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Why Sikhs ,Hindus and Buddhists must never forget the holocaust that happened to them from year 1000 to year 18000 In India. Many people only know or have knowledge of the Mughal empire that existed between 1526 and 1756. A brutal span of Muslim rule in India that lasted over 300 years, what many don’t know is that before the Mughals ever landed on Indian soil. There many other Islamic invaders who plundered and massacred India and destroyed the Hindu/Buddhist temples and built mosques over them. Yes well before the Mughals. Ghanzvni, delhi sultanate and many others starting in the year 1000. There were 100s of invasions and massacres carried out by armies from Afghanistan and the middle east. The difference is these were different to the Mughals. They mostly came to loot and rob the precious stones and wealth of the country after they had destroyed these beautiful ancient Hindu temples they would go back to the middles east from where they came from. Not before killing 100 and thousands of Hindus and Buddhists. They did not have any plans to stay and create an empire. It was a kind of rob, kill and run. Nevertheless they were just as devastating as the Mughals if not more and carried the same fanatical ideology with them. During these attacks from starting from Mahmud ghazni in 1000. They would massacre 100.000 Hindus a year as that was their aim. Every time they came they made a point of destroying all the beautiful ancient Hindu temples. Hence the reason why you see a lack of ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples in India apart from certain areas in the south of India where they did not venture. Now any person who visits to India must always be astonished that when they are in India the birth birth place of the great Indus valley civilisation. The country particularly the north is dominated by Muslim monuments and structures. Yet this is majorly Hindu Country with a civilisation going back 5000 years. In that long period of time, we only have a handful of ancient Hindu temples and structures. Did the great ancient Hindu civilisation of the Indus valley not build any beautiful temples or monuments in all this time, I hear you ask. Where the Mughals only capable of building beautiful buildings? The answer is that there were far more beautiful temples and structures built by the Hindus and Buddhist kingdoms dotted all over north India that were much older and beautiful then the taj mahal ect. But only a few remain. It is the fact that over 2000 Ancient Hindu temples and Buddhist monasteries were destroyed by the Islamic invasions dating from when they started in 1000 to 18000 and the stone from them was used to build mosques directly above them. Some of them include Somnath temple in Gujurat a beautiful ancient temple that was plundered by ghazni. 50.000 Hindus alone died trying to protect it. That’s is 800 years of brutality that resulted in the Hindu ,Sikh and Buddhist Holocaust. All Indian cultural books, temples and everything what made the Indus valley civilisation great was wiped of the face of India hence why India lacks its original culture of the indus valley. Much of the culture of India has permanently been destroyed. The Islamist hated anything that was non muslim so tried to destroy it. Most of its ancient culture, artifacts, knowledge, and temples was replaced by Islamic buildings and culture. The question now is have we forgotten all this? The schools teach us about the Jewish holocaust and the holocaust of Europe carried out by the Germans during the world wars and rightly so. But the biggest holocaust of all time that occurred in south Asia hardly gets a mention. The entire country was devastated after wave and waves of attacks from the middles east. Millions of people were butchered, and millions were forced to convert to Islam. This also begs the question that why was India not able to defend its people and temples from Islamic invaders? The answer lies in the better and more organised armies of the middles east. While the Islamic invaders had gunpowder and all kinds of advanced military. India did not have anything hence could not fight back. Another reason is. India was an easy target. Countries such as Afghanistan and other middle eastern countries are only about 1000 miles away. Now the question is having we learnt anything from the past invasions and atrocities. How can we prevent this from ever happening again.