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Aryans were Indians, they did not invade

By R.A. Goel

Under the pretence of detoxification of the alleged saffronisation of school educational texts, many self-proclaimed intellectuals and acclaimed fellow-travellers are pushing the questionable but long- held fictitious propaganda, which is offensive as much to the truth as to the self-respect of even the sleeping, sluggish, Indian society.

1. A classical instance of the canard is the continued plugging in of the thesis that the Indo-Aryans were not the sons of the soil of India and that they were as much intruders or invaders as the other recorded historical invaders and plunderers from Alexander onwards.

2. Aryans of India possessed the earliest known book and spoken words in the entire world literature as their Vedas. It is amazing that it does not strike as extremely odd to the so-called intellectuals and rationalists that if the early Aryans of India had their original abode elsewhere outside this country, it would be elementary to expect the knowledge contained in the Vedas to have necessarily pre- existed in such land of their alleged origin. So, the universally accepted proposition that the Vedas were the earliest known literature of the world, both spoken and recorded, does establish that no other people anywhere possessed the capacity and the treasury and knowledge of the Vedas-like literature. Accordingly, when no other foreign people outside India had Veda-like literature at their command, it would be calumny to persist with the awkward proposition that people of some foreign land were the ancestors of the Indo- Aryans and that the Aryans poured into or streamed into India from other lands or regions of the world.

3. A few more aspects of the ridiculous thesis that Aryans entered India from elsewhere are intended to be highlighted in the subsequent discussions.

4. An obstinate myth in circulation for centuries is regarding the origin of Aryans being from land outside India.

We can get an insight from the extracts of such an attempt from historian R.S. Sharma’s history textbook of Class XI entitled Ancient India (p. 70) published by NCERT.

“Originally the Aryans seem to have lived somewhere in the region stretching from southern Russia to Central Asia. Certain names of animals, such as goats, dogs, horses, etc. and names of certain plants such as pine, maple, etc. are similar to one another in all the Indo-European languages. They show that the Aryans were acquainted with the rivers and forests. Curiously enough, common words exist only in a few Aryan languages for mountains although the Aryans crossed many hills.”

The Aryans had a concept of universalism not advanced by any people of that age; they glorified non-violence, then not preached or practiced anywhere in the world.

5. The facts, however strongly suggest the foregoing hypothesis to be altogether fictitious and imaginary:

Commonality of linguistic words, roots, phrases or even grammar may exist amongst English, Greek, Italian, Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit or other languages of the world just as simple words like father, mother, daughter, etc. would show but there is hardly any evidence that Englishmen, Italians, Arabs had common ancestors in any known historical era.

Noted historian, Vincent A. Smith, has clearly concluded the proposition that “Language was no proof of commonality of blood”. (Oxford History of India by Vincent A. Smith, 1957, p. 40).

It is sheer superstitious prejudice and continued misplaced belief in myths with their least factual or historic foundation that tempts or drives even learned people and scholars into such superstitious labyrinths.

6. It is conceded in the history textbook by R.S. Sharma, NCERT, 1999 (p. 71) as follows:

“A little earlier than 1500 b.c. the Aryans appeared in India. We do not find clear and definite archaeological traces of their advent.”

7. The above clear admission by the proponents of the theory of non-Indian origin of Aryans, despite all endeavours to paint Aryans as foreigners immigrating into India, is really astounding. These scholars themselves admit the absolute absence of any trace of archaeological evidence in their possession in support of this much- hyped and persistently repeated myth.

8. It is a surreptitious suggestion and a mere naive conjecture and surmise in gross distortion of truth or history seemingly with the blind purpose to equate other foreign people entering and invading India as being of the same kind of intruders that Aryans were wrongly suggested to be.

9. It is our intent to show in further write-ups that Aryans were natives of India, and not in the least intruders or invaders or immigrants or migrants into India at any point of time in history or of pre-historic period. This caricature of history, being absurdly carried out by known learned historians persistently, must in the interest of truth and historical values cease unless these scholars have pursuits other than truth in the matter.

This matter can hardly be put on the back burner any further. It has already done grave injustice to the Aryans and to the people of India. Pricking of this prejudicial and false hypothesis is essential to show its absolutely imaginary origin.

10. How the hypothesis of Aryan intrusion into India came to be widely postulated during the efforts to reconstruct history of India needs some exposition:

Oxford History of India (p. 32), 1957, says: “From the Vedic hymns it has been possible to piece together a reasonably coherent picture of Aryan invaders on their first impact with the black, flat-nosed Dasyus who comprised their native opponents and subjects.”

“In fact, the accepted belief in the Indo-Aryan immigration from Central Asia depends largely on the interpretation of geographical allusions in the Rig Veda and Yajurveda. Direct testimony to the assumed fact is lacking and no tradition of an early home beyond the frontier survives in India.”

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 14, (p. 228) records: “From the 4th century b.c. two scripts were in issue-Kharosthi in the north-west and the more important Brahmi elsewhere.”

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol.14 (p. 228) holds:

“Trade, for example, between the Roman Empire and South-east Asia via south India was considerable in the early centuries of the Christian era.”

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 18 (p. 630) mentions:

“The Vedas are in a sense hymns, but the gods to which they refer are not persons but manifestations of the ultimate truth and reality.”

The Aryans had no slave system; they reared cows. They were agriculturists and not pastoral or indulging in animal husbandry like the Asians. They had no feudal landlords; they never attacked or enslaved any people or country, not even Ceylon; they had no purdah; they cremated their dead while all the remaining communities of the world buried their dead. The script of their language was from left to right, unlike the Semitics or Iranians whose script ran from right to left. They had village democratic units and no kings or lords or chiefs like Central Asians or Mongols or Tartars. These features are in sharp contradistinction to the contemporary Central Asian or Arabic or Roman or Greek traditions or habits or institutions of these people. The Aryans could not, therefore, ever have been their constituents at any point of time in history.

The Aryan had a concept of universalism not advanced by any people of those eras; they glorified non-violence, not preached or practiced anywhere in the world. What more proof is required to show their distinct identity from any other people of those days?

The Vedic people had no founding Prophet unlike Abraham of the Jews, Christ of the Christians, Mohammed of the Muslims and many others. This shows their absolute exclusive personality, different from other peoples or faiths.

There is no concept of an `infidel’ or `Jehad’ or `holy war’ in the Aryan culture, civilisation or faith. The entire world outside the Aryan fold considers people different from themselves as heretics. The Aryans, therefore, had abiding gentleness and humanism, not known or possessed by others.

Vedic women were scholars and also participated in village sabhas and vidvat-mandals. Such respect and authority given to women was absolutely unknown to Central Asians of those days. Never have been a group of people belonging to such Central Asian communities shown such respect.

The Aryans, unlike other people, had no concept or tradition of having a standing army. The Aryans were republicans; the term jana occurs at about 275 places in the Rig Veda. Republicanism was unknown to the rest of Asia in those days.

