BABRI: the mosque that started it all

Timeline

1528: The Babri Mosque is built at today’s Ayodhya during the regime of Moghal Emperor Zaheeruddin Babar. After the regime of Moghal, the British colonized India. In the war against Islam and to strengthen their government, British used to resort to Hindu-Muslim riots (divide and rule policy) and spread trouble through their puppets.

1855: In 1855 British Government conspired Hindu-Muslim communal riots by setting forth the baseless claim by Hindus that the Babri Mosque was the birthplace of Ram and should be Ram Temple. Hindu-Muslim clashes at Ayodhya claim 75 lives.

(There is no proof that the Babari Mosque was built on the place where there existed any temple. There are a number of temples of Ram in Ayodhya and each temple claims that the birth of Ram had taken place in it. Archaeology studies report in 1976 states that, no human population existed in the period claimed as Ram's Birth time in Ayodhya.)

1857: A Hindu priest takes over a part of the Babri compound and builds an altar. Hindus and Muslims both visit the compound to worship peacefully.

1859: The British government builds a wall to separate the places of worship.

1934: During countrywide Hindu-Muslim riots, Hindus break parts of the Babri Mosque wall and damage its domes.

1949: An idol of the God Ram is secretly installed inside Babri Mosque. The government proclaims the location to be a disputed area and locks the building.

1983: The VHP begin a campaign to build a Temple at the Mosque site. The movement gathers momentum in the next few years.

1986: A police-case of Babari Mosque was referred to a Jan Sanghi District Judge, K.K. Nayer. With the assistance of the (corrupt) police, K.K. Nayer declares that Babri Mosque is a Temple. K.K. Nayer is forced to resign on account of his guilt, but is soon elected a member of Legislative Assembly and the Mosque is locked by court orders. In 1986, despite the pending case of ownership of the Babri Mosque in the Allahabad High Court, the Judge of Subordinate Court (while neglecting the application of the Muslims) grants permission of worship to Hindus and ordered unlocking.

1989: The pro-Hindu government allows groundbreaking ceremonies for the construction of a Hindu Temple near the Mosque. About 600 die in related Hindu-Muslim rioting.

1990: The National Leader of BJP (and current President of BJP) incites religious riots, endangering the lives, property and possessions of thousands of Muslims. More than 100,000 kar sevaks (Hindu militants) gather at Ayodhya; many storm the Mosque and 30 are killed by police. Hundreds more Muslims and Hindus die in sectarian violence.

July 1992: Construction ceremonies begin on the new Ram Temple, but the Mosque is not disturbed.

Dec. 6, 1992: [The leaders of the Sangh Parivar, Kar Sevaks, and Shiv Sainiks martyr the Babri Mosque (with the active support of the BJP government) and built a temporary temple on the site of the Mosque.] Muslim leadership in India remains silent, relying on law and justice; Muslim leaders asks their followers not to react. After the official martyrdom of Babri Mosque, Muslims start non-violent protests expressing their anger. Thousands of Muslims are killed, injured and thousands put behind bars. A mob of 300,000 Hindu militants and Hindu worshippers demolish the mosque, unleashing India's worst Hindu-Muslim riots to date: more than 2,000 people are killed.

January 2002: The VHP says it intends to build a Ram Temple on Babri Mosque... despite a Supreme Court order preventing construction. 15,000 Hindu activists and militants arrive to oversee that their Temple is built (and prevent any Muslims to enter the site of their new Temple).

Feb. 27, 2002: The worst communal violence in a decade erupts after Hindus go on a rampage in Gujarat in retaliation for a train fire that leaves 58 Hindu militants dead. The extremists were returning from the controversial Babri Mosque site. (It was never proven that Muslims were responsible for this fire.)

[Babari Masjid is not the only target of extremist Hindus. They actually have enlisted 3000 Mosques all over India and plan to convert them into their temples. The government has declared that Ram-Janam-Bhoomi (birth place of Ram) is beyond law and court; they aren't bound by court orders. Hindus announced that they will soon construct Ram Temple on the site of Babri Mosque under any circumstances.]

[The Muslims believe that mosques are the property of Allah and are always constructed on undisputed lands. Once a mosque is built on land, that place shall remain mosque until the ‘Doomsday’. Those responsible for ruining mosques and preventing worship of Allah are most ‘ruthless’.]