Again you are trying to pick and choose info and suit them to your line of argument. Muslim invaders carried off women. That is true. Did it create the custom of Sati? I dont think so. Sati was already in practice. How much or to what extent, we dont know. But the evidence is there.Dear Swaich,
few more examples for you...
http://islammonitor.org/index.php?o...islams-genocidal-slavery-&catid=170&Itemid=67
http://proud-hindu.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/12/impact-of-islamic-invasion-on-hindu-women.htm
http://www.isrj.net/PublishArticles/502.aspx
this is extracted from the first example of this post:-
The Muslim conquest of India was probably the bloodiest in history:The Islamic historians and scholars have recorded with utmost glee and pride of the slaughters of Hindus, forced conversions, abduction of Hindu women and children to slave-markets, and the destruction of temples carried out by the warriors of Islam during 800AD to 1700 AD. Millions of Hindus were converted to Islam by the sword in this period” (historian Durant cited in Khan p 201)
And Rizwan Salim (1997) writes what the Arab invaders really did:‘ savages at a very low level of civilisation and no culture worth the name, from Arabia and West Asia, began entering India from the early century onwards. Islamic invaders demolished countless Hindu temples, shattered uncountable sculpture and idols, plundered innumerable forts and palaces of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women. .........but many Indians do not seem to recognize that the alien Muslim marauders destroyed the historical evolution of the earth’s most mentally advanced civilisation, the most richly imaginative culture, and the most vigorously creative society.” (cited in Khan p 179)
and even now, if you are not able to see anything, i feel sorry for you... and i pray to god to bless you sight...
Thanks for praying for me. But pray for yourself too so you can see things from an unbiased hindu-muslim view.
Even if we call it a rule instead of a custom, rules change with time. I certainly wont rely on a rule as you call it, which was created hundreds of years ago when there is no scientific or logical explanation for it in the current scenario.so in other words sati was not a "partha" it was a ritual came into practice for a short period of time... and as this was inhumane and baseless it was discared later... it was declared a "partha" by few historians...
we should see "avoiding same gotra marriage" as not any custom, tradition, ritual or partha, instead it should be considered as a rule or system, which must be followed...
Off topic.by the way can you tell me what is the use of your surname "swaich"?????