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Old 04-23-2008, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by eleanoraquitaine View Post
Hindus:
Koenard Elst in Negationism in India gives an estimate of 80 million Hindus killed in the total jihad against India. [Koenard Elst, Negationism in India, Voice of India, New Delhi, 2002, pg. 34.] The country of India today is only half the size of ancient India, due to jihad. The mountains near India are called the Hindu Kush, meaning the
“funeral pyre of the Hindus.”
80 million Hindus
What a logically devoid undertaking: take everything in which a Muslim was involved, and attribute all the deaths to Islam. Be sure to use the most extreme estimates developed by partisans with an ax to grind -- like Koenraad Elst (your source can't even spell his name right), a Belgian with anti-Muslim views driven, in part, by his strong, near-unquestioning support for Hindu nationalists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenraad_Elst

Never mind that much of the claim is simply wrong. The idea that "Hindu Kush" means "killer of Hindus" postdates the actual term by a century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Kush

It actually means "Seat of the Hindus" or even simply "Hindu mountains." And even the "killer of Hindus" version refers to the mountains' height and deadliness, not Islamic slaughter.
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