{"id":35399,"date":"2017-02-11T14:48:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T09:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=35399"},"modified":"2017-02-11T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T09:18:22","slug":"are-hindus-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=35399","title":{"rendered":"Are Hindus Cowards ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nBy – Francois Gautier<\/strong>
\n\u201cMuslims are bullies and Hindus cowards\u201d, the Mahatma Gandhi once said. He may be right \u2013 at least about Hindus: there has been in the past 1400 years, since the first invasions started, very few Shivaji\u2019s and Maharana Pratap\u2019s to fight the bloody rule of the Moghuls, or hardly any Rani of Jhansi\u2019s to stand against the humiliating colonial yoke of the British. If a nation\u2019s soul is measured by the courage of its children, then India is definitely doomed: without the Sikhs, whose bravery is unparalleled in the more recent history of India, Hindus would have even lost additional land to the Muslim invaders and there would have been infinitely more massacres of Hindus by Muslims during the first weeks of Partition.
\nAre Hindus more courageous since they have an independent nation? Not at all! Because of Nehru\u2019s absurd and na\u00efve \u201chindi-chini-bhai-bhai\u201d policy, the Indian army was shamefully routed in 1962 by the Chinese, a humiliation which rankles even today. Beijing is still able to hoodwink Indian politicians, by pretending it has good intentions, while quietly keeping on giving nuclear know-how to Pakistan, as well as the missiles to carry their atomic warheads to Indian cities, arm separatists groups in the north-east and continuing to claim Arunachal Pradesh or Sikkim.
\nEverywhere, Hindus are hounded, humiliated, routed, be it in Pakistan and Bangladesh, where Muslims indulge in pogroms against Hindus every time they want to vent their hunger against India (read Taslima Nasreen\u2019s book \u201cLalja\u201d). In Kashmir, the land of yogis, where Hindu sadhus and sages have meditated for 5000 years, Hindus have been chased out of their ancestral home by death, terror and intimidation: there were 25% of Hindus at the beginning of the century in the Kashmir valley\u2026 and hardly a handful today. And look how the US is treating India, refusing to hand over Headley, responsible for the planning of the horrible Mumbai attacks and continuing to prop-up Pakistan, knowing very well that when American troops will leave Afghanistan, Islamabad will make sure that a friendly Taliban regime is reinstalled, with dire consequences for India\u2019s security
\nThere is no point in going to Nawaz Sharif\u2019s granddaughter\u2019s marriage, as long as Islamabad is sending militants to kill and maim into Indian territory. Yet, Hindus continue to think that in the name of democracy & openness, it\u2019s the right thing to do. We keep hearing about Hindu \u2018terrorism\u2019. But since fourteen centuries, Muslims have always struck first against Hindus, And those who live in Indian cities which have important Muslim minorities, will tell you that every time there are Hindu-Muslims, it is the Muslims who start them, either by attacking the police, or by provoking the Hindus.
\nThe truth is that there are two standards in India: one for the Hindus; and one for the Muslims. Did the \u201cfanatic\u201d Hindus who brought down Ayodhya (and brought shame onto secular India, according to the Indian media) kill or even injure anyone in the process? No. But Muslims do not have such qualms. When Gandhi said they were bullies, he was being very nice or very polite. For forget about the millions of Hindus killed during the ten centuries of Muslim invasions, probably the worst Holocaust in world history; forget about the hundreds of thousands of Hindu temples razed to the ground, whose destruction – whatever our \u201csecular\u201d Hindus of today say – was carefully recorded by the Muslims themselves, because they were proud of it (see Aurangzeb\u2019s own chronicles); forget about the millions of Hindus forcibly converted to Islam, and who sadly are now rallying under a banner, a language, a scripture which have nothing to do with their own ethos and culture. Yesterday and also today, when the Muslim world feels it has been slighted, in even a small measure by Hindus, these Infidels, who submitted meekly to Muslim rule for ten centuries, it retaliates a hundred fold \u2013 this is the only way one intimidates cowards. After Ayodhya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia (at least in a passive way by giving shelter for a while to Tiger Memon) with the help of Indian Muslims, planted bombs in the heart of Bombay and killed a thousand innocent human beings, most of them, once more, Hindus.
\nThis is no to say that all Muslims are fanatics; on the contrary, many of India\u2019s Muslims are extremely gentle and their sense of hospitality unsurpassed. The same thing can be said about Pakistan: Pakistani politicians, for instance, are much more accessible than in India and Pakistan has its own identity, which cannot be wished away. No, the problem is not with Muslims, whether they are Indians or Pakistanis, the problem is with Islam, which teaches Indian Muslims from an early age, to look beyond their national identity to a country – the Mecca, in Saudi Arabia – which is not their country, to read a Scripture which is not written in their own language, to espouse a way of thinking, which is inimical to their own roots and indigenous culture. Indian Muslims, have to think of themselves first as Indians and secondly only as Muslims. Muslim soldiers fighting against Pakistan in Kargil, have shown the way.
\nOne would be tempted to say in conclusion : \u201cArise \u00f4 Hindus, stop being cowards, remember that a nation requires Kshatriyas, warriors, to defend Knowledge, to protect one\u2019s women and children, to guard one\u2019s borders from the Enemy\u201d\u2026.
\nAnd do Indians need a Narendra Modi to remind them of that simple truth ?\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By – Francois Gautier \u201cMuslims are bullies and Hindus cowards\u201d, the Mahatma Gandhi once said. He may be right \u2013 at least about Hindus: there has been in the past 1400 years, since the first invasions started, very few Shivaji\u2019s and Maharana Pratap\u2019s to fight the bloody rule of the Moghuls, or hardly any Rani […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1952],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}