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-- The Nazi Holocaust was rooted in
centuries of religious hate. Historian Dagobert Runes said the
long era of church persecution killed three and a half million
Jews. Hitler justified his fight for the German people and
against Jews by using Godly and Biblical reasoning. He said in
his book Mein Kampf:
"Hence today I believe that I
am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty
Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting
for the work of the Lord."
Here is a site that documents how
Christianity inspired Hitler for killing Jews relentlessly :http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm
-- The First Crusade was launched
in 1095 with the battle cry "Deus Vult" (God wills it), a
mandate to destroy infidels in the
Holy Land. Gathering crusaders in
Germany first fell upon "the infidel among us," Jews
in the
Rhine valley, thousands of whom were dragged from
their homes or hiding places and hacked to death or burned
alive. Then the religious legions plundered their way 2,000
miles to
Jerusalem, where they killed virtually every
inhabitant, "purifying" the symbolic city. Cleric Raymond of
Aguilers wrote: "In the
temple of Solomon, one rode in blood up to the knees
and even to the horses' bridles, by the just and marvelous
judgment of God."
-- In ancient Arab, 10,000 Muslims
were killed by Muslims themselves by civil war of Jamal. Another
70,000 were killed in siffen war between Hazrat Ali and Hazrat
Muaiba, mind it - people were very less in number in Arab at
that time.
Earlier, the prophet of the Islam, also on one occasion killed 700
surrendered people (grown up men of the Jew tribe Banu Quraiza)
and had captured the women and children as slaves (including
young pretty women as sex-slaves). Besides these, there are
plenty evidences on Muslim’s genocide on Muslims.
You can find some of these here.
-- In Bible (see verse Numbers
31:16-18 etc.), Moses commands the murder of approximately 100,000
young males and, roughly, 68,000 helpless women.
-- In Ramayan, Rama killed
Shamvuka, a schedulecast sudra for reciting Vedas. There are a
lot of incidents like this. You can find
several other
incidents here.
-- Human sacrifice blossomed in the
Mayan theocracy of
Central America between the 11th and 16th centuries.
To appease a feathered-serpent god, maidens were drowned in
sacred wells and other victims either had their hearts cut out,
were shot with arrows, or were beheaded. Elsewhere, sacrifice
was sporadic. In
Peru, pre-Inca tribes killed children in temples
called "houses of the moon." In
Tibet, Bon shamans performed ritual killings. In
Borneo builders of pile houses drove the first pile
through the body of a maiden to pacify the earth goddess. In
India, Dravidian people offered lives to village
goddesses, and followers of Kali sacrificed a male child every
Friday evening.
-- In the Third Crusade, after
Richard the Lion-Hearted captured
Acre in 1191, he ordered 3,000 captives -- many of
them women and children -- taken outside the city and
slaughtered. Some were disemboweled in a search for swallowed
gems. Bishops intoned blessings. Infidel lives were of no
consequence. As Saint Bernard of Clairvaux declared in launching
the Second Crusade: "The Christian glories in the death of a
pagan, because thereby Christ himself is glorified."
-- The Assassins were a sect of
Ismaili Shi'ite Muslims whose faith required the stealthy murder
of religious opponents. From the 11th to 13th centuries, they
killed numerous leaders in modern-day
Iran,
Iraq and
Syria. They finally were wiped out by conquering
Mongols -- but their vile name survives.
-- Throughout
Europe, beginning in the 1100s, tales spread that
Jews were abducting Christian children, sacrificing them, and
using their blood in rituals. Hundreds of massacres stemmed from
this "blood libel." Some of the supposed sacrifice victims --
Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, the holy child of LaGuardia, Simon
of Trent -- were beatified or commemorated with shrines that
became sites of pilgrimages and miracles.
-- In 1209, Pope Innocent III
launched an armed crusade against Albigenses Christians in
southern
France. When the besieged city of
Beziers fell, soldiers reportedly asked their papal
adviser how to distinguish the faithful from the infidel among
the captives. He commanded: "Kill them all. God will know his
own." Nearly 20,000 were slaughtered -- many first blinded,
mutilated, dragged behind horses, or used for target practice.
-- Muslim holy wars spread Islam
westward across North Africa and up through
Spain - and eastward into
India - and northward through the Balkans into
Austria. The horror in the Balkans (between Catholic
Croatians, Orthodox Serbs and Muslim Bosnians and Kosovars) is
historic fallout from the ancient Muslim conquest.
