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

Hinduism, this social ostracism of the converts was so very persistent with the ban on eating food from persons of another caste, the ban on inter-caste marital relations and the others, that it was at once accepted by the leaders of the Hindu Society without any thought about the consequences. Naturally, this ban on the repurification and adoption of the converts back to Hinduism, also automatically grew into a new fetter and instead of checking the foreign religious aggression, it hampered the progress of Hinduism itself. Ban of Ostracism and self-seeking Converts 403. Well, it would have been quite proper and necessary to ostracize those opportunists among the Hindus, who had taken to Islam for their selfish ends, for power, or for avenging their private grudge against their own fellow men; for they had willingly severed all connections with the Hindu people, and no good could be served by readmitting these sinful people into the Hindu Society. But what, if they should later on, sincerely repent for this sinful act of theirs! This irrevocable ban did immeasurable wrong to those unfortunate tens and hundreds of thousands who, fearing social boycott, would never have dreamt of going over to Islam but who were absolutely unable and helpless to face the atrocities of the Muslim onslaught. For these miserable and forlorn thousands and for their offsprings, at least, there should have been some hope of redemption! 404. Again, the self-seeking opportunists, who willingly went over to Islam were much too limited in number. Precisely for this very reason, it seems extremely tragic that this punitive measure of ostracism fell like a bolt from the blue on the helpless victims of the avalanche-like Muslim religious aggression, doing not the least harm to the real perpetrators of the crime. As it were, it was insult added to injury. They were already wriggling with excruciating agony at the loss of their religion and were even prepared to court death by way of atonement and yet, they were irretrievably condemned to permanent damnation, were never again to be received by their own parents, their husbands and sons and all their relatives, as their own. The very flesh of their flesh and the blood of their blood were now complete strangers to them, at least in this world! A Strange Justice 405. While thus mercilessly penalising these innocent victims, the Hindus could not only do no harm to the malevolent and atrocious Muslim invaders