becoming a Muslim firstly and then a terrorist willing to unleash my wrath on the enemies of Islam? Let me explain…

I was young when 9/11 happened and like any other normal person I was shocked beyond belief at what had occurred. However what was more shocking was the fact that a certain group of Muslims was being held responsible for the atrocious crime. I wondered what could trigger Muslims to commit such an evil act all the while calling it Jihad in the name of God. From then onwards I saw the media unleash its wrath upon the Muslims along with which the world was introduced to the “War on Terror” phenomenon. In what followed I saw the US forces invade Iraq, ensue foolish military endeavors in Afghanistan, I heard about Guantanomo Bay, the killing of innocent people being termed as “collateral damage”, drone strikes in Pakistan and most recently the Wikileaks controversy. I also noticed that Muslims were being ridiculed all around the world and their faith was being attacked on international airwaves and their religion being portrayed as inherently evil. All this made me realise I was Muslim. It also made me feel important as I knew the whole world was against me. Soon it became quite clear that I was a victim of a world wide propaganda devilishly plotted by the evil Jews and pursued with full fervor by the neo-con Christians of the United States.

I began to practice Islam with much sincerity. I would pray five times a day, read the Holy Book, I even gave up the Western dress and adopted the Gallabiya and of course let my beard grow! I was particularly concerned regarding the political and social struggles of the Ummah and puzzled how this glorious religion, with its glorious past had become a source of shame for its followers. Of course I knew the cause, anyone with even one eye knows that we are the victims of the evil designs of the West, but I was looking for an answer. I was dying to know what I could do to reclaim the honor of my religion. I didn’t think it was justified to just “stick to your prayers and be a good person” when my faith, my honor and my people were being attacked all around the world.

In search for answers I started going to the mosques to attend lectures putting all my hopes in our learned scholars. I was sure they would be able to outline a course of action for a young, energetic, religiously committed and zealous youth like myself. But boy was I disappointed! Everywhere I went it seemed like the scholars were living inside a cocoon and had absolutely no idea of what was going on in the world around them. No one spoke of the injustices of the West and how the media was playing a major role in brainwashing the people against Islam. At first I thought they were just stupid but then I realised they were nothing more than cowards and sell outs. Not finding any solace in the ramblings of the mainstream Mullah I made a transition into the online world. It is here that I found my answers, my leaders, my heroes, my army, my ideals and my ideology. I discovered there are thousands that share my world view and are ever ready to do something about the plight of the Ummah. I joined a number of online communities and chat forums with my brothers. It was a real awakening. All this time I had been looking for the right people in the wrong direction. In these forums everyone knew exactly what was going on. We knew fully well that local acts of terrorism are false flag operations, the pathetic state of the economy in Muslim lands is also because of the West and its evil designs and everything else going wrong anywhere in the Muslim lands is a propaganda devilishly planned by, you guessed it; the West. (And when I say West I mean A-merica to Z)

I was finally at ease as now I was aware of the ideology that would eventually help the Ummah to reclaim the honor of their faith and home in on the real enemies. I knew that my band of brothers was the victim of an evil design and this made the difficult path that lay ahead of me, very, very easy.

I was introduced to the real scholars of Islam, those that dared to speak out against the West and its injustices. I was also introduced to verses from the Holy Quran and a variety of different Ahadith that only a few selected people could interpret correctly and luckily I was fortunate enough to be associated with them. Suddenly everything was crystal clear. These great scholars not only justified the “militant ideology” (as termed by the shameless media) but made me feel as though these texts had been revealed particularly to address this particular selected group of selfless believers who would then rise up against the enemies of Islam and rid the world of their evil. Thus we found the explicit Islamic solutions to the problems of the Ummah by correctly interpreting the religious texts. (And the shameless media has the nerve to say the religion is outdated!).

The former intellectually challenged US President, George W. Bush, eloquently phrased a sentence that got Pakistan to hop on to the “War on Terror” wagon. Those words were “You’re either with us or against us” and this is exactly what we, those whom you call “the terrorists”, believe. (Back at ya Bush!)

To sum it all up; I was young and the way events were unfolding around me got me really confused. I was concerned and had a will to change the world for a better place. Naturally I looked towards the mainstream scholars to provide me explicit solutions in the light of Islam regarding the current political and social struggles of the Ummah. Their failure to do so made me look elsewhere and that is where I found what you would call, “the radical camp”. They inundated me with real Islamic knowledge and solutions with the help of religious texts and thus provided me with a ticket to Jannah. Inspired by heroes that stood up against oppression in the history of Islam, (and believe you me, there are many such heroes) I too decided that if I was going to die then it would be fighting against the enemies of Islam. I am ready to give up my life for the cause and if a few hundred innocent people loose their lives in the process, so be it, call it collateral damage!

