The Star Tribune is pushing once again a cute Muslim cooking story featuring a smiling Muslim fella from its pages. The \u201creligion\u201d of \u201cpeace\u201d, right? We\u2019ll see about that…<\/p>\n
The Star Tribune has in fact become the Islamic Tribune.<\/p>\n
Why doesn\u2019t the Star Tribune first inform its readers about the real history of the Islamic conquest of India and then try to sell us all these cute Ramadan cooking stories?<\/p>\n
Do American schools teach about it? Colleges? Churches?<\/p>\n
Do our legislators know about it?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a brief synopsis. In this one post you might learn more about the REAL history of Islam in India than sitting through a college history class in any of today\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n Muslim historian Firishta [full name Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah, born in 1560 and died in 1620], the author of the Tarikh-i Firishta and the Gulshan-i Ibrahim, was the first to give an idea to the medieval bloodbath that was India during Muslim rule, when he declared that over 400 million Hindus got slaughtered during Muslim invasion and occupation of India. Survivors got enslaved and castrated. India\u2019s population is said to have been around 600 million at the time of Muslim invasion. By the mid 1500\u2019s the Hindu population was 200 million.<\/p>\n By the time the British arrived to the shores of India and after centuries of Islamic law ruling India, the Hindu population was not behaving like their normal self; they were behaving like Muslims. There are many witness reports from the British archives of horrendous Hindu incidents that were shocking in cruelty to the British \u2013 and they therefore sometimes referred to the people as \u201csavages\u201d. Yes, anyone who gets contaminated by the association with Islamic \u2018culture\u2019 truly gets tainted and savaged. That is exactly why it is so detrimental and dangerous.<\/p>\n Today, like other cultures with a soul massacred by Islam, India is not truly a Hindu nation. India is a shadow of Islam, a Hindufied version of Islam, where every human atrocity has been emulated and adopted into a culture previously alien to such brutality. And in association with it\u2019s foreign mohamedan pest, these Islamic habits have become adopted and accepted as a \u201cnormal\u201d part of Indian culture. But if we look at pre-Islamic Indian culture it was a in general a benevolent culture of knowledge and learning, much more so than it is today.<\/p>\n From the time of the Umayyad Dynasty (711AD) to the last Mughal, Bahadur Shah Zafar (1858), so widely praised as great leaders by Indian historians themselves, entire cities were burnt down and the populations massacred, with hundreds of thousands killed in every campaign, and similar numbers deported as slaves. Every new invader made (often literally) his hills of Hindus skulls. Thus, the conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. \u201cHindu slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n The Mughal Empire<\/p>\n The Mughal Empire\u2019s spread and occupation of India.<\/p>\n The genocide suffered by the Hindus and Sikhs of India at the hands of Arab, Turkish, Mughal and Afghan occupying forces for a period of 800 years is as yet formally unrecognised by the World.<\/p>\n The only similar genocide in the recent past was that of the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis.<\/p>\n The holocaust of the Hindus in India was of even greater proportions, the only difference was that it continued for 800 years, till the brutal regimes were effectively overpowered in a life and death struggle by the Sikhs in the Punjab and the Hindu Maratha armies in other parts of India in the late 1700\u2019s.<\/p>\n We have elaborate literary evidence of the World\u2019s biggest holocaust from existing historical contemporary eyewitness accounts. The historians and biographers of the invading armies and subsequent rulers of India have left quite detailed records of the atrocities they committed in their day-to-day encounters with India\u2019s Hindus.