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

irreligious, and so impossible, owing to such a ban. And like Afghanistan,
Iran, Babylonia, ancient Egypt, Turkey and Morocco in the far west, India
in the east would also have been completely Muslimized! It would have
become both politically and religiously an Islamistan! That would have
been the last line written about the Hindu History. But India was at least
saved that horrible fate then, and once again was written a new chapter of
the rejuvenation of Hinduism, illuminated by dazzling valour of the Hindu
warriors.
625. The history of India as also of all the parts of the rest of the world,
wherever the Muslims had established religio-political ascendancy, amply
proves that not only those several nations that were incapable of
overthrowing the Muslim religio-political dominance became completely
Muslimized, but even those other non-Muslim nations which smashed the
Muslim political might but left their religious hold untouched, could not
escape the constant horrible pestilence of the Muslim onslaughts. Only five
or six or at the most, ten nations that precipitated the Muslim religious
downfall soon after their political and military defeat and rid themselves of
every single Muslim, could—these and these alone could—free themselves
completely from the Muslim pestilence! For want of space, only one
instance of Spain should suffice to illustrate this point.
Emancipation of Spain from Muslims
626. Simultaneously with their raids on India, the Arabs under the
Omayyads had overrun Spain and had established a powerful Muslim state
there. Naturally, as elsewhere, the Muslims began the religious persecution
and conversion of the Spanish Christians. Countless Christian men and
women were violently and mercilessly converted to Islam at the point of the
sword or killed outright. Later on, after some centuries, when there were
internecine wars amongst the Muslims themselves, the much too oppressed
Christians of Spain rose in revolt against the tyrannical Muslim
Government under one of their own old royal dynasties, and with the help
of a growing Christian nation in France and with encouragement from the
Papal seat of Rome. After many years of bitter warfare during the 11th and
13th centuries, the Spanish Christians delivered most of their country from
the Muslim rule and finally with the conquest of Granada in A.D. 1492,
they wiped out the Muslim power altogether. But as in India so in Spain
too, even after the loss of political power, the Muslims had their firm
religious hold unimpaired on the converted Spanish Christians and the land