The First Fundamental:
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The Concept of India a Hindustan continues...

These five points were: giving up the Persian language and adopting Gujarati; wearing Indian clothes instead of Persian; treating the cow as sacred; reciting some select Sanskrit slokas in their marriage ceremony; and laying down weapons. Despite being the smallest minority, (with a disproportionate share in offices of power and national wealth), and perhaps also the wealthiest community, there is and has been no tension or conflict between Hindus and Parsis.

Parsis and Jews do not threaten the Hindu character of the nation. They do not seek to proselytize or convert Hindus by monetary or heavenly inducements or by obscurantist preachings such as claiming to cure persons who convert simply by the might of the Bible. In contrast the preachings of the religious leaders of Islam and Christianity in India, altogether for a thousand years, had targeted Hindus and sought religious conversions to their faiths by creating deprivation and loss of self esteem, through the abuse of the power of the State against Hindus. They were not even subtle about it. For example, in 1545, King John III of Portugal gave a command to the then Governor of Goa that neither public nor
private ‘idols’ of Hindu heathens should be tolerated in Goa and that severe punishment must be meted out to those who persist in keeping them. Thereafter, a terrible inquisition followed during which Hindus were killed and brutalized, and their temples razed to the ground. We must not forget that despite this, only a minority of Hindus converted to Christianity. No other religious community other than Hindus suffered such prolonged and atrocious persecution and survived as a religion of a vast majority on their own soil. Let us not forget this defiance in our past.

Today, Hindus, despite being in defacto power and in the organs of the state, are victims of that same targeting, but of course in a very subtle and sophisticated manner.

to be continued.....

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