-- The Fourth Lateran Council in
1215 proclaimed the doctrine of transubstantiation: that the
host wafer miraculously turns into the body of Jesus during the
mass. Soon rumors spread that Jews were stealing the sacred
wafers and stabbing or driving nails through them to crucify
Jesus again. Reports said that the pierced host bled, cried out,
or emitted spirits. On this charge, Jews were burned at the
stake in 1243 in
Belitz, Germany -- the first of many killings that
continued into the 1800s. To avenge the tortured host, the
German knight Rindfliesch led a brigade in 1298 that
exterminated 146 defenseless Jewish communities in six months.
-- In the 1200s the Incas built
their empire in
Peru, a society dominated by priests reading daily
magical signs and offering sacrifices to appease many gods. At
major ceremonies up to 200 children were burned as offerings.
Special "chosen women" -- comely virgins without blemish -- were
strangled.
-- Also during the 1200s, the hunt
for Albigensian heretics led to establishment of the
Inquisition, which spread over
Europe. Pope Innocent IV authorized torture. Under
interrogation by Dominican priests, screaming victims were
stretched, burned, pierced and broken on fiendish pain machines
to make them confess to disbelief and to identify fellow
transgressors. Inquisitor Robert le Bourge sent 183 people to
the stake in a single week.
-- In
Spain, where many Jews and Moors had converted to
escape persecution, inquisitors sought those harboring their old
faith. At least 2,000 Spanish backsliders were burned.
Executions in other countries included the burning of scientists
such as mathematician-philosopher Giordano Bruno, who espoused
Copernicus's theory that the planets orbit the sun.
-- When the Black Death swept
Europe in 1348-1349, rumors alleged that it was
caused by Jews poisoning wells. Hysterical mobs slaughtered
thousands of Jews in several countries. In
Speyer,
Germany, the burned bodies were piled into giant wine
casks and sent floating down the
Rhine. In northern Germany Jews were walled up alive
in their homes to suffocate or starve. The Flagellants, an army
of penitents who whipped themselves bloody, stormed the Jewish
quarter of
Frankfurt in a gruesome massacre. The prince of
Thuringia announced that he had burned his Jews for
the honor of God.
-- The Aztecs began their elaborate
theocracy in the 1300s and brought human sacrifice to a golden
era. About 20,000 people were killed yearly to appease gods --
especially the sun god, who needed daily "nourishment" of blood.
Hearts of sacrifice victims were cut out, and some bodies were
eaten ceremoniously. Other victims were drowned, beheaded,
burned or dropped from heights. In a rite to the rain god,
shrieking children were killed at several sites so that their
tears might induce rain. In a rite to the maize goddess, a
virgin danced for 24 hours, then was killed and skinned; her
skin was worn by a priest in further dancing. One account says
that at King Ahuitzotl's coronation, 80,000 prisoners were
butchered to please the gods.
-- In the 1400s, the Inquisition
shifted its focus to witchcraft. Priests tortured untold
thousands of women into confessing that they were witches who
flew through the sky and engaged in sex with the devil -- then
they were burned or hanged for their confessions. Witch hysteria
raged for three centuries in a dozen nations. Estimates of the
number executed vary from 100,000 to 2 million. Whole villages
were exterminated. In the first half of the 17th century, about
5,000 "witches" were put to death in the French
province of
Alsace, and 900 were burned in the Bavarian city of
Bamberg. The witch craze was religious madness at its
worst.
-- The "Protestant Inquisition" is
a term applied to the severities of John Calvin in
Geneva and Queen Elizabeth I in
England during the 1500s. Calvin's followers burned
58 "heretics," including theologian Michael Servetus, who
doubted the Trinity.
Elizabeth I outlawed Catholicism and executed about
200 Catholics.
-- Protestant Huguenots grew into
an aggressive minority in
France in the 15OOs -- until repeated Catholic
reprisals smashed them. On Saint Bartholomew's Day in 1572,
Catherine de Medicis secretly authorized Catholic dukes to send
their soldiers into Huguenot neighborhoods and slaughter
families. This massacre touched off a six-week bloodbath in
which Catholics murdered about 10,000 Huguenots. Other
persecutions continued for two centuries, until the French
Revolution. One group of Huguenots escaped to
Florida; in 1565 a Spanish brigade discovered their
colony, denounced their heresy, and killed them all.
