Note how the Muslims are claiming that this Buddhist site is actually the grave of a Sufi saint, and how they covered Buddhist inscriptions with Islamic prayers. This is the same pattern they have used all over the world. It recalls the Islamic claims to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, and the giant medallions covering Christian art in Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
“In Nitish Kumar’s blatant minority appeasement, local Muslims permitted to offer prayers at Buddhist shrine,” Firstpost, December 2, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
New Delhi: A cavern in Kaimur Hills, nearly 3 km south of Sasaram in Bihar’s Rohtas district, where Lord Buddha is believed to have spent a night after attaining enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, has turned into a symbol of the Nitish Kumar-led government’s blatant appeasement of minorities.
Barely a few days earlier, on 29 November, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), tweeted that it had wrested control of a 2300-year-old Buddhist shrine in Sasaram from Muslim encroachers, who used it to offer prayers.
But in reality, Muslims have been allowed to worship at the shrine that they had initially captured in 2005.
Legend has it that Emperor Ashoka inscribed an edict in Brahmi script in one of the walls of this very cavern. Since then, it is known as one of Ashoka’s 13 minor rock edicts. The cavern was discovered during the British rule and was acquired and declared a ‘protected monument’ by the ASI on 1 December, 1917.
But the central archaeological agency did not maintain the cavern nor did it take any measures to protect it. In its neglected state, in 2005, local Muslims of the area ‘captured’ the cavern and installed a gate at its entrance. They then declared that the cavern was the mausoleum of an obscure Sufi saint and began offering prayers there. They also managed to damage some of the rock edicts of Emperor Ashoka and later covered them with a green cloth inscribed with Islamic prayers.
With the passage of time, a large dargah was built next to the cavern and a part of the dargah even encroached on the roof of the cavern. Nearly three years later, in 2008, on being informed about the encroachment, the ASI swung into action and sent a letter to the Rohtas district authorities asking it to remove the encroachments.
The ASI also put up a signboard declaring it to be a protected monument. The signboard detailed the historicity of the cavern and stated that it contained Ashokan rock edicts and was a Buddhist shrine.
Ignoring the cavern’s Buddhist history, the local Muslims promptly removed the signboard and allegedly put out a false story that a Sufi saint had spent months in the cavern and was buried there….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
A lot of the ‘land jihad’ in India involves claiming non-muslim sites as graveyards of various sufi saints. A good way to resolve this would be to do a radar x-ray of the site to see if there are any human remains there, and if there ain’t – as is usually the case – just dismiss that w/ the contempt it deserves. This was done in Gujarat, where a bunch of muslims tried this trick on an island that was once ruled by Lord Krishna, but when they were confronted on it in court, their case was dismissed and all the structures that they made were quickly demolished
Bihar needs a government which will do that sooner rather than later
tim gallagher says
Seems like the usual contempt and complete intolerance that islam always displays towards other religions. Non-Muslims everywhere should treat Muslims the same way that Muslims always do treat non-Muslims – treat them like crap instead of being so nice to them the way our societies are. Better still, shut Muslims out of all non-Muslim countries. Muslims generally bring nothing but the Koranic hatred that islam has towards all non-Muslims.
Alkflaeda says
Am fully expecting to hear that Sir Christopher Wren was a secret Muslim, and that was why he designed St Paul’s cathedral with a dome, so that, in the fullness of time it could be handed over to Islam….We have LGBT history month, when any famous unmarried person is fair game for attribution of same sex orientation, so I’m sure we will soon have Islamic History Month, and find out that people like Churchill and Sir Alexander Fleming were closet Muslims….
Barbara says
Interesting how plagiarism runs a scam
For thousands of years the Greeks have used geometry, calculus, etc. all written in Greek.
When the Muslims invaded Greece, they discovered they were far ahead of the Muslim in math.
They forced the Greeks to translate the math terms into Arabic. However, there are words in Greek that are not in Arabic, so the math formulas in Arabic have Greek words.
Alkflaeda says
They are following in the footsteps of their founder. The Koran plagiarises the Bible, but with lots of nasty threats and misogyny added.
clem.alford@talk21.com says
The Islamist barbarians did the same thing in Afghanistan. Remember they blew up the two large Buddhist statues in a rock face a few years back. Barbaric intolerance.
joanofark06 says
“India: Chief minister of state of Bihar allows Muslims to offer prayers at ancient Buddhist shrine”
And you wonder why, there are so many Indian’s dying from all the MANY muslim’s that have practically taken over that country! And with THIS man’s blessing, he’ll be happy to let all the muslim’s in his area, do whatever they want, including any and all violence that they learn from their satan’s bible, or the koran, in other words.
Alkflaeda says
India today, US and UK tomorrow – unless we limit the trends that are favourable to Islamic expansionism.