In case you don't wan to believe Hindus , this is what Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar says about Muslims.
LEGAL STATUS OF HINDUS UNDER MUSLIM RULE :
Book: Pakistan or the Partition of India:
--by DR BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR:
"These ideas were well expressed bythe Kazi in reply to a question put by Sultan Ala-ud-Din wanting to know the legal position of the Hindus underMuslim law.
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" They are called payers of tribute, and when the revenue officer demands silver from them they should withoutquestion, and with all humility and respect, tender gold. If the officer throws dirt in their mouths, they must withoutreluctance open their mouths wide to receive it..... The due subordination of the Dhimmi is exhibited in this humblepayment, and by this throwing of dirt into their mouths. The glorification of Islam is a duty, and contempt forreligion is vain. God holds them in contempt, for he says, ' Keep them in subjection '. To keep the Hindus inabasement is especially a religious duty, because they are the most inveterate enemies of the Prophet, and becausethe Prophet has commanded us to slay them, plunder them, and make them captive, saying, ' Convert them to Islamor kill them, and make them slaves, and spoil their wealth and properly '. No doctor but the great doctor (Hani-fah),to whose school we belong, has assented to the imposition of jizya on Hindus ; doctors of other schools allow noother alternative but ' Death or Islam '
"Not only was slaughter of the infidels and the destruction of their temples resorted to in earlier period of Islam'scontact with India, but as we have seen, many of the vanquished were led into slavery. The dividing up of bootywas one of the special attractions, to the leaders as well as to the common soldiers in these expeditions. Muhammadseems to have made the slaughter of infidels, the destruction of their temples, the capturing of slaves, and theplundering of the wealth of the people, particularly of the temples and the priests, the main object of his raids. Onthe occasion of his first raid he is said to have taken much booty ; and half a million Hindus, ' beautiful men andwomen ', were reduced to slavery and taken back to Ghazni" page 8
Minhaj-as-Siraj further tells how Mahommad became widely known for having destroyed as many as a thousandtemples, and of his great feat in destroying the temple of Somnath and carrying off its idol, which he asserts wasbroken into four parts. One part he deposited in the Jami Masjid of Ghazni, one he placed at the entrance of theroyal palace, the third he sent to Mecca, and the fourth to Medina . page 10
"Mahommad bin Qasim's first act of religious zeal was forcibly to circumcise the Brahmins of the captured city ofDebul ; but on discovering that they objected to this sort of conversion, he proceeded to put all
RE:DR BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR' s views on Muslims
by wada pav on Mar 17, 2007 08:53 PM Permalink
Not only was slaughter of the infidels and the destruction of their temples resorted to in earlier period of Islam'scontact with India, but as we have seen, many of the vanquished were led into slavery. The dividing up of bootywas one of the special attractions, to the leaders as well as to the common soldiers in these expeditions. Muhammadseems to have made the slaughter of infidels, the destruction of their temples, the capturing of slaves, and theplundering of the wealth of the people, particularly of the temples and the priests, the main object of his raids. Onthe occasion of his first raid he is said to have taken much booty ; and half a million Hindus, ' beautiful men andwomen ', were reduced to slavery and taken back to Ghazni. page 16
When Muhammad later took Kanauj, in A. D. 1017, he took so much booty and so many prisoners that * the fingersof those who counted them would have tired '. Describing how common Indian slaves had become in Ghazni andCentral Asia after the campaign of A. D. 1019
The number of prisoners may be conceived from the fact that each was sold for from two to ten dirhams. Thesewere afterwards taken to Ghazni, and merchants came from far distant cities to purchase them ;. . ....and the fair andthe dark, the rich and the poor were commingled in one common slavery.
In the year A.D. 1202, when Qulb-ud-Din captured Kalinjar, after the temples had been convened into mosques,and the very name of idolatry was annihilated, fifty thousand men came under the collar of slavery and the plainbecame black as pitch with Hindus.
Slavery was the fate of those Hindus who were captured in the holy war. But, when there was no war the systematicabasement of the Hindus played no unimportant part in the methods adopted by the Muslim invaders. In the days ofAla-ud-Din, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, the Hindus had in certain parts given the Sultan muchtrouble. So, he determined to impose such taxes on them that they would be prevented from rising in rebellion.
the Hindu was taxed to the extent of half the produce of his land, and had to pay duties on all his buffaloes, goats,and other milk-cattle. The taxes were to be levied equally on rich and poor, at so much per acre, so much peranimal. Any collectors or officers taking bribes were summarily dismissed and heavily punished with sticks,pincers, the rack, imprisonment and chains. The new rules were strictly carried out, so that one revenue officerwould string together 20 Hindu notables and enforce payment by blows. No gold or silver, not even the betelnut, socheering and stimulative to pleasure, was to be seen in a Hindu house, and the wives of the impoverished nativeofficials were reduced to taking service in Muslim families. Revenue officers came to be regarded as more deadlythan the plague; and to be a government clerk was disgrace worse than death, in so much that no Hindu wouldmarry his daughter to such a man. page 20.
