Had
the Kashmiri Hindus accepted Islam willingly and peacefully, it would have
been a unique example in the history of Islam only to be rivalled by the
history of Buddhism. Contrary to the claims of Bamzai and Bazaz, the dark
reality remains that the spread of Islam in Kashmir was as blood-soaked
and apocalyptic as it was in countries where Islam was introduced by force
and coercion and at pain of death. 'Social and religious humanism, as projected
by Sufi dervishes is a half-truth invented by Bamzai and 'religious humanism'
is a pale repetition of the same half-truth by Bazaz. The sufi dervishes
with rare exceptions could not be designated even remotely as humanists
as they were deeply steeped in hide-bound Muslim orthodoxy and held fast
to viciously sectarian notions and their psyche and each cell of their
existence was highly biased and prejudiced and presided over by the idea
of 'Kufra' for the extirpation of which they were uncompromising and absolutely
ruthless. The first glimpse of their true face and also mind-set was betrayed
through the prism of 'twenty humiliating conditions' as enshrined in the 'Zakhiratul-Muluk' which Bamzai and Bazaz were either not aware of or if
at all were conversant with them, have conveniently brushed them aside
like proverbial ostriches. Having known dark facts and grisly crimes committed
in the name of Islam, they have deliberately concealed them or trimmed
and tailored them to suit the requirements of so-called secular ideology
and Royist thesis.
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