-- Members of lndia's Thuggee sect
strangled people as sacrifices to appease the bloodthirsty
goddess Kali, a practice beginning in the 1500s. The number of
victims has been estimated to be as high as 2 million. Thugs
were claiming about 20,000 lives a year in the 1800s until
British rulers stamped them out. At a trial in 1840, one Thug
was accused of killing 931 people. Today, some Hindu priests
still sacrifice goats to Kali.
-- In 1583 in
Vienna, a 16-year-old girl suffered stomach cramps. A
team of Jesuits exorcized her for eight weeks. The priests
announced that they had expelled 12,652 demons from her, demons
that her grandmother had kept as flies in glass jars. The
grandmother was tortured into confessing that she was a witch
who had engaged in sex with Satan. She was then burned at the
stake. This was one of perhaps one million such executions
during three centuries of witch-hunts.
-- The Anabaptists, communal "rebaptizers,"
were slaughtered by both Catholic and Protestant authorities. In
Munster, Germany, Anabaptists took control of the
city, drove out the clergymen, and proclaimed a New Zion. The
bishop of
Munster began an armed siege. While the townspeople
starved, the Anabaptist leader proclaimed himself king and
executed dissenters. When
Munster finally fell, the chief Anabaptists were
tortured to death with red-hot pincers and their bodies hung in
iron cages from a church steeple.
-- Oliver Cromwell was deemed a
moderate because he massacred only Catholics and Anglicans, not
other Protestants. This Puritan general commanded Bible-carrying
soldiers, whom he roused to religious fervor. After decimating
an Anglican army, Cromwell said, "God made them as stubble to
our swords." He demanded the beheading of the defeated King
Charles I, and made himself the holy dictator of
England during the 1650s. When his army crushed the
hated Irish Catholics, he ordered the execution of the
surrendered defenders of
Drogheda and their priests, calling it "a righteous
judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches."
-- Ukrainian Bogdan Chmielnicki was
a Cossack Cromwell. He wore the banner of Eastern Orthodoxy in a
holy war against Jews and Polish Catholics. More than 100,000
were killed in this 17th-century bloodbath, and the
Ukraine was split away from
Poland to become part of the Orthodox Russian empire.
-- The Thirty Years' War produced
the largest religious death toll of all time. It began in 1618
when Protestant leaders threw two Catholic emissaries out of a
Prague window into a dung heap. War flared between
Catholic and Protestant princedoms, drawing in supportive
religious armies from
Germany,
Spain,
England,
Holland,
Denmark,
Sweden,
France and
Italy.
Sweden's Protestant soldiers sang Martin Luther's
"Ein 'Feste Burg" in battle. Three decades of combat turned
central
Europe into a wasteland of misery. One estimate
states that
Germany's population dropped from 18 million to 4
million. In the end nothing was settled, and too few people
remained to rebuild cities, plant fields, or conduct education.
-- When Puritans settled in
Massachusetts in the 1600s, they created a religious
police state where doctrinal deviation could lead to flogging,
pillorying, hanging, cutting off ears, or boring through the
tongue with a hot iron. Preaching Quaker beliefs was a capital
offense. Four stubborn Quakers defied this law and were hanged.
In the 1690s fear of witches seized the colony. Twenty alleged
witches were killed and 150 others imprisoned.
-- In 1723 the bishop of
Gdansk, Poland, demanded that all Jews be expelled
from the city. The town council declined, but the bishop's
exhortations roused a mob that invaded the ghetto and beat the
residents to death.
-- Islamic jihads (holy wars),
mandated by the Koran, killed millions over 12 centuries. In
early years, Muslim armies spread the faith rapidly: east to
India and west to
Morocco. Then splintering sects branded other Muslims
as infidels and declared jihads against them. The Kharijis
battled Sunni rulers. The Azariqis decreed death to all
"sinners" and their families. In 1804 a Sudanese holy man, Usman
dan Fodio, waged a bloody jihad that broke the religious sway of
the Sultan of Gobir. In the 1850s another Sudanese mystic, 'Umar
al-Hajj, led a barbaric jihad to convert pagan African tribes --
with massacres, beheadings and a mass execution of 300 hostages.
In the 1880s a third Sudanese holy man, Muhammad Ahmed,
commanded a jihad that destroyed a 10,000-man Egyptian army and
wiped out defenders of
Khartoum led by British general Charles "Chinese"
Gordon.
-- In 1801 Orthodox priests in
Bucharest, Romania, revived the story that Jews
sacrificed Christians and drank their blood. Enraged
parishioners stormed the ghetto and cut the throats of 128 Jews.
-- During 1815 to 1828 about 8135
women (average of about 507 to 567 documented incidents per
year) were burned alive due to the Hindu religious custom- Sati.