Rishadullah Shaikh is the New-Media Manager at Dawn.com

Rishad Shaikh says:
November 8, 2010 at 17:10

Message to the reader:

The narrative is meant to explain the journey that leads young Muslim minds from educated and well-to-do families into adopting the militant ideology. As recent incidents have shown (Faisal Shehzad and Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the Nigerian underwear bomber being prime examples) that it is not only the poor, uneducated, socially deprived and highly frustrated youth that falls prey to this ideology. Rather the educated and well-to-do Muslim is just as vulnerable.

Amongst the leading factors that contribute to this transformation is the failure of the mainstream scholars to discuss the issues that the youth is so passionate about. When the only voices addressing the issues of concern for such people are coming from the radical camp then it is inevitable that the young and impressionable minds will gravitate to the other side.

Another factor that contributes to the transition of a conventional Muslim into an extremist is a warped understanding of the religion itself. Along with this one of the most potent ingredients in the militancy recipe is a romanticized view of Islamic history. Thus as a result the young Muslim mind has a skewed and idealistic vision of the religion and this opens the gateway for the radical voices to filter their way to the inner psyche of the youth, bypassing whatever common sense there might have been. The important thing to understand is that even if what the radicals have against the West and its policies is justified to a certain extent, there is a better way to deal with it.

ajay says:
November 8, 2010 at 13:46

i am pleasantly astonished to read such enlightened discussion on jihad in Pakistani media.I hope such discussions happen in India.


Osama says:
November 8, 2010 at 13:29

It’s the clash of ideologies, not clash of religions.

1. Islam is not challenged by Judaism or Christianity. The clash is between Islam & Capitalism.

2. West has no big issue with armed struggles in the Muslim world as their nature is not ideological and they do not carry an alternative for the world. The challenge is from those ideologues who carries a very noble and crystal clear idea of an Islamic State. Their struggle is political with no military means, not terror or violence.

3. Threat are only those people who present Islam as a viable alternative to Capitalism for the whole world.

On Religion

Trust me the valley Sunnis hate the Shia as much as they hate Hindus.
Shia however are very united and they don't give a rat's ass to what Sunni do.
Not even a single Shia from the valley was involved in stone pelting.
See the Shia know that they are safe withing Bharat, but if Kashmir goes on its own, or joins Pornistan, they would be treated like third class citizens.

your saying brings me back to Jomo Kenyatta famous quote:

"When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, we had the Bible in our hand, and they had the land."


"“The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one Jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien cults. They invoke Divine Sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam. Wars of Religion which are the outcome of fanaticism that prompts and justifies the extermination of aliens of different creeds are practically unknown in Hindu India.

Dr.S.Radhakrishnan"


Lewis the history of Christianity is full of full and death. Christians would still love to do that if only they had the sort of power which they don't today since Western society, that has historically been the bastion of Christendom, is today secular. Even the churches in Europe are now secular.

However that does not mean that Christianity is not dangerous. If given a free hold Christianity would do the same things as Islam as it has done in the past.
BTW there is nothing like radical Islam, Islam was an is a political ideology.

What the Islamic Invaders Did to India by Rizwan Salim

What the Islamic Invaders Did to India
by Rizwan Salim

This article was published in Hindustan Times on December 28, 1997
Rizwan Salim is a reviewer of New York Tribune, Capitol Hill reporter, assistant editor of American Sentinel.
 

http://islamicterrorism.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/what-the-islamic-invaders-did-to-india-rizwan-salim-on-the-anniversary-of-the-babri-masjid-demolition-in-the-context-of-indian-history/
 

12 Nov, 2007
 

On the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition (December 6, 1992), it is important for Hindus (and Muslims) to understand the importance of the event in the context of Hindustan's history, past and recent, present and the future.

Savages at a very low level of civilisation and no culture worth the name, from Arabia and west Asia, began entering India from the early century onwards. Islamic invaders demolished countless Hindu temples, shattered uncountable sculpture and idols, plundered innumerable palaces and forts of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women. This story, the educated-and a lot of even the illiterate Indians-know very well. History books tell it in remarkable detail. But many Indians do not seem to recognise that the alien Muslim marauders destroyed the historical evolution of the earth's most mentally advanced civilisation, the most richly imaginative culture, and the most vigorously creative society.