Muir’s History (Sanskrit version, Part-II) records: “No Sanskrit books, howsoever old, mention Aryans as being of non-Indian origin. There is also no hint or evidence to show or suggest that the Rig Veda mentions dasa’s (slaves) or asuras as people belonging as aborigines of India.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak clearly admitted to Umesh Chander Vidya Ratan that Aryans hailed from the Arctic and that (he) Tilak had read only the translation of the Vedas by Western authors, and not the Vedas translated or commented upon by the (original) Hindus. Tilak, therefore, admitted that he could not clearly vouchsafe for the authenticity of his theory.

Jawaharlal Nehru in his book Discovery of India (p. 92) mentioned that Plotinus (a.d. 205-270), an Iranian and other philosophers came to study Indian philosophy, including the Upanishads. From them, these ideas also reached Saint Augustine (a.d. 354-430)-the greatest of Latin Church fathers, and through Augustine the Aryan philosophy thus influenced the Christianity of the day.

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 18 (p. 972) the blood group B prevalent in India is found elsewhere in the world in eastern Asia or India or Africa but is not in any substantial existence in Europe or Central Asia. The Aryans could not have, therefore, emanated from Central Asia or Europe.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 6 (p. 292) says: “Although in appearance the majority of Indian people look like Europeans, in blood type they are similar to Mogoloid neighbours to the east who are quite distinct from Central Asia (or people of the Steppes of the Siberia of erstwhile USSR).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 1 (p. 34) again holds:

“Type B blood, high in Asia with a maximum in northern India, is low in Europe and in Africa.” This also goes to show that the Aryans of India did not migrate from either Europe or Africa.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 10 (p. 722) admits that “the assumption that the people whose languages are related, or also related racially is spurious.”

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 21 (p. 31) makes the following admission regarding the origin of the Aryans in India:

“Theories of the origin of the Aryans in India relate to the question of what has been called the Indo-European homeland. In the 17th and 18th centuries, European scholars who first studied Sanskrit were struck by the similarity in its syntax and vocabulary to Greek and Latin. This resulted in the theory that there had been a common ancestry for these and other related languages, which came to be called the Indo-Europeans group of languages. This, in turn, resulted in the notion that the Indo-European-speaking people had a common homeland from which they had migrated to various parts of Asia and Europe. This theory led to unlimited speculation which continues today, regarding the original homeland of Aryans and the date of their dispersal from it. The early history of India is still beset by `the Aryan problem’ which often clouds a genuine search for historical insight into this period.”

11. The time has come now when, as per German philosopher Rudolf Karl Bultmann’s advice, the demystification and demythologisation of the Aryan ingress into or their alleged invasion of ancient India can no longer be avoided. We have to expose its absolute hollowness as well as its fictitious origin. This matter can hardly be put on the back burner any further. It has already done grave injustice to the Aryans and to the people of India. Pricking of this prejudicial and false hypothesis is essential to show its absolutely imaginary origin. Its continuous repetition is obstinate, motivated by a fatal disregard of the truth. The habit is merely in line with the imitative peculiar to Indian people’s trait of self-denigration. It is misconceived modernism and false rationalism. The entire enlightened world has stopped subscribing to this myth already.

12. History has established that Tamilians, Dravidians and the so- called northern Indians had a common ancestral script, the Brahmi. Dravidians and Aryans, even if a little physically different in appearance, are not different racial people in blood group or other genetics of importance. Nambudiri Brahmins of Kerala show the classical case of Aryans’ and Dravidians’ merger of identities.

Aryans had no practice of untouchability. Caste system was not known to the Aryans. It was an aberration of much later times dating to the dark period of Indian history following the invasions by Huns and Shakas that led to the caste syndrome. In the Vedic and Aryan regimes, the alleged Shudras even became rulers and kings when they acquired such faculties.

The Aryans are indigenous people of India inasmuch as Chinese are of China or Arabs are of Arabia. The story of their intrusion into India was fabricated by some foreigners deliberately to justify their aggression, brutalities, invasions, suppression, and enslavement of India in the past two millennia. The Aryans alone have the proud heritage of belonging to this ancient land and its eclectic as also syncretic universalism. They sent out the message of peace and brotherhood for the entire world’s peoples’ progress and prosperity (sarve bhavantu sukhin). Yes, but then the Aryans shall not accept hegemony by others or any further vilification to the effect that they invaded India at any point of time. They are the original people of India or Aryavarta or Hindustan or Bharat, call it what you may.

(The writer is a retired engineer-in-chief and can be contacted at 630, Sector 16-A, Faridabad, Haryana.)

Who were the Aryans?

By Dr Dinesh Agarwal

Beginning with the issue, dated February 27, 2005 we are carrying this comprehensive document on the Aryan Invasion Theory. The writer here deals with all aspects of the controversial issue extensively quoting from authoritative sources.

Real Meaning of the Word `Arya’

River Narmada starts in central India and River Godavari starts in western India, while River Kaveri winds its way through the south to move into the southern sea. More than a thousand years ago, Adi Shankaracharya, who was born in Kerala, established several mathas (religious and spiritual centres) at Badrinath in the north (UP), Puri in the east (Orissa), Dwaraka in the west (Gujarat), and Shringeri and Kanchi in the south. That is India, that is Bharat, and that is Hinduism.

In 1853, Max Muller introduced the word `Arya’ into the English and European usage as applying to a racial and linguistic group when propounding the Aryan racial theory. However, in 1888, he himself refuted his own theory and wrote:

“I have declared again and again that if I say Aryas, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair, nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language…to me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.” (Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas by Max Muller, 1888, 120 pp)

In Vedic literature the word `Arya’ is nowhere defined in connection with either race or language. Instead it refers to: a gentleman, good-natured, righteous person, nobleman, and is often used like `Sir’ or `Shree’ before the name of a person like Aryaputra, Aryakanya, etc.

In Ramayana (Valmiki), Rama is described as an Arya in the following words: Arya-who cared for equality for all and was dear to everyone.

Etymologically, according to Max Muller, the word Arya was derived from ar, meaning “to plough, to cultivate”. Therefore, `Arya’ means `cultivator’, agriculturer (civilised and sedentary, as opposed to nomads and hunter-gatherers), landlord.

V.S. Apte’s Sanskrit-English dictionary relates the word `Arya’ to the root r, to which a prefix a has been appended to give a negating meaning. And therefore the meaning of `Arya’ is given as `excellent, best’, followed by `respectable’ and as a noun, `master, lord, worthy, honourable, excellent’, upholder of Arya values, and further, teacher, employer, master, father-in-law, friend, Buddha.

