ISLAMIC RULERS OF INDIA NEED NO GLORIFICATION.. THEY WERE FUNDAMENTALITS SADDISTS AND TEMPLE DESTROYERS TO THE CORE
Dr K Prabhakar Rao
PART II
2. ABDUCTION, ENSLAVING AND VIOLATION OF HONOR OF CONQUERED WOMEN
India before the advent of Islamic imperialism was not exactly a zone of peace. There were plenty of wars fought by Hindu princes among themselves. But in all their wars, the Hindus had observed some time-honoured conventions sanctioned by the Sastras and ethical code of conduct. The Brahmins and the Bhikshus ( Buddhist) were never molested. The cows were never killed. The temples were never touched. The chastity of women was never violated. The non-combatants were never killed or captured. A human habitation was never attacked unless it was a fort. The civil population was never plundered. War booty was an unknown item in the calculations of conquerors. The martial classes who clashed, mostly in open spaces, had a code of honor. Sacrifice of honor for victory or material gain was deemed as worse than death ( 1). Invading Muslim armies on all occasions practiced the inhuman and barbaric acts in India that were unknown in the country. The behavior was alien. Right from the days of Mohd Bin Kasim who invaded Punjab and Sind provinces in 707, history makes a blood boiling and very sad reading indeed. Disgustingly our pseudo Marxist bred historians act as if nothing of that sort happened and put a smiling face.Some misguided pseudo secularist politicians of today preach sermons that nothing would be achieved by digging old graves. Some also argue that there is no written record of such events of past. They are blind in this aspect. They do not mind saying that it was the practice in those bye gone days. Does it mean that such things were accepted practices in those days? If we refer back to our scriptures, demons and Rashasas resorted to evil practices such as abducting women. Ravana abducted Sita the wife of Lord Rama and of course he had to pay for it by his life and destruction of his associates and capital.. Narakasura abducted thousands of maidens who were freed by Lord Krishna after slaying Narakasura. It is said that he married these Gopikas ( Maidens ). Mahabharatha war was the result of insult meted out to Draupadi the Pandava queen in the court of Dhritharashtra under the orders of his son Duryodhana the evil Kuru prince duly abetted by Anga Raja Karna and PrinceDuhssasana uncle Sakuni. Women are always considered as the prized possessions in the society and enemies saw pleasure in causing them insult to humiliate the vanquished men. This was the practice and now too. However in Indian wars within the land between Hindu kings, there are no records of such inhuman acts and mass rapes at every level. When Muslims invaded India, Hindus were completely taken aback by the devilish practice of abduction of women in very large numbers. This was something strange to them. It was as if hell was let loose on them.
Mohd Bin Kasim the Emir of Al Hajjaj ibn Yusuf Governor to the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I invaded Sindh in 707 and he was met by Raja Dehir of Sindh province. Raja Dehir's armies being prepared on the other side of the Indus were yet to be fought. In preparation to meet them, Muhammad bin Qasim moved back to Nerun to resupply and receive reinforcements sent by Hajjaj. Camped on the east bank of the Indus, Qasim sent emissaries and bargained with the river Jats and boatmen. Upon securing the aid of Mokah Basayah, "the King of the island of Bet", Muhammad bin Qasim crossed over the river where he was joined by the forces of the Thakore of Bhatta and the western Jats.
At Ar-rur (Rohri) he was met by Dahir's forces and the eastern Jats in battle. Dahir died in the battle, his forces were defeated and a triumphant Muhammad bin Qasim took control of Sind . In the wake of the battle enemy soldiers were put to death - but not artisans, merchants or farmers - and Dahir and his chiefs, the "daughters of princes" and the usual fifth of the booty and slaves was sent on to Hajjaj. Soon the capitals of the other provinces, Brahmanabad, Alor (Aror) and Multan, were captured alongside other in-between towns with only light Muslim casualties. Usually after a siege of a few weeks or months the Arabs gained a city through the intervention of heads of mercantile houses with whom subsequent treaties and agreements would be settled After battles all fighting men were executed and their wives and children enslaved in considerable numbers and the usual fifth of the booty and slaves were sent to Hajjaj. It was a set practice in Islamic military conquests to kill the vanquished and capture women alive and enslave them. Invariably the chiefs shared the slaves after sending many to their King or governor. One can expect what would be their fate in the hands of such devils. The helpless women had to loose their honor at the hands of these thugs. Therefore in most of the cases in Indian wras beween Hindu kings and Muslim armies women committed Johar ( Self immolation) to save themselves. In case of Bin Kasim the two sisters who were daughters of king Deher were sent to Harem of Hajjaj the governor and these women stated that were already violated by Bin Kasim. The enraged Hajjaj ordered that Bin Kasim be stitched alive in skins of oxen and be sent to him. It was done and bin kasim died on the way due to suffocation (2). It is also believed that the sisters lied to the governor to take revenge against the death of their father. Hajjaj having learnt the truth repented and got the women bricked alive. It is not known whether this version is true. In all probablilities the sisters were surely violated by the youthful Kasim who was only 20 years old with all powers at his hand. The entire episode proves the point that women were dishonored after capture and also abducted and sent to harems. No doubt exists on this issue.
