Last few Months

Sorry for this rather long hiatus. I promise to write posts regularly. Sorry for taking a break from the current series. I was wondering in many areas trying to explore the answer of very persistent question "Terrorism and Secularism". This question is related to many complex interlinked questions. Lets today explore the relation between two very complex religions of the world, Islam and Hindu dharma. Not reading much into the Qasim's invasion of Sindh. Lets talk about Mahmud Gazni a bit. He was the ruler of Gazni in Afghanistan. He made 17 bloody raids in India demolishing, killing and looting many great monuments, temples from Multan to Mathura, Ajmer to Somnath etc. Even extreme leftist writers like Romila Thapar has written that indeed Mahmud Gazni had done that work. Now take the point of view of modern Indians. The so called Secular media says that Mahmud Gazni was a goon and with the help of few thousands mis guided mercaneries he destroyed India. But no body has an answer to the question that why Mahmud Gazni is famous in the Islamic word by the name "The sword of Islam". Does Islam permit any of its followers to go berserk and destroy so called infidels and their temples? The second qestion is about our reluctancy in talking about these invaders. We call Akbar as Akbar the great. I do agreee that he is one of the best kings we have known but why we dont condemn the rest of the kings. Why our historians dont call other kings as butchers. True Secularism can not be achieved or rather sustained unless we are rational in our approach. The only term that is close synonym of secularism is truth. Our history books should be hundred percent true otherwise one or the other community will be full of resentment. I have even read some secularists saying that "please dont glorify Shivaaji, as he fought against the Aurangzeb". Can we modify our history to make demons look like Gods. Why so serious?