history of humankind if taken in right perpective can teach a lot to humans,here in this article we dont need to identify one ruler in terms of religions,please for heaven sake religion has nothing to do with the rules/misrules,cruelty,barbarity of emperors or kings.
i am a shia muslim by faith and even my forefathers and pirs suffered a lot during tyrannical aurangzeb reigns,and we literally curse him in our religious dicourse and we find it funny that sometimes we are identified as sons of aurangzebs by some misguided fundamentalists.
here we have to view the rules of emperors,rajahs,maharajahs and nawabs as a act of self preservation with a facade of religious mask to hide or justify their misdeeds forced down on thier submissive subjects.
history has many examples of this .so please my indian brothers and sisters stop identifying ourselves with the emperors or kings
who were nothing but self preserving morons bent on just extending their rule and expanding their boundries with whatever means possible.
aurangzeb was just another figure in history like alexander,chengis khan,hitler,akbar,napolean,shivaji,etc.who have all ruled justly or unjustly but left a legacy for us to fight over!
RE:RE:playground of history
by arun singh on Feb 17, 2007 04:33 PM Permalink
Why on earth do u want to link 500 old Aurangzeb story to something which happened today????? For God's sake stop linking personalities to religion...
