The Hindu temple complex at Khajuraho, miraculous survivor of India’s Muslim invasion

The Hindu temple complex at Khajuraho, miraculous survivor of India’s Muslim invasion, by Brian Doak.

The most visited site in India is the Taj Mahal…a legacy of the Mohammedan invasion from the north.

The second most-visited site in India is the Hindu temple complex at Khajuraho… The Khajuraho temples were all erected … between 950AD and 1050AD, and it was mostly their isolation that saved them from the destruction wreaked by the invaders of northern India, the first being Mahmoud of Ghazni. He took back vast wealth from the destruction of Hindu and Buddhist temples and, fortuitously, was repelled twice on the outskirts of Khajuraho, in 1019AD and 1022AD. At Khajuraho the temple friezes display the life of a vibrant people who were not coy about human sexuality.

Islam and Sex:

Mohammedanism differs in its regard for females, as one would expect of an ideology committed to polygamy and expectations of a paradise where females serve the sexual fantasies of males. Females are often cast as sexual slaves to men,  much as, in a similar and subservient way, males see themselves as slaves to Allah; hence the common male name ‘Abdullah’, slave of Allah. The ideology also endorses the record of Mohammad consummating marriage with a nine-year-old.

hat-tip Stephen Neil