भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

bloodthirsty religiosity like that of the Muslims, who attacked religious places of others with deadly weapons of war, slew the innocent men and women, young and old, forced them to embrace Islam at the point of the sword, and ran frantically, causing death and destruction everywhere. But such a statement born of boldness cannot be expected of these immature childish and cowardly writers! If the Muslim writers of ‘Tarikhs’ and the Mullah-Moulvis boast that the Hindu Gods were not the true Gods because they did not prevent the Muslim warlords from breaking idols and demolishing temples, and that theirs was the only true religion, they should be enlightened that the arch heretic Changizkhan and his deputies not only desecrated the very city of the Muslim-Khalipha, but ravaged it, killed the Khalipha, burned several masjids, turned others into stables for their horses, reduced the Bible to ashes and trampled the Koran under their horses’ hoofs! The Muslim Allah could not stop the ravaging hands of Changizkhan! Hundreds of such instances can be cited. Are the Muslims ready to grant, on this account, the imbecility and falsehood of their Allah? Even when Shivaji slew the ‘Butshikan’—idol-breaker—Afzalkhan, and offered his ‘goat like head with thirty-two teeth’, as a sacrificial offering to the Goddess Bhavani of Tulzapur, his hands were not staved off from doing so by the Muslim Allah! 377. After demolishing the temple of Somnath and loading the camels with the immense wealth, looted from it, when Mahmud set out for Ghazni, he learnt that instead of being cowed down into submission because of his wholesale destruction of the temple at Somnath, the Hindu population was even more enraged, and that the King of Malava with his large army was preparing to block his way back to Ghazni and had already entered the battlefield. As Mahmud was not prepared to risk this new battle, he took an unexpected and difficult route through the sandy deserts of Sindh, abandoning the usual way through Malava. While crossing the deserts of Sindh and Baluchistan, his army had to face many dangers and unspeakable misery. Hardly within three or four years of reaching Ghazni, he died in A.D. 1030. 378. This fanatic but brave Sultan of Ghazni undertook at least fifteen major expeditions to India. Hindus too fought furiously on the battlefield every time. But no Hindu king could defeat him. But these invasions of Mahmud and his political conquests did not so much harm the Hindus, as did the forcible conversion of millions of Hindus in North-West Frontier