The Islamic Invasion of India (3): The Propaganda

Up to now, these cold-blooded criminals responsible for acts against humanity are still celebrated as one of Islam's greatest figures by many Muslims, perhaps because they have successfully brought a huge number of people into Islam, through whatever means.  Timur is even regarded as the national hero of post-Soviet Uzbekistan.  This reminds me of an old adage saying, "History belongs to the winner".  People might argue that these people are cold-blooded by nature and their actions are condemnable even by Muslims.  Perhaps so, but it is also worth noting that the victims of these horrible and brutal genocides died because of one simple reason, that they love Dharma more than their lives.  In no other society have people got killed in such a huge scale (we're talking tens of millions!) just because of their faiths.

I'm honestly sick of the propaganda restlessly spread by many Muslims around me (educated and non-educated alike) that Islam is a (read: "the") religion of peace, a religion that welcomes and embraces differences and protects or even treats non-Muslims as their brothers.  This propagandic speech is usually followed by a baseless claim saying that whenever Islam is embraced by the majority of a country, there will be peace but anywhere Muslims are a minority, they are always treated with discrimination.  Their favourite quote is "Non-Muslims, especially the Jews and the West, are just jealous and afraid of the light of Islam". 

It is indeed a fact that in a number of communities, Muslims are treated as strangers and therefore are subject to some forms of discriminative and abusive treatments, such as what happened in Bosnia or is happening in Palestine.  Perhaps there really are many governments who are "jealous and afraid of" the teaching of Islam, for whatever reason.  But the history also witnesses how Islamic authorities have been oppressing non-Muslim minorities in many parts of the world.  These abuses and oppressions are even legally justified in countries like Afganistan, Iran, Sudan, and even Malaysia, a country that prides itself as being colourful and multicultural.

I sometimes question them back, whether they, who propagate this, have actually lived in an Islamic (not a predominantly Muslim) country?  The ban of burqa or mosque minarets and the controversies behind the building of an Islamic centre near Ground Zero is nothing, NOTHING compared to the crimes, discriminations, and abuses non-Muslims endure under Islamic governments. 

I have promised myself to write about this someday.  Again, not because I want to implant or provoke anger from my non-Muslim brothers and sisters ("An eye for an eye will only make the world blind," says Gandhi) but to help widening the perception of my brothers and sisters who might have been involuntarily brainwashed and doctrinated by false and baseless claims.

Peace peace peace.