The truth here is that most of those who have ranted and raved pro and against Muslims have proved beyond doubt that in India today we people are hopelessly and easily manipulated by a few words that may or may not be based on fact. Instead of taking it for what it is, an article (interpretive or factual)about a historical period COMMON to ALL Indians, we have shown how easy it is to divide Indians and conquer the nation even today!
Muslims are against the excavation of pre-Islamic relics. From 1959, the Muslims of Siddhpur in Gujarat were pressing the Archaeological Survey (ASI) to lay a garden around the Rudramahalaya complex, which had been turned into a Jami Masjid. When eventually in 1979, the ASI began digging the area, out came Shiv, Parvati and Nandi statues. The leaders were embarrassed and they proceeded to use their good offices with the National Minorities Commission to have the work stopped and the statues reburied. All the details have been given in the Commission's fourth annual report 1983. A civilisation should be proud and not ashamed of its rich heritage. However, when it consists of two nations instead of one, this kind of retrograde activities take place
RE:Aurangzeb
by Secular Indian on Mar 07, 2007 05:43 AM Permalink
Hindu/Muslim unity us one of those feel good myths that we were drugged on while studying History in school. I conjecture that if any unity did exist it would have lasted perhaps a generation or two after one branch of the family was forcibly converted to Islam but with every passing generation it lapsed into it's natural state of hostility towards everything Hindu.
RE:Aurangzeb
by Golu Gayani on Mar 07, 2007 08:10 AM Permalink
Nandiniji, as long as India has confused residents like you, it would be easy to divide every one.
RE:Aurangzeb
by chaitanya kumar on Mar 07, 2007 05:13 AM Permalink
you confuse ancient Hindu divides which led to invasions from outside with Hindu-Muslim divide of today. You do have a point about Hindus of those times collaborating with invaders for their petty interests, but India of today is a bit different. Muslims don't identify with India as much as they do with Allah's abode. There is something reckless about it. And you people use the term Indian and Muslim selectively depending on the causes that serve your interest through India and Muslim brotherhood respectively, and you damage the interests of India in that process given the significant percentage of Muslims in the population and the way they are appeased. Hindus worry only about their India in silly or mighty way. And nothing more. It's part of their daily thought process in many ways as they are it's bearers.
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by neha kothari on Mar 07, 2007 12:47 PM Permalink
Naxals and Maowist are not Hindus? Who fight again army in Gurdwara temple? Dont blame one community.. With few sick minded people whole hindu community is getting bad name.. Likewise with few Muslims whole community is..
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by ayatul islam on Mar 07, 2007 02:57 PM Permalink
thanks neha sister,
this is what the world is not ready to accept.In the eyes of the world people like Amir khan , salman rushdie.... and the like are better fellows who play around with the prestige of women, and donot follow anything are the ones who are the better people, but the ones who are trying to set world right are the ones who are facing the problems. We should remember that "where there is smoke there was/is a fire" eg Iraq, India, afganistan, palestine etc....
