11-12-2006, 11:52 PM
Hanif,
What needs to be quite clear, is that all the invaders, the Rajas, the Kings and emperors that cam down to INDIA/PAKISTAN were all a political force, some came on their annual pilferage attackes others came to stay on and be part of that country,.. and that was the norm of the day around the world in those days,, remember colonisation (which is quite a recent think not even a hundred years ago). Parshant made quite a 'flawed' logic out of it all, trodding his path should I assume that we should start subjugating all the Christians in our country because the British - Christians did a bad job in running south ASIA when they were the Colonist.
I think History 'ear marks' characters as 'HEROS' more because of the impact that they have had on society, Mahmud Ghaznavi may have been a pluderer, but he did form a centralised Government in what is today PAKISTAN (and ended the mahem of local war lords), so the whole excercise did have a lot of good coming out of it. The temples at Somnath that he plundered and destroyed were more of centres of 'exploitation' and 'activities' we all know of. Did the Rajas and Druids of Somnath not offer Mahmud Gold and riches twice the amount of that was in Somnath ? It was a political act ! Infact Mahmud's army had its own 'Hindu' battalions
Comapre it with today and we have governments dislodging tyrants and dictators.. is that wrong ?
We as Muslims are not defending any bad eggs, we are simply saying that we have had Muslim Kings and Empires in India, and we are not going to be applogetic about it.. infact if you throw a stone at us ? we have a quite a many to throw at you too,.. how was Rana Rajit Singh treating his Muslim subjects ? How have the Dogra Rajas treated their Kashmiri subjects ? I have a whole list of where that came from..
What needs to be quite clear, is that all the invaders, the Rajas, the Kings and emperors that cam down to INDIA/PAKISTAN were all a political force, some came on their annual pilferage attackes others came to stay on and be part of that country,.. and that was the norm of the day around the world in those days,, remember colonisation (which is quite a recent think not even a hundred years ago). Parshant made quite a 'flawed' logic out of it all, trodding his path should I assume that we should start subjugating all the Christians in our country because the British - Christians did a bad job in running south ASIA when they were the Colonist.
I think History 'ear marks' characters as 'HEROS' more because of the impact that they have had on society, Mahmud Ghaznavi may have been a pluderer, but he did form a centralised Government in what is today PAKISTAN (and ended the mahem of local war lords), so the whole excercise did have a lot of good coming out of it. The temples at Somnath that he plundered and destroyed were more of centres of 'exploitation' and 'activities' we all know of. Did the Rajas and Druids of Somnath not offer Mahmud Gold and riches twice the amount of that was in Somnath ? It was a political act ! Infact Mahmud's army had its own 'Hindu' battalions
Comapre it with today and we have governments dislodging tyrants and dictators.. is that wrong ?
We as Muslims are not defending any bad eggs, we are simply saying that we have had Muslim Kings and Empires in India, and we are not going to be applogetic about it.. infact if you throw a stone at us ? we have a quite a many to throw at you too,.. how was Rana Rajit Singh treating his Muslim subjects ? How have the Dogra Rajas treated their Kashmiri subjects ? I have a whole list of where that came from..