After Bin Qasim Mohd, Ghaznavi invaded India and sacked many cities. Mathura and Munj were attacked and inhabitants were killed to last man. Shrawa, the next important place to be invaded, met the same fate. According to Tarikh-i-Yamini of Utbi, Mahmud's secretary, Utbi concludes (3):
"The Muslims paid no regard to the booty till they had satiated themselves with the slaughter of the infidels and worshipers of sun and fire. The friends of Allah searched the bodies of the slain for three days in order to obtain booty...The booty amounted in gold and silver, rubies and pearls nearly to three hundred thousand dirhams, and the number of prisoners may be conceived from the fact that each was sold for two to ten dirhams. These were afterwards taken to Ghazni and merchants came from distant cities to purchase them, so that the countries of Mawaraun-Nahr, Iraq and Khurasan were filled with them, and the fair and the dark, the rich and the poor, were commingled in one common slavery.",
Mahmud's son Masud tried to follow in the footsteps of his father. In 1037 AD he succeeded in sacking the fort of Hansi which was defended very bravely by the Hindus. The Tarikh-us-Subuktigin records: "The Brahmins and other high ranking men were slain, and their women and children were carried away captive, and all the treasure which was found was distributed among the army."
Mahmood Ghaznavi was followed by Mohd Ghori another plunderer and . rapist to the core. He defeated Prithwiraj Chauhan at the battle of Tarain in 1120 and enslaved his wives. It is also claimed that royal women were violated by Ghori who later committed suicide. According the Taj-ul-Ma'sir of Hasan Nizami, "While the Sultan remained at Ajmer, he destroyed the pillars and foundations of the idol temples and built in their stead mosques and colleges and precepts of Islam, and the customs of the law were divulged and established." ( 3)
Next year he defeated Jayachandra of Kanauj. A general massacre, rapine, and pillage followed. The Gahadvad treasuries at Asni and Varanasi were plundered. Hasan Nizami rejoices that "in Benares which is the centre of the country of Hind, they destroyed one thousand temples and raised mosques on their foundations".
According to Kamil-ut-Tawarikh of Ibn Asir, "The slaughter of Hindus (at Varanasi) was immense; none were spared except women and children, and the carnage of men went on until the earth was weary."
The women and children were spared so that they could be enslaved and sold all over the Islamic world. One can always guess what happens to these helpless women. It may be added that the Buddhist complex at Sarnath was sacked at this time, and the Bhikshus were slaughtered. These incidents prove conclusively that women were the main targets after victories and tools for satisfying lust of these devils.
Babers invasion in 1527 caused great distress to people of India and women were abducted in large numbers after every victory at Panipat and Agra, and GuruNanak dev the first Guru of Sikhs was the witness to these atrocities and he was much pained.
Gondwana was invaded during the rule of Emperor Akbar and after many wars, Durgawati the widowed queen of Dalpat shah at Gondwana was defeated and she committed suicide after receiving a fatal arrow in her side of the face. Kamalavati her sister and a daughter in law of the queen were captured and sent to Harem at Delhi. One can guess what happened to them.
Provincial kingdoms were no different.At Golconda in Deccan during the seize of Aurangzeb in 1686, Prime minister Madanna and his brother General Akkanna were waylaid in the fort and killed by conspirators. Their bodies were dragged on the streets and their heads were cut off and sent to Aurangzeb. Hindu families in the fort were attacked and most of the men were slain and women abducted and raped. May women committed suicide by jumping into wells to escape dishonor. Some claim hand of Sultan Abul Hasan in the incident and is a matter of doubt. However queens at Harem were no doubt wee involved in the massacre. Golconda fort fell in 1687 to Aurnagzeb armies after betrayal. It became a province in Mughal empire (4).
