<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"During Ranjit Singhâs time, a section of Kashmiri Muslims requested him to let them convert back to Hinduism because they realized dark realities of Islam. They were summoned near Jhelum for the ceremony for re-conversion. But then 7-8 âraj-purohitâ(Kashmiri Pundits) stood in Jhelum water with just their head out and said if Ranjit Singh lets them convert to Hinduism they would kill themselves and sin of âbrahmin-hatyaâ would fall on Ranjit. So they had their way. By those Punditâs arrogance and foolishness their descendants got kicked out of valley by descendants of same Muslims who wanted to come to Hinduism. They might be just small section of Muslims but I just wanted to make a point. So Hinduism should adapt itself to allow these kinds of movements."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
but ultimately, our purpose is not to blame each other but move forward.... and we shd not let this discussion come in between and have feeling of hatred...
Above all we are Indians...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In response to the above:
http://hamsa.org/StThomas_Chapt_4.htm#elst
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thus, it was said in those circles that when in the 1880s the Maharaja of Kashmir wanted to reconvert the forcibly converted Muslims in his domains, the Brahmins rejected this timely proposal, arguing from their obscurantist shastras that one is only a Hindu by birth. This well-known allegation has been argued to be unhistorical (though of course nobody denies that mindlessly scripturalist Brahmins do exist, in dwindling numbers): it cannot be traced farther back than 1946, sixty years after the facts which it claims to describe. Admittedly, this argumentum e silentio is not strong in itself, but it is strengthened by the fact that Brahmins have reconverted ex-Hindus ever since the forcible conversions by Mohammed bin Qasim in A.D. 712. The ritual effecting conversion into the Arya fold has been available and in use since Vedic times.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hindus who care about Hinduism, ought to take care to first verify all stories (especially slanderous ones) before they repeat it as fact. Just because a story is repeated a 1000 times doesn't make it a fact. Hindus tend to foolishly accept any slander tossed our way, especially when it's from the mouths of people inimical to our way of life. Even the RSS repeats such baseless stories without verifying them, Hindus having internalised a sense of guilt for everything and so immediately believing the worst of their own.
From now on, take such hearsay statements to be false until you have verified it from a reliable source. The only ones who need to have a grave sense of shame and guilt for past misconduct which continues into the present are those of the Christian, Islamic and communist persuasions.
but ultimately, our purpose is not to blame each other but move forward.... and we shd not let this discussion come in between and have feeling of hatred...
Above all we are Indians...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In response to the above:
http://hamsa.org/StThomas_Chapt_4.htm#elst
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thus, it was said in those circles that when in the 1880s the Maharaja of Kashmir wanted to reconvert the forcibly converted Muslims in his domains, the Brahmins rejected this timely proposal, arguing from their obscurantist shastras that one is only a Hindu by birth. This well-known allegation has been argued to be unhistorical (though of course nobody denies that mindlessly scripturalist Brahmins do exist, in dwindling numbers): it cannot be traced farther back than 1946, sixty years after the facts which it claims to describe. Admittedly, this argumentum e silentio is not strong in itself, but it is strengthened by the fact that Brahmins have reconverted ex-Hindus ever since the forcible conversions by Mohammed bin Qasim in A.D. 712. The ritual effecting conversion into the Arya fold has been available and in use since Vedic times.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hindus who care about Hinduism, ought to take care to first verify all stories (especially slanderous ones) before they repeat it as fact. Just because a story is repeated a 1000 times doesn't make it a fact. Hindus tend to foolishly accept any slander tossed our way, especially when it's from the mouths of people inimical to our way of life. Even the RSS repeats such baseless stories without verifying them, Hindus having internalised a sense of guilt for everything and so immediately believing the worst of their own.
From now on, take such hearsay statements to be false until you have verified it from a reliable source. The only ones who need to have a grave sense of shame and guilt for past misconduct which continues into the present are those of the Christian, Islamic and communist persuasions.