भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

bloodthirsty religiosity like that of the Muslims, who attacked religious
places of others with deadly weapons of war, slew the innocent men and
women, young and old, forced them to embrace Islam at the point of the
sword, and ran frantically, causing death and destruction everywhere. But
such a statement born of boldness cannot be expected of these immature
childish and cowardly writers! If the Muslim writers of ‘Tarikhs’ and the
Mullah-Moulvis boast that the Hindu Gods were not the true Gods because
they did not prevent the Muslim warlords from breaking idols and
demolishing temples, and that theirs was the only true religion, they should
be enlightened that the arch heretic Changizkhan and his deputies not only
desecrated the very city of the Muslim-Khalipha, but ravaged it, killed the
Khalipha, burned several masjids, turned others into stables for their horses,
reduced the Bible to ashes and trampled the Koran under their horses’ hoofs!
The Muslim Allah could not stop the ravaging hands of Changizkhan!
Hundreds of such instances can be cited. Are the Muslims ready to grant, on
this account, the imbecility and falsehood of their Allah? Even when Shivaji
slew the ‘Butshikan’—idol-breaker—Afzalkhan, and offered his ‘goat like
head with thirty-two teeth’, as a sacrificial offering to the Goddess Bhavani
of Tulzapur, his hands were not staved off from doing so by the Muslim
Allah!
377. After demolishing the temple of Somnath and loading the camels
with the immense wealth, looted from it, when Mahmud set out for Ghazni,
he learnt that instead of being cowed down into submission because of his
wholesale destruction of the temple at Somnath, the Hindu population was
even more enraged, and that the King of Malava with his large army was
preparing to block his way back to Ghazni and had already entered the
battlefield. As Mahmud was not prepared to risk this new battle, he took an
unexpected and difficult route through the sandy deserts of Sindh,
abandoning the usual way through Malava. While crossing the deserts of
Sindh and Baluchistan, his army had to face many dangers and unspeakable
misery. Hardly within three or four years of reaching Ghazni, he died in
A.D. 1030.
378. This fanatic but brave Sultan of Ghazni undertook at least fifteen
major expeditions to India. Hindus too fought furiously on the battlefield
every time. But no Hindu king could defeat him. But these invasions of
Mahmud and his political conquests did not so much harm the Hindus, as did
the forcible conversion of millions of Hindus in North-West Frontier