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2nd April 1999      rsharma4 @ix.netcom.com

Intersting article   - read carefully - you may learn something...


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Timur Lane, Moghul barbarian...read carefully!!!

A taste of the kind of terror faced by the Hindus over the last 
millenium can be had from the "Tuzk-i-Timuri," an account written by the 
Mongol general, Timur-i-Lang (Tamerlane) who invaded the Indian 
subcontinent in 1399.  He starts his chronicle quoting scriptural 
inspiration in the form of the following Qu'ranic verse:
"9.73:O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites 
and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and
evil is the destination."

Now, as an obedient soldier of the faith (Mujahideen), he presents 
evidence of his religious fervour.  "My great object in invading 
Hindustan had been to wage a religious war against the infidel 
Hindus...[so that] the army of Islam might gain something by plundering 
the wealth and valuables of the Hindus." To start with, he stormed the 
fort of Kator on the border of Kashmir. He ordered his soldiers "to kill 
all the men, to make prisoners of women and children, and to plunder and 
lay waste all their property". Next, he "directed towers to be built on 
the mountain of the skulls of those obstinate unbelievers". Soon after, 
he laid siege to Bhatnir defended by Rajputs. They surrendered after 
some fight, and were pardoned.  But not for long.  He records: "In a 
short space of time all the people in the fort were put to the sword, 
and in the course of one hour the heads of 10,000 infidels were cut off. 
The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels, and all the 
goods and effects, the treasure and the grain which for many a long year 
had been stored in the fort became the spoil of my soldiers. They set 
fire to the houses and reduced them to ashes, and they razed the 
buildings and the fort to the ground."

At the next stop (Sarsuti),  "all these infidel Hindus were slain, their 
wives and children were made prisoners and their property and goods 
became the spoil of the victors". Timur was now moving through (modern 
day) Haryana, the land of the Jats. He directed his soldiers to "plunder 
and destroy and kill every one whom they met". And so the soldiers 
"plundered every village, killed the men, and carried a number of Hindu 
prisoners, both male and female".  Loni which was captured before he 
arrived at Delhi was predominantly a Hindu town. But some Muslim 
inhabitants were also taken prisoners. Timur ordered that "the Musulman 
prisoners should be separated and saved, but the infidels should all be 
dispatched to hell with the proselytizing sword." 

At a later stage, he boasts that he had 100,000 Hindu slaves in his 
custody.  However, when the battle with the Tughlaq king of Delhi became 
imminent, his commanders advised him that "that on the great day of 
battle these 100,000 prisoners could not be left with the baggage, and 
that it would be entirely opposed to the rules of war to set these 
idolators and enemies of Islam at liberty." Therefore, "no other course 
remained but that of making them all food for the sword." And so, Timur 
writes with charming candour:  "I proclaimed throughout the camp that 
every man who had infidel prisoners should put them to death, and 
whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property 
given to the informer. When this order became known to the ghazis of 
Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death. One 
hundred thousand infidels, impious idolators, were on that day slain. 
Maulana Nasiruddin Umar, a counselor and man of learning, who, in all 
his life, had never killed a sparrow, now, in execution of my order, 
slew with his sword fifteen idolatrous Hindus, who were his captives."  
And thus did the obliging faithful acquire the coveted title of "Ghazi" 
- slayer of the infidel.  That we Hindus have survived a millenial 
pogrom into modern times is IN SPITE of Islam, NOT because of it.


4.144:    O you who believe! do not take the unbelievers for friends 
rather than the believers; do you desire that you should give to Allah a 
manifest proof against yourselves?
9.5:    So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the 
idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege 
them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and 
keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; 
surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. 
9.23:    O you who believe! do not take your fathers and your brothers 
for guardians if they love unbelief more than belief; and whoever of you 
takes them for a guardian, these it is that are the unjust.
9.29:    Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, 
nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor 
follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, 
until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in 
a state of subjection. 


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3rd April 1999      Krishnan J iyer @bcmfax.net

Mr. Sharma,

Would appreciate if you could give us some actual book published
(publisher, availability etc) or any website reference.

I guess I am used to getting several emails on these stuffs (trying
to evoke some sentiments), without any authenticated data and
mostly forced to ignore them.

One last mail I received was claiming that Taj Mahal was a Hindu
Temple with 100 points to say that. 

Just a thought

Krish

5th April 1999      Aseem Asthana @bom4.vsnl.net.in