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Bloodshed in India is centuries old. The initial rift in India relations was created during the Islamic invasion in the 700s. According to historian Will Durant, "...the Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.” The Koran justifies the fanatical violence by Muslim's with, "Slay the infidels, wherever ye find them and prepare them for all kind of ambush"; and "Choose not thy friends among the infidels till they forsake their homes and the way of idolatry. If they return to paganism then take them whenever you find them and kill them." Obviously, if there is no god but Allah, then polytheistic Hinduism cannot be peacefully unified with such an aggressive and intolerant religion

The exact number of people killed during the invasions will never be known. Estimates are based upon the Muslim chronicles and demographic calculations. K.S. Lal estimated in his book The Growth of Muslim Population in India that between the years 1000 CE and 1500 CE the population of Hindus decreased by eighty million.

Today 80.5 % of the people are Hindu, 13.4 % of the people are Muslim 1,80% of the people areChristian, 1.84 % of the people areSikhs 0.76 % of the people are Buddhist

Muslims form nearly 16 percent of India's 1 billion people, and simmering tensions with the majority Hindus often spill over into rioting,

I wonder why this could be ? As can be seen throughtIsalmic history since Mohammed smashed all the pagan idol,(including a stone Dove,today a symbol of peace) in the Kabah on his conquest of Mecca.This distruction of Holy places continues even today,as witnessed by churches being burnt in australia. In India is a holy site much like Al-Aqusa in Jerusalem,where moslems built a mosque on a holy site of another religion.

Ayodhya today is a small, rustic city with ancient Hindu architecture predominating, and with some Mughal influence. Its population is mostly Hindu with a smattering of Muslims, Jains and Buddhists. However, its history and heritage hold an unequivocal importance for over Hindus in India and across the world. Ayodhya was one of the most ancient, largest and most magnificent of Indian cities,and was the capital of the Hindu kingdom of Kosala the court of the great king Dasaratha, the 56th monarch of the Solar line in descent from Raja Manu.

Babri mosque

The Babri Mosque (also Babri Masjid بابری مسجد) was a mosque constructed by order of the first Mugal emperor of India, Babur, in Ayodhya in the 16th century. Before the 1940s, the Mosque was called Masjid-i Janmasthan ("mosque of the birthplace"). The mosque stood on the Ramkot ("Rama's fort") hill (also called Janamsthan ("birthplace").

It was alleged that Babur destroyed an existing temple at the site, which Hindus believe was the temple built to commemorate the birthplace of Rama, an incarnation of Vishnu and ruler of Ayodhya. The Babri Mosque was one of the largest Mosques in Uttar Pradesh, a province of India with some thirteen million Muslims. Although there were several older Mosques in the city of Ayodhya, with a substantial Muslim population, including the Hazrat Bal Mosque constructed by the Shariqi kings, the Babri Mosque became the largest.

Ram Janmabhumi is sacred to the Hindus because they hold it to be the birthplace of Rama, who embodies for them the ideals of truth, heroism, chivalry and every other virtue. What is the justification for the mosque by Babar beyond the fact that he had the power to erect it as a mark of conquest and of humiliation of the Hindus? . One can understand that many Muslims hold the tomb of Moinuddeen Chisti in Ajmer to be sacred because he is venerated as a Sufi saint. No such justification exists for the Babri Masjid, for it was not intended as a place of worship. To understand temple destructions by Babar and his descendants - and the building of mosques in their place - we must recognize that it was part of their ideology. Here is how one of his descendants, a granddaughter of Aurangazeb, described why mosques should be built at the site of demolished temples:"... keeping the triumph of Islam in view, devout Muslim rulers should keep all idolaters in subjection to Islam, brook no laxity in realization of Jizyah, grant no exceptions to Hindu Rajahs from dancing in attendance on 'Id days and waiting on foot outside mosques till end of prayer ... and 'keep in constant use for Friday and congregational prayer the mosques built up after demolishing the temples of the idolatrous Hindus situated at Mathura, Banaras and Avadh ..."

Spoken like a true child of Aurangazeb! But this allows us to answer the question raised earlier about Babar's right to destroy the temple and build his mosque: Babar's ideology - as described by his descendent - gave him that right. It is an ideology that sees everything outside the pale of Islam as an object of derision to be humiliated and destroyed. This does not mean that everyone - especially the victims - should accept it as legitimate. Accepting the legitimacy of the Babri Masjid at Ram Janmabumi means acknowledging the superiority of Babar's ideology over that of the overwhelming majority of the people of India, and his right to impose it on others by force. This is imperialism pure and simple.

