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

irreligious, and so impossible, owing to such a ban. And like Afghanistan, Iran, Babylonia, ancient Egypt, Turkey and Morocco in the far west, India in the east would also have been completely Muslimized! It would have become both politically and religiously an Islamistan! That would have been the last line written about the Hindu History. But India was at least saved that horrible fate then, and once again was written a new chapter of the rejuvenation of Hinduism, illuminated by dazzling valour of the Hindu warriors. 625. The history of India as also of all the parts of the rest of the world, wherever the Muslims had established religio-political ascendancy, amply proves that not only those several nations that were incapable of overthrowing the Muslim religio-political dominance became completely Muslimized, but even those other non-Muslim nations which smashed the Muslim political might but left their religious hold untouched, could not escape the constant horrible pestilence of the Muslim onslaughts. Only five or six or at the most, ten nations that precipitated the Muslim religious downfall soon after their political and military defeat and rid themselves of every single Muslim, could—these and these alone could—free themselves completely from the Muslim pestilence! For want of space, only one instance of Spain should suffice to illustrate this point. Emancipation of Spain from Muslims 626. Simultaneously with their raids on India, the Arabs under the Omayyads had overrun Spain and had established a powerful Muslim state there. Naturally, as elsewhere, the Muslims began the religious persecution and conversion of the Spanish Christians. Countless Christian men and women were violently and mercilessly converted to Islam at the point of the sword or killed outright. Later on, after some centuries, when there were internecine wars amongst the Muslims themselves, the much too oppressed Christians of Spain rose in revolt against the tyrannical Muslim Government under one of their own old royal dynasties, and with the help of a growing Christian nation in France and with encouragement from the Papal seat of Rome. After many years of bitter warfare during the 11th and 13th centuries, the Spanish Christians delivered most of their country from the Muslim rule and finally with the conquest of Granada in A.D. 1492, they wiped out the Muslim power altogether. But as in India so in Spain too, even after the loss of political power, the Muslims had their firm religious hold unimpaired on the converted Spanish Christians and the land