What is the reason behind enmity between Hindus and Muslims?

Question

Okay, so my boyfriend is a Hindu (by the way I am a Christian). He is a nice guy ... smart, intelligent, very caring, kind and above all so respectful to me, my religion, my family etc. But just a couple of days ago, we were talking about religion ( which we rarely do ) and I was surprised to see that while he possesses good opinion on Christianity, Buddhism , Judaism etc, he was very hostile towards Islam. When I asked the reason, he dropped the topic saying "who wants to talk about bad things. I guess many Hindus will have same opinion as mine." I understand why some people look down upon Islam but I am curious why did he mean that particularly Hindus may have a bad opinion on Islam?

Answer 1

Well, considering as to how Muslims have killed almost 80 million Hindus, so far; I can understand why he doesn't like them.



Not only he, but a lot of others don't like the Muslim.



Would you like people who do things like this all the time?



Islamic Fatwa says that the Torah and Bible can be used for toilet paper

http://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/Fatwa:_It_is_Permissible_to_Use_the_%22Torah_and_the_New_Testament..._for_Anal_Cleansing_after_Defecation%22



Australia : Muslim Students Urinate, Spit On Then Burn Bible

http://justifythis.blogspot.com/2006/12/australia-muslim-students-urinate-spit.html



Egypt: Muslims burn Christian man alive, stab his father to death

http://ucministries.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/egypt-muslims-burn-christian-man-alive-stab-his-father-to-death/

Pakistan: Muslims burn Christian man as policeman rapes his wife

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/pakistan-muslims-burn-christian-man-policeman-rapes-his-wife



6 killed in Pakistan as Muslims burn Christian homes

http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=10504

Muslim rioters burn 13 churches in north Nigeria

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06376353.htm



Islam Gang Rapes, Beats and Forces Christian Girls to Convert

http://www.chroniclewatch.com/2011/10/26/islam-gang-rapes-beats-and-forces-christian-girls-to-convert/

Muslim rapes Christian Toddler for Failure to Convert to Islam

http://www.chroniclewatch.com/2011/08/01/christian-persecution-muslim-rapes-christian-toddler-for-failure-to-convert-to-islam/



Muslim mobs burn 100 Buddhist homes; 10 temples

http://digitaljournal.com/article/333896

Muslims Behead a Young Buddhist Boy, Slaughter Others in Thailand

http://europenews.dk/en/node/45293

Answer 2

There is a long history of hostility between Hindus and Muslims.



Since when?? Nobody really knows...

But they guess it all started after the Britishers divided the Muslims and Hindus to rule all of of India, in which the British were successful.



But the seeds sown by the Britishers were very powerful and today almost every Indian knows about the British divide and rule policy that they played but still won't give up hating and abusing.



Furthermore with the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan (On the basis of religion, a land for the Muslims) the hostility of Hindus against Muslims increased even more and vice versa.

The killing of numerous people from both the religions during partition intensified all the hatred.



Adding to all this spice Jammu & Kashmir (A Muslim Majority region) was given to India during partition and since the partition there have been regular wars against the two countries for the land of Jammu & Kashmir.

Moreover hundreds of riots take place in many parts of India against Hindus and Muslims. (India has officially around 15% Muslims after the partition)



Did i forget to mention about the big difference in their faiths that is the reason for most of the debates?



And after all these today most Hindus hate Muslims and Muslims hate Hindus.

So you see how strong was the seed sown by the Britishers?!!

Answer 3

Muhammad did no longer do plenty as much as Hitler did via Himmler. Himmler who carried out the holocaust used to hold the hindu bible Gita with him constantly for theory for it taught mass killings without feeling undesirable. Nazis additionally tailored hindu image - swastika And nazis mentor - Nietzsche had supported the hindu e book of hatred pronounced as Manusmriti for this reason it kind of feels many human beings have been against Jews down the history which i've got faith is with the help of a pair different reason and the clarification is they lent money and absolutely everyone who lends , additionally tries to get it returned - no longer quickly. and each so often this 'no longer quickly' could make human beings experience undesirable. Muhammad's doctrine and his acts in basic terms placed are very plenty against the civilized society and quite very plenty against Buddhism because of the fact Buddhism condemns all form of violence & hatred against any creature.

Answer 4

The problem is a long-standing one of two different attitudes/cultures/religions trying to live together peaceably in one area.



