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

Whichever virtue is adopted thoughtlessly and without regard to the time,
place and person is corrupted and rotten, and, like putrefied food, becomes
poisonous.
429-430. Every Hindu seems to have been made to suck, along with his
mother’s milk, this nectar-like advice that religious tolerance is a virtue. But
nobody never explains to him the essence of that precept. If that alien
religion is also tolerant of our own religion, our tolerance towards it can be
a virtue. But the Muslim and the Christian religions, which boldly proclaim
it to be their religious duty to destroy most cruelly the Hindu religion and to
eradicate from the face of this earth the kafirs and the heathens, can never
be described as tolerant of other religions. In respect of these intolerant
foreign religions, the very extremely enraged intolerance, which seeks to
retaliate their atrocities with super-atrocious reprisals, itself becomes a
virtue!
431. Even if we were to restrict our discussion to the period under
discussion, it will be seen that every Muslim aggressor went on
demolishing Hindu temples at Mathura and Kashi (Benares). The most
sacred idols in the various magnificent shrines from all over India right upto
Rameshwaram were not only purposely taken to the Muslim capitals like
Delhi and plastered into the portal steps of their royal palaces, but, for the
sole purpose of hurting the feelings of the Hindus and insulting them, they
were also used as the slabs and tiles for lavatories, water-closets, and
urinals. To be tolerant towards those Muslims who called these and many
other atrocities their religious duty, is the very negation of virtue, its
sacrilegious perversion! Nay, for the Hindus to show such tolerance was the
greatest sin to be punished in Hell! But the Hindus committed this very sin
under the name of virtue! Even after overthrowing the various Muslim
powers, i.e. even when the Hindus had acquired political ascendancy, they
did not destroy the various masjids at Kashi (Benares), Mathura or
Rameshwaram, nor did they use their ruins as tiles for the various building
constructions along roads. At the most, the Hindus reconstructed and
renovated their old temples which were raised to the ground by the
Muslims. They did nothing more! On the contrary, there are astonishing
instances of grant of new lands for their maintenance and assurance of
protection of the masjids, which had been built by the Muslim aggressors,
by the Hindu powers. In this connection, one stray instance can be cited to
show the confusion of the then Hindu thought. It affords a shameless