On January 22, 2024, when Indian Hindus celebrated the Ram Mandir’s Pran Pratishtha, making an end to the black history of Mughal invader Babar’s forceful occupation and destruction of the Ram Mandir and constructing a mosque on it, so-called secularists in India as well as anti-Hindu media cartels such as BBC, CNN etcetera began orchestrated propaganda with the agenda of misleading the international community and even instigating Islamists in waging jihad against India, Indians and Hindus. Shockingly, these media outlets don’t even mention the historical background of how the birthplace of Bhagwan Ram was destroyed by Muslim Mughal invaders and replaced by a mosque on the site.
Commenting on the Ram Mandir, an article in The Sunday Guardian said, “The Ayodhya controversy was a standing example of a modern nation’s cruel insensitivity towards the Hindu community under the garb of false secularism; it failed to empathise, assuage and do justice to the hurt and faith of the Hindus, despite overwhelming historical, cultural and archaeological evidence.”
Ayodhya has been irrevocably and definitively associated with the Hindu Bhagwan Shri Ram since immemorial. The ancient epic Ramayana, whose oral tradition goes back to 5000 years BC, identifies Ayodhya as the capital of the Ikshvaku kings and the birthplace of Shri Ram. The celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidasa (4th-5th century CE) refers to Ayodhya in his poem Raghuvamsa.
Negativists out to demean and trivialise the Hindu religion claimed that the legendary Ayodhya was a myth and Shri Ram was a mere caricature from a fairytale. Moreover, these scholars contended that modern Ayodhya came into existence only in the 4th- 5th century CE when the Gupta king Skandagupta moved his capital to Saket (the site of present-day Ayodhya) and renamed it Ayodhya.
What would the Western policymakers do if any church was demolished by any invader and turned into a mosque? Aren’t the Western media continuously criticising Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or forcibly converting Hagia Sophia into a mosque?
Skandagupta is supposed to have consecrated 360 mandirs in Ayodhya, and the subsequent 11th-century Gahadavala dynasty erected numerous temples for Vishnu here that survived till the reign of Aurangzeb.
So even if we take this contorted timeline to be valid, it cannot negate the fact that Ayodhya was sacrosanct to Hindus for at least a thousand years before Babar’s general Mir Baqi allegedly demolished a Ram temple and erected a mosque in its place in 1528.
But, at the same time – very unfortunately, a section of Indian media outlets, those proclaim to be secularists have joined the well-orchestrated and notorious anti-Hindu propaganda by demonising Hindus, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others for the “crime” of recovering the birthplace of Bhagwan Ram from the evil captivity of Mughal invaders. While reading those Indian media, one would certainly get confused thinking – whether they are reading Pakistani media or Al Qaeda and Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda vessels.
The actions of these insane Western media and their “secularist” media mercenaries in India and elsewhere shockingly prove their nefarious agenda of rejecting the rights of Hindus – the third-largest religion in the world. It is well assumed that several rights groups, as well as Western organisations and institutions, will join such anti-Hindu actions by issuing statements targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the ruling BJP and other nationalist forces in India by branding them as “persecutors of Muslims” or even “enemies of Islam”.
At one stage, the politically bankrupt Indian National Congress (INC) and those so-called Leftists may also join Western and Muslim media’s anti-Hindu propaganda centring on the Ram Mandir to appease Muslim voters. But such attempts won’t bring anything good either to Congress. Its leaders – particularly the scions of the Nehru dynasty – Rahul Gandhi, the secret blue-eyed boy of Colombian Cali Cartel or Hindu-hater Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, as according to popular opinion, under the magnanimous statesmanship of Narendra Modi, BJP shall win another landslide during April-May General Elections in India.
One important centring Political West – especially America’s trickery and mockery beneath secularism- must be raised here. While the United States continues to preach keeping religion away from politics or maintaining the so-called secularist spirit, we know the American dollar proudly says – “In God we trust”, or its leaders take an oath by setting their hands on the Bible. It proves – the definition of “God” here is the Christian God, while with mandatory rules of taking an oath by setting a hand on the Bible proves – in the American official policy – there is no place for any other religion except Christianity. In this case – what do the American policymakers mean through the terminology or definition of “secularism”? What would the Western policymakers do if any church was demolished by any invader and turned into a mosque? Aren’t the Western media continuously criticising Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or forcibly converting Hagia Sophia into a mosque?
In my opinion, every Hindu Mandir which was demolished by Mughal invaders and turned into a mosque should be transformed into a mandir. According to my knowledge, there are plenty of such mandirs include Krishna Janmabhoomi or Kesava Deo Temple (Mathura, Uttara Pradesh), Kashi Viswanath Temple (Varanasi), Vishveshwur Temple, Govind Dev Temple (Mathura), Vijay Temple (Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh), Bhima Devi Temple (Pinjore, Haryana), Madan Mahan Temple (Kali Ghat, Vrindavan) and many others.