Thus we see that Muslim invaders were practicing abduction of captured women and took them as slaves. In most of the cases men were put to sword. The women were raped too as a right. A great controversy exists on the aspect of rape of captured women by Muslims as a policy and as a sanctioned act. In this connection following are relevant and quoted by the scholars (5);
Surah 4:24. “Also forbidden for you are married women except those who have fallen into your hands as Prisoners of war?
“ And all married women ( are forbidden unto you) save those ( captives who your right hand possess ( It is a degree of Allah for you )
Obviously the women who became captives during invasions and battles the men having been vanquished, become the property of the victor or capturer. Their husbands may be alive, yet she becomes a trophy of war. Their marriages automatically get annulled once she is captured. She becomes a slave. The moment she becomes a captive she becomes the PW. These revelations are enough for the victors who practiced the evil acts of rape on captured women. In view of the above, Muslim armies resorted to the evil practice in all their campaigns. Right from the days of Mohd Bin Kasim to the evil Razakar times Kasim Razvi of 1948 in Hyderabad the evil practice was predominant whenever Hindus were subjugated by war and violent acts. What goes on in Bagladesh to day is also an ample proof for these gory acts. On the other hand look at the Conduct of Chatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj during all his campaigns. Women were strictly not touched. Once a royal women fell into the hands of Maratha soldiers after a victory and she was brought to the court as an offer and ShivajiMaharaj bowed to her and ordered that she be immediately sent to her husband with all resects duly escorted. In fact, in all wars in every country certain criminal acts by soldiers are committed and rape is one among them. As per law it is a war crime today. But Muslim armies practiced it as it was sanctioned by the authority..
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.The Magnitude of Mulsim atrocities, http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/moghal_atro.html
2.Mohd Bin Kasim, Wikipedia
3. The Magnitude of Muslim atrocities, http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/moghal_atro.html
4.Dr K Prabhakar Rao, Strategic studies into Muslim fundamentalism, Ph D thesis in Strategic studies , TIU, USA.
5.Taufiq Zia Khan, http://www.booksie.com/non-fiction/article/taufiq_zia_khan/islam-sanctio...
TO BE CONTINUED
Dr K Prabhakar Rao
PART II
2. ABDUCTION, ENSLAVING AND VIOLATION OF HONOR OF CONQUERED WOMEN
India before the advent of Islamic imperialism was not exactly a zone of peace. There were plenty of wars fought by Hindu princes among themselves. But in all their wars, the Hindus had observed some time-honoured conventions sanctioned by the Sastras and ethical code of conduct. The Brahmins and the Bhikshus ( Buddhist) were never molested. The cows were never killed. The temples were never touched. The chastity of women was never violated. The non-combatants were never killed or captured. A human habitation was never attacked unless it was a fort. The civil population was never plundered. War booty was an unknown item in the calculations of conquerors. The martial classes who clashed, mostly in open spaces, had a code of honor. Sacrifice of honor for victory or material gain was deemed as worse than death ( 1). Invading Muslim armies on all occasions practiced the inhuman and barbaric acts in India that were unknown in the country. The behavior was alien. Right from the days of Mohd Bin Kasim who invaded Punjab and Sind provinces in 707, history makes a blood boiling and very sad reading indeed. Disgustingly our pseudo Marxist bred historians act as if nothing of that sort happened and put a smiling face.Some misguided pseudo secularist politicians of today preach sermons that nothing would be achieved by digging old graves. Some also argue that there is no written record of such events of past. They are blind in this aspect. They do not mind saying that it was the practice in those bye gone days. Does it mean that such things were accepted practices in those days? If we refer back to our scriptures, demons and Rashasas resorted to evil practices such as abducting women. Ravana abducted Sita the wife of Lord Rama and of course he had to pay for it by his life and destruction of his associates and capital.. Narakasura abducted thousands of maidens who were freed by Lord Krishna after slaying Narakasura. It is said that he married these Gopikas ( Maidens ). Mahabharatha war was the result of insult meted out to Draupadi the Pandava queen in the court of Dhritharashtra under the orders of his son Duryodhana the evil Kuru prince duly abetted by Anga Raja Karna and PrinceDuhssasana uncle Sakuni. Women are always considered as the prized possessions in the society and enemies saw pleasure in causing them insult to humiliate the vanquished men. This was the practice and now too. However in Indian wars within the land between Hindu kings, there are no records of such inhuman acts and mass rapes at every level. When Muslims invaded India, Hindus were completely taken aback by the devilish practice of abduction of women in very large numbers. This was something strange to them. It was as if hell was let loose on them.
