01-25-2004, 04:52 AM
Subject: Jihad in India by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:24:05 -0800 (PST)
Jihad in India
How is it that only the Israelis know that World War III started on September
11, 2001?
By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Published Thursday, 22 January 2004
They're not targeting Jews, Christians, and the West only, in case you didn't
know. Centuries ago, conservative Muslims determined that they would establish
caliphate hegemony over India as well. More than a year ago, Arutz-Sheva's op-ed
editor Nissan Ratzlav-Katz wrote an excellent executive summary of Islamic
attempts to conquer non-Muslim India over the last thirteen hundred years. The
original essay was entitled Indians, Jews and Islam. With his permission, we've
reprinted it here.
Indians, Jews and Islam
By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz, Israel
December 18, 2002
The vast expansion of the Islamic empire from the mid 600's through World War I
was primarily achieved with the persuasive power of the sword. The first victims
of the Mohammedan belief that Islam must subjugate all infidel faith communities
were the Jewish and non-Islamic tribes inhabiting the Arabian peninsula during
Mohammed's lifetime. The story of the conquest and exploitation of these tribes
is both commanded and recorded in the Quran, Islam's central text. As Islam
expanded throughout the Middle East, the local Christians and other non-Moslems
struggled to preserve their communal honor under denigrating Islamic laws, and
were often subjected to murder and collective extortion. In Europe, the Moslems
eventually brought even Spain under the crescent moon and the scimitar. In North
Africa, the native Berber tribes put up a valiant struggle against the Arab
Moslem invaders, under the leadership of a Jewish woman, Queen Kahena. However,
an Islamic commander ultimately succe
ssfully employed a divide-and-conquer approach, and 50,000 Berbers and Jews
were killed when the conquering Arabs offered them the familiar choice of Islam
or death.
However, one nation suffered the most brutal depravities in order to "persuade"
its members to accept Islam - the Indians. This year, November 24, according to
the Sikh Nanakshahi calendar, or December 8 in the Hindu Bikrami calendar,
marks the commemoration of the martyrdom of Sikh guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib. The
traditional story of his encounter with Islam will undoubtedly strike most
Jewish readers as reminiscent of the ancient and modern persecutions suffered by
the Jews under other empires, including the Hellenist Syrians of the
just-completed Chanukah holiday.
In 1669, after having taken the throne of Mughal (Islamic) India by imprisoning
his father and killing his brothers, Alamgir ("world-shaker") Aurangzeb
implemented policies designed to convert all the peoples of India to Islam. He
issued orders to all his governors and officers throughout India to use all
possible means to accomplish his jihad for Allah. Non-Moslems were not given
jobs, additional taxes were imposed on them, torture and murder were used as
tools of persuasion, and even Moslems who stepped in to defend their neighbors
were put to death. Many temples were destroyed and were replaced by mosques -
similar to the policy implemented by the earlier Moslem ruler Babar in Ayodhya,
which has come to the fore with modern Hindu nationalists demanding the
restoration of the temple and the elimination of the currently existing mosque.
Aurangzeb's policy of forced conversion began in the Kashmir region of northwest
India, where Islamist terrorists today continue his tradit
ions and slaughter Hindus and Buddhists at prayer, on the roads and in their
beds.
Eventually, the Hindus of the Kashmir region approached the leader of the more
militant Sikhs, Tegh Bahadur Sahib, and asked for his help. Tegh Bahadur told
the Kashmiri Brahmin delegation to inform Aurangzeb that if he could convert the
Sikh guru Sahib to Islam, then all the Hindus and Sikhs would convert as well.
When the guru was eventually taken into custody and brought before the Moslem
ruler in Delhi, he was offered one of three options: 1) Accept Islam and be
given part of the empire and all the comforts of life; 2) Show a miracle proving
holiness and be released; or, 3) Be prepared to face death. The Sikh leader
replied: 1) "I cherish my faith and I am not prepared to give it up. Forcing
someone to give up one's faith is not only a sin but rather a deadly sin and
such interference is against the principles of a true religion"; 2) "Showing a
miracle is against the will of Waheguru and is act of shame and cowardice. The
real miracle is to be truthful and attain union wi
th Waheguru"; and, 3) "The threat of physical death ossesses no terror for me.