Some incidents can
be found here.
-- When the Baha'i faith began in
Persia in 1844, the Islamic regime sought to
exterminate it. The Baha'i founder was imprisoned and executed
in 1850. Two years later, the religious government massacred
20,000 Baha'is. Streets of
Tehran were soaked with blood. The new Baha'i leader,
Baha'ullah, was tortured and exiled in foreign Muslim prisons
for the rest of his life.
-- Human sacrifices were still
occurring in Buddhist Burma in the 1850s. When the capital was
moved to
Mandalay, 56 "spotless" men were buried beneath the
new city walls to sanctify and protect the city. When
two of the burial spots were later found empty, royal
astrologers decreed that 500 men, women, boys, and girls must be
killed and buried at once, or the capital must be abandoned.
About 100 were actually buried before British governors stopped
the ceremonies.
-- In 1857 both Muslim and Hindu
taboos triggered the Sepoy Mutiny in
India. British rulers had given their native soldiers
new paper cartridges that had to be bitten open. The cartridges
were greased with animal tallow. This enraged Muslims, to whom
pigs are unclean, and Hindus, to whom cows are sacred. Troops of
both faiths went into a crazed mutiny, killing Europeans
wantonly. At
Kanpur, hundreds of European women and children were
massacred after being promised safe passage.
-- Late in the 19th century, with
rebellion stirring in
Russia, the czars attempted to divert public
attention by helping anti-Semitic groups rouse Orthodox
Christian hatred for Jews. Three waves of pogroms ensued -- in
the 1880s, from 1903 to 1906, and during the Russian Revolution.
Each wave was increasingly murderous. During the final period,
530 communities were attacked and 60,000 Jews were killed.
-- In the early 1900s, Muslim Turks
waged genocide against Christian Armenians, and Christian Greeks
and Balkans warred against the Islamic Ottoman Empire.
--
In the Cristero War, about
ninety thousand Mexicans were killed in the 1920s.
-- When
India finally won independence from
Britain in 1947, the "great soul" of Mahatma Gandhi
wasn't able to prevent Hindus and Muslims from turning on one
another in a killing frenzy that took perhaps 1 million lives.
Even Gandhi was killed by a Hindu who thought him too
pro-Muslim.
-- In the 1950s and 1960s, combat
between Christians, animists and Muslims in
Sudan killed more than 500,000.
-- In
Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978, followers of the Rev. Jim
Jones killed a visiting congressman and three newsmen, then
administered cyanide to themselves and their children in a
900-person suicide that shocked the world.
-- Islamic religious law decrees
that thieves shall have their hands or feet chopped off, and
unmarried lovers shall be killed. In the
Sudan in 1983 and 1984, 66 thieves were axed in
public. A moderate Muslim leader, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, was
hanged for heresy in 1985 because he opposed these amputations.
In
Saudi Arabia a teen-age princess and her lover were
executed in public in 1977. In
Pakistan in 1987, a 25-year-old carpenter's daughter
was sentenced to be stoned to death for engaging in unmarried
sex. In the
United Arab Emirates in 1984, a cook and a maid were
sentenced to stoning for adultery -- but, as a show of mercy,
the execution was postponed until after the maid's baby was
born.
-- In
Nigeria in 1982, religious fanatic followers of
Mallam Marwa killed and mutilated several hundred people as
heretics and infidels. They drank the blood of some of the
victims. When the militia arrived to quell the violence, the
cultists sprinkled themselves with blessed powder that they
thought would make them impervious to police bullets. It didn't.
-- In 1983 in
Darkley, Northern Ireland, Catholic terrorists with
automatic weapons burst into a Protestant church on a Sunday
morning and opened fire, killing three worshipers and wounding
seven. It was just one of hundreds of Catholic-Protestant
ambushes that have taken 2,600 lives in
Ulster since age-old religious hostility turned
violent again in 1969.
-- Hindu-Muslim bloodshed erupts
randomly throughout
India. More than 3,000 were killed in
Assam province in 1983. In May 1984 Muslims hung
dirty sandals on a Hindu leader's portrait as a religious
insult. This act triggered a week of arson riots that left 216
dead, 756 wounded, 13,000 homeless, and 4,100 in jail.
-- Religious tribalism --
segregation of sects into hostile camps -- has ravaged
Lebanon continuously since 1975. News reports of the
civil war tell of "Maronite Christian snipers," "Sunni Muslim
suicide bombers," "Druze machine gunners," "Shi'ite Muslim
mortar fire," and "Alawite Muslim shootings." Today 130,000
people are dead and a once-lovely nation is laid waste.
