Indian supreme court's recent ruling on India's counter part of Temple Mount

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Nov 11, 2019 at 21:27

Dear Dr Pipes, you will be happy to note that in a recent ruling the Indian Supreme court resolved a dispute that was going on for 500 years. It allowed the Hindus of India and Ayodhya full control on the disputed land that was occupied by Muslims to build a mosque. In their investigation the judges noted that not only there was archaeological evidence that there was a non-Islamic structure under the Mosque but also Hindus never gave up their spiritual claim on the land. Hindu worship in some or the other form has continued at that site in question for centuries.

No one should consider this kind of events as victories. These events are solemn events in which no one is a true winner. But such events are also reminders that Islam has to own up to its ugly past. We all know that Constantinople was a Christian city and Hagia Sophia should never have become a Mosque. Nor should there have been a Mosque so close to Temple Mount. And Muslims had no business being in Cordoba just decades after Muhammad started their religion. And Zorostrians should not have been forced to leave Persia. Systematic and institutionalized Islamic designs to use the might of states to advance the religion must end. They must end, at least, in the 21st century and they must end with an apologies from the modern Islamic leadership.

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