In recent history, still in memories of your boyfriends parents and/or grandparents ... there is enough history of violence just there, when India and Pakistan gained their independence from Britain in 1947:



"On 14 and 15 August 1947, British India gave way to two new independent states, the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India, both dominions which joined the British Commonwealth. However, the decision to divide Punjab and Bengal, two of the biggest provinces, between India and Pakistan had disastrous consequences. This division created inter-religious violence of such magnitude that exchange of population along religious lines became a necessity in these provinces. More than two million people migrated across the new borders and more than one hundred thousand died in the spate of communal violence, that spread even beyond these provinces."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pakistan

Answer 5

I think @ Freespeech hit the nail on the head. Hindus despise Muslims, because Muslims and Islam has corrupted the very Fabric of India. Each and every moral fibre that the huge Indian subcontinent created and maintained, their social systems (in fact the caste system has been degenerated into what it is now by the Islamic invasion), their arts and creativity have all been systematically decimated by Muslims over the last 1400 years. As if this wasn't enough, Muslims converted the poor and the helpless through oppression, and rewarding of disloyalty to the great Vedic religions. Hinduism is only a fragment of the great wealth of knowledge, and spirituality that the Vedas disseminated amongst the original inhabitants of the previously great Bharatha Nation. These converted Muslims, from then and now, have been eroding the wealth and the growth of India as a whole, they split the nation to create their own country of Pakistan, and even then a vast majority chose to stay and gnaw at the roots of the country they invaded, and virtually destroyed. Hindus wonder why Muslims remain in India,even though they hate it so much (Mumbai bombings). I suspect as long as Muslims remain in India, and prevent it's development, as long as keep dragging India into poverty and corruption, they will be hated by Hindus. And your boyfriend isn't wrong, in the face of great adversity in the form of Islamic invasion, Hindus, have retained as much of the Vedic and Puranic religions as they could. Unlike other European and Middle eastern nations that fell to the invasion of the Ottoman Empire, India and Hinduism (Vedic religion) still endures - and Hindus will never trust Muslims.

Answer 6

It is you! have you seen your question? things like these will pour Fuel in to the fire which kindled ages back! Personally me born into a Brahmin family then reverted to Islam, who use to be a RSS follower there in no actual reason in the brains of common people, it is coming in the blood just hate each other!!!



One of the main reasons that other religions can mingle and Islam can't is for a Hindu every thing is god so if christian comes and tell a hindu that Christ is a god! then he will put a photo in his home along with other gods and do prayer and no christian will object to it, and it is with other religions so they all are in harmony in polytheistic beliefs!!!



where a Muslim come and tell him about Tauhid then it hurts Ignorant Hindu! why I called Hindu a Ignorant is out of 100% - only 1% knows 25% about their religion!!! and it is true if one agree or not! even for 4 vedas one can not read all of them, in Brahmin's also there chosen categories to read them! and who read them also don't know exact meanings! Everything is egocentric!



And in these days hatred is more politically motivated on both sides, more hypocrisy than faith!

Answer 7

Look up the mughals. They were an Islamic kingdom that took over much of North India. Also look at Pakistan.

Answer 8

Freespeech clearly states why there is hatred between the two... Understand, the Hindus welcomed muslims into their lands and the thanks they got was 80 million slaughtered by muslims who wanted to control the land.



270 million people have died in the name of Islam since the last 1443 years... No other relgion, political group or war took as many lives as this one relgion has...

Answer 9

He is ignorant and doesn't know anything about Islam. He bases Islam on what muslims do.

Answer 10

It's more of a political/cultural enmity than a religious one. Where I live, Hindus and Muslims get along swimmingly. It's more of a regional conflict than anything to do with the two religions as a whole.

Answer 11

after reading your question i asked a friend, who is Hindu and very nice family, about Muslim. He told me Hindus don't like Muslims because they fight and get angry and they think all has to be like them. and follow only what they say is correct.

Answer 12

Muslims hate everyone who isn't Muslim and want to put them all to the sword. They even hate and kill each other constantly. A simple look at history, as described above, will shed light on the truth. Muslims say that Islam was not spread by the sword and is a religion of peace. Muslims lie. Constantly. They lie about everything, all the time, they are incapable of telling the truth, especially where their own barbaric religion is concerned. I will never believe a word any Muslim says, not a single one of them has proven themselves able to tell the truth. Not ever.

