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

there are tribal wars, but not the females who are eventually distributed by the victor tribes among themselves. To obtain from them future progeny to increase their numbers, is considered by these tribes to be their sacred duty! It is said of at least one of the Naga tribes that when they attack an enemy, they shoot simple unpoisoned arrows at the males, but if any women are seen fighting on the enemy side, highly envenomed arrows are used to kill them instantly. For they argue, to kill one woman who cannot be captured alive is as good as to kill five men. 441. This very natural law was adopted and obeyed openly by the aggressive but numerically poor African Muslim armies and their chiefs while attacking the major populations of North Africa. On conquering those kafirs, the ransom that was collected was calculated in terms of money and women in equal share, and these women, collected as ransom, were distributed by fives or tens amongst the most faithful followers of Islam. The future progeny of these conquered women was born Muslim and so amongst the Muslim environments became literally fanatical. The Muslim chiefs who thus multiplied their numbers rapidly were honoured as ‘Ghazis’ by the religious authorities. The law of the Muslim religious warfare granted the victorious Muslim army every right to own the kafir women as completely as their other movable or immovable property. 442-443. After Ravan abducted Seeta and Shree Ramchandra marched on him, some of his well-wishers advised the demon king, just before the war, that because of his unjust act, the demon kingdom was threatened with a terrible war and that he should send Seeta back to her husband, because it was highly irreligious to kidnap her. “What?” cried the wrathful Ravan. “To abduct and rape the women folk of the enemy, do you call it irreligious? Pooh; Pooh!” — राक्षसानाम् परोधर्मः परदाराविघर्षणम् (To carry away the women of others and to ravish them is itself the supreme religious duty of the Rakshasas.) ‘Parodharmah’, the greatest duty! 444. With this same shameless religious fanaticism, the aggressive Muslims of those times considered it their highly religious duty to carry away forcibly the women of the enemy side, as if they were commonplace property, to ravish them, to pollute them and to distribute them to all and sundry, from the Sultan to the common soldier and to absorb them completely in their fold. This was considered a noble act, which increased their number.