You make your preparations and you shall also see the miracle."
Needless to say, Aurangzeb decided to try more brutal methods to force Tegh
Bahadur Sahib to accept Islam. The Sikh was kept in chains and imprisoned for
three days in an iron cage designed to be shorter than the prisoner's height,
with sharp spikes pointing inwards, so that the victim could neither stand, nor
sit, nor lean against the walls of the cage. The Moslems then moved on to
exploiting Tegh Bahadur's humanity by cruelly putting three of his disciples to
death in front of him. The torturous deaths need not be described here, but, as
a Jew, it is interesting to note the statement made in traditional Sikh sources
regarding this incident: "the three disciples died with the name of God on their
lips...." Many, many Jewish martyrs died the same way - at the hands of pagans,
Moslems, Christians and atheists.
Ultimately, Aurangzeb failed to convert Tegh Bahadur Sahib to Islam, and he
ordered the execution of the stubborn Sikh. On November 11, 1675, Bahadur Sahib
was executed in the Chandni Chowk in Delhi. At the site of the execution stands
Gurdwara Sis Ganj, commemorating the supreme martyrdom offered by a Sikh
believer in the face of 17th century Islamic jihad.
Jews, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists and others today face a reinvigorated jihad
mentality, which, as the original version, has its roots in the Arab world. The
Jews are again a focal point of the Islamic rage, as we have established a state
of our own in the midst of what remains of the Moslem empire; however, we are
far from alone as targets, as New Yorkers, Balinese, Indians and Muscovites all
know first hand. The threat posed by al-Qaeda, Hizbullah, Hamas,
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamaat Islamiyya and their ilk is emphatically not a result of
India's Kashmir policy, US intervention in the Gulf, Jewish settlement in Gaza,
or any other cause to which the Islamists hook their cart. The threat must be
recognized for what it is - an imperialist war of conquest for the sake of
Islam. If we fail to look that threat in the eye, we may one day be forced, like
the Kashmiri Brahmin, to desperately search for men like Tegh Bahadur or the
hero of Chanukah, Judah Maccabee, and there is no guara
ntee that they will be found.
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:24:05 -0800 (PST)
Jihad in India
How is it that only the Israelis know that World War III started on September
11, 2001?
By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Published Thursday, 22 January 2004
They're not targeting Jews, Christians, and the West only, in case you didn't
know. Centuries ago, conservative Muslims determined that they would establish
caliphate hegemony over India as well. More than a year ago, Arutz-Sheva's op-ed
editor Nissan Ratzlav-Katz wrote an excellent executive summary of Islamic
attempts to conquer non-Muslim India over the last thirteen hundred years. The
original essay was entitled Indians, Jews and Islam. With his permission, we've
reprinted it here.
Indians, Jews and Islam
By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz, Israel
December 18, 2002
The vast expansion of the Islamic empire from the mid 600's through World War I
was primarily achieved with the persuasive power of the sword. The first victims
of the Mohammedan belief that Islam must subjugate all infidel faith communities
were the Jewish and non-Islamic tribes inhabiting the Arabian peninsula during
Mohammed's lifetime. The story of the conquest and exploitation of these tribes
is both commanded and recorded in the Quran, Islam's central text. As Islam
expanded throughout the Middle East, the local Christians and other non-Moslems
struggled to preserve their communal honor under denigrating Islamic laws, and
were often subjected to murder and collective extortion. In Europe, the Moslems
eventually brought even Spain under the crescent moon and the scimitar. In North
Africa, the native Berber tribes put up a valiant struggle against the Arab
Moslem invaders, under the leadership of a Jewish woman, Queen Kahena. However,
an Islamic commander ultimately succe
ssfully employed a divide-and-conquer approach, and 50,000 Berbers and Jews
were killed when the conquering Arabs offered them the familiar choice of Islam
or death.
However, one nation suffered the most brutal depravities in order to "persuade"
its members to accept Islam - the Indians. This year, November 24, according to
the Sikh Nanakshahi calendar, or December 8 in the Hindu Bikrami calendar,
marks the commemoration of the martyrdom of Sikh guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib. The
traditional story of his encounter with Islam will undoubtedly strike most
Jewish readers as reminiscent of the ancient and modern persecutions suffered by
the Jews under other empires, including the Hellenist Syrians of the
just-completed Chanukah holiday.