<\/p>\n These contemporary records boasted about and glorified the crimes that were committed \u2013 and the genocide of tens of millions of Hindus, mass rapes of Hindu women and the destruction of thousands of ancient Hindu \/ Buddhist temples and libraries have been well documented and provide solid proof of the World\u2019s biggest holocaust.<\/p>\n Dr. Koenraad Elst in his article \u201cWas There an Islamic Genocide of Hindus?\u201d states:<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no official estimate of the total death toll of Hindus at the hands of Islam. A first glance at important testimonies by Muslim chroniclers suggests that, over 13 centuries and a territory as vast as the Subcontinent, Muslim Holy Warriors easily killed more Hindus than the 6 million of the Holocaust. Ferishtha lists several occasions when the Bahmani sultans in central India (1347-1528) killed a hundred thousand Hindus, which they set as a minimum goal whenever they felt like punishing the Hindus; and they were only a third-rank provincial dynasty.<\/p>\n The biggest slaughters took place during the raids of Mahmud Ghaznavi (ca. 1000 CE); during the actual conquest of North India by Mohammed Ghori and his lieutenants (1192 ff.); and under the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526).\u201d<\/p>\n He also writes in his book \u201cNegation in India\u201d:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death. Entire cities were burnt down and the populations massacred, with hundreds of thousands killed in every campaign, and similar numbers deported as slaves. Every new invader made (often literally) his hills of Hindus skulls. Thus, the conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. Hindu slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n Will Durant argued in his 1935 book \u201cThe Story of Civilisation: Our Oriental Heritage\u201d (page 459):<\/p>\n \u201cThe Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. The Islamic historians and scholars have recorded with great glee and pride the slaughters of Hindus, forced conversions, abduction of Hindu women and children to slave markets and the destruction of temples carried out by the warriors of Islam during 800 AD to 1700 AD. Millions of Hindus were converted to Islam by sword during this period.\u201d<\/p>\n Francois Gautier in his book \u2018Rewriting Indian History\u2019 (1996) wrote:<\/p>\n \u201cThe massacres perpetuated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in history, bigger than the Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish and Portuguese.\u201d<\/p>\n Writer Fernand Braudel wrote in A History of Civilisations (1995), that Islamic rule in India as a \u201ccolonial experiment\u201d was \u201cextremely violent\u201d, and \u201cthe Muslims could not rule the country except by systematic terror. Cruelty was the norm \u2013 burnings, summary executions, crucifixions or impalements, inventive tortures. Hindu temples were destroyed to make way for mosques. On occasion there were forced conversions. If ever there were an uprising, it was instantly and savagely repressed: houses were burned, the countryside was laid waste, men were slaughtered and women were taken as slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n Alain Danielou in his book, Histoire de l\u2019Inde writes:<\/p>\n \u201cFrom the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of \u2018a holy war\u2019 of their faith, of their sole God, that the barbarians have destroyed civilizations, wiped out entire races.\u201d<\/p>\n Irfan Husain in his article \u201cDemons from the Past\u201d observes:<\/p>\n \u201cWhile historical events should be judged in the context of their times, it cannot be denied that even in that bloody period of history, no mercy was shown to the Hindus unfortunate enough to be in the path of either the Arab conquerors of Sindh and south Punjab, or the Central Asians who swept in from Afghanistan\u2026The Muslim heroes who figure larger than life in our history books committed some dreadful crimes. Mahmud of Ghazni, Qutb-ud-Din Aibak, Balban, Mohammed bin Qasim, and Sultan Mohammad Tughlak, all have blood-stained hands that the passage of years has not cleansed..Seen through Hindu eyes, the Muslim invasion of their homeland was an unmitigated disaster.