So nowhere, either in the religious scriptures or by tradition, the word `Arya’ denotes a race or language. To impose such a meaning on this epithet is an absolute intellectual dishonesty, deliberate falsification of the facts, and deceptive scholarship. There are only four primary races, namely, Caucasian, the Mongolian, the Australians and the Negroid. Both the Aryans and Dravidians are related branches of the Caucasian race generally placed in the same Mediterranean sub-branch. The difference between the so-called Aryans of the north and the Dravidians of the south or other communities of Indian subcontinent is not a racial type. Biologically all are the same Caucasian type, only when closer to the equator, the skin gets darker, and under the influence of constant heat the bodily frame tends to get a little smaller. And these differences cannot be the basis of two altogether different races. Similar differences one can observe even more distinctly among the people of pure Caucasian white race of Europe. Caucasians can be of any colour ranging from pure white to almost pure black, with every shade of brown in between. Similarly, the Mongolian race is not yellow. Many Chinese have skin whiter than many so-called Caucasians.

Demise of Aryan Invasion Theory – II

Further, a recent landmark global study in population genetics by a team of internationally reputed scientists over 50 years (The History and Geography of Human Genes, by Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza, Princeton University Press) reveals that the people habitated in the Indian subcontinent and nearby including Europe, all belong to one single race of Caucasian type. According to this study, there is essentially, no difference racially between north Indians and the so-called Dravidian, south Indians. The racial composition has remained almost the same for millennia. This study also confirms that there is no race called an Aryan race.

References to Wars in Rig Veda

The voluminous references to various wars and conflicts in the Rig Veda are frequently cited as proof of an invasion and wars between invading white-skinned Aryans and dark-skinned indigenous people. These so-called conflicts and wars mentioned in the Rig Veda can be categorised mainly into the following three types:

Conflicts between the forces of nature: Indra, the thunder-god of the Rig Veda, occupies a central position in the naturalistic aspects of the Rig Vedic religion, since it is he who forces the clouds to part with their all-important wealth, the rain. In this task he is pitted against all sorts of demons and spirits whose main activity is the prevention of rainfall and sunshine. Rain, being the highest wealth, is depicted in terms of more terrestrial forms of wealth, such as cows or soma. The clouds are depicted in terms of their physical appearance: as mountains, as the black abodes of the demons who retain the celestial waters of the heavens (i.e. the rains), or as the black demons themselves. This in no way be construed as the war between white Aryans and black Dravidians. This is a perverted interpretation from those who have not understood the meaning and purport of the Vedic culture and philosophy. Most of the verses which mention the wars/conflicts are composed using poetic imagery, and depict the celestial battles of the natural forces, and often take greater and greater recourse to terrestrial terminology and anthropomorphic depictions. The descriptions acquire an increasing tendency to shift from naturalism to mythology. And it is these mythological descriptions, which are grabbed at by invasion theorists as descriptions of wars between invading Aryans and indigenous non-Aryans. An example of such distorted interpretation is made of the following verse:

“The body lay in the midst of waters that are neither still nor flowing. The waters press against the secret opening of the vrtra (the coverer) who lay in deep darkness and whose enemy is Indra. Mastered by the enemy, the waters held back like cattle restrained by a trader. Indra crushed the vrtra and broke open the withholding outlet of the river.” (Rig Veda, 1.32.10-11)

This verse is a beautiful poetic and metamorphical description of snow-clad, dark mountains where the life-sustaining water to feed the rivers flowing in the Aryavarta is held by the hardened ice-caps (vrtra, demon) and Indra, the rain-god, by allowing the sun to light its rays on the mountains, makes the ice caps break and hence release the water. The Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) proponents interpret this verse literally on the human plane, as the slaying of vrtra, the leader of dark-skinned Dravidian people of Indus Valley by invading white-skinned Aryan king, Indra. This is an absurd and ludicrous interpretation of an obvious conflict between the natural forces.

Conflict between Vedic and Iranian people: Another category of conflicts in the Rig Veda represents the genuine conflict between the Vedic people and the Iranians. At one time Iranians and Vedic people formed one society and were living harmoniously in the northern part of India, practising Vedic culture, but at some point of time in history, because of some serious philosophical dispute, the society got divided, and one section moved to further north- west, now known as Iran. However, the conflict and controversy were continued between the two groups, often resulting in even physical fights. The Iranians not only called their God Ahura (Vedic asura) and their demons Daevas (Vedic devas), but they also called themselves Dahas and Dahyus (Vedic dasas, and dasyus). The oldest Iranian texts moreover depict the conflicts between the Daeva- worshipers and the Dahas on behalf of the Dahyus, as the Vedic texts depict them on behalf of the deva-worshipers. Indra, the dominant god of the Rig Veda, is represented in the Iranian texts by a demon Indra. What this all indicates is that wars or conflicts of this second category are not between Aryans and non-Aryans, but between two estranged groups of the same parent society which got divided by some philosophical dichotomy. The Vedas even mention the gods of Dasyus as Arya also.

Conflicts between various indigenous tribal groups over natural resources and various minor kingdoms to gain supremacy over the land and its expansion: A global phenomenon known to share the natural resources like water, cattle, vegetation and land, and expand the geographical boundaries of the existing kingdoms. This conflict in no way suggests any war or invasion by outsiders on the indigenous people.

Archaeological Evidence

It is argued that in the excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, the human skeletons found do prove that a massacre had taken place at these townships by invading armies of Aryan nomads. Prof. G. F. Dales (former head of Department of South Asian Archaeology and Anthropology, Berkeley University, USA), in his The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjo-daro Expedition, Vol. VI, 3; 1964 states the following about this evidence:

“Not a single body was found within the area of the fortified citadel where one could reasonably expect the final defence of this thriving capital city to have been made.

“What of these skeletal remains that have taken on such undeserved importance? Nine years of extensive excavations at Mohenjo-daro (1922-31) – a city of three miles in circuit – yielded a total of some 37 skeletons, or parts thereof, that can be attributed with some certainty to the period of the Indus civilisation. Some of these were found in contorted positions and groupings that suggest anything but orderly burials. Many are either disarticulated or incomplete. They were all found in the area of the lower town – probably the residential district. Not a single body was found within the area of the fortified citadel where one could reasonably expect the final defence of this thriving capital city to have been made.”

He further questions:

“Where are the burned fortresses, the arrowheads, weapons, pieces of armour, the smashed chariots and bodies of the invaders and defenders? Despite the extensive excavations at the largest Harappan sites, there is not a single bit of evidence that can be brought forth as unconditional proof of an armed conquest and the destruction on the supposed scale of the Aryan invasion.”

(Aryan is not a race at all per the Vedic scriptures. Anyone who accepts the auauthority of the Vedas and strives to live per it is an Aaarya or Aaryan. – Skanda987)

अण्डे का सच और रहस्य

जिसे पढ़ कर सारा भारत देश अंडा खाना छोड देगा !

