Taliban, Hindu Kush and Hindu

Genocide
Author: Mr Francois Gautier
Publication: groups.yahoo.com
Date: April 16, 2001

The West seems to have suddenly woken-up to Muslim

fundamentalism in South Asia when the Taliban broke down the
Bamyan statues, in spite of frantic appeals from all over the
world. But there is a bit of hypocrisy in the outrage triggered
by this destruction.

Firstly, Islam is very clear about statues: didn't the Prophet

Mohamed break down himself the first stone Gods ? Thereafter,
it became a holy duty for all good Muslims. Firuz Shah Tughlak
(1351-1388) who has an avenue named after him in New Delhi,
wrote: "on the day of a Hindu festival, I went there myself,
ordered the executions of all the leaders and practitioners of
this abomination; I destroyed their idols and temples to build
mosques in their places".

As Belgium historian Konraad Elst points out, "Muslim fanatics

are merely faithful executors of Quranic injunctions. It is not
the Muslims who are guilty, but Islam". Thus, the Taliban, who
want to restore the early purity of Islam, really thought they
were performing a righteous act by destroying the "heathen"
Buddhist statues.

Secondly, does the West ever protest when Hindu temples are
destroyed periodically in Bangladesh and Pakistan? The
HRCBM, a Santa Clara-based organisation that investigates and
exposes human rights violations in Bangladesh, has recorded a
few of the outrages against Hindus in Bangladesh during the
year 2000: On March 29, 2000, Malarani Roy of Karagola
village was abducted by Muslims. She was brutally beaten up
and gang-raped. The local police found her, but refused to
register a case.
On June 26, a group of Muslims directed Smriti Rani Saha of
Sirajganj town to migrate to India. When she refused, she was
abducted, gang-raped and brutally murdered. On May 28,
Debasish Saha of Poradaha was fatally shot by a Muslim gang.
On June 4, Mayaram Tripura of Balipara was shot dead by local
Muslims. On October 6, 2000, Muslim devotees, after offering
namaaz at the Gajipur Jama Masjid, strolled across to the Hindu
Kali temple, destroyed the puja pandal, smashed the idols, and
looted nearby Hindu-owned shops.

Take a look at the figures of the Hindu population of India's

Muslims neighbours: in 1941, there were approximately 25%
Hindus in Pakistan and 30% in Bangladesh; in 1948, only 17%
in Pakistan and 25% in Bangladesh; in 1991, a bare 1.5%
remained in Pakistan and less than 10% in Bangladesh.

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| year || % of hindus in Pakistan || % of hindus in
Bangladesh ||
|_____||____________________ ||___________________________||
| 1941 || 25 ||
30 ||
| 1948 || 17 ||
25 ||
| 1991 || 1.5 ||
<10 || |
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Thirdly, the West has not yet realized that for the Muslims of
South Asia , Hindus are the Kafirs by excellence: the Buddhists
adore only Buddha, the Christians only Jesus, but Hindus
worship a million Gods and Goddesses; and that makes them -
even today - the number one enemy of Islam. This is why
Kashmir is so important: it is not about territory, it is about a
Holy war against Hindu India that has been going on for fifteen
centuries and it is only the first step of the encirclement of
India by hostile Muslim neighbours: Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, with soft nations, like Nepal, often lending them a
helping hand.

Nothing symbolizes more the absoluteness of Muslim

belligerence towards Hindus than the Hindu Kush. Historically,
the passes across the Hindu Kush have been of great military
significance, providing access to the northern plains of India to
foreign invaders, starting from Alexander the Great in 327 BC,
to Timur Lane in 1398 AD, and from Mahmud of Ghazni, in
1001 AD, to Nader Shah in 1739 AD. As noted by Srinandan
Vyas in the Hindu.net website: " In Persian, the word 'Kush' is
derived from the verb Kushtar - to slaughter or carnage,
because all Hindus living there were slaughtered.

Encyclopaedia Americana says of Hindu Kush: The name

means literally 'Kills the Hindu', a reminder of the days when
Hindu slaves from Indian subcontinent died in harsh Afghan
mountains while being transported to Moslem courts of Central
Asia. While Encyclopaedia Britannica mentions "that the name
Hindu Kush first appears in 1333 AD in the writings of Ibn
Battutah, the medireview Berber traveller, who said the name
meant 'Hindu Killer', a meaning still given by Afghan mountain
dwellers who are traditional enemies of Hindus".

"Unlike the Jewish holocaust, writes again Vyas, the exact toll
of the Hindu genocide suggested by the name Hindu Kush is
not available. However the number is easily likely to be in
millions". A few known historical figures can be used to justify
this estimate. Encyclopaedia Britannica recalls that in
December 1398 AD, Timur Lane ordered the execution of at
least 50,000 captives before the battle for Delhi; likewise, the
number of captives butchered by Timur Lane's army was about
100,000 .

Encyclopaedia Britannica again mentions that Mughal emperor

Akbar 'ordered the massacre of about 30,000 captured Rajput
Hindus on February 24, 1568 AD, after the battle for Chitod, a
number confirmed by Abul Fazl, Akbar's court historian. Afghan
historian Khondamir records that during one of the many
repeated invasions on the city of Herat in western Afghanistan,
which used to be part of the Hindu Shahiya kingdoms
"1,500,000 residents perished".

Why does not the Government of India tell Indian children

about the Hindu Kush genocide? The horrors of the Jewish
holocaust are taught not only in schools in Israel and USA, but
also in Germany. Because both Germany and Israel consider
the Jewish holocaust a 'dark chapter' in the history. Yet, in
1982, the National Council of Educational Research and
Training issued a directive for the rewriting of school texts.

Among other things it stipulated that: 'Characterization of the

medireview period as a time of conflict between Hindus and
Moslems is forbidden'. Thus denial of history, or Negationism,
has become India's official 'educational' policy.

It is high time that the West realizes that India is fighting a

lonely battle against Muslim fundamentalism in Asia. The
French for one, who have a definite problem with Muslim
terrorism, should support India more openly.

NOTE: The Indian Express refused to carry this column by

Gautier, clearly indicating a policy of censorship being applied
by the publication.

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