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

Datagant, Bikhanli, Khiri and several other places in the district of Etava
are groaning under similar religious persecution and Hindus in dozens and
scores, have been systematically forced to leave the faith of their
forefathers. Mr. Devi Dutt Dwivedi declares that some of these Hindu
victims to Moslem barbarism have prayed to be readmitted into the Hindu
fold through shuddhi.
Before the District Magistrate of Sylhut, a Hindu widow stated that she
got widowed at the age of ten. She was aged about fourteen years, at the
time of her complaint. Once while she was bathing at a ghat, one rascal
Mubarik suddenly fell on her, thrust a piece of cloth in her mouth and
decamped with her. He kept her in confinement and committed a series of
outrages. He took her then to a rich Mohamedan, threatening her all the
while with a pointed dagger to acquiesce in all that he did and said. In the
meanwhile, she saw her brother coming down with a constable, at the sight
of which, she suddenly cried aloud ‘brother! oh my brother! Here, am I, thy
sister Tarangin!’ The story and its pathos need not be gone into further
enough to state that in this case, at least the rascal Mubarik got sentence of
four years rigorous imprisonment.
We can multiply similar incidents reported from Kashmir to Kamorin ad
nauseum. But we refrain from doing so and will end this sad tale with two
significant remarks. One is a caution printed prominently in the Arjun—the
leading Hindi Daily of Delhi. It warns all Hindus that inasmuch as the filthy
activity of Moslem gundas has been renewed in Delhi, Hindus should not
allow their sisters and wives and mothers and daughters to go unattended, to
bath, to the ghats of the Jamanaji nor would they remain outside after dusk.
For, several reports have reached us that show that Moslem gundas take
most indecent liberty with Hindu ladies and harass them most dreadfully in
some quarters of the city. This is the state of the capital of all India! What
are we to think of out-of-the-way villages and towns on the frontier or in
the Punjab in Sindh and other provinces!
This also must be borne in mind that each of these cases that has come to
light conceals behind it dozen that are not known.
Last of all, in the presence of such grave and persistent provocation, there
is not a single case of a Hindu being guilty of carrying or trying to kidnap
or abduct a Moslem boy or girl under the influence of fanatical barbarism.
Fortunately, it is not in their grain.