Answer 13

because muslims are the most ******* people..simple as that

Answer 14

No reason at all within ourselves....This hatred was fueled by the colonizing british people who knew that if the three countries (Bangladesh, India and Pakistan) were together, it would have been a superpower by now like China......Muslims and Hindus have lived in that land for centuries (over 1000 years) without any major conflict whatsoever.....But the British colonizers created hatred among ourselves and our forefathers unfortunately fell for it. I wish the new generation understands this and words towards creating something called a desi union (like European union) so that we can work together for the betterment of our countries.

Answer 15

Salam Hindus in India are majority while Muslims are minority so they oppress and hate Muslims Oppositely Muslims in India hate Hindus too They are just like oil and water could not be merged because they have very different morality and spirituality Islam is monotheism while Hindu is polytheism The main reason behind enmity between Hindus and Muslims is political background made by UK as their invaders for breaking unity among them

Answer 16

muslims r so welcoming of other religions - so ur hindu friend needs to welcome muslims too

Answer 17

He has hate in his heart.It may be historical or political.

He will loves Muslims if they say polytheism and idol worship is ok.

Answer 18

Hinduism was around for thousands of years when the muslims attacked them and tried to subject the entire area of India. Hinduism stayed in it's own area while islam was spread by the sword.

Answer 19

Religious "leaders"

Answer 20

Monotheism and idol worshippers rivalry.

Answer 21

He knows that Islam is Monotheistic religion , that means ,all ways threat to polytheism where he comes from.

Answer 22

because the pakistanis eat beef

Answer 23

Because of the Hindu Holocaust by Islamic Invaders. It was the world's largest systematic genocide that took place over centuries of waves of invasions:



There is no official estimate of the total death toll of Hindus at the hands of Islam. A first glance at important testimonies by Muslim chroniclers suggests that, over 13 centuries and a territory as vast as the Subcontinent, Muslim Holy Warriors easily killed more Hindus than the 6 million of the Holocaust. Ferishtha lists several occasions when the Bahmani sultans in central India (1347-1528) killed a hundred thousand Hindus, which they set as a minimum goal whenever they felt like "punishing" the Hindus; and they were only a third-rank provincial dynasty. The biggest slaughters took place during the raids of Mahmud Ghaznavi (ca. 1000 CE); during the actual conquest of North India by Mohammed Ghori and his lieutenants (1192 ff.); and under the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526). The Moghuls (1526-1857), even Babar and Aurangzeb, were fairly restrained tyrants by comparison. Prof. K.S. Lal once estimated that the Indian population declined by 50 million under the Sultanate, but that would be hard to substantiate; research into the magnitude of the damage Islam did to India is yet to start in right earnest.



http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/irin/genocide.html



The Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent led to widespread carnage because Muslims regarded the Hindus as infidels and therefore slaughtered and converted millions of Hindus. Will Durant argued in his 1935 book The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage (page 459):



“ The Mohammedan Conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Holocaust



Afghan historian Khondamir notes that during one of the many repeated invasions on the city of Herat in western Afghanistan, which used to be part of the Hindu Shahiya kingdoms '1,500,000 residents perished.' 'Thus,' writes Vyas, 'it is evident that the mountain range was named as Hindu Kush as a reminder to the future Hindu generations of the slaughter and slavery of Hindus during the Moslem conquests.'



http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/oct/21franc.htm



It is tragic that thousands of educated and intelligent people seek to negate the Hindu Holocaust–mostly unwittingly. That is partly the result of reading fabricated history right from childhood, and partly for being politically correct. A nation cannot be built on a foundation of half truths and outright lies about its own history. It leads to mistrust among its own people, as is very evident today. There’s nothing shameful in admitting Islam’s destructive role in medieval India. On the contrary, it should, like the Holocaust museum, serve as a reminder of what should not be repeated. Ever.



http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/11/09/hindu-holocaust-a-thorn-by-any-other-name/



In 1008 AD he captured Nagarkot (Kangra). The loot amounted to 70,000,000 dirhams in coins and 700,400 mans of gold and silver, besides plenty of precious stones and embroidered cloths. In 1011 AD he plundered Thanesar which was undefended, destroyed many temples, and broke a large number of idols. The chief idol, that of Chakraswamin, was taken to Ghazni and thrown into the public square for defilement under the feet of the faithful. According to Tarikh-i-Yamini of Utbi, Mahmud's secretary,



"The blood of the infidels flowed so copiously [at Thanesar] that the stream was discolored, notwithstanding its purity, and people were unable to drink it. The Sultan returned with plunder which is impossible to count. Praise he to Allah for the honor he bestows on Islam and Muslims."



http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/moghal_atro.html