Thursday, August 14, 2008

Abhinav Pandit

I also appreciate your views that kashmir history is not being taught in schools.I also suggest that kashmir history should be taught in the valley schools so that the new generation of kashmiri muslims would come to know about their glorious past (as claimed by you) like the role of Hamdanis,Sultan Sikander ,Pathans ,Mughals etc.I am sure that after reading this history,the new generation will feel ashamed of their past,will rethink and abandon their religion.I also suggest you to go through the Kashmir history.
Sayyid Ali Hamdani’s son Mir Mohd.Hamdani came to Kashmir in 1393 alongwith 300 of his disciples and stayed for 22 long years.Like his father,his first target was Sultan Sikander (1389-1413) and other nobles.
He persuaded the Sultan to Islamize administration,enforce shariah and impose Jazia on the kashmiri pandits.When these coercive measures did not work,the Sultan Sikander alongwith these Hamdanis, let loose a reign of terror on the kashmiri hindus to the point that many of them fled to adjoining states in desperation.Those who could not flee had only been given two choices by the Islamic authorities- DEATH OR CONVERSION.Some poisioned themselves;others got converted by force (whose progeny has at this time spread a mayhem in Kashmir) but a large number was murdered.
Historians have reported that seven maunds of sacred threads of kashmiri hindus were burnt by Sultan Sikander and all their sacred texts were thrown into the Dal Lake.Simultaneously,not only were the major temples such as Martand,Cakradhara,Tripureshwara,Avantipur and Paraspur felled to ground
but all the village temples too were demolished.The rich materials from the temples were transported and used for constructing the Jama Masjid in Srinagar and the embankments of the city.This period of forcible conversions marked by unparalled cruelity and violence is really the rich history as claimed by you.