The plight of Hindus has been enshrined in the Granth Sahib (the holy book of the Sikhs): In Odantpuri, in 1202, he massacred two thousand Buddhist monks. 'Mohammed Ghori had the Hindu temples of Ajmer demolished and ordered the construction of mosques and Quran schools on their runins…He plundered Kanauj and Kashi and destroyed their temples.' While his generals 'destroyed in passing the remaining Buddhist communities of Bihar and destroyed the universities of Nalanda.'īakhtiar Khilji 'established a Muslim capital in Lakhanauti (Gaur) on the Ganga and destroyed, in 1197, its basalt temples.

Islam's Other Victims: India - By SergeTrifkovic (Sound familiar?) Starting in 712 the raiders, commanded by Muhammad Qasim, demolished temples, shattered sculptures, plundered palaces, killed vast numbers of men - it took three whole days to slaughter the inhabitants of the city of Debal - and carried off their women and children to slavery, some of it sexual. Moslem invaders began entering India in the early 8th century, on the orders of Hajjaj, the governor of what is now Iraq. And these were indigenous achievements and not, as in the case of many of the more celebrated high-points of Moslem culture, relics of pre-Moslem civilizations that Moslems had overrun.

Its sculptures were vigorous and sensual, its architecture ornate and spellbinding. Medieval India, before the Moslem invasion, was a richly imaginative culture, one of the half-dozen most advanced civilizations of all time.

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