The oldest Sufi shrine in Delhi has been demolished.
"The earliest Sufi Shrine in Delhi - belonging to a relative of Prithviraj Chauhan and dating from BEFORE the Turkish conquest - has been Demolished by the Delhi Development Authority in an "anti encroachment" drive.
In the late 12th century, a group of Afghan pastoralists, suddenly burst onto the world stage. In a matter of years, they toppled their rulers of Ghazni and seized major Persian cities like Herat, and then established the major Indian sultanate in Delhi.
We often think of this "Islamic invasion" as the start of the Muslim presence in India. Yet recent scholarship has shown that by the time of Ghori's conquest of Delhi, Muslims were already a central part of Indian society
Some of the earliest mosques are found in Kerala, dating from a few decades after the prophet Muhammad's death. Tamil Pallava, Chola and Pandya kings all built sizeable mosques
Delhi also had a single sufi shrine before the Afghan conquest - this one.
Until 31 January, when it was demolished, the shrine of Baba Haji Rozbih had been located by the Fateh Burj, or Victory Gate of Lal Kot. The grave next to it under a reddish Chador belongs to his female disciple Bibi. Bibi was said to be a close relative of Prithviraj Chauhan who embraced Islam under the aegis of Haji Rozbih.
This demolition is an UTTERLY MINDLESS LOSS and complete cultural desecration.
What's more the "anti encroachment" drive is apparently scheduled to include the Aashiq Allah Dargah dated to 1317AD which is where the great Punjabi Saint Baba Farid used to meditate, and his small 'chillagah' is still visible here.
Please do share and write about this so we can save what remains! "
- from the historian Sam Dalrymple .
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This is the third Islamic structure to be demolished in Delhi this month. Isn't it funny how only certain structures are the victim of anti- encroachment drives? This is part of a planned programme by the current right-wing government of India that is violently islamophobic and wants to create a hindu ethnostate modeled after Israel.
the fact that Monkey Man is delayed in India because it’s pretty anti-bjp and the general elections are coming and they don’t want to “sway votes” LMAOOOO THESE LOSERS and on top of that Dev Patel said TRANS RIGHTS LETS GOOOOOOOOO
Its absolutely terrifying how India is possibly in the beginning stages of a full blown genocide of muslims and dalits and other non Hindus and no one is talking about it. All the major news channels are controlled by the media, the prime minister hasn't given a single press conference in the nine years that he's ruled, one of the major opposition MPs was recently outsed from parliament in a bullshit move and BJP party members and supporters are openly lynching people and raising genocidal slogans publicly. And no one is talking about it
not to get all 'anti-theist' on my blog, but the way some fuckers on this site really act as if there's some perfect religion and all other ones are the absolute worst is absolutely delusional and downright stupid.
There is no fucking perfect religion.
Every religion has atrocities attached to its followers and texts. Racism, sexism, homophobia, casteism, classism, antisemitism, islamophobia and every other bigotry that you can think of will apply to at least one religion. No religion is clean. Stop fucking pretend as if there's some cheat code in a religion that makes it better than everything else.
(fair warning, if i see anyone use this post to be hateful towards any religion, especially islam and judaism because i know that you fuckers will try, i will report you. this post is not to diss any religion, but merely to criticize people who believe that one religion is the best and every other religion is horrible. if you see anyone use this post to harm anyone, report them)
They're so desperate they put their ad on a mostly leftist, liberalist, boycotting woke and gay website. Modiji ka maansik santulan thik nhi hai (modiji's mental stability is not good)
no but Hindutva is so fucking stupid, because it’s a bunch of old men going around imposing a religion whose main thing is that it’s not a religion; it’s a way of life. a way of life where the gods don’t give a shit if you aren’t a believer and non-believers aren’t going to burn for their sins. a religion that preaches tolerance, the importance of doing good deeds even through you are trapped in a cycle of life, death and suffering. seriously, to break from the cycle, you just have to lead a good life doing good deeds and to help others. nowhere in hindu scriptures does it say that you will not attain moksha if you aren't a hindu; just do the good deeds, and you will become one with God. hinduism is like ‘let live and do good’ it says nowhere that you are a bad person if you aren’t a Hindu in doctrine; that’s what abrahamic religions do. I’m not even sure BJP understand what Hinduism is. fucking idiots.
People really need to chill the fuck out when it comes to religion because what the fuck. Religion is a nice belief that keeps you going, and faith is wonderful and all, but it should be kept away from politics PLEASE. I genuinely cannot look at one more political party anywhere in the world who uses religion as an actual reason to justify their bullshit, let alone make it their entire political propaganda. It's just a way to control people and everyone is fucking falling for it. The height of stupidity and brainwashing lies with every religious conservative
How about you don’t use solidarity or the idea thereof as a pretense to sneak bigoted views about other people and groups into the minds of others.
You know?
Let’s not use it to try indoctrinating them into believing your personal prejudices!
I’ve seen this done a thousand times in many different circumstances and it never fails to sicken me.
I saw a post on here a month or two ago about solidarity between Jews and Hindus which looked harmless at first.
But when I got to reading it, it proved to be nothing more than a delusional tract FULL of Islamophobic bigotry and Hindutva revisionist BULLSHIT!
Full of BJP-type myths and lies and it was horrible to behold!
Right down to fearmongering about demographics and all the usual Hindutva fascist bullshit.
I’m not Indian or Jewish myself but I know what that kind of stuff looks like. This particular instance was hiding under a veil of coexistence and solidarity.
And it sickened me!
Simply USING the idea of solidarity to spread some of the most vile, conspiratorial bullshit I ever did read in years.
Despite initially appearing harmless and sincere.
Rambling on about how Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to live in India and should all be expelled, bitching about leftists, something about Pakistan and Palestine having no right to exist, vague mentions of George Soros and some sort of plot, and so on. I’m surprised they didn’t invoke QAnon as well!
I noticed this crap right away and it troubled me deeply how many more people couldn’t even see it!
I saw right through that shit immediately!
I’ve seen this happen a thousand times before with other topics and it never fails to sicken me!
So kindly stop it!
Starting yesterday!
Anyone who willingly falls for that, be they a Jew or a Hindu or any other such group, is no better than the crank leftists sucking up to Hamas.
*it’s especially troubling since the Hindutva crowd is known for being friendly with actual Neo-Nazis*
i watched sooryavanshi with my mother (we both agreed that it was government propaganda), and i'm convinced that bollywood has a map of india and andhra pradesh, telangana and tamil nadu and all marked as one large landmass called chennai. the other part of south india is marked as just kerela. no cities, just kerela.