National symbols

. Every living nation has national symbols and Ayodhya is India's. Would we let stand a mosque built by someone like Osama bin Laden after demolishing Mount Vernon (George Washington's home) or the Statue of Liberty. Similarly, the Westminster Abbey in London is more than a Church, for it is inseparably bound with English history and tradition. This is how the people of India also look at Ram Janmabhumi: it is a sacred spot for Hindus for historical, cultural and nationalistic reasons - and not just because it is a place of worship. Many like me who never go to a temple or church still hold it sacred for cultural and historical reasons.To highlight this point: can the terrorist warlord Osama bin Laden claim the ideological right to demolish the Venkateshwara Temple in Tirupati or the Golden Temple in Amritsar and build something else in their place to mark the triumph of his 'faith'?Or George Bush to demolish Mecca.. These, like Ram Janmabhumi, the Westminster Abbey, and the Statue of Liberty, are not pieces of real estate that can be bartered - or forcibly occupied and demolished.

So here is the plain truth: Ram Janmabhumi is a national symbol, while the Babri Masjid is a symbol of Babar's imperialism.

It was destroyed in a riot by hostile Hindu activists on December 6, 1992.

Rapid economic growth in the 1960s and 1970s turned Gujarat into one of India's richest and industrially developed provinces. The mushrooming of industry, especially textile mills, meant that there was a large influx of people from other Indian states, People who were never really brought up in the Gandhian tradition When recession in the 1980s forced the closure of many of the mills, some 50,000 people lost their jobs. Frustration and unemployment turned many to crime and Gujarat now has a thriving underworld, second only to and closely linked with the underworld in Bombay,. But the fact that one of the state's most powerful underworld dons in the 1980s was a Muslim raised religious tensions.Huge sums of money have been made smuggling arms, contraband and silver from Pakistan to Bombay via Gujarat. Much of that money has found its way into the hands of religious extremists,Crime gangs also quite openly take sides in communal riots, making the violence that much more bloody and vicious.

‘Hundreds of girls and women were dragged out of their homes, stripped naked before their own families and thousands of attackers, who taunted, insulted and threatened them, ‘They were then raped, often gang-raped, beaten with sticks, Hindu tridents and swords, had their breasts cut off and their wombs slashed open and rods violently pushed into their vaginas. Finally the women victims were mutilated or burned to death.’ Between 250 and 300 girls and women were among the dead. Amnesty said local police and state investigators had either failed to investigate cases or deliberately closed them citing a lack of evidence. Kausar Bano, who was nine months pregnant during the riots and allegedly had her ‘womb cut open with a sword, the foetus (was) ripped out, killed and thrown into a fire before she herself was burned to death’. The Hindu nationalist government of Gujarat, which continues in power, has come under severe criticism by human rights groups for its alleged role in aiding and abetting the riots apart from failing to control them. ‘During the attacks, police stood by or even joined in the violence. When victims tried to file complaints, police often did not record them properly and failed to carry out investigations,

And it is this below that sparked this incident in one of a thousand conflicts world-wide where muslims are involved

These are some of the photos that will explain you why there was such a reaction after Godhra....

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Gruesome Pictures

VADODARA: A fast-track court in Godhra on Wednesday sentenced 11 people to life imprisonment for killing 11 members of a minority community in Anjanwa village of Panchmahals district during the post-Godhra riots. But 18 other accused were acquitted for lack of evidence. Fast-track court judge R D Thackar sentenced prime accused Dalpa Baria and 10 others Kalu Soma, Kalu Sana, Bana Fata, Raising Fula, Dhana Rupa, Salam Aba, Balvant Jeeva, Natwar Kalu, Ratna Kalu and Rupa Soma for life. Three others Raising Punja, Bharat Punja and Dhana Rupa were sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. The court examined 80 witnesses before delivering the verdict.

So once again moslems are the biggest victims,of crimes committed by Moslems

365 days, 80 arrests, Pota...probe goes on

http://www.ahmedabad.com/news/2k3/feb/27days.htm

Three hundred and sixty five days, three sleuths spearheading the investigation, countless raids, 80 arrests and one mission — to unearth the alleged conspiracy to kill passengers of Ahmedabad bound Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002. With the recent arrest of Godhra cleric Maulana Hussain Umarji, considered a major breakthrough, the Special Investigation Team is more than determined to get to the bottom of the conspiracy. "It was not a spontaneous reaction to the harassment of a tea vendor but a well planned conspiracy with involvement and backing of the underworld mafias — directly or indirectly. The amount of money involved in the crime is mind boggling and more skeletons are expected to tumble out of the closet in the forthcoming days," said an official.

Protests over Gujarat arrest

http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2734001.stm

Shops in the town of Godhra in India's Gujarat state have closed in protest at the arrest of a Muslim in connection with a deadly train attack. Maulana Hussain Umarji, a cleric, is suspected of planning the alleged arson attack, which took place in Godhra last February.

Setting things straight

Quran 9:28 "O you Muslims ! the idolaters are nothing but unclean" ! Quran 9:5 "Slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them"