1/n It’s very compassionate of PETA India to care so much about the milk of animals, especially dogs considering they are called a human’s best friend. But one wonders why is PETA India so silent about what happens to dogs during Islamic festivals.
2/n The folks at @PetaIndia want to force Amul to become vegan and give up dairy in the name of animal cruelty. Since they are self-appointed saviors of animals, could they also campaign to stop indiscriminate slaughter of dogs by lethal injection by Muslims during Ramadan?
3/n Traditionally, dogs have been seen as impure, & the Islamic legal tradition has developed several injunctions that warn Muslims against contact with dogs. Many have used this view to justify the abuse and neglect of dogs
4/n During Ramadaan, there’s a flood of thousands of Muslims taking their dogs to animal hospitals to have them put to death by lethal injection. The reason often touted is , “It is the month of Ramadan, and my religous texts forbids me to keep a dog.”
5/n At other times dogs may also be neglected in Muslim homes during illness until the disease has progressed to an almost terminal state. This is because they are scared about the many Islamic religious injunctions that make it impermissible for them to touch a dog at home.
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The Islamic Hadiths are a collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) which, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunna), constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Koran.
7/n The Hadiths clearly state that keeping a dog inside the house is not allowed in Islam under any circumstances, and angels will not enter a house which has pictures, idols or a dog. Keeping a dog deducts from a Muslim's reward in heaven everyday.
8/n It is these instructions in Hadith that make many Muslims wary of keeping a dog at home, & the fear of incurring religious demerit is heightened during festivals like Ramadan. Even Muslims with service dogs sometimes get afraid enough to euthanize their pets for this reason.
9/n Dogs have historically been considered impure and are said to manifest evil spirits called Jinns by ancient Muslims. Specifically black dogs are considered Shaitaan or devils. It is permissible for Muslims to kill them according to the Hadith.
10/n Doesn’t this cruel inhumane practice of Muslims slaughtering helpless innocent dogs deserve to be highlighted by PETA India? Unless the truth is there is a very specific & selective agenda to only target the particular culture of Hindus for “reform” according to them?
Talk about a nasty bag full of distortions and outright lies. That Shree Rama existed centuries before Buddha was even born is attested directly by authentic Buddhist sources themselves. I will methodically dissect and disprove every deceptive claim by fact checking it against authoritative and authentic sources. Please read all parts of the entire thread to the end including the screenshots which provide crucial evidence. 🧵
Claim # 1:
Ram is a mythological character, whereas Buddha was a real historical figure—there’s simply no comparison.
Fact: False. This claim is disproven by the oldest & most authoritative Buddhist biography of Buddha’s life itself - Aśvaghoṣa’s (2nd c.) Buddhacharita. The Buddhacharita documents that Buddha belonged to the same Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty as Rama; it pays homage to Valmiki as the Adikavi and mentions Janaka too. After he renounces his family, Buddha’s father sends a wise advisor to the forest to try & convince him to return back home. The advisor tries to persuade him to return by mentioning Rama as an example - as someone from older times, who returned after penance in forests to protect his kingdom against evil. In response Buddha himself says he cannot do what Rama did & refuses to return. This clearly proves that Rama was already revered as an ancient historical personality to be emulated in Buddha’s times.
Claim # 2: Buddha was not a descendant of Ram because Ram never existed in reality.
Fact: False. Disproved by the very first chapter on Buddha’s Birth in the authoritative biography Buddhacharita which records that Buddha was a descendant of the Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty - from the same lineage to which Rama belonged millennia before him. An even older account of Buddha’s ancestral family tree is found in the Buddhist text Mahāvastu, a composite multi-life hagiography of the Buddha (2nd c. BCE) which details how the sons of Ikshvaku built Kapilavastu and were the forefathers of the Shakyas - the clan of the Buddha.
Claim #3: In fact, Buddha lived long before the Valmiki Ramayana was compiled.