आजकल मुझे यह देख कर अत्यंत खेद और आश्चर्य होता है की अंडा शाकाहार का पर्याय बन चुका है ,ब्राह्मणों से लेकर जैनियों तक सभी ने खुल्लमखुल्ला अंडा खाना शुरू कर दिया है …खैर म…ै ज्यादा भूमिका और प्रकथन में न जाता हुआ सीधे तथ्य पर आ रहा हूँ

मादा स्तनपाईयों (बन्दर बिल्ली गाय मनुष्य) में एक निश्चित समय के बाद अंडोत्सर्जन एक चक्र के रूप में होता है उदारहरणतः मनुष्यों में यह महीने में एक बार,.. चार दिन तक होता है जिसे माहवारी या मासिक धर्म कहते है ..उन दिनों में स्त्रियों को पूजा पाठ चूल्हा रसोईघर आदि से दूर रखा जाता है ..यहाँ तक की स्नान से पहले किसी को छूना भी वर्जित है कई परिवारों में …शास्त्रों में भी इन नियमों का वर्णन है

इसका वैज्ञानिक विश्लेषण करना चाहूँगा ..मासिक स्राव के दौरान स्त्रियों में मादा हार्मोन (estrogen) की अत्यधिक मात्रा उत्सर्जित होती है और सारे शारीर से यह निकलता रहता है ..

इसकी पुष्टि के लिए एक छोटा सा प्रयोग करिये ..एक गमले में फूल या कोई भी पौधा है तो उस पर रजस्वला स्त्री से दो चार दिन तक पानी से सिंचाई कराइये ..वह पौधा सूख जाएगा ,

अब आते है मुर्गी के अण्डे की ओर

१) पक्षियों (मुर्गियों) में भी अंडोत्सर्जन एक चक्र के रूप में होता है अंतर केवल इतना है की वह तरल रूप में ना हो कर ठोस (अण्डे) के रूप में बाहर आता है ,

२) सीधे तौर पर कहा जाए तो अंडा मुर्गी की माहवारी या मासिक धर्म है और मादा हार्मोन (estrogen) से भरपूर है और बहुत ही हानिकारक है

३) ज्यादा पैसे कमाने के लिए आधुनिक तकनीक का प्रयोग कर आजकल मुर्गियों को भारत में निषेधित ड्रग ओक्सिटोसिन(oxytocin) का इंजेक्शन लगाया जाता है जिससे के मुर्गियाँ लगातार अनिषेचित (unfertilized) अण्डे देती है

४) इन भ्रूणों (अन्डो) को खाने से पुरुषों में (estrogen) हार्मोन के बढ़ने के कारण कई रोग उत्पन्न हो रहे है जैसे के वीर्य में शुक्राणुओ की कमी (oligozoospermia, azoospermia) , नपुंसकता और स्तनों का उगना (gynacomastia), हार्मोन असंतुलन के कारण डिप्रेशन आदि …

वहीँ स्त्रियों में अनियमित मासिक, बन्ध्यत्व , (PCO poly cystic oveary) गर्भाशय कैंसर आदि रोग हो रहे है

५) अन्डो में पोषक पदार्थो के लाभ से ज्यादा इन रोगों से हांनी का पलड़ा ही भारी है .

६) अन्डो के अंदर का पीला भाग लगभग ७० % कोलेस्ट्रोल है जो की ह्रदय रोग (heart attack) का मुख्य कारण है

7) पक्षियों की माहवारी (अन्डो) को खाना धर्म और शास्त्रों के विरुद्ध , अप्राकृतिक , और अपवित्र और चंडाल कर्म है

इसकी जगह पर आप दूध पीजिए जो के पोषक , पवित्र और शास्त्र सम्मत भी है

S/MAJOR VIJAY ARYA

On Secularism in India (and Islam)

From: Manmath Deshpande < >

Om secularism, the best way to destroy the credibility of pseudos is the raise the issue of apostasy in Islam.

Apostates are given death penalty in Islam, or any sort of punishment.

True secularism will mean giving full freedom to anyone wanting to leave Islam without the slightest punishment, legal or social. In many countries, the legal punishment for leaving Islam is death- e. g. Afghanistan in a country supposedly rescued by liberals from the fanatical Taliban. If this is how liberals treat apostates then one wonders who needs hardliners. Did Akbar in his secular style (murdering 30,000 Hindus on 24 Feb 1568 as reported in BVM History and Culture of Indian People edited by R C Majumdar) ever change this apostasy clause?

Why don’t we (the Vedics) dare our phony secularists to condemn this practice in Islam and dare them to ask Islamic leaders to say that every Muslim should be free to leave Islam without the slightest punishment- legal or social?

(A “secular Muslim” is an oxymoron. -skanda987)

Islam’s peaceful way to finish off the West

The peaceful way to finish off the West
http://www.d-intl.com/articles/denmark/2012-10-18/peaceful-way-finish-west

Published 10/18/2012
Maria Celander

Chadi Freigeh, media liason for Hizb ut-Tahrir.

COPENHAGEN. The Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir’s annual Scandinavian
conference on October 14 was a resounding success this year. In front
of thousands of enthusiastic onlookers in Denmark and Sweden, a clear
message was conveyed:

“Our goal is for the caliphate to cover the Muslim world, including
Spain,” said “sheikh” Isam Umayrah.

The main venue is Bella Center in Copenhagen, but the conference also
has live satellite links to four other venues in Denmark and one in
Stockholm. Proceedings are also broadcast live on the Internet.

This rainy afternoon, Bella Center is transformed into a throng of
women in full-length garments and headscarves and bearded men, mostly
young people. A handful of journalists stand out like sore thumbs. Men
and women are kept separate throughout the convention and the women
are placed in the back of the room. However, three of the journalists,
myself included, happen to also be women. Should we sit in the back
with the other women, or in the front row where seats have been
reserved for the journalists?

After some palavering back and forth, we finally get permission to sit
with the men, in the front row. Everything is handled with smiles and
a soft touch. But when the first speaker – Ismail al-Wahwah, born on
The West Bank but currently living in Australia – takes to the stage
the friendly atmosphere evaporates.

Someone in the audience shouts the Muslim battle cry “Takbir!” and the
crowd immediately responds ”Allahu akhbar!” in deafening volume, a
procedure that will be repeated over and over every time a speaker
says something the crowd finds extra palatable.

Ismail al-Wahwah, as well as the other speakers and representatives of
the party, is very open about what they want to achieve.

“The United States of America is our enemy, but we agree on one thing.

They say we want a new world order, and they’re right. It’s time for a
new leadership, and we will make sure it is Islam,” says al-Wahwah.

Secular governments cannot safeguard the interests of Muslims, he
claims. And the same goes for so-called “moderate Muslims”. Leaders
such as Egypt’s Muhammad Mursi and Turkey’s Abdullah Gül are taken to
the cleaners – they are still ”slaves under capitalism”.