In 1669, after having taken the throne of Mughal (Islamic) India by imprisoning
his father and killing his brothers, Alamgir ("world-shaker") Aurangzeb
implemented policies designed to convert all the peoples of India to Islam. He
issued orders to all his governors and officers throughout India to use all
possible means to accomplish his jihad for Allah. Non-Moslems were not given
jobs, additional taxes were imposed on them, torture and murder were used as
tools of persuasion, and even Moslems who stepped in to defend their neighbors
were put to death. Many temples were destroyed and were replaced by mosques -
similar to the policy implemented by the earlier Moslem ruler Babar in Ayodhya,
which has come to the fore with modern Hindu nationalists demanding the
restoration of the temple and the elimination of the currently existing mosque.
Aurangzeb's policy of forced conversion began in the Kashmir region of northwest
India, where Islamist terrorists today continue his tradit
ions and slaughter Hindus and Buddhists at prayer, on the roads and in their
beds.
Eventually, the Hindus of the Kashmir region approached the leader of the more
militant Sikhs, Tegh Bahadur Sahib, and asked for his help. Tegh Bahadur told
the Kashmiri Brahmin delegation to inform Aurangzeb that if he could convert the
Sikh guru Sahib to Islam, then all the Hindus and Sikhs would convert as well.
When the guru was eventually taken into custody and brought before the Moslem
ruler in Delhi, he was offered one of three options: 1) Accept Islam and be
given part of the empire and all the comforts of life; 2) Show a miracle proving
holiness and be released; or, 3) Be prepared to face death. The Sikh leader
replied: 1) "I cherish my faith and I am not prepared to give it up. Forcing
someone to give up one's faith is not only a sin but rather a deadly sin and
such interference is against the principles of a true religion"; 2) "Showing a
miracle is against the will of Waheguru and is act of shame and cowardice. The
real miracle is to be truthful and attain union wi
th Waheguru"; and, 3) "The threat of physical death ossesses no terror for me.
You make your preparations and you shall also see the miracle."
Needless to say, Aurangzeb decided to try more brutal methods to force Tegh
Bahadur Sahib to accept Islam. The Sikh was kept in chains and imprisoned for
three days in an iron cage designed to be shorter than the prisoner's height,
with sharp spikes pointing inwards, so that the victim could neither stand, nor
sit, nor lean against the walls of the cage. The Moslems then moved on to
exploiting Tegh Bahadur's humanity by cruelly putting three of his disciples to
death in front of him. The torturous deaths need not be described here, but, as
a Jew, it is interesting to note the statement made in traditional Sikh sources
regarding this incident: "the three disciples died with the name of God on their
lips...." Many, many Jewish martyrs died the same way - at the hands of pagans,
Moslems, Christians and atheists.
Ultimately, Aurangzeb failed to convert Tegh Bahadur Sahib to Islam, and he
ordered the execution of the stubborn Sikh. On November 11, 1675, Bahadur Sahib
was executed in the Chandni Chowk in Delhi. At the site of the execution stands
Gurdwara Sis Ganj, commemorating the supreme martyrdom offered by a Sikh
believer in the face of 17th century Islamic jihad.
Jews, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists and others today face a reinvigorated jihad
mentality, which, as the original version, has its roots in the Arab world. The
Jews are again a focal point of the Islamic rage, as we have established a state
of our own in the midst of what remains of the Moslem empire; however, we are
far from alone as targets, as New Yorkers, Balinese, Indians and Muscovites all
know first hand. The threat posed by al-Qaeda, Hizbullah, Hamas,
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamaat Islamiyya and their ilk is emphatically not a result of
India's Kashmir policy, US intervention in the Gulf, Jewish settlement in Gaza,
or any other cause to which the Islamists hook their cart. The threat must be
recognized for what it is - an imperialist war of conquest for the sake of
Islam. If we fail to look that threat in the eye, we may one day be forced, like
the Kashmiri Brahmin, to desperately search for men like Tegh Bahadur or the
hero of Chanukah, Judah Maccabee, and there is no guara
ntee that they will be found.