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

Your Excellency, Chimaji Appa, the unutterable atrocities and oppression
and outrage committed on us by the Sultans and Muslim noblemen and
thousands of others, big and small. Let those Sultans and their peers take a
fright that in the event of a Hindu victory, our molestation and detestable lot
shall be avenged on the Muslim women. Once they are haunted with this
dreadful apprehension, that the Muslim women, too, stand in the same
predicament in case the Hindus win, the future, Muslim conquerors will
never dare to think of such molestation of Hindu women.”
451A. But because of the then prevalent perverted religious ideas about
chivalry to women, which ultimately proved highly detrimental to the
Hindu community, neither Shivaji Maharaj nor Chimaji Appa could do such
wrong to the Muslim women.
452. It was the suicidal Hindu idea of chivalry to women, which saved the
Muslim women (simply because they were women) from the heavy
punishments of committing indescribable sins and crimes against the Hindu
women. Their womanhood became their shield, quite sufficient to protect
them.
453. Still worse was the ridiculous idea, which the Hindus of those times
entertained, that it was a sin to convert a Muslim woman to Hinduism. They
foolishly thought that to have any sort of relations with a Muslim woman
meant their own conversion to Islam. Naturally, even in the midst of a
Hindu community and the Hindu state, they were secure against any
attempt by the Hindus at abducting them or their forcible conversion to
Hinduism. Exceptions, however, were very rare.
454. Under these circumstances, the Muslim feminine class [fair (?) sex]
was left seraphically free from any chastisement or penalty for their share
of the crimes perpetrated against the Hindu woman-world, and their work
of enticing and ensnaring the Hindu women and forcing them to accept
Islam, went on for hundreds of years, unhampered and unimpeded.
But if
455. Suppose, if from the earliest Muslim invasion of India, the Hindus
also, whenever they were victors on the battlefields, had decided to pay the
Muslim fair sex in the same coin or punished them in some other ways, i.e.
by conversion even with force and then absorbed them in their fold, then?
Then with this horrible apprehension at their heart, they would have
desisted from their evil designs against any Hindu lady. If they had taken
such a fright in the first two or three centuries, millions and millions of