Nura's Selective Perception on Terror in India - She Targets Church Omits Mosque

Submitted by Singha (India), Oct 31, 2008 at 01:19

It is well known that Church especially catholic church has a track record of evil towards non believers in India and in the new world.

It must be noted that the initial impetus to imperialism was provided by the iberian peninsula much of which was under islamic rule.

Much of the rationale for imperialism and violence towards non-believing pagans was provided by the Spanish sources from ISLAMIC SOURCES not CHURCHIST SOURCES. Nobel Laurate V S Naipaul has elaborated that many of the sections dealing with treatment of natives is same as what koran and hadith prescribe on treating kaffirs (non believers of islam). You may want to visit the library and read his insightful travelogues.

Please understand that I am not defending the church. Church's historic deceit and its subsequent taming during the reformation period is too well known to deserve further elaboration. Church served a useful role in stopping islam in Europe.

Church's violent impulses can be attributed not only to its historic deceit (mine is the only right way; converting others to my way by hook or crook is OK) but also to its neighborhood to islamic world. JESUS UNLIKE MO-HUM-MAD IS KNOWN TO HAVE NEVER EVER INDULGED IN ANY VIOLENT ACT.

Islam historically is not just deceitful (Institutionalised al-taquiya principles) but also extremely violent towards those that disagree. Islam floored much more sophisticated civilisations in Misr (Egypt), Babylon (Iraq), Iran, India et. al because of its superior military organisation. History is documented usually by winners of wars. Musim Rulers not unduly bothered about how they would be perceived in future have accurately chronicled about how they killed native Hindus in 100s of thousands and destroyed their places of worship in tens of thousands.

Kabul was ruled by Hindushahis (Hindus) before islam defeated Pakthuns and converted them. It took over 100 years (no less) before Pakthuns tribes were converted. As late as middle of last century, Lahore and Karachi were Hindu majority Cities. Islam's growth was managed by twin tools of Jehadi terror and Jizia Tax.

There were deceit based muslim evangelical effort too which manipulate Hindu texts to cite that mo-hum-mad was a manifestation of Hindu God prophesied in Hindu scriptures and that by believing in koran and islam, one is not giving up islam but is being a true Hindu. Over a period of time Tableeghi efforts ensure that Hindu origins and traditions such as affection towards cow (because cow provides milk like cow), respect for other beliefs are made to give up as Haraam (what is prohibited).

I am surprised that while you want to see the truth perspicaciously on christian terror, you want to see the truth about muslim terror through a warped islamic lens.

You would be better off if you stand for truth, ground facts and reality rather than for islam in stead of pretending as if these are the same.

Professor Will Durant (noone has accused him of bias or someone that had an axe to grind) has written in Volume 1 - History of Civilisation about impact of islam on India. (By the way if you dislike Western sources you can read Muslim sources like Al Beruni to validate what I have documented here).

Professor Durant writes, " The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within." (From my perspecive as a secular humanist, and my own experience, I regard a typical liberal Indian Muslim to be as good a human being as any other Indian.

If you care for civilisation rather than barbarianism learn to place traditional american values and american constitution and bill of rights much ahead of koran, seerah, sunnath and shariah.

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