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

908-909. It is frivolous to say that the Muslims ravaged Vijaynagar only to avenge—only as a reaction to—the religious atrocities committed by the Hindus in return for the similar atrocities of Muslims. It is not tenable against the mass of evidence now available. 910. But these writers, both the foreign and Muslim ones—and also the Hindus with a perverted sense of virtues—do not see—do not remember— when they say so, what cause had the Hindus given to Mahmud of Ghazni, Mohammed Ghori, Taimurlang, Babar and others to invade them. They had never harmed any of them in any way. How many masjids in Ghazni had the Hindus burnt? How many of the Muslim subjects in the lands of Ghor of Ghazni had been oppressed and how many of their womenfolk had been raped by the Hindus? How many millions of the Muslim women had been kept by the Hindus as concubines or maids? What atrocities did the Hindus commit first on the Muslims for avenging which, the above-mentioned Muslim leaders marched towards India? Did they not, each one of them, declare openly in their courts that it was sotely for the sake of completely destroying the Hindus, for wiping out their race from the face of the earth and for converting them forcibly to Islam, that they attacked the Indian continent? 911. While reviewing this destruction of Vijaynagar, it is enough to see if even the Muslim writers have the face to say that before the mighty armies of Allauddin and Maliq Kafur marched against the Deccan, the South Indian Hindus had perpetrated any atrocities on non-Hindus in the north. If they cannot do so, they should explain why did the Muslim armies attack the Hindus in the South and brought wholesale destruction on state-after- state from Devgiri, Warangal to Madurai, much in the same horrible form as was meted out to Vijaynagar? Why did they hurl insults and indignities at the Hindu religion and why did those Muslim demons persecute the innumerable Hindu men and women? Nobody can say by any stretch of imagination, that it was to avenge the religious atrocities of the Hindus over the Muslims of the North. It was due to the fact that extirpating the Hindus was itself considered to be their religious duty—a holy faith as it was! 912. The unhesitating, shameless and open stand of the Muslim writers of the times, and of those before and after, is: “We believe that it is our chief religious duty to annihilate the non-Muslims. To conquer the kafir Hindu states, to rape the royal Hindu ladies, to enslave millions of other kafir