<\/p>\n \u201cTheir temples were razed, their idols smashed, their women raped, their men killed or taken slaves. When Mahmud of Ghazni entered Somnath on one of his annual raids, he slaughtered all 50,000 inhabitants. Aibak killed and enslaved hundreds of thousands. The list of horrors is long and painful. These conquerors justified their deeds by claiming it was their religious duty to smite non-believers. Cloaking themselves in the banner of Islam, they claimed they were fighting for their faith when, in reality, they were indulging in straightforward slaughter and pillage\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Now here is a sample of eyewitness accounts of the invaders and rulers, during the Indian conquests:<\/p>\n The Afghan ruler Mahmud al-Ghazni invaded India no less than seventeen times between 1001 \u2013 1026 AD. The book \u2018Tarikh-i-Yamini\u2019 \u2013 written by his secretary documents several episodes of his bloody military campaigns :<\/p>\n \u201cThe blood of the infidels flowed so copiously [at the Indian city of Thanesar] that the stream was discoloured, notwithstanding its purity, and people were unable to drink it\u2026the infidels deserted the fort and tried to cross the foaming river\u2026but many of them were slain, taken or drowned\u2026 Nearly fifty thousand men were killed.\u201d<\/p>\n In the contemporary record \u2013 \u2018 Taj-ul-Ma\u2019asir\u2019 by Hassn Nizam-i-Naishapuri, it is stated that when Qutb-ul- Din Aibak (of Turko \u2013 Afghan origin and the First Sultan of Delhi 1194-1210 AD) conquered Meerat, he demolished all the Hindu temples of the city and erected mosques on their sites. In the city of Aligarh, he converted Hindu inhabitants to Islam by the sword and beheaded all those who adhered to their own religion.<\/p>\n The Persian historian Wassaf writes in his book \u2018Tazjiyat-ul-Amsar wa Tajriyat ul Asar\u2019 that when the Alaul-Din Khilji (An Afghan of Turkish origin and second ruler of the Khilji Dynasty in India 1295-1316 AD) captured the city of Kambayat at the head of the gulf of Cambay, he killed the adult male Hindu inhabitants for the glory of Islam, set flowing rivers of blood, sent the women of the country with all their gold, silver, and jewels, to his own home, and made about twentv thousand Hindu maidens his private slaves.<\/p>\n India has a deep, long cultural history. Hinduism began there around 1,500 BC and Buddhism around the 6th century BC. This culture had evolved impressive intellectual, religious and artistic pursuits. Pre and post the early days of Islam, Indian scholars took their works in science, maths (zero, algebra, geometry, the decimal system, so-called \u2018Arabic\u2019 numbers are actually Hindu ones!), medicine, philosophy etc to the courts of others (including Muslims eg Baghdad).<\/p>\n Others came to study in India\u2019s established universities. Indian children (boys and girls) were educated in the relatively widespread education system in a wide variety of subjects eg science, medicine and philosophy. India\u2019s art and architecture was magnificent. They were a prosperous people. Then came Islam \u2013 slaughter, slavery, rape, violence, pillage; destruction of religious sites, art and architecture; poverty, exploitation, humiliation, famine, forced conversion, decline in intellectual pursuits, social destruction and a worsening of social ills. To Islam, anything that is not Islamic is from a time of ignorance \u2013Jahiliyya- and must be destroyed (or appropriated and called Islam\u2019s!). The onslaught created the Roma (gypsies), destroyed \u2018Hindu\u2019 Afghanistan and formed Pakistan (Kashmir) and Bangladesh .<\/p>\n The cost of the Muslim invasions is massive in lives, wealth and culture. Estimates suggest that 60-80 MILLION died at the hands of Muslim invaders and rulers between 1000 and 1525 alone (ie over 500 years-the population FELL). (Lal cited in Khan p 216) Impossible you think? In the war of Independence of Bangladesh, 1971, the Muslim Pakistani army killed 1.5-3 million people (mainly Muslims \u2026) in just 9 MONTHS. (Khan p 216). The world looked the other way\u2014but don\u2019t we always when it\u2019s Muslims committing the violence! [*The actual number of Hindus brutally slaughtered by Muslims were around 400 million, not 60-80 million, according to Firishta [1560-1620], the author of the Tarikh-i Firishta and the Gulshan-i Ibrahim].