Hindu Experience

Submitted by Thiagan (India), Mar 26, 2008 at 06:40

It is Zaafir Ahmed who should take classes on school history. Afganistan was a great centre of learning and there were many Buddhist universities, scholars and libraries. Islam came in tenth century and read the after effects.

" There can be no doubt that the fall of Buddhism in India was due to the invasions of Mussalmans. Islam came out as the enemy of the But. The word But as everyone knows is an Arabic word and means an idol. Not manu people, however, know that the derivation of the word But is the Arabic corruption Buddha. Thus the origin of the word indicates that in the Moslem mind idol worship had come to be identified with the Religion of Buddha. To the moslems they were one and the same thing...............

The Musalman invaders sacked the Buddhist Universities of Nalanda, Vikramshila, Jagaddala, Odanthapuri to name only a few. They raised to the ground the Buddhist monasteries with which the country was studded. The monks fled away in thousands to Nepal, Tibet and other places outside India. A very large number were killed outright by the moslem commanders. How the Buddhist priesthood perished by the sword of the muslim has been recorded by the Moslem historians themselves.

Summarising the evidence relating to the slaughter of the Buddhist Monks perpetrated by the Musalman General in the course of his invasion in Bihar in 1197 Ad, Mr.Vincent Smith says " ………..Great quantities of plunder were obtained and the slaughter of "shaven headed Brahmins" , that is to say the Buddhist monks was so thoroughly completed that when the victor sought for someone capable of explaining the contents of the books in the libraries of the monasteries , not a living man could be found who was able to read them".

It was discovered, we are told, that the whole of that fortress and city was a college and in the Hindi tongue they call a college Bihar." The author of the quote is Dr.B.R.Ambedhkar. Islam is continuing its efforts of destroying other places of worship even today; the Bamian Buddhaas and the Hindu temples in Malaysia.

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