It is clear that India at the time when Muslim invaders turned towards it (8 to 11th century) was the earth's richest region for its wealth in precious and semi-precious stones, gold and silver, religion and culture, and its fine arts and letters. Tenth century Hindustan was also too far advanced than its contemporaries in the East and the West for its achievements in the realms of speculative philosophy and scientific theorising, mathematics and knowledge of nature's workings. Hindus of the early medieval period were unquestionably superior in more things than the Chinese, the Persians (including the Sassanians), the Romans and the Byzantines of the immediate proceeding centuries. The followers of Siva and Vishnu on this subcontinent had created for themselves a society more mentally evolved-joyous and prosperous too-than had been realised by the Jews, Christians, and Muslim monotheists of the time. Medieval India, until the Islamic invaders destroyed it, was history's most richly imaginative culture and one of the five most advanced civilisations of all times.

Look at the Hindu art that Muslim iconoclasts severely damaged or destroyed. Ancient Hindu sculpture is vigorous and sensual in the highest degree-more fascinating than human figural art created anywhere else on earth. (Only statues created by classical Greek artists are in the same class as Hindu temple sculpture). Ancient Hindu temple architecture is the most awe-inspiring, ornate and spell-binding architectural style found anywhere in the world. (The Gothic art of cathedrals in France is the only other religious architecture that is comparable with the intricate architecture of Hindu temples). No artist of any historical civilisation have ever revealed the same genius as ancient Hindustan's artists and artisans.

Their minds filled with venom against the idol-worshippers of Hindustan, the Muslims destroyed a large number of ancient Hindu temples. This is a historical fact, mentioned by Muslim chroniclers and others of the time. A number of temples were merely damaged and remained standing. But a large number-not hundreds but many thousands-of the ancient temples were broken into shreds of cracked stone. In the ancient cities of Varanasi and Mathura, Ujjain and Maheshwar, Jwalamukhi and Dwarka, not one temple survives whole and intact from the ancient times.

The wrecking of Hindu temples went on from the early years of the 8th century to well past 1700 AD a period of almost 1000 years. Every Muslim ruler in Delhi (or Governor of Provinces) spent most of his time warring against Hindu kings in the north and the south, the east and the west, and almost every Muslim Sultan and his army commanders indulged in largescale destructions of Hindu temples and idols. They also slaughtered a lot of Hindus. It is easy to conclude that virtually every Hindu temple built in the ancient times is a perfect work of art. The evidence of the ferocity with which the Muslim invaders must have struck at the sculptures of gods and goddesses, demons and apsaras, kings and queens, dancers and musicians is frightful. At so many ancient temples of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, for example, shattered portions of stone images still lie scattered in the temple courtyards. Considering the fury used on the idols and sculptures, the stone-breaking axe must have been applied to thousands upon thousands of images of hypnotic beauty.

Giving proof of the resentment that men belonging to an inferior civilisation feel upon encountering a superior civilisation of individuals with a more refined culture, Islamic invaders from Arabia and western Asia broke and burned everything beautiful they came across in Hindustan. So morally degenerate were the Muslim Sultans that, rather than attract Hindu "infidels" to Islam through force of personal example and exhortation, they just built a number of mosques at the sites of torn down temples-and foolishly pretended they had triumphed over the minds and culture of the Hindus. 

I have seen stones and columns of Hindu temples incorportated into the architecture of several mosques, including the Jama Masjid and Ahmed Shah Masjid in Ahmedabad; the mosque in the Uparkot fort of Junagadh (Gujarat) and in Vidisha (near Bhopal); the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra right next to the famous dargah in Ajmer-and the currently controversial Bhojshala "mosque" in Dhar (near Indore). Hindu culture was at its imaginative best and vigorously creative when the severely-allergic-to-images Muslims entered Hindustan. Islamic invaders did not just destroy countless temples and constructions but also suppressed cultural and religious practices; damaged the pristine vigour of Hindu religion, prevented the intensification of Hindu culture, debilitating it permanently, stopped the development of Hindu arts ended the creative impulse in all realms of thought and action, damaged the people's cultural pride, disrupted the transmission of values and wisdom, cultural practices and tradition from one generation to the next; destroyed the proper historical evolution of Hindu kingdoms and society, affected severely the acquisition of knowledge, research and reflection and violated the moral basis of Hindu society. The Hindus suffered immense psychic damage. The Muslims also plundered the wealth of the Hindu kingdoms, impoverished the Hindu populace, and destroyed the prosperity of Hindustan.

Gaze in wonder at the Kailas Mandir in the Ellora caves and remember that it is carved out of a solid stone hill, an effort that (inscriptions say) took nearly 200 years. This is art as devotion. The temple built by the Rashtrakuta kings (who also built the colossal sculpture in the Elenhanta caves off Mumbai harbour) gives proof of the ancient Hindus' religious fervor.