Mohd Bin Kasim the Emir of Al Hajjaj ibn Yusuf Governor to the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I invaded Sindh in 707 and he was met by Raja Dehir of Sindh province. Raja Dehir's armies being prepared on the other side of the Indus were yet to be fought. In preparation to meet them, Muhammad bin Qasim moved back to Nerun to resupply and receive reinforcements sent by Hajjaj. Camped on the east bank of the Indus, Qasim sent emissaries and bargained with the river Jats and boatmen. Upon securing the aid of Mokah Basayah, "the King of the island of Bet", Muhammad bin Qasim crossed over the river where he was joined by the forces of the Thakore of Bhatta and the western Jats.
At Ar-rur (Rohri) he was met by Dahir's forces and the eastern Jats in battle. Dahir died in the battle, his forces were defeated and a triumphant Muhammad bin Qasim took control of Sind . In the wake of the battle enemy soldiers were put to death - but not artisans, merchants or farmers - and Dahir and his chiefs, the "daughters of princes" and the usual fifth of the booty and slaves was sent on to Hajjaj. Soon the capitals of the other provinces, Brahmanabad, Alor (Aror) and Multan, were captured alongside other in-between towns with only light Muslim casualties. Usually after a siege of a few weeks or months the Arabs gained a city through the intervention of heads of mercantile houses with whom subsequent treaties and agreements would be settled After battles all fighting men were executed and their wives and children enslaved in considerable numbers and the usual fifth of the booty and slaves were sent to Hajjaj. It was a set practice in Islamic military conquests to kill the vanquished and capture women alive and enslave them. Invariably the chiefs shared the slaves after sending many to their King or governor. One can expect what would be their fate in the hands of such devils. The helpless women had to loose their honor at the hands of these thugs. Therefore in most of the cases in Indian wras beween Hindu kings and Muslim armies women committed Johar ( Self immolation) to save themselves. In case of Bin Kasim the two sisters who were daughters of king Deher were sent to Harem of Hajjaj the governor and these women stated that were already violated by Bin Kasim. The enraged Hajjaj ordered that Bin Kasim be stitched alive in skins of oxen and be sent to him. It was done and bin kasim died on the way due to suffocation (2). It is also believed that the sisters lied to the governor to take revenge against the death of their father. Hajjaj having learnt the truth repented and got the women bricked alive. It is not known whether this version is true. In all probablilities the sisters were surely violated by the youthful Kasim who was only 20 years old with all powers at his hand. The entire episode proves the point that women were dishonored after capture and also abducted and sent to harems. No doubt exists on this issue.
After Bin Qasim Mohd, Ghaznavi invaded India and sacked many cities. Mathura and Munj were attacked and inhabitants were killed to last man. Shrawa, the next important place to be invaded, met the same fate. According to Tarikh-i-Yamini of Utbi, Mahmud's secretary, Utbi concludes (3):
"The Muslims paid no regard to the booty till they had satiated themselves with the slaughter of the infidels and worshipers of sun and fire. The friends of Allah searched the bodies of the slain for three days in order to obtain booty...The booty amounted in gold and silver, rubies and pearls nearly to three hundred thousand dirhams, and the number of prisoners may be conceived from the fact that each was sold for two to ten dirhams. These were afterwards taken to Ghazni and merchants came from distant cities to purchase them, so that the countries of Mawaraun-Nahr, Iraq and Khurasan were filled with them, and the fair and the dark, the rich and the poor, were commingled in one common slavery.",
Mahmud's son Masud tried to follow in the footsteps of his father. In 1037 AD he succeeded in sacking the fort of Hansi which was defended very bravely by the Hindus. The Tarikh-us-Subuktigin records: "The Brahmins and other high ranking men were slain, and their women and children were carried away captive, and all the treasure which was found was distributed among the army."
