ALERT-ALERT-ALERT-ALERT Persecution of Hindus by Mahmud of Ghazni or Killing of Hindus by Mahmud of Ghazni. This is not to hurt any religion but it is the fact that every one should know. PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION TO EACH ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS AND ASK EVERY SINGLE FRIEND OF YOURS TO PASS ON TO THEIR FRIENDS. BY DOING THIS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PASS THIS MESSAGE TO ENTIRE INDIA. This article shows how Hindus have been killed without any mercy and Humanity. Please all Hindus read this and get united to protect your life and save others life and to save Hinduism and India Here is the story mentioned below: *************** Mahmud of Ghazni, Sultan of the Ghaznavid empire, invaded the Indian subcontinent during the early 11th century. His campaigns across the gangetic plains are often cited for their iconoclast plundering and destruction of temples. According to military historian Victoria Schofield, Sabuktagin, the Turkish ruler of Ghazni and father of Mahmud, set as his goal the expulsion of the Hindus from the Kabul valley and Gandhara (Khandar), as the vale of Peshwar was still called. His son and successor, the Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, continued his work, carrying the holy war against the Hindus into India.[8] Till the year 980 CE, this area of Ghandhara was under Hindus until Sabuktagin from Ghazni invaded it and displaced its last Hindu Shahi king Jaya Pala.[9] Shahi was an important kingdom in Northwest India at that time. According to some sources (like Ibn Batuta[10]) the name of the Hindu Kush mountains of the region means Hindu kill[9][11] probably because raiders would capture Hindu slaves from the plains and take them away but they would die of cold in the mountains.[12][13] Mahmud of Ghazni sacked the second Somnath Temple in 1026, and looted it of gems and precious stones and the famous Shiva lingam of the temple was destroyed .[14] Following the defeat of the Rajput Confederacy, after deciding to retaliate for their combined resistance, Mahmud had then set out on regular expeditions against them, leaving the conquered kingdoms in the hands of Hindu vassals annexing only the Punjab region.[15] By 1665, the temple, one of many, was once again ordered destroyed by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.[16] Mahmud utterly ruined the prosperity of the country, and performed there wonderful exploits, by which the Hindus became like atoms of dust scattered in all directions, and like a tale of old in the mouth of the people.[17] Alberuni, a historian who accompanied Mahmud of Ghazni, described the conquests in North Western India by stating that Mahmud impoverished the region and that the civilisation of the scattered Hindus declined and retreated from the North West.[18] This is the reason, too, why Hindu sciences have retired far away from those parts of the country conquered by us, and have fled to places which our hand cannot yet reach, to Kashmir, Benares, and other places.[17] Holt et al. hold an opposing view, that he was no mere robber or bloody thirsty tyrant . Mahmud shed no blood except in the exigencies of war,[15] and was tolerant in dealings with his own Hindu subjects, some of whom rose to high posts in his administration, such as his Hindu General Tilak[15] *************
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