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

Hinduism, this social ostracism of the converts was so very persistent with
the ban on eating food from persons of another caste, the ban on inter-caste
marital relations and the others, that it was at once accepted by the leaders
of the Hindu Society without any thought about the consequences.
Naturally, this ban on the repurification and adoption of the converts back to
Hinduism, also automatically grew into a new fetter and instead of checking
the foreign religious aggression, it hampered the progress of Hinduism
itself.
Ban of Ostracism and self-seeking Converts
403. Well, it would have been quite proper and necessary to ostracize
those opportunists among the Hindus, who had taken to Islam for their
selfish ends, for power, or for avenging their private grudge against their
own fellow men; for they had willingly severed all connections with the
Hindu people, and no good could be served by readmitting these sinful
people into the Hindu Society. But what, if they should later on, sincerely
repent for this sinful act of theirs! This irrevocable ban did immeasurable
wrong to those unfortunate tens and hundreds of thousands who, fearing
social boycott, would never have dreamt of going over to Islam but who
were absolutely unable and helpless to face the atrocities of the Muslim
onslaught. For these miserable and forlorn thousands and for their
offsprings, at least, there should have been some hope of redemption!
404. Again, the self-seeking opportunists, who willingly went over to
Islam were much too limited in number. Precisely for this very reason, it
seems extremely tragic that this punitive measure of ostracism fell like a
bolt from the blue on the helpless victims of the avalanche-like Muslim
religious aggression, doing not the least harm to the real perpetrators of the
crime. As it were, it was insult added to injury. They were already
wriggling with excruciating agony at the loss of their religion and were
even prepared to court death by way of atonement and yet, they were
irretrievably condemned to permanent damnation, were never again to be
received by their own parents, their husbands and sons and all their
relatives, as their own. The very flesh of their flesh and the blood of their
blood were now complete strangers to them, at least in this world!
A Strange Justice
405. While thus mercilessly penalising these innocent victims, the Hindus
could not only do no harm to the malevolent and atrocious Muslim invaders