Mahmood Ghaznavi was followed by Mohd Ghori another plunderer and . rapist to the core. He defeated Prithwiraj Chauhan at the battle of Tarain in 1120 and enslaved his wives. It is also claimed that royal women were violated by Ghori who later committed suicide. According the Taj-ul-Ma'sir of Hasan Nizami, "While the Sultan remained at Ajmer, he destroyed the pillars and foundations of the idol temples and built in their stead mosques and colleges and precepts of Islam, and the customs of the law were divulged and established." ( 3)
Next year he defeated Jayachandra of Kanauj. A general massacre, rapine, and pillage followed. The Gahadvad treasuries at Asni and Varanasi were plundered. Hasan Nizami rejoices that "in Benares which is the centre of the country of Hind, they destroyed one thousand temples and raised mosques on their foundations".
According to Kamil-ut-Tawarikh of Ibn Asir, "The slaughter of Hindus (at Varanasi) was immense; none were spared except women and children, and the carnage of men went on until the earth was weary."
The women and children were spared so that they could be enslaved and sold all over the Islamic world. One can always guess what happens to these helpless women. It may be added that the Buddhist complex at Sarnath was sacked at this time, and the Bhikshus were slaughtered. These incidents prove conclusively that women were the main targets after victories and tools for satisfying lust of these devils.
Babers invasion in 1527 caused great distress to people of India and women were abducted in large numbers after every victory at Panipat and Agra, and GuruNanak dev the first Guru of Sikhs was the witness to these atrocities and he was much pained.
Gondwana was invaded during the rule of Emperor Akbar and after many wars, Durgawati the widowed queen of Dalpat shah at Gondwana was defeated and she committed suicide after receiving a fatal arrow in her side of the face. Kamalavati her sister and a daughter in law of the queen were captured and sent to Harem at Delhi. One can guess what happened to them.
Provincial kingdoms were no different.At Golconda in Deccan during the seize of Aurangzeb in 1686, Prime minister Madanna and his brother General Akkanna were waylaid in the fort and killed by conspirators. Their bodies were dragged on the streets and their heads were cut off and sent to Aurangzeb. Hindu families in the fort were attacked and most of the men were slain and women abducted and raped. May women committed suicide by jumping into wells to escape dishonor. Some claim hand of Sultan Abul Hasan in the incident and is a matter of doubt. However queens at Harem were no doubt wee involved in the massacre. Golconda fort fell in 1687 to Aurnagzeb armies after betrayal. It became a province in Mughal empire (4).
Thus we see that Muslim invaders were practicing abduction of captured women and took them as slaves. In most of the cases men were put to sword. The women were raped too as a right. A great controversy exists on the aspect of rape of captured women by Muslims as a policy and as a sanctioned act. In this connection following are relevant and quoted by the scholars (5);
Surah 4:24. “Also forbidden for you are married women except those who have fallen into your hands as Prisoners of war?
“ And all married women ( are forbidden unto you) save those ( captives who your right hand possess ( It is a degree of Allah for you )
Obviously the women who became captives during invasions and battles the men having been vanquished, become the property of the victor or capturer. Their husbands may be alive, yet she becomes a trophy of war. Their marriages automatically get annulled once she is captured. She becomes a slave. The moment she becomes a captive she becomes the PW. These revelations are enough for the victors who practiced the evil acts of rape on captured women. In view of the above, Muslim armies resorted to the evil practice in all their campaigns. Right from the days of Mohd Bin Kasim to the evil Razakar times Kasim Razvi of 1948 in Hyderabad the evil practice was predominant whenever Hindus were subjugated by war and violent acts. What goes on in Bagladesh to day is also an ample proof for these gory acts. On the other hand look at the Conduct of Chatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj during all his campaigns. Women were strictly not touched. Once a royal women fell into the hands of Maratha soldiers after a victory and she was brought to the court as an offer and ShivajiMaharaj bowed to her and ordered that she be immediately sent to her husband with all resects duly escorted. In fact, in all wars in every country certain criminal acts by soldiers are committed and rape is one among them. As per law it is a war crime today. But Muslim armies practiced it as it was sanctioned by the authority..
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.The Magnitude of Mulsim atrocities, http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/moghal_atro.html
2.Mohd Bin Kasim, Wikipedia
3. The Magnitude of Muslim atrocities, http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/moghal_atro.html
4.Dr K Prabhakar Rao, Strategic studies into Muslim fundamentalism, Ph D thesis in Strategic studies , TIU, USA.
5.Taufiq Zia Khan, http://www.booksie.com/non-fiction/article/taufiq_zia_khan/islam-sanctio...
TO BE CONTINUED
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