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

908-909. It is frivolous to say that the Muslims ravaged Vijaynagar only
to avenge—only as a reaction to—the religious atrocities committed by the
Hindus in return for the similar atrocities of Muslims. It is not tenable
against the mass of evidence now available.
910. But these writers, both the foreign and Muslim ones—and also the
Hindus with a perverted sense of virtues—do not see—do not remember—
when they say so, what cause had the Hindus given to Mahmud of Ghazni,
Mohammed Ghori, Taimurlang, Babar and others to invade them. They had
never harmed any of them in any way. How many masjids in Ghazni had
the Hindus burnt? How many of the Muslim subjects in the lands of Ghor
of Ghazni had been oppressed and how many of their womenfolk had been
raped by the Hindus? How many millions of the Muslim women had been
kept by the Hindus as concubines or maids? What atrocities did the Hindus
commit first on the Muslims for avenging which, the above-mentioned
Muslim leaders marched towards India? Did they not, each one of them,
declare openly in their courts that it was sotely for the sake of completely
destroying the Hindus, for wiping out their race from the face of the earth
and for converting them forcibly to Islam, that they attacked the Indian
continent?
911. While reviewing this destruction of Vijaynagar, it is enough to see if
even the Muslim writers have the face to say that before the mighty armies
of Allauddin and Maliq Kafur marched against the Deccan, the South
Indian Hindus had perpetrated any atrocities on non-Hindus in the north. If
they cannot do so, they should explain why did the Muslim armies attack
the Hindus in the South and brought wholesale destruction on state-after-
state from Devgiri, Warangal to Madurai, much in the same horrible form
as was meted out to Vijaynagar? Why did they hurl insults and indignities
at the Hindu religion and why did those Muslim demons persecute the
innumerable Hindu men and women? Nobody can say by any stretch of
imagination, that it was to avenge the religious atrocities of the Hindus
over the Muslims of the North. It was due to the fact that extirpating the
Hindus was itself considered to be their religious duty—a holy faith as it
was!
912. The unhesitating, shameless and open stand of the Muslim writers of
the times, and of those before and after, is: “We believe that it is our chief
religious duty to annihilate the non-Muslims. To conquer the kafir Hindu
states, to rape the royal Hindu ladies, to enslave millions of other kafir