RE:Indian Muslims
by The Brain on Mar 07, 2008 04:02 PM Permalink
First, god doesn't belong to any perticular land. he is universal so everybody has the right to follow him irrespective of caste and region.
Second, Most of the Hindus converted to Islam not forcefully as your history says. It were your ancestors who din't allowed lowercaste people to follow there religions and were termed OCCUT. Islam gave them the status of human beings and this is the region why there are so many converted muslims in India.
RE:RE:Indian Muslims
by The Brain on Mar 07, 2008 04:03 PM Permalink
this is the reason why so many lower caste Hindus got converted to Islam to get the status of Human being.
RE:RE:RE:Indian Muslims
by vox populi on Mar 07, 2008 04:18 PM Permalink
inducement is different for coercion--dont confuse issues--on the pain of death if someone is converted what to do?
RE:RE:RE:RE:Indian Muslims
by The Brain on Mar 07, 2008 04:23 PM Permalink
pain of death..... from where did you got this history. What is the autentication of this history. Emperor Akbar allowed all the followers to follow there religion. At the time of Akbar Era , 23 percent of the Mughal Army consist of Hindus, and the time of Aurangzeb era, it was increased to 34 percent.
RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Indian Muslims
by on Mar 07, 2008 04:34 PM Permalink
these uneducated fools would never know this. all they know is blame muslims for their sorry state of minds
RE:RE:Indian Muslims
by Suresh Bhave on Mar 07, 2008 05:00 PM Permalink
Surely there were many things wrong with hinduism when these became out of sync with times. But there is no denying that people were converted by force. There are many stories of sultans carrying out masaccres of non-believers on their birthdays and that is enough to scare anyone out of his religions. Cchatrapati Shivaji's general Netaji Palkar was converted by force, but his enlightened king accepted him back into his original faith. But one exception does not prove the general observation wrong. The people who were converted were not low caste Hindus. They were Buddhists who had given up their fighting tradition, that is why there are pockets of Muslim majority in India and larger pockets in western parts of ancient India, such as Afghanistan are Muslim today. The fact that the ancestoprs of the people there were Buddhists is brought out by reicts such as the not destroyed Buddha statues at Bamiyan. Even in Indonesia, the island of Bali which was Hindu remained Hindu while the rest of the islands that were Buddhist dominated quickly converted to Islam. As for the caste system, whatever its drawbacks, St Xavier, who was another great converter, has noted that Hindus refused to convert because of threir great respect for Brahmins who were the spiritual leaders of the society. Of course, the Brahmins then were of a different character. But, the fact is that not many Hindus converted. In Balkan countries Muslims managed to convert half the population.