“The people who want to find a happy medium are unbelievers and we
have prepared a special punishment for them,” says keynote speaker
“sheikh” Isam Umayrah.

The Shia Muslims of Iran also come in for their share of serious
criticism; they have it wrong, but at least they are Muslims and
hopefully, with a little bit of help they can be made to see the
light, Umayrah philosophizes.

“The Arab Spring is only the beginning, but a very good and
encouraging beginning. And now it’s too late to stop the progression,
signs that the big change is imminent are everywhere,” says Umayrah.

He assures us nothing will be done in secret. The caliphate has to be
located someplace that is easy to defend – Egypt, Turkey, Syria or
Pakistan would be excellent starting points.

“After that, we will try to annex the neighboring countries as soon as
possible. First by means of friendly talks, then on to step two,
three, fyra and so on. No Muslim state except the Caliphate will be
acknowledged,” Umayrah explains.

He also advocates radical, not gradual change and even suggests
gradual change is prohibited in The Quran.

“It is haram (forbidden) to obey any law but that of Islam.”

The party media liaison, the well-spoken and well-dressed Chadi
Freigeh, assures Dispatch International that The West has nothing to
fear from Hizb ut-Tahrir. We can co-exist, he says, but the Muslims
have to follow their own ways.

“We don’t want to impose our laws on the West. Sharia should be
implemented where people want it, and it’s no secret that we have
different values. We have to be honest and admit that all attempts to
integrate the Muslims in the West have failed. That proves we need our
own rules,” says Freigeh.

The Muslims living in the West should follow Shariah as best they can,
but national laws take precedence, he explains. In the long run, the
Caliphate will hopefully be global, but it should be done by peaceful
means. Down the line, everyone will want Shariah since it is a system
that doesn’t discriminate, according to Freigeh.

DI: How do you feel about Al-Qaida?

“I don’t condone actions against civilians, but one should remember
that 9/11 was a reaction to long-term oppression by the United States
against the Muslim world. Oppression has consequences, and now the
U.S. is using 9/11 as an excuse to occupy Afghanistan.”

DI: To what extent and in what way should you perform Jihad?

“Jihad is always presented as something dangerous and terrible in the
Western media, but that is not the case. Jihad protects the Muslims
against threat and oppression. The Americans’ conduct in the Middle
East calls for Jihad, but we need to adhere to certain rules. We don’t
want to behave like the Americans did at Guantánamo for example; it is
against Islam to treat people that way.

“But if we’re threatened, we must of course have a right to defend
ourselves. I’m not Gandhi.”

FACTS/Hizb ut-Tahrir

Hizb ut-Tahrir, “The Freedom Party”, was founded in 1953 in Jerusalem
and is now represented in over 40 countries across the world – among
others, Sweden, Denmark and Great Britain. Even though the party is
illegal in a number of Arab countries and Germany, it has
approximately one million members.

The expressed goal is to create a global Islamic state, a Caliphate,
under Shariah law. Officially, the party advocates non-violent means
as a way to achieve this, but several leading members have been
criticized for using harsh rhetoric against Israel and the United
States.

For instance, supreme leader Ata Abu-Rishta said in 2006 that the Jews
in Israel, the Hindus of Kashmir and the Russians of Chechnya should
be “destroyed”.

A Supreme Court Advocate supports/ recommends Romney

YOGESH SAXENA SUPPORTS CANDIDATURE OF

ROMNEY Much Above To PRESIDENT BARACK

OBAMA IN USA

The West sighed in relief when Rimsha Masih, the 14-year-old Christian girl arrested in Pakistan on August 16 for allegedly burning pages of the Quran, was finally released. Yet the West remains clueless concerning the graphic abuses-including rape and murder-Christian children in Pakistan routinely suffer, simply for being Christian. Consider two stories alone, both of which occurred at the same time Rimsha’s blasphemy ordeal was making headlines around the world.

On August 14, another Christian girl, 12-year-old Muqadas Kainat (which means “Holy Universe”) was ambushed in a field near her home in Sahawil by five Muslim men who “gang raped and murdered” her. At the time, her father was at a hospital visiting her sick mother. He and other family members began a frantic search, until a tip led them to the field where his daughter’s body lay. The postmortem revealed that she had been “gang raped and later strangled to death by five men.” Police, as usual, did not arrest anyone. As a Salem News report puts it, “Complicating matters is the fact that several Christian girls in this remote area have been raped and forced to both marry into the Muslim community and abandon their own religion, human rights groups report…. there is a history in this part of Pakistan according to the Christian community, of local authorities failing to investigate cases of rape or other violence against Christians, often for fear of influential Muslims or militants.”

Similarly, on August 20, an 11-year-old Christian boy, Samuel Yaqoob, went to the markets of Faisalabad to buy food for his family, never to return. According to Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, “After extensive searching his body was found near a drain in the Christian colony, bearing marks of horrific torture, with the murder weapon nearby. His nose, lips and belly had been sliced off, and his family could hardly recognize him because the body was so badly burnt. Some 23 wounds by a sharp weapon have been identified in the autopsy. When sending his body for an autopsy, police raised the possibility of sodomy. Parts of Pakistani culture have a strong homosexual pederast culture, and Christian and other minority boys are especially susceptible to rape and abuse because of the powerlessness of their community and their despised status. In one case fairly recently, a Christian boy was kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed by a police officer, his body similarly being dumped in a drain.”

These were just some of the stories concerning the sexual abuse and murder of Pakistan’s Christian children that occurred last August-even as the world stood in awe at the Rimsha Masih blasphemy case. Here are 10 more examples, chosen at random from the many former documented cases:

o   Nisha, a 9-year-old Christian girl was abducted by Muslims, gang-raped, murdered by repeated blows to her head, and then dumped into a canal (May, 2009).

o   Gulfam, another 9-year-old Christian girl, was raped by a Muslim man. Though not killed, she was left “in shock and in the throes of a physical and psychological trauma.” During her ordeal, her rapist told her “not to worry because he had done the same service to other young Christian girls” (December, 2010).

o   Lubna, a 12-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped, gang-raped, and murdered by a group of Muslims (October, 2010).

o   Kidnapped last Christmas Eve, a 12-year-old Christian girl known as “Anna” was gang raped for eight months, forcibly converted and then “married” to her Muslim attacker. After she escaped, instead of seeing justice done, “the Christian family is in hiding from the rapists and the police” (October, 2011).

o   After gang-raping a 13-year-old Christian girl, a band of Muslims came to her house when all male members were away working and “mercilessly” beat her pregnant aunt causing her to lose female twins to miscarriage: “They murdered our children, they raped our daughter. We have nothing left with us,” lamented an older family member. The police went on to accuse the 13-year-old raped girl of “committing adultery with three men” (June, 2012).

o   A Muslim man murdered a teenage Christian girl, Amariah, during an attempted rape: he had “grabbed the girl and, under the threat of a gun, tried to drag her away. The young woman resisted, trying to escape the clutches of her attacker, when the man opened fire and killed her instantly, and later tried to conceal the corpse” (December, 2011).

o   Muslims abducted a 14-year-old Christian girl, Mehek, at gunpoint in broad daylight from her parents’ house. One of her abductors declared he would “purify her” by making her “Muslim and my mistress” (August, 2011).

o   Shazia, a 12-year-old Christian girl, was enslaved, raped, and murdered by Chaudhry Naeem, a rich Muslim lawyer, who was acquitted. His wife and son had participated in abusing the child (November, 2010).

o   Nadia, a Christian girl who was abducted in 2001 when she was 15-years-old and forced to marry a Muslim, only recently returned to her Catholic family (January, 2012).

o   A powerful Muslim businessman had two Christian sisters kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and “married” to him (May, 2011).

