|
Introduction > Page1
It took nearly two and one half centuries after a three-year- rape of Sind (712-715 A.D.) by Mohammed Qasem for West Asian gangsters to return to their beastly activities along the Indian borders.
The revenge that the two young Indian girls had taken against the monster-marauder, Mohammed Qasem, by having him packed off from India, as and where found, sewn in ox-hide, to his grave in Damascus, was quickly followed by resurgent Hindu forces who won back almost all the territory lost. But the ghastly trail that Mohammed Qasem had left of raped women, murdered men and kidnapped children had led the affected people to a half-caste existence. On the one hand they hated the new Islamic faith which they had been terrorized into accepting while on the other they found their return to Hinduism barred by stupid and insensate shutters of Hindu orthodoxy. The gulf that the Hindus allowed to deepen between themselves and their erstwhile brethren, who had been victims of alien Muslim barbarism, swelled the ranks of the enemy turning the former peace-loving, God-fearing, patriotic Indians into marauders devastating the very land to protect which they had been suckled by their doting mothers.
West Asian gangster raids against India started once again under Alaptagin's aegis. Alaptagin was the governor of Khorasan province under the Samanid rulers - a former Kshatriya race which had been forced to accept Islam. During Alaptagin's eight-year tenure as governor (961-969 A.D.) his Turkish general, Sabuktagin, conducted the raids looting the countryside, burning crops, kidnapping helpless weeping women and abducting shrieking children for sale in the new thriving slave markets in neo-Muslim countries. Hindu Afghanistan had succumbed bit by bit to the inroads of Islam after Turkey, as also Iran, Iraq and Arabia - all Hindu countries -had succumbed to it earlier.
King Jaipal, who ruled over the Punjab and part of Afghanistan, was greatly distressed at this new enemy who instead of fielding a well disciplined army organized huge gangs of freebooters and highwaymen who looted homes, desecrated temples, abducted defenseless citizens and burnt their crops in the border areas.
While fathers are generally supposed to ensure a good and righteouos upbringing for their children, Sabuktagin, the villain that he was, chaperoned his son Mohammed in gangsterism from a very young age.
Author : Shri Purushottam Nagesh Oak
|
