In the wake of the Islamic terrorist (is there any other kind?) attacks on Mumbai (Bombay), an excellent new English-language blog has been created by dharmaveer. He "gets it." Here is a sample of his first post, from December 29, 2008. Check out the whole entry and the blog at the link below.We live in troubled times. Globally, a violent ideology of Jihad, fully rooted in Islamic theology and carried out throughout Islam's history, is affecting non-muslims.Some nations have recognized where this ideology comes from, and they call a spade a spade. Other countries, such as India, refuse to recognize this threat, mostly for reasons of political gains by certain political parties. They deliberately obfuscate the plain facts by making ridiculous statements like "terrorists have no religion" etc. Unfortunately, they do. That religion is Islam, and in particular a radical, orthodox version of it.
[O]rthodox Islam as an ideology is not peace loving and does not permit peaceful co-existence with other religions. Orthodox Islam seeks to extinguish all other religious beliefs and replace them with Islam. And as long as even a small minority of muslims take their religion's core ideology seriously, there will be jihad upon non-muslims.
The purpose of this blog is to do some straight talking. The people who attack us have been taught to hate us for no reason other than that we are Hindus.
[In Orthodox Islam, Hindus] are hated idolators and polytheists about whom the Kuran and Hadith are very clear: their men must be murdered, their women and children enslaved, and their temples destroyed. This is not just my opinion, but that of all the four schools of sunni Islam - the Shafi, Hanafi, Hanbali, and Maliki. Three of these four schools say that the choice to be put before Hindus is simply "convert to Islam or die." Only one - Hanafi - allows Hindus the right to live, but as third class citizens.
These are plain facts. Obfuscating them, or wishing them away, won't solve the problem. We Hindus must be aware of these facts. Truth must always be told, not hidden.We stress that we have nothing against muslims. We only wish to understand the current Jihad upon Hindus in particular, and all non-muslims in general, in light of (a) the theology of Islam and (b) the history of Islam in the Indian subcontinent, which closely follows the theology of Islam.
[T]his ideology is very much alive. We ignore it at our own peril.
http://dharmaveer.blogspot.com/
Thoughts of a Nationalist Hindu
December 29, 2008