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For starters, the newly minted Uttar Pradesh government installed a Anti Romeo squad to prevent what's called "Love Jihad", roving gangs of young muslim men try

by throw_2017_away 10y ago

For starters, the newly minted Uttar Pradesh government installed a Anti Romeo squad to prevent what's called "Love Jihad", roving gangs of young muslim men trying to get Hindu girls to marry in a sinister plot to increase the Muslim population. As per Indian constitution, you can have 4 legal wives if you are Muslim and divorce anyone with three utterances of the word "talaq". Uttar Pradesh government also has an anti beef squad to prevent killing of holy cows. Recently 4 men transporting cattle in a vehicle were apprehended and assaulted. One of them died because of the heavy beating he received. These "squads" are employed by state in a quasi legal manner. There's also talks of reviving a demand to build a Hindu temple on Babri Masjid, a 14'th century mosque that was demolished in 90s by the current constituents of government causing nation wide riots. The mosque was demolished as vengeance for an alleged demolition of an early Hindu temple on the same area during the time of the first Muslim emperor in India in 14th century.

sremani 10y ago
Babur is not first Muslim ruler, first battle of panipat was 1527 (or near that year), he fought against Delhi Sultanate, which is already Muslim. Babur was king of Fergana Valley, and half-turkic and half-mongol, who lost his kingdom because of logistic blunder and was invited to India by a Prince and thus started his campaign in South Asia. He did destroy a Temple (which already survived about 5 centuries of Islamic rulers) and built the mosque, the mosque was not being used since 1949 or so, and Hindus were praying on the grounds since mid-80s.
- tacomonstrous 10y ago
  He was certainly the first Muslim ruler to be termed an 'emperor' by historians, so I'm not sure what you're arguing.
  - sremani 10y ago
    If you want to say, Babur was first Muslim Emperor of India, bring the argument with references. Tuglak had bigger Empire than Babur, and he was well into Deccan and even moved the capital there. This was 200 years before Babur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Tughluq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Tughluq I am not arguing here, I am correcting mis-representations made in his comment.

sremani 10y ago

Babur is not first Muslim ruler, first battle of panipat was 1527 (or near that year), he fought against Delhi Sultanate, which is already Muslim. Babur was king of Fergana Valley, and half-turkic and half-mongol, who lost his kingdom because of logistic blunder and was invited to India by a Prince and thus started his campaign in South Asia. He did destroy a Temple (which already survived about 5 centuries of Islamic rulers) and built the mosque, the mosque was not being used since 1949 or so, and Hindus were praying on the grounds since mid-80s.

tacomonstrous 10y ago
He was certainly the first Muslim ruler to be termed an 'emperor' by historians, so I'm not sure what you're arguing.
- sremani 10y ago
  If you want to say, Babur was first Muslim Emperor of India, bring the argument with references. Tuglak had bigger Empire than Babur, and he was well into Deccan and even moved the capital there. This was 200 years before Babur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Tughluq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Tughluq I am not arguing here, I am correcting mis-representations made in his comment.