Re: Ariana/ poor Hindu's

Submitted by Nura (United States), Oct 30, 2008 at 02:46

will refute all of your charges, once you refute mine. That Musems did actually participate in slaughter and did actually destroy places of worship of the hindus.

You know you are not only redundant, but you contradict your own arguments. Did you not say that many Indians converted to Islam because it was a new ideology?

I guess you don't know much about the history of Christians missionaries whose sole purpose it to clean the world of PAGANISM. What friends you have!

It was in 1498 when the Pope ordered, concerning India:

"... to invade, conquer, and subject all the countries which are under rule of the enemies of Christ, Saracens (Moslems who fought against the Christian Crusaders in the middle ages) or Pagan...."

You should look up the conquest of Vasco da Gama.

The historian Gaspar Correa described what Vasco da Gama did, thus:

"When all the Indians had thus been executed, he ordered them to strike upon their teeth with staves and they knocked them down their throats; as they were put on board, heaped on top of each other, mixed up with the blood which streamed from them; and he ordered mats and dry leaves to be spread over them and sails to be set for the shore and the vessels set on fire... " Before killing and burning the innocent Hindus he had their hands, ears and noses cut off.

…"When the Zamorin (head of the Hindu population) sent another Brahmin (Hindu Priest) to Vasco to plead for peace, he had his lips cut off and his ears cut off. The ears of a dog were sewn on him instead and the Brahmin was sent back to Zamorin in that state. The Brahmin… had brought with him three young boys, two of them his sons and the other a nephew. They were hanged from the yardarm and their bodies sent ashore."

Francis Xavier, wrote in a letter back home,

"As soon as I arrived in any heathen village, when all are baptized, I order all the temples of their false gods to be destroyed and all the idols to be broken to pieces. I can give you no idea of the joy I feel in seeing this done." The Church had a special way of dealing with converted Hindus who were suspected of not observing Christian rites with appropriate rigour and enthusiasm, or even of covertly practicing their old faith: "…the culprits would be tracked down and burnt alive."

Paul William Roberts, Empire of the Soul, Some Journeys in India (Riverhead Books, New York)

"Children were flogged and slowly dismembered in front of their parents whose eyelids had been sliced off to make sure they missed nothing. Extremities were amputated carefully, so that a person could remain conscious even when all that remained was a torso and a head."

This was the way the Portuguese and Christian missionaries dealt with your ancestors and MANY,MANY, other peoples in the world.

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