1/n Sikandar Butshikan (Sikandar the Iconoclast), was the 2nd Sultan of the Shah Miri dynasty 1389–1413. Sikandar won the sobriquet of but-shikan(बुतशिकन) idol-breaker, due to his actions related to the desecration & destruction of temples, shrines of the Hindus.
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2/n From ages,the Brahmins Hindu in kashmir were very badly persecuted by the Islamic rulers. Sikandar Butshikan ranks number 1 in cruelity against Kashmiri Pandit. He treated them as prisoners. The Hindus experienced much pain in the form of punishments and deaths too.
3/n Cruelity against Kashmiri Pandit: He is remembered by Hindus for perpetrating violence and torture upon the native of Kashmir; Kashmiri Pandit in a bid to make them convert to Islam.
4/n It was under the influence of the Sufi extremist Saint, Mir Mohammad Hamadani, that he committed atrocities against Kashmiri Pandit in his lands. Large numbers of Hindus fled away, or were brutally tortured and killed for refusal to convert during his reign.
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5/n He prohibited dance, drama, music bcoz he considered them as activities of Hindus. He ordered Hindus not to apply Tilak on foreheads. Blowing a conch shell was illegal. Tolling a bell was also a crime.
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6/n So unspeakable was Sikandar's tyranny that he even stopd Hindus from cremating their dead & compelled them to bury the bodies using Muslim rituals. He imposed the Jizya, & the levy was a heavy one: each Kashmiri Pandit was required to pay an annual tax of 4 tolas of silver.
7/n KP were held out 2 options, either to get converted to Islam or face death.; Many Brahmans rather than abandon their religion poisoned themselves. 7 mounds of the Janeu of murdered Kashmiri Hindus were burnt by But-Shikan.
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8/n More than a lakh of Kashmiri Brahmin's were brutally murdered and burnt at one spot near Rainawari. The spot is now known as Batta Mazaar (Kashmiri Hindu cemetery).
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9/n Predator Sikandar followed the orders of Mir Mohammad to establish Islam in Kashmir and eliminate Hinduism. A city called Sikandarapora which was laid out by Sikandar was built on debris of destroyed temples of Hindus. He destroyed the temple of Maha-Shri built by Pravarsena.
10/n In 2nd Rajtarangini, the Jonraj recorded, "There was no city, no town, no village, no wood, where the temples of the gods were unbroken. Whn Sureshavari, varaha were broken, the world trembled, but not so the mind of the wicked king. He delight day-night in breaking images."
11/n To destruct a temple called Marthand sun temple, it almost took a year for Sikandar to destroy completely that giant structure. He destroyed a massive temple at Beejbehara.
12/12 He declared Islamic law in Kashmir. He ordered the destruction of a temple dedicated to Maha Deo, located in Punjhuzara district. He was recorded to be the Predator Cannibal Hyper Orthodox Islamic Demon. It will take a day for details about this predator.
