Hindus – Treacherous, Indolent and Spiritless ?

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Over the last century we have seen Greater India (a.k.a Hindustan) lose territory to Pakistan - some of which later became Bangladesh.  Hindus have practically all been chased out of Kashmir a few years ago.

The Account of the Wandhama Massacre in Kashmir

 The population of Muslims has risen much faster than other religious groups since partition.  Now pockets of hardcore Islam are springing up all over India, and regions of the country that have a concentration of Muslim population are asking for statehood.  Telangana is a recent example

As the Indian Government investigates Narendra Modi, a more basic question must be asked –Will Hindus ultimately concede all the territory piece by piece to Islam and ultimately convert?  Are they working to ensure their survival or are they resigned to fate on this issue? Are they just tied up with superstitious rituals and busy coddling to thousands of Godmen, astrologers, and Swamis? Some may laugh of this extrapolation, but in the minds of some more enlightened readers, this might find some traction.  The History books of India do not talk about the massacre of the Hindu populace by Muslim invaders from Taimur lang to Nadir Shah. Do we know that at the end of a each day of the thirteen days of massacre (Kalt-e-aam) Nadir Shah's fist had to be soaked in warm water to dissolve the congealed blood - so that his fingers could stretch open and release the sword?  I did not know it myself, but an Iranian colleague told me that he had learnt about this in history class - in Iran!  Is it really true?  I do not know!  For political correctness and due to their inherent pacifist and cowardly nature of most Hindus, history, as it is taught, has been sanitized by taking out the horrendous accounts of these massacres that have largely been written by the personal historians of these invaders.

Do Hindus lack ‘gairat’ (pride) because they do not know their history and couldn’t be bothered enough to learn about it?  You decide.  Most Hindus condemn the fundamental and intolerant nature of Islam but fail to look at their own faith system and root out its weaknesses.  The whole idea here is to hold a mirror to Hinduism's face - so that Hindus can see what is wrong with some aspects of their belief system and problems with the way their faith is practiced.

Here is a page from history so that you can make up your mind.  So, here we go...

"The Gates of Somnauth"

A SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE 9TH OF MARCH 1843 BY THOMAS BABINGTON MCCAULAY, SECRETARY OF CONTROL, BRITISH GOVERNMENT

"Her Majesty is the ruler of a larger heathen population than the world ever saw collected under the sceptre of a Christian sovereign since the days of the Emperor Theodosius. What the conduct of rulers in such circumstances ought to be is one of the most important moral questions, one of the most important political questions, that it is possible to conceive. There are subject to the British rule in Asia a hundred millions of people who do not profess the Christian faith. The Mahometans are a minority: but their importance is much more than proportioned to their number: for they are an united, a zealous, an ambitious, a warlike class.

The great majority of the population of India consists of idolaters, blindly attached to doctrines and rites which, considered merely with reference to the temporal interests of mankind, are in the highest degree pernicious. In no part of the world has a religion ever existed more unfavourable to the moral and intellectual health of our race.

The Brahminical mythology is so absurd that it necessarily debases every mind which receives it as truth; and with this absurd mythology is bound up an absurd system of physics, an absurd geography, an absurd astronomy. Nor is this form of Paganism more favourable to art than to science. Through the whole Hindoo Pantheon you will look in vain for anything resembling those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in the shrines of ancient Greece. All is hideous, and grotesque, and ignoble. As this superstition is of all superstitions the most irrational, and of all superstitions the most inelegant, so is it of all superstitions the most immoral. Emblems of vice are objects of public worship. Acts of vice are acts of public worship. The courtesans are as much a part of the establishment of the temple, as much ministers of the god, as the priests. Crimes against life, crimes against property, are not only permitted but enjoined by this odious theology. But for our interference human victims would still be offered to the Ganges, and the widow would still be laid on the pile with the corpse of her husband, and burned alive by her own children.

 It is by the command and under the especial protection of one of the most powerful goddesses that the Thugs join themselves to the unsuspecting traveller, make friends with him, slip the noose round his neck, plunge their knives in his eyes, hide him in the earth, and divide his money and baggage. I have read many examinations of Thugs; and I particularly remember an altercation which took place between two of those wretches in the presence of an English officer. One Thug reproached the other for having been so irreligious as to spare the life of a traveller when the omens indicated that their patroness required a victim. "How could you let him go? How can you expect the goddess to protect us if you disobey her commands? That is one of your North country heresies."