12-08-2006, 04:51 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-kartiksri+Dec 8 2006, 10:09 AM-->QUOTE(kartiksri @ Dec 8 2006, 10:09 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->and the general public had faith in their religious beliefs.
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This is very true. Islam could not win many converts in India because Indian public was very firm in faith. And who made the public firm in their faith? The Prevailing Hindu social superstructure and countless saints, bhakts, sages and seers who appeared like a rainfall throughout the land of India throughout the middle ages and throughout the spectrum of sects and schools.
Mughals did identify this root cause very well. Some (like Akbar, Dara) attempted to synthesize this with Islam, which of course failed. Others like Shahjahan, Aurangzeb, physically molested these spiritual leaders.
In todays age of strong mass communication through electronic media, communists and missionaries are trying to take that firmness in faith away from people. They know that the major roadblock on their way is this strong faith and cultural national feeling in general public. So they have found the ways, which are targetting Hindu icons and creating controvisies, ridiculing the Hindu practices, trying to stir up the differences between different sects, character-assassination of Spiritual leaders of past and present, demonizing the stronger voices as fundamentalism, showing the christo-islamism in good light etc etc.
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This is very true. Islam could not win many converts in India because Indian public was very firm in faith. And who made the public firm in their faith? The Prevailing Hindu social superstructure and countless saints, bhakts, sages and seers who appeared like a rainfall throughout the land of India throughout the middle ages and throughout the spectrum of sects and schools.
Mughals did identify this root cause very well. Some (like Akbar, Dara) attempted to synthesize this with Islam, which of course failed. Others like Shahjahan, Aurangzeb, physically molested these spiritual leaders.
In todays age of strong mass communication through electronic media, communists and missionaries are trying to take that firmness in faith away from people. They know that the major roadblock on their way is this strong faith and cultural national feeling in general public. So they have found the ways, which are targetting Hindu icons and creating controvisies, ridiculing the Hindu practices, trying to stir up the differences between different sects, character-assassination of Spiritual leaders of past and present, demonizing the stronger voices as fundamentalism, showing the christo-islamism in good light etc etc.