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

But -! But if not the ban on re-purification, the suicidal Hindu creed of
religious tolerance was certainly a major obstacle! From the very ancient
times, the Hindus had been boasting of their high ideals of religious tolerance,
of the equal status they conceded to all the religions of the world, of preaching
the sameness of Ram and Rahim, of allowing every one to follow his own
faith! This they considered to be the height of their religion!
467. Instead of massacring en masse the hundreds of thousands of
Muslims, who from time to time fell in their hands completely vanquished
and utterly helpless, in order to avenge the untold wrongs and humiliation
heaped by them on the Hindus, the Hindus, in their turn, refrained
themselves from doing the Muslims even the slightest harm, because they
were in minority and belonged to another religion. On the contrary, the
Muslims were allowed to enhance the glory and scope of their own religion
without the least possible hindrance. Not only like the Hindu citizens, but
even more leniently and with more facilities were the Muslims allowed, by
Hindu states of those days, to enjoy the legal rights—a fact that is borne out
by pages after pages of Indian history.
468. Is it necessary to add that these 'cow-faced' followers of Hinduism,
proud of their utmost tolerance of other religions, were not (in the least)
likely to hit back the tiger-faced Muslims on religious grounds?
469. Religious tolerance! A virtue! Yes. It can be a virtue only where the
other religion is tolerant of our own! But to tolerate the Muslim religion, the
followers of which right from the Sultans like Mahmud of Ghazni and
Ghori and others to the various Shahs and Badshahs, thought it their
religious obligation to massacre the kafir Hindus to celebrate their accession
to the throne, and had been carrying on horrible religious persecution of the
Hindus for nearly a thousand years, was tantamount to cut the throat of
one's own religion! It was not tolerance towards other religions, it was
tolerance of irreligion! It was not even tolerance, it was impotence! But this
truth never dawned upon the Hindu society of those days even after the
horrible experience of a thousand years or so. They, on their own part, went
on tolerating even such a hideous religion as the Islam and considered it a
glorious virtue of their own—a special ornament in the crown of the Hindu
community!
470. O thou Hindu society! Of all the sins and weaknesses, which have
brought about thy fall, the greatest and most potent are thy virtues
themselves.