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The shocking history of the jihad against India — never before told in the West

Aug 4, 2018 5:52 pm By Robert Spencer

Because Hindus were not “People of the Book,” the centuries-long jihad against India was more brutal and bloody than jihad warfare in Europe — and most English-speaking readers are not aware of the full, shocking story of jihad activity in India at all.

Forewarned is forearmed. The violent ideology that fueled that jihad has never been reformed or rejected. It still informs the conflict between India and Pakistan, and the persecution of non-Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Nor is this ideology staying on the Indian Subcontinent, thanks to the West’s short-sighted immigration policies. It is in great part because policymakers do not know or care about the history of the jihad against India (or anywhere else) that they keep making mistakes in their analysis and “solutions” to various global problems.

That’s why I include an extensive treatment of the jihad against India in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can order here now. This is the first and only narrative history of jihad published in the West to include the story of the jihad against India. You’ll meet:

  • The Muslim commander in India who was rebuked by his boss for not being harsh enough;
  • The Mughal emperor who became tolerant and merciful toward the Hindus only when he grew disenchanted with Islam;
  • The Muslim ruler who enslaved so many Hindus that they sold for just pennies each;
  • Why numerous Muslim rulers in India made special efforts to destroy thousands of Hindu temples;
  • The Muslim emperor who forced Brahmans to wear nosebags filled with fragments of Hindu statues and cow’s flesh;
  • The brutal game that Muslim noblemen played in India, involving encircling an area with soldiers and killing or enslaving everyone within the enclosure;
  • Why jihadi uprisings against British colonial rule all failed;
  • The jihadist aspect of the twentieth-century partition of India;
  • Much more.

Don’t let those who are rewriting history in order to manipulate public policy today succeed. Order The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS by clicking here now.

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  1. gravenimage says

    Aug 5, 2018 at 8:38 pm

    The shocking history of the jihad against India — never before told in the West
    …………………….

    Yes–Hindus in India probably suffered the most horrific Jihad in history–reportedly up to 80 thousand murdered.

    Everyone should know this.

    • Mike Larkin says

      Aug 5, 2018 at 9:42 pm

      That should be 80 million murdered.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 5, 2018 at 9:46 pm

        Mike, you are right–I *know* that. How embarrassing.

        Thanks so much for the correction.

      • Susan B says

        Aug 5, 2018 at 11:40 pm

        Actually try 400 million.

        https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/islamic-invasion-of-india-the-greatest-genocide-in-history/

    • Lookmann says

      Aug 5, 2018 at 11:50 pm

      @graven,

      It is 80 to 100 million Hindus killed during 8 centuries of Muslim rule. [ not 80 thousand ]

    • whirlwinder says

      Aug 6, 2018 at 6:58 pm

      You missed a few zeros. There were more than 80,000,000 slaughtered by Islam.

  2. infidel says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 12:53 am

    Words cannot express as to how much, as a Hindu. this means to me and millions of other patriotic Hindus like me. So grateful that someone outside of India has brought this to the attention of the world. Our suffering at the hands of Islam have been ENORMOUS and continues even to this day in the form of non-stop hostilities from Islamic Pak and Bangla as well as riots from our own Islamic enclaves. Hindus like me are extremely worried about the trajectory of our land the the survival of the ancient and very wise Hindu culture, which without a doubt is one of the greatest intellectual and artistic human cultures in the world,

    • balam says

      Aug 6, 2018 at 11:47 am

      You can not cut steel with WAX.You have got to be equally RUTHLESS towards the Muslims. Sadly,the WEST has lost ts will to fight back the RUTHLESS IDEOLOGY OF ISLAM because of political correctness and financial greed. its future generations will pay a heavy price.

    • Sharyati says

      Aug 7, 2018 at 9:10 am

      Infidel i feel that you are soft pedaling the issue. There is no use of worrying and feeling proud of our ancient civilization without taking action. Everyone now needs to become a Kshatriya, even the Brahmanas too. In fact Brahmanas need to become Ksahtriyas when the Kshatriya screws up. And i being a Brahmana am aiming for it. Like parashurama who slaughtered all unrighteous kings in the land 3000 years ago. Every body needs to become one. No use of being peaceful now.