-- Shi'ite theocracy in
Iran -- "the government of God on earth" -- decreed
that Baha'i believers who won't convert shall be killed. About
200 stubborn Baha'is were executed in the early 1980s, including
women and teenagers. Up to 40,000 Baha'is fled the country. Sex
taboos in Iran are so severe that: (1) any woman who shows a
lock of hair is jailed; (2) Western magazines being shipped into
the country first go to censors who laboriously black out all
women's photos except for faces; (3) women aren't allowed to ski
with men, but have a separate slope where they may ski in
shrouds.
-- The lovely island nation of
Sri Lanka has been turned hellish by ambushes and
massacres between Buddhist Sinhalese and Hindu Tamils.
-- In 1983 a revered Muslim leader,
Mufti Sheikh Sa'ad e-Din el'Alami of
Jerusalem, issued a fatwa (an order of divine
deliverance) promising an eternal place in paradise to any
Muslim assassin who would kill President Hafiz al-Assad of
Syria.
-- Sikhs want to create a separate
theocracy, Khalistan (Land of the Pure), in the Punjab region of
India. Many heed the late extremist preacher Jarnail
Bhindranwale, who taught his followers that they have a
"religious duty to send opponents to hell." Throughout the 1980s
they sporadically murdered Hindus to accomplish this goal.
-- In
1984, after Sikh guards riddled prime minister Indira Gandhi
with 50 bullets, Hindus went on a rampage that killed 5,000
Sikhs in three days. Mobs dragged Sikhs from homes, stores,
buses and trains, chopping and pounding them to death. Some were
burned alive; boys were castrated.
-- In 1984 Shi'ite fanatics who
killed and tortured Americans on a hijacked Kuwaiti airliner at
Tehran Airport said they did it "for the pleasure of
God."
-- In 1989 in
Moradabad, India, a pig caused hundreds of people to
kill one another when the animal walked through a Muslim holy
ground. Muslims, who think pigs are an embodiment of Satan,
accused Hindus of driving the pig into the sacred spot. Members
of both faiths went on a rampage, stabbing and clubbing. The pig
riot spread to a dozen cities and left two hundred dead.
-- A squad of armed Islamic zealots
raided a Christian church at
Behawalpur, Pakistan, on October 28, 2001, killing
the minister, fourteen worshipers, and the church's police
guard.
-- In Bangladesh (former East
Pakistan), hindu population was 28% in 1941. Following the partition of
India in 1947, the hindu population in east Pakistan went down to
about 22% by 1951. After that, due to unabated persecution, intimidation,
and forcible conversion to Islam, the Hindu-Minority population
kept on dwindling and now stands at a meager 10.5% of the total
population in
Bangladesh.
-- In 1971,
Pakistan created one of the cruelest genocides in
world history by killing 3 million Bangalees in then East
Pakistan (present
Bangladesh). Jamate-Islami, Albadars and Razakars
supported that genocide in the name of protecting religion.
-- The September 11, 2001 a series
of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the
United States about 2,974 people died as an
immediate result of the attacks with another 24 missing and
presumed dead; the number of immediate victims totaled 2,998,
the overwhelming majority of whom were civilians. The dead
included nationals from over 80 different countries.
-- In 2002
Gujarat riots around two thousand people, were
killed. More than 150,000 people were displaced. The riots were
noted for excesses against women: -Scores of Muslim girls and
women were brutally raped in
Gujarat before being killed.
-- Minority oppression in a severe
form occurred in
Bangladesh aftermath the October 1, 2001 election.
Many minor hindu girls including
Purnima was gang
raped by the cadres of
BNP. Detailed
report is kept here.
-- During Jamat-BNP coalition
government, Jagrata Muslim Janata or JMJ under the leadership
of person who goes by the name “Bangla Bhai” (Bengali Brother)
created havoc among the masses in the western and southwestern
parts of
Bangladesh. In most cases, they killed the
villagers in gruesome way often mutilating the victims’ body. In
a particular case, one of the villagers was beaten dead by
vigilante outfit and then hanged upside down from a roadside
tree. Another act of cruelty of the gang of Bangla Bhai came to
light as the three pieces of sliced body of a villager was
dug out of a grave near the Islamist outfit's main camp in Naogaon. Several hundreds and thousand similar incident
happened. Mukto-Mona featured some of the incidents,
here.
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