<\/p>\n Based on the figures that are available, the number of Indians enslaved is enormous!<\/p>\n The Muslim conquest of India was probably the bloodiest in history!<\/p>\n The Islamic historians and scholars have recorded with utmost glee and pride of the slaughters of Hindus, forced conversions, abduction of Hindu women and children to slave-markets, and the destruction of temples carried out by the warriors of Islam during 800AD to 1700 AD. Millions of Hindus were converted to Islam by the sword in this period\u201d (historian Durant cited in Khan p 201)<\/p>\n And Rizwan Salim (1997) writes what the Arab invaders really did:<\/p>\n \u2018These 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 forts and palaces of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women. \u2026\u2026\u2026but many Indians do not seem to recognize that the alien Muslim marauders destroyed the historical evolution of the earth\u2019s most mentally advanced civilisation, the most richly imaginative culture, and the most vigorously creative society.\u201d (cited in Khan p 179)<\/p>\n Of course Indians pre-Islam, fought, but it was NOT the practice to enslave or ravage, or massacre, or destroy religious sites, or damage crops and farmers. Battles were usually conducted on open soil between military personnel. (Khan p 205-207) There was no concept of \u2018booty\u2019 so Indians were unprepared for Islam\u2019s onslaught. Indigenous Indians were forced to flee to jungles and mountains, or face gruelling exploitation and taxes, slaughter or enslavement while their society was demeaned and destroyed. Muslims constantly attacked the indigenous, idolatrous population and also fought against each other in ceaseless revolts by generals, chiefs and princes during the entire time of Islamic rule (Khan p 205).<\/p>\n Slavery: Initially \u2018India\u2019 included part of today\u2019s Pakistan (Sindh), Bangladesh\/Bengal and Kashmir. Hinduism and Buddhism flourished in Afghanistan pre the Islamic takeover (7th century). In the 16th century Afghanistan was divided between the Muslim Mogul (Mughal) Empire of India and the Safavids of Persia.<\/p>\n Initially the godless Umayyads, allowed Hindus dhimmi status \u2013 possibly because of their large numbers, resistance to Islam and their value as a source of tax income. This violates Islamic text and law which demands death or conversion for idolaters and polytheists. When Sultan Iltutmish (d 1236) was asked why Hindus weren\u2019t given the choice between death and Islam, he replied:<\/p>\n \u201cbut at the moment in India\u2026the Muslims are so few that they are like salt (in a large dish) \u2026however after a few years when in the capital and the regions and all the small towns, when the Muslims are well established and the troops are larger\u2026.it would be possible to give Hindus the choice of death or Islam\u201d (cited in Lal [c] p 538) (Can we learn anything from this)<\/p>\n Despite their supposed \u2018dhimmi\u2019 status, mass slaughter, mass forced conversion and mass enslavement with the resulting forced conversion to Islam were practised throughout Islamic rule and into the 20th century as many demanded the idolaters\/polytheists convert or die. Hindu fighters and males were slaughtered with women and children enslaved. Eunuch slavery was practised on young boys.<\/p>\n Often actual numbers aren\u2019t given, just comments like \u2018countless captives\/slaves,\u2019 or \u2018all the women and children were taken.\u2019 Where numbers are recorded, they are terrifying. Along with people, the Muslims took everything they could\u2014coins, jewels, cloths, clothes, furniture, idols, animals, grain etc or destroyed it.