Which Afghanistan is better.............?

Yes, yes, and yes. Finally someone speaks about the Grandeur that was Afghanistan when it was India. Finally someone is mentioning the Ashwakan. Panini, Yogi Guru Gorakh Nath.

I am silent because I am shy here. This is my area of interest and work. I suffer to see what happened. And I suffered in silence: who is going to listen to me? Someone even told me I was working on "old bricks of civilisation".

So, Bravo! Bravo for pointing out to this past ... and alas forgotten grandeur.

Gr8 question -- Its also very telling that after they bombed the Bamiyani Buddhas, the entire country became a 24/7 hell-hole --- karma does work even for countries and cultures.

Also, the Muslims invaded India and burned Buddhist monks alive to chase them out and also destroyed Hindu temples. Look at their karma. Pakistan and Afghanistan are considered to be 4th world slums while India and China are the fastest growing economies and Buddhist Japan is the world's leader. Also, Buddha is the most beloved icon globally while we all know who is the most hated. Karma does work yet again.

However, I really don't understand why Hindus were so weak to allow them such access. Don't get me wrong, you know who's side I'm on but how is it that they were able to destroy all the best places in India? Kashmir was called the earth's paradise when it was a Buddhist city and now its a hell-hole. I don't know enough about Indian history and culture but how did you guys let them get away with all this and why can't you put them in their place even now? One of my friends is Indian and her parents are influential types and they told me that the Indian govt is into "Muslim appeasement" and even after the Bombay attacks were hesitant to even call it Islamic terror. Some actor called Aveer Khan or something said that we cannot call them Muslim gunmen and everyone agreed. Why are Hindus so spineless?

Edit: At least the US govt keeps us safe and has a strong arm policy towards the Muslim terrorists. They took action after 9/11. What action did you guys take after the Bombay Hotel attacks? And Did you vote in any new people? Are politicians to blame or those who keep electing them?

I agree with Goli. They have also destroyed archaeological sites from the Hellenistic period. Ai Khanoum. They destroy what belongs to the World Heritage.

They just ignore that this where Alexander the Great founded so many cities, where Cyrus the Great had done so before him, where Greco-Bactrian kings ruled for three centuries and so on and so forth..

Terrible. And they have the best lapis-lazulis in the world.

So much grandeur from so many advanced people... and now... going backwards...

The one without the United States and Great Britain. The one that was before, when the people who ran the nation ruthlessly stamped out the production of drugs. Now, it is one of the leading producers of illegal drugs in the world.

Gee, I wonder if there is some connection here.........

The Soviet invasion killed off a pair of million/4 of the inhabitants. i'm thinking they might have refrained from it. it is like asking if ecu colonization grow to be solid for the close by individuals. confident it killed of ninety 9% of them, yet now a minimum of they have "Jersey Shore". think of of the Soviets as an overdose of antibiotics. It killed off the weaker strains, yet in addition allowed super bugs to strengthen and dominate. The Taliban are the super bugs.

Best asking the Afgan people themselves. It's not our business. One thing is for certain the corrupt regime that the coalition forces have imposed is not their favourite that's why the Taliban gets so much support.

Islam is an oppressive religion. I think that's something Christians and Atheists can agree on.

Seriously, just look at Iran right now. Or Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Oman, etc.

well each day ends with a night and night ends with rising sun and day again and sun set again the time is not far when there will be BHARAT again with no other nick names those are puffed out at night or lack of knowledge of the base that we call SNATAN dharma when there was no dalit or brahmin or what ever MANU made system .was only one ,and one only VASUDEV KATUMBHKAM. thanks.

does islam really calls to terrorism and equal terrorism ?

to know the answer i advice everybode to read the following article

Was Islam Spread by the Sword?

.It is a common misconception with some non-Muslims that Islam would not have millions of adherents all over the world, if it had not been spread by the use of force.

The following points will make it clear, that far from being spread by the sword, it was the inherent force of truth, reason and logic that was responsible for the rapid spread of Islam.

Islam has always given respect and freedom of religion to all faiths. Freedom of religion is ordained in the Quran itself:

“There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong.” (Quran 2:256)

The noted historian De Lacy O’Leary wrote:[1] “History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.”

The famous historian, Thomas Carlyle, in his book Heroes and Hero worship, refers to this misconception about the spread of Islam: “The sword indeed, but where will you get your sword? Every new opinion, at its starting is precisely in a minority of one; in one man’s head alone. There it dwells as yet. One man alone of the whole world believes it, there is one man against all men. That he takes a sword and tries to propagate with that will do little for him. You must get your sword! On the whole, a thing will propagate itself as it can.”

If Islam was spread by the sword, it was the sword of intellect and convincing arguments. It is this sword that conquers the hearts and minds of people. The Quran says in this connection:

“Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best.” (Quran 16:125)

The facts speak for themselves

• Indonesia is the country that has the largest number of Muslims in the world, and the majority of people in Malaysia are Muslims. But, no Muslim army ever went to Indonesia or Malaysia. It is an established historical fact that Indonesia entered Islam not due to war, but because of its moral message. Despite the disappearance of Islamic government from many regions once ruled by it, their original inhabitants have remained Muslims. Moreover, they carried the message of truth, inviting others to it as well, and in so doing endured harm, affliction and oppression. The same can be said for those in the regions of Syria and Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, North Africa, Asia, the Balkans and in Spain. This shows that the effect of Islam on the population was one of moral conviction, in contrast to occupation by western colonialists, finally compelled to leave lands whose peoples held only memories of affliction, sorrow, subjugation and oppression.

• Muslims ruled Spain (Andalusia) for about 800 years. During this period the Christians and Jews enjoyed freedom to practice their respective religions, and this is a documented historical fact.

• Christian and Jewish minorities have survived in the Muslim lands of the Middle East for centuries. Countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan all have significant Christian and Jewish populations.

• Muslims ruled India for about a thousand years, and therefore had the power to force each and every non-Muslim of India to convert to Islam, but they did not, and thus more than 80% of the Indian population remains non-Muslim.

• Similarly, Islam spread rapidly on the East Coast of Africa. And likewise no Muslim army was ever dispatched to the East Coast of Africa.

• An article in Reader’s Digest ‘Almanac’, yearbook 1986, gives the statistics of the increase of the percentage of the major religions of the world in half a century from 1934 to 1984. This article also appeared in The Plain Truth magazine. At the top was Islam, which increased by 235%, while Christianity had increased by 47%. During this fifty-year period, there was no “Islamic conquest” yet Islam spread at an extraordinary rate.

• Today the fastest growing religion in America and Europe is Islam. The Muslims in these lands are a minority. The only sword they have in their possession is the sword of truth. It is this sword that is converting thousands to Islam.

• Islamic law protects the privileged status of minorities, and that is why non-Muslim places of worship have flourished all over the Islamic world. Islamic law also allows non-Muslim minorities to set up their own courts, which implement family laws drawn up by the minorities themselves. The life and property of all citizens in an Islamic state are considered sacred whether they are Muslims or not.

Conclusion

It is clear, therefore, that Islam did not spread by the sword. The “sword of Islam” did not conver

So how were the dalits doing in Ashwakan? Not persecuted by the Brahmins for a change?