Fact: False. We already know that Rama lived many millennia before Buddha from irrefutable evidence in the Ramayana itself & many other Hindu texts.Authoritative Buddhist texts like Mahavamsa also clearly record the Shakya clan as part of Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty with the line of succession from Rishi Sagara to Dasharatha & Rama who lived many generations before Suddhodana (Buddha’s father). Moreover Princeton historian, Robert Goldman's comprehensive comparative analysis of the Ramayana proves that the descriptions of history & geography of Kosala in the Ramayana clearly reflect an era BEFORE the Buddha thus dating it prior to 5th c. BCE (time of Buddha) even by Western standards. His work is considered the most comprehensive & authoritative Western analysis of Ramayana’s historicity. As mentioned before the Buddhacharita also testifies to Valmiki already being revered as the ancient Adi Kavi during Buddha's era.
Kamal Khan explaining Mughal history is like a chihuahua barking - ear-splittingly irritating, wildly off-key, but you can’t help but watch the spectacle.
Of course the Mughals didn't "harm any community", they just built Minars out of Kafir skulls to show how much they cared for all communities and considered all Indians equal.
These "loving community building" exercises started with Timur's first entry into Hindustan, when he attacked the Hindu kingdom of Kator extending from Kashmir to Kabul. In his autobiography “Tuzak-I-Timuri” Timur describes building tall towers of skulls of “obstinate unbelievers” after raping & enslaving women & kids & plundering towns to dust (May, 1398 CE). The Zafarnama of Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi (Iran, 1425 CE) has a painting which shows how Timur took tribute from soldiers, while an Islamic Minar built out of dead Kafir’s heads looms behind him.
His Mughal descendants like Babur, Akbar, Shah Jahan kept up this grand tradition and built their own towers of Kafir skulls to show their caring loving hearts.
Read the full thread to know more.🧵
The next Mughal, Babur, practically salivated with delight at the prospect of killing Hindus & scattering them like “teased wool & broken bubbles on wine”. He built several Minars out of Hindu heads, during battles in the Doab, near Agra & Chanderi to name a few. So overjoyed was Babur with his bloody crimes that he waxed eloquent poetry about killing Kafirs in praise of God. After creating Minars out of their heads, he proudly declared himself a “Ghazi” as his official imperial title - a term which means “Victorious over the enemies of Islam”
You mention Birbal from the court of the Great “secular” Akbar, who occupied Delhi & Agra in true Mughal tradition by building towers of Hindu heads. He did the same in his conquest of Ahmedabad. He rewarded his commander Khan-i-Khanan (Bairam Khan), for building “8 sky high Minarets of Hindu heads” in Bengal. A painting in the illustrated Akbarnama shows Akbar at the 2nd battle of Panipat, in 1556 CE, where Bairam Khan & Akbar colluded to treacherously behead Hemu. It depicts “Ghazi” Akbar & his army stacking up heads of Hemu's soldiers into a tower/Minar of victory over Islam’s enemies.
Niccolao Manucci an Italian doctor who worked in Shah Jahan's Mughal court described his "lovin'" ways in his memoirs. He revealed that lover boy Shah Jahan shared his bed with 1000s of women besides Mumtaz, many of whom were his own courtier's wives!
Read to the end 🧵
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Shah Jahan's courtiers Ja'far Khan & Khalil Khan's wives were his favorites. Ja'far Khan's wife was called Shah Jahan's "breakfast" & Khalil Khan's wife his "lunch". Ja'far's wife was Shah Jahan's sister-in-law & Khali's wife was his niece through marriage to Mumtaz. Ja'far's wife had to beg for her husband's life
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Asaf Khan was Mumtaz Mahal's father. Ja'far Khan was Mumtaz's aunt's son & his wife was her sister-in-law, while Khalil Khan was married to Asaf Khan's granddaughter who was Mumtaz's niece. One can imagine how much love Shah Jahan had for Mumtaz that he molested her own family.
As requested by some of you, I have compiled all the 9 + 1 digital images of Devi Ma which I created for Navaratri along with their descriptions for easy reference. You may use the images as you wish, provided you retain my watermark, treat Devi's image with respect and don't distort the images. Enjoy. 🙏
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वन्दे वाञ्छितलाभाय चन्द्रार्ध कृतशेखराम् ।
वृषारूढाम् शूलधराम् शैलपुत्रीम् यशस्विनीम् ॥
Day 1 of Sharadiya Navaratri is ruled by Devi Shailaputri, daughter of the Mountain lord, the pure, serene one who blesses devotees with self-restraint, patience, victory over difficulties & peace of mind.