But the Kailas temple also indicated a will power, a creative imagination, and an intellect eager to take on the greatest of artistic challenges.

The descendants of those who built the magnificent temples of Bhojpur and Thanjavur, Konark and Kailas, invented mathematics and brain surgery, created mindbody disciplines (yoga) of astonishing power, and built mighty empires would almost certainly have attained technological superiority over Europe.

It is not just for "political reasons" that Hindus want to build grand temples at the sites of the (wrecked) Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, and the Mathura idgah. The efforts of religion-intoxicated and politically active Hindus to rebuild the Ram Mandir, the Kashi Vishwanath Mandir, and the Krishna Mandir are just three episodes m a one-thousand year long Hindu struggle to reclaim their culture and religion from alien invaders.

The demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992 was just one episode in the millennial struggle of the Hindus to repossess their religion-centered culture and nation. Meanwhile, hundreds of ancient Hindu temples forsaken all over Hindustan await the reawakening of Hindu cultural pride to be repaired or rebuilt and restored to their original, ancient glory.


This article was published in Hindustan Times on December 28, 1997
Rizwan Salim is a reviewer of New York Tribune, Capitol Hill reporter, assistant editor of American Sentinel.

Comments by Indian on websites on RADICAL ISLAMISTS

Comments by Indian on websites on RADICAL ISLAMISTS

RADICAL ISLAMISTS, never tolerate other cultures. The mythical state of pakistan wants to associate itself with ARABIA and trace their origin to arabia. Majority of pakistanis say that they are from Arabia, which is utter nonsense, because pakistanis are descendent's of HINDUS ancestors who were ruthlessly converted to islam. It is sad and ironic that the ancestors of those indulging in Jihad were the ones who suffered the worst plunder and pilliage of islam. The ancestors of the radical islamists were the worst sufferers of the terror of islam. Most muslims know this truth deep inside their heart, however they refuse to accept it. This identity crisis is the root cause of the problem. Check the DNA and it will be similar to rest of INDIA and very far away from Arab DNA.

Also please reflect on Balochistan, please reflect on mass murder or Shias, Ahmediyas and Bohras. Why no protests on streets of pakistan about this??? Because majority of pakistanis believe in Nizam-E-Mustafa, Dar-ul-Islam and radical interpretation of SUNNI RADICAL ISLAM.

Anyway, dear Jihadi's please do not attempt to shadow box like eunuchs? Don't indulge in hidden terrorist activities like an eunuch and do harm to our unarmed civilians in my sacred motherland. Please meet us in the battlefield, if you really feel so strongly about Nizam-E-Mustafa and Dar-Ul-Islam, then come and die on the battlefield, instead of propaganda nonsense. Dear Jihadi's we will be merciful to you and deliver you to Heaven, Hell or Whatever/Wherever it might be.

INDIA MUST vanquish RADICAL ISLAM, INDIA does NOT have a choice. Every INDIAN is aware that we were born millions of times before, so sacrificing ONE birth for our beloved motherland is nothing. We know we MUST pay a price to protect our CULTURE and FREEDOM and we are eager to work out our KARMA in the battlefield.

Once again, please learn to live in harmony with ALL religions and nations, otherwise islam will self destruct itself and be wiped out from the face of the earth.

INDIA has awakened and NONE can stop HER.

Look up the lineage of Qaid-E-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah on WIKIPEDIA.

"Jinnah's ancestors were Hindu Rajputs who had converted to Islam. Jinnah's family belonged to the Ismaili Khoja branch of Shi'a Islam, though Jinnah later converted to Twelver Khoja Shia Islam"

This is quote from wikipedia Sir.

Not only was he SHIA but his ancestors were Rajputs. It is clearly mentioned, in every single historical evidence of Jinnah.

Also please look up every single historical book before 1940 (i.e. before the many dishonest historians started plying their trade). Every single pre 1940 history will clearly indicate that ancestors of current day subcontinent muslims were HINDUS.

However irony is that even muslim in Kerala will claim he is from Turkey, when he looks nothing like a Turkish person.

Added to this when subcontinent muslims go to Haj to seek blessing of the Great Prophet Mohammad, they are are insulted as "Al Hind, Al Kafir". This is not new phenoman but even Indians who went to Haj before 1940's were insulted with this term "Al Hind, Al Kafir". Hence the Prophets blessings will also be with INDIA and INDIA WILL vanquish Radical Islam.