<\/p>\n Muslim rulers were foreigners. Until the 13th century, most slaves were sent out of India but following the Sultanate of Delhi (1206) they were retained to work for the sultanate, sold in India or sent elsewhere. Slaves from elsewhere were imported and Muslim armies were composed of a wide array of foreign slave groups \u2018converted\u2019 to Islam and \u2018Hindus\u2019 and Indian \u2018converts.\u2019<\/p>\n Slaves were the promised booty from Allah and obtaining them was a strong motivation for jihad.<\/p>\n \u201cslaves were so plentiful that they became very cheap; men\u2026were degraded\u2026.but this is the goodness of Allah, who bestows honours on his own religion and degrades infidelity\u201d. (Muslim chronicler Utbi on Sultan Subuktigin of Ghazni\u2019s slave raid [942-997] in Sookdheo p166)<\/p>\n In Sindh (first area attacked successfully) the early \u2018Muslim\u2019 community was composed mainly of slaves forced into Islam and a small number of Arab masters (Khan p 299). Initially slaves were forced out of India eg Qasim (Arab), the conquerer of Sindh sent by Hajjaj bin Yusuf Sakifi in the caliphate of Walid I, took 300,000 from a 3 year campaign in 712-715 (Khan p 299, Trifkovic p 109). Muslim fighters came from everywhere to partake in this \u2018jihad.\u2019 Qasim was suddenly recalled and executed (possibly by being sown in an animal\u2019s hide) for supposedly violating 2 Sindhi princesses destined for the caliph\u2019s harem!! (Lal [c] p 439)<\/p>\n The Ghaznivids-Turks from Ghazni, Afghanistan (997-1206) who subdued the Punjab.<\/p>\n From 17 raids (997-1030) Sultan Muhmud Ghazni (Turk from Afghanistan, 997-1030) sent hundreds of thousands of slaves to Ghanzi (Afghanistan) resulting in a loss of about 2 million people via slaughter or enslavement and sale outside India (Khan p 315). Chroniclers (eg Utbi, the sultan\u2019s secretary) provide some numbers eg -from Thanesar, the Muslim army brought 200,000 captives back to Ghazni (Afghanistan). In 1019, 53,000 were taken. At one time the caliph\u2019s 1\/5th share was 150,000 suggesting 750,000 captives. 500,000 were taken in one campaign (at Waihind)(Lal [c] p 551) Mahmud\u2019s secretary al-Utbi records:<\/p>\n \u201cSwords flashed like lightening amid the blackness of clouds, and fountains of blood flowed like the fall of setting star. The friends of god defeated their opponents\u2026.the Musalmans wreaked their vengeance on the infidel enemies of god killing 15,000 of them\u2026making them food of the beasts and birds of prey\u2026.god also bestowed on his friends such an amount of booty as was beyond all bounds and calculations, including 500,000 slaves beautiful men and women\u201d (Khan p 191)<\/p>\n The Ghaznivid\u2019s ruled in the \u2018Islamic sultanate of the Punjab\u2019 till 1186. Attacks in Kashmir, Hansi, and districts of the Punjab resulted in mass slaughter and enslavement eg 100,000 in a 1079 attack in the Punjab (Tarik \u2013i-Alfi in Khan p 276-7, Lal [d] p 553<\/p>\n Under the Ghaurivid rulers (Turks) eg Muhammad Ghauri (Afghani) and his military commander then ruler, Qutbuddin Aibak (r1206-1210), the Delhi sultanate was set up. Mass beheadings, enslavements, forced conversions, plunder and the destruction of temples continued. Slaves were incredibly plentiful. In 1195, Aibak took 20,000 slaves from Raja Bhim and 50,000 at Kalinjar (1202) (Lal [c] p 536).<\/p>\n \u201ceven the poor (Muslim) householder became owner of numerous slaves.\u2019 (Khan 103, Lal [c] p 537).<\/p>\n Through the 13\/14th century ruled by the Khilji (Khaljis) and Tughlaq\u2019s, slavery grew as Islam spread. Thousands of slaves were sold at a low price everyday (Khan p 280). Alauddin Khilji\u2019s (r 1296-1316) capture of slaves was stupendous and he shackled, chained and humiliated slaves (Lal [c] p 540). In the sack of Somnath alone he:<\/p>\n \u201ctook captive a great number of handsome and elegant maidens, amounting to 20,000 and children of both sexes ..more than the pen can enumerate. The Mohammadan army brought the country to utter ruin, destroyed the lives of inhabitants, and plundered the cities and captured their offspring.\u201d (historian cited in Bostom p 641, Lal [c] p 540)<\/p>\n Many thousands were massacred. Alauddin Khilji (r 1296-1316) had 50,000 slave BOYS in his personal service and 70,000 slaves worked continuously on his buildings.