In every one of these cases, Pakistani police either failed to act or sided with the rapists and murderers.

The anecdotes represent a mere sampling of the documented atrocities committed against the children of Pakistan’s Christians, who amount for a miniscule 1.5% of the nation’s population. Then there are the stories that never make it to any media-stories of silent abuse that only the nameless, faceless victims know. For example, it took five years for the story of a 2-year-old toddler who was savagely raped because her Christian father refused to convert to Islam to surface. After undergoing five surgeries, her anatomy remains disfigured and she suffers from several permanent complications. Her family lives in fear and hiding.

How many Christian children in Pakistan are being mauled in silence, with their stories never surfacing?

And what animates this savagery? Discussing the aforementioned rape of 9-year-old Gulfam, local sources in Pakistan put it well: “It is shameful. Such incidents occur frequently. Christian girls are considered goods to be damaged at leisure. Abusing them is a right. According to the [Muslim] community’s mentality it is not even a crime. Muslims regard them as spoils of war.”

Indeed, here is how the late Majid Khadduri, “internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on Islamic law and jurisprudence,” explained the idea of human “spoils” in his War and Peace in the Law of Islam:

The term spoil (ghanima) is applied specifically to property acquired by force from non-Muslims. It includes, however, not only property (movable and immovable) but also persons, whether in the capacity of asra (prisoners of war) or sabi (women and children). … If the slave were a woman, the master was permitted to have sexual connection with her as a concubine.

From here, one can begin to understand the rabid fanaticism that possessed Pakistan’s Muslims concerning the Rifsha blasphemy case, which resulted in mass riots, Muslim threats to take the law in their own hands, and the dislocation of Christians, some of whom have been forced to live and worship in the wilderness: if infidel Christians, especially their children, are seen as mere “spoils” to be used and disposed of with impunity, certainly it must be intolerable for Muslims if one of these “sub-humans” dares to desecrate Islam’s holy book-the same book that ordains their inhuman status.

And herein is the true significance of the Rifsha Masih case: success can be measured not in the fact that this one particular Christian child got away from the savageries of Islamic law and culture, but whether her ordeal will begin to open Western eyes to the terrors Pakistan’s Christian children routinely face.

—
Yogesh Kumar Saxena

Advocate Supreme Court

Creation of Bosnian Muslim State Led to Ethnic Cleansing of 440,000 Catholics

From: Vinay Joshi < >
Subject: Creation of Bosnian Muslim State Led to Ethnic Cleansing of 440,000 Catholics

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/creation-of-bosnian-muslim-state-led-to-ethnic-cleansing-of-440000-catholics/

October 14, 2012

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In the late 90s the trendy thing to do was to agonize over the fate of Bosnian Muslims and all the terrible horrors that the Poor Muslims (TM) were experiencing in Sarajevo. Ethnic cleansing was the word of the day and the Serbs were the new villains of the hour.

Steven Spielberg even managed to make the ultimate liberal thriller, The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney racing against the clock to stop a Serb terrorist from launching a nuclear attack on New York City. (This proved to be a very timely film to make in 1997. Four years before Muslim terrorists (Shhh they don’t exist) launched a real attack against New York)

NATO carved out a Bosnian Muslim state by bombing a bunch of Serbian Christians, civilians and non-civilians, Billy Clinton didn’t really care. And ethnic cleansing became an actual thing… just not ethnic cleansing of Muslims. Mohammed’s last command to his followers was to drive the Jews and Christians out of Arabia. And as Muslims have expanded their reach, they have religiously been keeping their unholy prophet’s command.

Christians are massively leaving post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina amid mounting discrimination and Islamization, according to a new report released Friday, October 12.

There are just 440,000 Catholics left in the Balkan nation, half the prewar figure, the group said.

Puljic (Public?) reportedly complained that while dozens of mosques were build in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, no building permissions were given for Christian churches.

“The cardinal already waits 13 years on permission to build just a small church,” Church in Need said. Authorities so far refused to return hundreds of nationalized church buildings, despite a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights to do so, according to Christian officials.

But that is what you get when you create another “moderate” Muslim state. Muslims may demand the right to build mega-mosques in London, Tennessee and right next to Ground Zero, but they don’t reciprocate. Islam has no notion of human rights… only Muslim rights. Or rather the rights of Muslim men over all sorts of inferior types like women and non-Muslims. Create a Muslim state and you get discrimination against non-Muslims. It’s how the religion works.

In published remarks, Van Rompuy made clear that giving Bosnia-Herzegovina a “European perspective”, the code word for eventual European Union membership, “is the only way to overcome the crisis”.

How has the European perspective worked out for the millions of Muslims in France, Germany and the UK?

Are Muslims getting a European Perspective or are Europeans getting a Muslim Perspective?

A Hindu man married to a Muslim says ..

From Nash Singh < >

To: The Becoming

Hi,

Thank you very much for sharing some facts about the prophet Mohammed. I am from South Africa, of a Hindu by faith, and married into a Muslim family. We have had a Hindu wedding and have been accepted by all.

However, we have just had a death in the family where my wife’s brother has passed away. He was very friendly, and got along exceptionally well with me being a Hindu. He was a very modern Muslim, and has not shown any dislike towards other religions groups. In essence he was not a practicing Muslim because he has not gone to Mosque every day etc.

After his passing away, I experienced the most ridiculous type of discrimination from the Muslim relatives. Firstly they did not allow me to accompany them to the place where they give the body a bath. Thereafter they did not allow non-Muslim people to touch the body or sit nearby. They did not allow the females to accompany the men to the cemetery. I have had the privilege to read the English versions of the Surah Yasins, and I was unhappy with the contents of some verses e.g. 13, 18, 23 etc. In particular those that refer to non believers as infidels that should be stones to death. In another verse it states that there should be torture whereby the mouths should be tied and the limbs must speak. Are these extracts taken from the same Koran of the the so called “Most merciful, most beneficial Allah”?

