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RE:To Despate Guy
by Beachy Babes on Feb 21, 2008 09:22 AM


You are wrong.
During the Mughal rule, Hindus were forced to convert to Islam. This is backed by history. Check in any encyclopedia. There was a tax to be payed by non-mulsims, it was called Jijya (or, Zijya). Those poor non-muslims who could not pay this tax, were given two options:

Either convert to Islam
Or, get cruel punishment.

This was an indirect method to convert the people to Islam.



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