(Lal [c] p 541)<\/p>\n Women practised Jauhar (burning or killing oneself to avoid enslavement and rape) and sati.<\/p>\n The Sufi Amir Khusrau notes \u201cthe Turks, whenever they please, can seize, buy or sell any Hindu\u201d (Lal [c] p 541)<\/p>\n Enslaved and Castrated<\/p>\n Eunuchs: All over the Islamic world, the conquered were castrated, including in India. This was done so men could guard harems, provide carnal indulgence for rulers, give devotion to the ruler as they had no hope of a family of their own and of course, this quickly reduced the breeding stock of the conquered. Castration was a common practice throughout Muslim rule possibly contributing to the DECLINE in India\u2019s population from 200 million in 1000 CE to 170 million in 1500 CE (Khan p 314)<\/p>\n Once Sultan Bakhtiyar Khilji conquered Bengal in 1205, it became a leading supplier of castrated slaves. This remained the case into the Mogul period (1526-1857).<\/p>\n Akbar the Great (1556-1605) owned eunuchs. Said Khan Chaghtai owned 1,200 eunuchs (an official of Akbar\u2019s son Jahangir)! In Aurangzeb\u2019s reign, in 1659 at Golkunda (Hyderabad), 22,000 boys were emasculated and given to Muslim rulers and governors or sold. (Khan 313).<\/p>\n Sultan Alauddin Khilji (r 1296-1316) had 50,000 boys in his personal service; Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq (r 1325-51) had 20,000 and Sultan Firoz Tughlaq (r 1351-1388) had 40,000 (Firoz Tulghlaq liked to collect boys in any way and had 180,000 slaves in total (Lal [c] p 542). Several commanders under various sultans were eunuchs. Muslim historians record the \u2018infatuation\u2019 of sultans Mahmud Ghazni, Qutbuddin Aibak, and Sikandar Lodi \u2013for handsome young boys! Sultan Mahmud was infatuated by his Hindu commander Tilak (Khan p 314)<\/p>\n Conclusion: The inhuman behaviour applied to the whole Indian population by Muslims was the same whether the Muslims were Sufis, Arabs, Afghanis, Turks, or Mogul as all followed Islam\u2019s laws, text and the fine example of Mohammad. It should also be noted that the violence and enslavement continued even after they had virtual control over India because the aim was not merely to conquer but to force all into Islam. Muslims did not come to join Indian society, they came to wipe it out and replace it with Islam\u2014which tells them that they own everything because it\u2019s the booty promised by allah. The pagans\/idolaters, polytheists had to convert or die and only then could there be (Islamic) peace! Slaves were the just reward for Islam\u2019s fighters\u2013part of the booty promised by allah.<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n 1) Bostom, A. G. \u2018The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic holy war and the fate of the non-Muslims.\u2019 Prometheus Books. New York. 2005.<\/p>\n 2) Khan, M. A. \u2018Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and slavery.\u2019 iUniverse, Bloomington, IN. 2009. (An Indian ex-Muslim) \u2013 FULL PDF BOOK HERE: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Wbj2cQ<\/p>\n 3) Lal [a], K.S. Muslims invade India<\/p>\n 4) Lal [b], K.S. Jihad under the Turks and jihad under the Mughals<\/p>\n 5) Lal [c], K.S. Slave-taking during Muslim rule<\/p>\n 6) Lal [d], K.S. Enslavement of Hindus by Arab and Turkish invaders<\/p>\n 7) Lal [e], K.S. The Origins of Muslim slave system<\/p>\n 8) Reliance of the Traveller: A classic manual of Islamic sacred law. In Arabic with facing English Text, commentary and appendices edited and translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller Al-Misri, Ahmad ibn Naqib; Amana publications Maryland USA 1994.<\/p>\n 9) Sookhdeo, P. \u2018Global Jihad: The future in the face of Militant Islam.\u2019 Isaac Publishing. 2007.<\/p>\n 10) Trifkovic, S. \u2018The sword of the prophet.\u2019 Regina Orthodox Press, Inc. 2002.<\/p>\n 11) Ye\u2019or, Bat. \u2018Islam and Dhimmitude: Where civilisations collide\u2019 translated from the French by Miriam Kochan and David Littman. 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