वन्दे वाञ्छितलाभाय चन्द्रार्धकृतशेखराम्।
जपमाला कमण्डलु धरा ब्रह्मचारिणी शुभाम्॥
Day 2 of Sharadiya Navaratri is ruled by Devi Brahmacharini, the epitome of penance, who blesses devotees with purity, freedom from all disturbances and the radiance of wisdom attained by Tapas.
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Hidden deep inside the recesses of the Chhota Sona mosque located in Chapai Nawabganj district of Bangladesh, lie four walled up ancient Murtis of our Hindu divinities Varaha, Bhawani, Brahmani and Shivani. No one knows how ancient they are - likely more than a thousand years old. They are silent witnesses to the desecration of a grand ancient Hindu temple razed over and brutally reused to “build” the mosque. The location is in what used to be the Bengali kingdom of Gaur invaded by Bakhtiyar Khalji in the 13th ce. The advent of Islam after Khalji marked the beginning of a cultural holocaust of Bihar & Bengal where innumerable temples were razed, their broken portions brutally usurped to create incongruous “mosques” as markers of conquering Islamic fanaticism.
In 1786, a British amateur explorer Henry Creighton visited the ruins of Gaur & made drawings to document them. In 1817, his description & drawings were published in a short book “The ruins of Gour described and represented in eighteen views”. He described the Chhoti Sona mosque as one of the most beautiful monuments in the area & ascribed its construction in the 15th c. to Wali Muhammad under the reign of Allauddin Husain Shah. It is within the walls of the interior mosque that Creighton discovered these grand Murtis carved on large blocks of stone. Islamic decorations were deliberately carved on the reverse side of the Murti stones. The stones were purposely placed with the Murti facing inwards, blocked forever into the walls, never to be seen again.
Creighton’s drawings show a grand Varaha carving which closely resembles an awe inspiring Varaha Murti from Pala dynasty in 9th century CE., excavated from Nadiya, West Bengal - now on display at National Museum New Delhi. The stylistic rendering of the Varaha sculpture indicates that the temple destroyed to build the Chhota Sona mosque was likely from the same era of 9th c. CE.
Two other drawings of hidden Murtis embedded within the walls of the chhota sona mosque are labelled as that of the Devi consorts of the gods, Brahmani & Bhawani. Creighton's drawing of Brahmani also closely resembles another 9th c. Pala era sculpture of Brahmani. He also describes the image as Shiva in the form of Bhawani. It is an unusual & interesting depiction showing the deity riding atop a lion which is crushing a demon that is supported by an elephant. Creighton observed that the Murtis still had traces of being gilded with gold just like the roof of the structure, which is what gave the mosque the name of chhota sona mosque. The gilded golden roof must have made the temple an extremely attractive target for destruction to the Islamic attackers.
The last image which Creighton documents is labelled Shivani by him, although it does not look like a typical depiction of Shivani. It appears more likely to be some form of Brahma as the iconography depicts the Vedas & a Mala, while the deity with a fairly rotund belly is seated on a lotus.
Today the chhoto sona mosque is a major tourist attraction in Bangladesh & photographs on the internet still reveal remnants of its Hindu past through stray glimpses of Hindu motifs like kalash, & niches where Hindu murtis were chiseled out. Of course this means we will never be able to unearth, photograph, or see those grand ancient Murtis or remnants of the desecrated temple that it was built upon ever again. We will never even know how ancient it was or the full story of that sacred space.
As promised here is my graphic novel for inspiring Hindu readers of all ages. I dedicate my first creation to the fearless unnamed Hindu hero who avenged Somnath & taught Mahmud Ghazni a lesson he would never forget. This story is based on actual historical events. References from Islamic texts are provided at end of thread. Please read entire thread for whole story. Future comics will be available for purchase at a website to be announced soon.
All images & text for this graphic novel were created by me @mumukshusavitri & should not be reproduced without permission.