This is utter hypocrisy in my opinion, and I fully understand why there is so much hatred and turmoil between Muslims and other faiths worldwide. I am so proud to belong to a faith that has outlived Islam and Christianity by far, and is the world’s oldest religion. We Hindus do not condemn, convert others, nor do we encourage or incite violence and torture amongst humanity. If the parents of a newly born Muslim child do not read the Azaan in the child’s ears, then what religious faith is that child considered to belong to? Hindu dharma of course because, by default all Indian Muslims are Hindus until they are converted into Islam.

Please feel free to enlighten me about your findings, and in particular the facts based on the contents of Surah Yasin.

Many thanks

Nash- South Africa

(Generally, one accepts the religion of the parents, till one accepts another religion. Muslims force Islam on their children, and kill any Muslim who quits Islam. This they do per Islam/Koran. Any person who kills, eats or slaughters cows cannot be considered a Hindu. One who rejects the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Ramayan, Mahabharat, or the Vedic gods also cannot be considered a Hindu. The Muslims of Bhaarat need to revert back to the Hindu dharma of their ancestors. –Skanda987)

A comment on Saif-Kareena’s wedding

From: Narain Kataria < >

Saif-Kareena’s wedding card and my comments

http://english.samaylive.com/entertainment-news/676514995/first-look-saif-kareena-wedding-card.h

Here are my comments on the above Saif-Kareena-wedding-card:

I am very upset, angry; and feel insulted. This selfish woman has absolutely no pride about her ancestral heritage. At the moment, India is not being ruled by Muslim rulers. It is a shame that in Independent India, Hindu girls are marrying with Musalmans. Instead of becoming a role model for Hindu girls, she has brought shame and disgrace not only to her parents but also to entire Hindu nation of 900 million. I will never again watch her movie any time.

It appears that this pretty stupid woman is out to humiliate Hindu nation by marrying a Muslim man and converting to Islam in spite of the fact that the great doyens of Mumbai film industry, Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor and her mother Babita Shivdasani – all of them – had been driven from Islamic Pakistan at the time of Partition because they were Hindus.

We concede that it is Kareena’s personal decision to marry whomsoever she wants. Our main objection is to her conversion to Islam. Most Hindus consider conversion to other religions as an aggression on the Hindu Society. We also fail to understand why she has to convert to Islam and why not the other way round with Saif converting to Hinduism.

Narain Kataria

Some notes on Muhammad

From: sri venkat < >

Some notes on Muhammad

The references below are from original Muslims’ sources.

source: http://www.4truth.net/fourtruthpbworld.aspx?pageid=8589953043

“Although Muhammad patiently endured persecution in Mecca, his attitude quickly changed when his numbers grew in Medina. Soon he would tolerate no criticism whatsoever. According to our earliest biographical source, a man named Abu Afak—who was more than a hundred years old—wrote a poem criticizing people for converting to Islam. Muhammad demanded he be killed, and Abu Afak was murdered in his sleep. When a woman named Asma heard that Muslims had killed such an elderly man, she wrote a poem calling for people to take a stand against Islam.Ibn Ishaq relates what happened next:

When the apostle heard what she had said he said, “Who will rid me of Marwan’s daughter?” Umayr bin Adiy al-Khatmi who was with him heard him, and that very night he went to her house and killed her. In the morning he came to the apostle and told him what he had done and he said, “You have helped God and His apostle, O Umayr!” When he asked if he would have to bear any evil consequences the apostle said, “Two goats won’t butt their heads about her,” so Umayr went back to his people.v

Muhammad’s violence was directed towards groups as well. Muhammad once said to his followers, “I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims.” The Jews of Qurayza resisted Muhammad and attempted to form an alliance against him. When the alliance faltered, Muhammad acted quickly. His armies surrounded them and “besieged them for twenty-five nights until they were sore pressed and God cast terror into their hearts.”

Then they surrendered, and the apostle confined them in Medina. . . . Then the apostle went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches. . . . There were 600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900.vii

Every male who had reached puberty was killed. Muhammad divided the women, children, and property among his men (taking a fifth of the spoils for himself).

V. MUHAMMAD: THE UGLY

But things get worse.As the Muslim armies raided town after town, they captured many women, who would often be sold or traded. Yet, since the Muslim men were a long way from their wives, they needed wisdom from Allah to guide them in their treatment of their female captives. It wasn’t long before Muhammad received a revelation allowing the soldiers to sleep with the women:

Allah’s Messenger sent an army to Autas and encountered the enemy and fought with them. Having overcome them and taken them captives, the Companions of Allah’s Messenger seemed to refrain from having intercourse with captive women because of their husbands being polytheists. Then Allah, Most High, sent down regarding that: “And women already married, except those whom your right hands possess (iv. 24)” (i.e. they were lawful for them when their ‘Idda period came to an end).viii

This verse of the Qur’an (4:24), along with others (23:1-6; 33:50; 70:22-30), granted Muslims the right to have sex with their female captives and slave girls, even those who were still married or who were going to be sold or traded.

Perhaps most disturbing of all is the fact that Muslims could have sex with girls who hadn’t even reached puberty. The opening verses of Chapter 65 of the Qur’an present Islamic rules for divorce. According to 65:4, if a Muslim divorces a girl who hasn’t yet reached puberty, he must wait three months to make sure she isn’t pregnant.

Muhammad himself had sex with a prepubescent girl. His courtship of Aisha began when she was only six years old.ix Muhammad had a dream about her, which led him to believe that God wanted him to marry the young girl.x Fortunately, Muhammad waited three years before having sex with her; nevertheless, Muslim sources report that Aisha still hadn’t reached puberty.xi Since Muhammad is the moral exemplar in Islam, his actions are still affecting young girls today.”

iIbn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah (The Life of Muhammad), A. Guillaume, tr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 106.

ii See, e.g., Qur’an 109.

iii M. H. Shakir Translation.

iv Ibn Ishaq, p. 596.

v Ibid., p. 676.

vi Sahih Muslim 4366.

vii Ibn Ishaq, p. 464.

viii Sahih Muslim 3432.

ix Sahih Al-Bukhari 3894.

x Ibid., Number 3895.

xi See Sahih al-Bukhari 5236 and 6130.

Details of the Goa Inquisition

Details of the Goa Inquisition

by Christian historian, Dr. T. R. de Souza

Source: http://mahavansa.blogspot.com/2006/06/details-of-goa-inquisition-by.html

At least from 1540 onwards, and in the island of Goa before that year, all the Hindu idols had been annihilated or had disappeared, all the temples had been destroyed and their sites and building material was in most cases utilized to erect new Christian Churches and chapels. Various viceregal and Church council decrees banished the Hindu priests from the Portuguese territories; the public practices of Hindu rites including marriage rites, were banned; the state took upon itself the task of bringing up Hindu orphan children; the Hindus were denied certain employments, while the Christians were preferred; it was ensured that the Hindus would not harass those who became Christians, and on the contrary, the Hindus were obliged to assemble periodically in Churches to listen to preaching or to the refutation of their religion.”

