We need to understand what the purpose of whataboutery is. When you see a counter-argument to any argument, that starts with "what about", it serves only one purpose - to accuse the arguer of hypocrisy.
In TV debates, press conferences or SM arguments, the only type of argument that you will see is that the person(s) raising a point has practiced the same behavior early and shows hypocrisy. That frees up the necessity of countering the actual argument.
Imagine you are diabetic and are not controlling your sugar intake. I advise you to stop taking sugar. Now, I myself may be also diabetic and can't control my sugar. My advices make me a hypocrite but doesn't diminish the importance of the actual advice.
We all need to understand that factual counter-arguments of a hypocrite reduce the credibility of the person, but doesn't negate the actual argument.
Arguments and arguers are two very different things. We need to be able to separate those in a mature democracy.
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Two of the earliest mosques in India were erected during Qutbuddin Aibak's reign by destroying Hindu and Jain temples. The most famous is the Quwwat-ul-Islam in the Qutb Complex in Delhi. The other one is the Adhai din ka Jhonpra in Ajmer.
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Qutbuddin Aibak as general of Muhammad Ghori destroyed the Hindu temples and commissioned this mosque in 1192 during his attacks on Ajmer, originally known as Ajaymeru.
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Despite the destructions, Colonel James Tod said that it 'is one of the most perfect as well as the most ancient monuments of Hindu architecture'
Source - Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan Vol I
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Facts on the Madurai impalement which the frescoes of Meenakshi temple show. The legend is that Shaiva saint Sambandar impaled 8000 Jains in 7th century . The Pandya king was a Jain and his wife was a Shaivite. The queen and the minister invite Sambandar to Madurai 1/8
The queen wanted Sambandar to drive the Jain monks from the Madurai hills. The monks burn Sambandar's hut, but he transfers the fire as fever to the king. Jains' mantras fail to cure the king, but the saint applies sacred ash to the king and cures him. 2/8
A series of contests happen. In contest by fire, Sambandar's hymn to Shiva was unburnt but Jain doctrines got burned. In contest by water, Jain manuscript is carried by water, but Shaiva hymn is brought to shore. Then Sambandar cures the hunch of the king to a handsome man
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