      In fact that is why i ask people to read books like Panchatantra, Hitopadesha, Vidura neethi which are books of statecraft much like the “Art of war” along with the Veda, Upanishads, Geeta, the puranas, ithihasas, the yoga sutra and the brahma sutras. I already stated this once to you. Don’t despair please try to get a copy of the above suggested books or try to find online. Please dont think i am becoming didactic here, but that is the real need of the hour.

  3. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 3:27 am

    But didn’t Andrew Bostom cover at least some of this already?

    ;-/

    • Robert Spencer says

      Aug 6, 2018 at 7:38 am

      I’m talking about a narrative history, not a jumble of reprinted essays.

  4. Sharyati says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 5:27 am

    I bet if this book is released in India it would be facing a ban request from the so called “Seculars” AKA “Islamic appeasers”

    • Lavéritétriomphera says

      Aug 6, 2018 at 11:11 am

      A so-called Hindu by the name of Janakiraman Rajalakshmi, wrote on Jihadwatch that he did find many laudable qualities in Muslims!

      • Sharyati says

        Aug 7, 2018 at 8:53 am

        Yes individual muslims on a one one basis, yes i agree they could have. But once these so called laudable people enter into the “Ummah Mentality”, then the fun starts is it not??

        • Lavéritétriomphera says

          Aug 7, 2018 at 11:44 am

          But there are many ex-muslims in India as well as all over the World.

  5. infidel says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 12:57 pm

    If any religion has shown great DIGNITY in dealing with relentless nonstop persecution at the hands of another, it is Hinduism.

  6. sidney penny says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 8:18 pm

    Half the book is on jihad in India and the other half is about the court case

    http://indiafacts.org/revisiting-a-classic-the-calcutta-quran-petition-book-review/

    On 29 March 1985, one Chandmal Chopra filed a writ petition in the Calcutta High Court seeking a ban on the Quran under Sections 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code because it “incites violence, disturbs public tranquility, promotes, on the ground of religion, feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities, and insults other religions or religious beliefs of other religious communities of India.”

    The Calcutta High Court disallowed the petition, but the issues raised by it remain relevant, especially now when the need to understand the causes of terror in the name of Islam is greater than ever.

  7. sidney penny says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    “The Mughal emperor who became tolerant and merciful toward the Hindus only when he grew disenchanted with Islam”

    Robert, I do not think there was any Mughal emperor who became tolerant and merciful toward the Hindus. Anyway, I will read your book and then comment.

    Anyway, what is a Mughal’s Emperor’s definition of tolerant and merciful?

    A bit like what is hate speech?

    • Sharyati says

      Aug 7, 2018 at 2:43 am

      “Robert, I do not think there was any Mughal emperor who became tolerant and merciful toward the Hindus. Anyway, I will read your book and then comment.”

      Sidney Penny that Mughal emperors were kind and merciful to their Jizya paying Hindus subjects is what we were taught in our history books. On the other hand native rulers like Krishna devaraya of the Vijaynagar were presented as intolerable war mongers. Even in despicable Bollywood moves like “Jodha Akbar” Akbar the mughal tyrant(Who killed 25000 hindus to become a Ghazi) is shown as madly in love with his Hindu wife.

      • Lavéritétriomphera says

        Aug 7, 2018 at 1:43 pm

        It’is obvious that an enslaved person cannot love his “master”.

