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Title: Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them : Part II : The Islamic Evidence
ISBN: 9992643595
Author:
Sita Ram Goel
Publicate Date: 1992-01
Publish: 1992-01
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1: CONVINCING & TRUTHFUL DESCRIPTION OF ICONOLCASTIC IDEOLOGIES
THIS REVIEW BY SITA RAM GOEL
Hindu Temples .......VOLUME (I)
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The movement for the restoration of the Ramajanmabhumi Temple at Ayodhya has brought to the fore a suppressed chapter
of India's history, namely, the large-scale destruction of temples by the Islamized invaders. This chapter is by no means
closed. The Appendix to this book provides details of many temples destroyed by Moslems all over Bangladesh as recently
as October-November, 1989.Currently, temples, or whatever had remained of them, are meeting a similar fate in the Kashmir
valley.??
This chapter, however, though significant, was only a part of the Moslem behavior pattern as recorded by Moslem historians
of medieval India. The other parts were:??
1) mass slaughter of people not only during war but also after the armies of Islam had emerged victorious;??
2) capture of large numbers of non-combatant men, women and children as booty and their sale as slaves all over the Islamic
world; 3) forcible conversion to Islam of people who were in no position to resist;??
4) reduction to the status of "zimmis" or non-citizens of all those who could not be converted and imposition of inhuman
disabilities on them;??
5) emasculation of the "zimmis" by preventing them from possessing arms;??
6) impoverishment of the "zimmis" through heavy discriminatory taxes and misappropriation of a major part of what the
peasants produced;??
7) ruination of the native and national culture of the "zimmis" by suppressing and holding in contempt all its institutions and
expressions.??
Nor is this behavior pattern a thing of the past; it persisted even after the Moslem rule was over. The Moslem revivalist
movements in the nineteenth century, particularly in Bengal, tried to repeat, as far as they could, the performance of the
medieval Moslem swordsmen and sultans. More recently, after the Islamic state of Pakistan was carved out, Hindus have
been forced to leave their ancestral homes, en masse from its western wing and in a continuous stream ofrefugees from its
eastern wing, now an independent Islamic state of Bangladesh that came into being with the help of India. Hindu temples and
other cultural institutions have more or less disappeared from Pakistan, while they continue to be under constant attack in
Bangladesh.??
How to understand this behavior pattern so persistently followed over a thousand years under very different conditions and
so consistent in its expression? What is its deeper ideological source???
It is rooted in Islam's religious teachings, its theology and its religious laws; it derives from its peculiar conception of
momins and kafirs, from its doctrines of Jihad, darul Islam and dar-ul-harb, and from what it regards as the duty of a
Moslem state. Hindu India is called upon to make a deeper study of Islam than it has hitherto done. It can neglect this task at
its own peril.??
The present volume makes no pretence of presenting such a study, but by choice restricts itself mainly to the study of Hindu
temples destroyed and desecrated and converted into mosques and khanqahs. (The second volume, with the subtitle 'The
Islamic Evidence' by Sita Ram Goel, has already appeared in the Indian market and several copies are on order for our
readers in the US) It provides a list of around 2,000 Moslem monuments which stand on the sites of deliberately demolished
temples or in the construction of which temple materials have been used. Here and there, it also mentions other theological
props and concomitants of the iconoclastic ideology. In the book Ayodhya retains its importance, but it does not occupy the
center of discussion. In dealing with its subject, it exercises complete fidelity to truth; unlike secularist and Marxist writers, it
does not believe in re-writing and fabricatinghistory. Its aim is to raise the informational level of our people and to make them
better aware of the more persistent ideological forces at work.??
India's historical study cannot be limited only in the learning and memorizing the names of kings and dates of battles; the
backbone of Indian history lies in our heritage symbolized by our temples, vihars and stupas, granthagars or libraries, our
ancient customs and rites which have deep meanings. HINDU TEMPLES -- What Happenedto Them, is a good beginning
for our people to learn about our ancestors and the kind of life they had to go through under thebestial rule of the Moslems.
This book is a must for all Hindus.??
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2: ONE more gem from the indomitable pen of Sita Ram Goel
Goel has done a great service to hindu society as well as those native civilizations of Europe/America/Africa who have been annihilated by the iconoclastic ideologies masquerading as religions. As usual like any other of his books Shri, Goel makes the point very convincing. When you read this book you will feel the difference. The chapters on monotheism and Icanoclasm are extremely well documented regarding the imposition of ISlam on the peaceful Meccan /Arabian Pre-Islamic Pagans. This book is a must for those people of islamic countries especiallly the Arabs/Persians/Khurasanis/Turks/Pakistanis/Hindustani muslims/Any Indologist/Any Indian who is interested to know the truth about his/her spirtual past. This is not an ordinary book it is an eye-opener. After reading this book the reader will emerge with a new analytical ability in the process of evaluation of human civilizations. A must for every truth seeke
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