“A particularly grave abuse was practiced in Goa in the form of ‘mass baptism’ and what went before it. The practice was begun by the Jesuits and was alter initiated by the Franciscans also. The Jesuits staged an annual mass baptism on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul (January 25), and in order to secure as many neophytes as possible, a few days before the ceremony the Jesuits would go through the streets of the Hindu quarter in pairs, accompanied by their Negro slaves, whom they would urge to seize the Hindus. When the blacks caught up a fugitive, they would smear his lips with a piece of beef, making him an ‘untouchable’ among his people. Conversion to Christianity was then his only option.”

The Goan inquisition is regarded by all contemporary portrayals as the most violent inquisition ever executed by the Portuguese Catholic Church. It lasted from 1560 to 1812. The inquisition was set as a tribunal, headed by a judge, sent to Goa from Portugal and was assisted by two judicial henchmen. The judge was answerable to no one except to Lisbon and handed down punishments as he saw fit. The Inquisition Laws filled 230 pages and the palace where the Inquisition was conducted was known as the Big House and the Inquisition proceedings were always conducted behind closed shutters and closed doors. The screams of agony of the culprits (men, women, and children) could be heard in the streets, in the stillness of the night, as they were brutally interrogated, flogged, and slowly dismembered in front of their relatives. Eyelids were sliced off and extremities were amputated carefully, a person could remain conscious even though the only thing that remained was his torso and a head.

Diago de Boarda, a priest and his advisor Vicar General, Miguel Vazz had made a 41 point plan for torturing Hindus. Under this plan Viceroy Antano de Noronha issued in 1566, an order applicable to the entire area under Portuguese rule :
“I hereby order that in any area owned by my master, the king, nobody should construct a Hindu temple and such temples already constructed should not be repaired without my permission. If this order is transgressed, such temples shall be, destroyed and the goods in them shall be used to meet expenses of holy deeds, as punishment of such transgression.”

In 1567 the campaign of destroying temples in Bardez met with success. At the end of it 300 Hindu temples were destroyed. Enacting laws, prohibition was laid from December 4, 1567 on rituals of Hindu marriages, sacred thread wearing and cremation. All the persons above 15 years of age were compelled to listen to Christian preaching, failing which they were punished.

A religious fatva was issued on the basis of the findings of Goa Inquiry Commission. It stated,”…Hereby we declare the decision that the conventions mentioned in the preamble of the fatva as stated below are permanently declared as useless, and therefore prohibited”.

Prohibitions Regarding Marriages

-The instruments for Hindu songs shall not be played.
-While giving dowry the relatives of the bride and groom must not be invited.
-At the time of marriage, betel leaf packages (pan) must not be distributed either publicly or in private to the persons present.

-Flowers, or fried puris, betel nuts and leaves must not be sent to the heads of the houses of the bride or groom.

-Gotraj ceremony of family God must not be performed.
-On the day prior to a wedding, rice must not be husked, spices must not be pounded, grains must not be ground and other recipes for marriage feast must not be cooked.

-Pandals and festoons must not be used.
-Pithi should not be applied.
-The bride must not be accorded ceremonial welcome. The bride and groom must not -be made to sit under pandal to convey blessings and best wishes to them.

Prohibitions Regarding Fasts, Post-death Rituals

-The poor must not be fed or ceremonial meals must not be served for the peace of the souls of the dead.
-There should be no fasting on ekadashi day.
-Fasting can be done according to the Christian principles.
-No rituals should be performed on the twelfth day after death, on moonless and full moon dates.
-No fasting should be done during lunar eclipse.

Conventions

-Hindu men should not wear dhoti either in public or in their houses. Women should not wear cholis .
-They should not plant Tulsi in their houses, compounds, gardens or any other place.

-Following the law of 1567, orphans were kidnapped for converting them to Christianity.

On September 22, 1570 an order was issued that :
-The Hindus embracing Christianity will be exempted from land taxes for a period of 15 years.
-Nobody shall bear Hindu names or surnames.

In 1583 Hindu temples at Esolna and Kankolim were destroyed through army action.
“The fathers of the Church forbade the Hindus under terrible penalties the use of their own sacred books, and prevented them from all exercise of their religion. They destroyed their temples, and so harassed and interfered with the people that they abandoned the city in large numbers, refusing to remain any longer in a place where they had no liberty, and were liable to imprisonment, torture and death if they worshipped after their own fashion the gods of their fathers.” wrote Sasetti, who was in India from 1578 to 1588.
An order was issued in June 1684 eliminating Konkani language and making it compulsory to speak Portuguese language. The law provided for dealing toughly with anyone using the local language. Following that law all the symbols of non-Christian sects were destroyed and the books written in local languages were burnt.

The Archbishop living on the banks of the Ethora had said during one of his lecture series, “The post of Inquiry Commission in Goa is regarded as holy.” The women who opposed the assistants of the commission were put behind the bars and were used by them to satisfy their animal instincts. Then they were burnt alive as opponents of the established tenets of the Catholic church.
The victims of such inhuman laws of the Inquiry Commission included a French traveller named Delone. He was an eye witness to the atrocities, cruelty and reign of terror unleashed by priests. He published a book in 1687 describing the lot of helpless victims. While he was in jail he had heard the cries of tortured people beaten with instruments having sharp teeth. All these details are noted in Delone’s book.

So harsh and notorious was the inquisition in Goa, that word of its brutality and horrors reached Lisbon but nothing was done to stop this notoriety and escalating barbarity and it continued for two hundred more years. No body knows the exact number of Goans subjected to these diabolical tortures, but perhaps it runs into hundreds of thousands, may be even more. The abominations of inquisitions continued until a brief respite was given in 1774 but four years later, the inquisition was introduced again and it continued un-interruptedly until 1812. At that point in time, in the year of 1812, the British put pressure on the Portuguese to put an end to the terror of Inquisition and the presence of British troops in Goa enforced the British desire. Also the Portuguese power at this time was declining and they could not fight the British. The palace of the Grand Inquisitor, the Big House, was demolished and no trace of it remains today, which might remind someone of inquisitions and the horrors inside this Big House that their great saint Francis Xavier had commenced.

Dr. Trasta Breganka Kunha, a Catholic citizen of Goa writes, “Inspite of all the mutilations and concealment of history, it remains an undoubted fact that religious conversion of Goans is due to methods of force adopted by the Portuguese to establish their rule. As a result of this violence the character of our people was destroyed. The propagation of Christian sect in Goa came about not by religious preaching but through the methods of violence and pressure. If any evidence is needed for this fact, we can obtain it through law books, orders and reports of the local rulers of that time and also from the most dependable documents of the Christian sect

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