| Arise Arjuna Hinduism And The
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| Books By David Frawley |
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| MISREPRESENTATIONS OF HINDUISM IN
THE PRESS |
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Hindus (and
Sikhs we might add) fought dozens of battles over the centuries to reclaim the site and
succeeded several times in holding it under their power. The site was not in any Muslim
holy place like Mecca or Media but in one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindus.
Calling the site a mosque is thus inaccurate. It should have been called a "disputed
structure," which is how newspapers in India generally designate it.
Yet the press did not say that "Hindus destroy a disputed structure in their sacred
city of Ayodhya, which Moslems had not used as a mosque for fifty years," because
this would not have been much of a story. The result was that the press not only
misrepresented what the Hindus had done but inflamed Islamic sentiments, which added fuel
to the riots that followed, which were mainly initiated by the Muslim community of India
on the belief that one of their sacred sites had been wrongly desecrated by the idolatrous
Hindus. |
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