  8. Karam C Ramrakha says

    Aug 6, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    Folks

    Sita Ram Goel wrote of Oak being an “idiot”.. Konraed Elast wrote of Hindus ” having an incurable fondness for Mr Oak” Yes Ladeis and Gentlemen .. and as Dickens used to say Righ Reverends and Wrong Reverents of every ” My late Guru .. Purusjhottam Nagesh Oak -jee wrote of Islam .. when he published a series of article in a magazine called ” Mother India”.. ( the editor was a fearless Babu Rao Patel an M P endorsed by the House of Gwalior.. those articles are now found in a book published by Hindi
    Sahitya Sadan ca,,ed ISLAMIC HAVOC IN MEDIVAL INDIA.. ( I have included Mr Ishan Dutt’s email of that firm above) .. well well well the Indira Gandhi Government which like the Cong and Bongs of Today will pander to Moslems for their votes for 2019.. she went viral and both Babu Rao Patel and Purushottan Nagesh Oak were sued for incidint communal feelings a viciously one sided approach as no one is prosecuted for defaming Hindus .. William Dalrymple called me a Hindu Nazi.. and it took me years toe xtract an apology from him.. Islam today is asacred cow.. well Both Patel and Oak photocopied books on history written by Muslim chroniclers ( now collated by Elliott & Dowson in 8 vols ( free on internet).. but also pubolished by Ishandf Dutt ..well well well Patel and Oak submitted the historty of India as told by its own ( moghul) historians as the preface to Elliott & Downs goes.. and both were acqutted.. One wondes why with the plethora of Moghul ( Mongol) and Moslem records glorifyinjg atrocities of 900 years of Moslem overlorship in India current histories fail to re-write and correct those distortions.. the current Molems in India pride themselves of being of the Timurid Dynasty .. two Hindu wives of film actors have naned their baby aimur.. when Timur killed 100,000 in his conquest of Delhi.. but current history books glorify Aurangzeb and other Moslem Monsters.. the old history so brazelnly written by the Moslem historiains is forgotten.. Shahabuddin the outgoing Imam of Jame Masjid ( A CAPTURED hINDU TEMPLE MISSING IN SITA RAM GOEL ACCOUNT OF HINDU TEMPLES AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.. ) said as his son took over .. We have ruled them ( the Hindus) for 900 years .. now we are slaved in their country..
    That fierce iconoclam persists and and Mr Ansare a V P of India said on his retirement that moslems feel threatened in India.. Yet poeple likeDalrample and Catherine Asher ignore Oak.. when I asked Dalrymple if he had read Oak’s book on Taj Mahal he said guardedly he had “seen parts of it ” hiw actual words captued by me on tape… Yet Catherin Asher ruibbished Oak in his Cambridge History on India.. Ebba Koch mentions the book in his bibliography but sadly missed the gems in it..
    I conclude with a quyote from Islamic Havoc Page 4 of its Introduction
    “Writing biased history iding all the misdeeds of alien tyrants and presenting hem as great benefactors would have been branded as hig academic treason in any self respecting community yet the mesmeric hold that the anti -national stance which the so -called Indian National Congress has had over the Indian polity from 19220 onwards ,Islamic treachgery, torture aand tyranny have been paraded as great “secular” contribution to a Vedic life in Bharat. Consequently the pracce of denigrating aHinduism and Sanskit and substitting them with Islam and Islamic terminology asserting insisting that Hindusim and Islam are but two sides of the same coin has acquired such currency that that any harsh word of appraisal is immediately branded as lese majeste
    THAT IS WHY I PARADE MR OAK AS MY GURU.. HIS WORKS SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME READ AND RE-READ THAT IS THE BEST ANTI DOTE TO MOTHER SONIA AND HER IMMEDIATE AND ADOPTED BROOD OF WOLVES BAYING AGAINST MODI AND BJP.. COME ON NARENDRA MODI JEE REIWRITE AND CLEANSE THAT FILTH OF HISTORY.. LIKEWSE YOGI JEE THE TRUTH AND NOTHIKNG BUT THE TRUTH.. LET HE COUNTRY READ AND RE READ THE BOOKS OF OAK JEE WHICH REFUTE EBBA KOCK CATHERINE ASHER AND MICHEAL FISHER .. FALSE ACCOUNTS OF HISTORY MUST BE CORRECT IN EVERY CORNER OF INDIA

    karamcramrakha@gmail.com
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  9. Sharyati says

    Aug 7, 2018 at 1:48 am

    Kumar the below article can clear up your doubt
    https://www.ancient-code.com/scientists-use-ancient-vedic-sanskrit-texts-teach-ethics-artificial-intelligence/

  10. Sharyati says

    Aug 7, 2018 at 2:39 am

    Yes individual muslims on a one one basis, yes i agree they could have. But once these so called laudable people enter into the “Ummah Mentality”, then the fun starts is it not??

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