Another intellectually stimulating and thoughtful article by the most brilliant scholar, at least to my knowledge, of subjects that few would dare touch. Mr. Khaldun Bharati is one of a kind. He seems to have a phenomenal grip on all relevant historical facts that have anything to do with the issue he puts his mind to. I always learn something new and important and surprising from his writings. Prior to reading this article I was completely ignorant of the fact that the Persian word बुत derives from the idol of Buddha and बुत-शिकनी from the smashing of it. And it’s hard to argue with any of Mr. Bharati’s arguments presented here. He is such an enlightened, knowledgeable and decent individual… How I wish his voice could be heard far and wide!
This is a very thoughtfully written article. I just came back from northern Indian trip where all major temples have destruction stories to share. Acknowledgement could bring some closure to the past atrocities.
The author is 100% correct in his assessment. I had written a comment few days back about good old “paschataap”. Where is it to be seen in the Muslims ? On the contrary, you have people silently and some times very overtly glorifying the invaders in the Indian subcontinent in the name of Islam and at the same time shedding tears for Gaza all in the name of invasion and Islam ! What sort of a deranged and intellectually corrupt argument is this ? Everyone knows how Islam came to be in the subcontinent. It was on the back of loot, plunder , murder ! There are no two ways about it. And some “distorians” were busy painting the invaders as having merged into the Indian society and becoming one of us. Question is why did they need to force their cult upon the residents of Bharat who since millenia had been worshipping idols ? And why were plunderers coming back again and again to destroy the same temples if it had already been plundered once ? Distorians also try to portray this as robbery but the argument falls flat when you see Holy wars being documented in history to plunder and break temples. even today you can see sculptures with broken parts of deities and the Muslims of this land who shed so much tears for Gaza are conspicuosly silent on this. It is also not lost on anybody that the majority of them who voted to partition country on the bigoted religious lines stayed back in India. If this is not moral corruption pray what is ! Muslims in India need to be vocal about their feelings against invasion. If not, then be prepared to be exposed one generation after another.
Another intellectually stimulating and thoughtful article by the most brilliant scholar, at least to my knowledge, of subjects that few would dare touch. Mr. Khaldun Bharati is one of a kind. He seems to have a phenomenal grip on all relevant historical facts that have anything to do with the issue he puts his mind to. I always learn something new and important and surprising from his writings. Prior to reading this article I was completely ignorant of the fact that the Persian word बुत derives from the idol of Buddha and बुत-शिकनी from the smashing of it. And it’s hard to argue with any of Mr. Bharati’s arguments presented here. He is such an enlightened, knowledgeable and decent individual… How I wish his voice could be heard far and wide!
This is a very thoughtfully written article. I just came back from northern Indian trip where all major temples have destruction stories to share. Acknowledgement could bring some closure to the past atrocities.
The author is 100% correct in his assessment. I had written a comment few days back about good old “paschataap”. Where is it to be seen in the Muslims ? On the contrary, you have people silently and some times very overtly glorifying the invaders in the Indian subcontinent in the name of Islam and at the same time shedding tears for Gaza all in the name of invasion and Islam ! What sort of a deranged and intellectually corrupt argument is this ? Everyone knows how Islam came to be in the subcontinent. It was on the back of loot, plunder , murder ! There are no two ways about it. And some “distorians” were busy painting the invaders as having merged into the Indian society and becoming one of us. Question is why did they need to force their cult upon the residents of Bharat who since millenia had been worshipping idols ? And why were plunderers coming back again and again to destroy the same temples if it had already been plundered once ? Distorians also try to portray this as robbery but the argument falls flat when you see Holy wars being documented in history to plunder and break temples. even today you can see sculptures with broken parts of deities and the Muslims of this land who shed so much tears for Gaza are conspicuosly silent on this. It is also not lost on anybody that the majority of them who voted to partition country on the bigoted religious lines stayed back in India. If this is not moral corruption pray what is ! Muslims in India need to be vocal about their feelings against invasion. If not, then be prepared to be exposed one generation after another.