I do understand this sort of behavior because Muslims are also provoking Hindus by eating (sacred) cows in front of them
Taj Mahal is crumbling due to anti-Muslim neglect, say critics
Cracks in the white marble façade of the Taj Mahal have prompted claims that a key ally of India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister is allowing the jewel of Muslim art to fall into disrepair.
Now, however, a series of photos highlighted on social media have fuelled concerns that the Taj Mahal, which is visited by about eight million people a year, is crumbling. These include a leaking dome, cracks in the walls and a tree sprouting from a pillar.
Damage caused by airborne pollution has also long been a concern, said the BBC. Environmentalists have been "particularly concerned" about a major oil refinery 30 miles away from the Taj Mahal emitting sulphur dioxide and other pollutants, which combine with moisture in the atmosphere to cause corrosive rain.
The tree spotted emerging from a pillar at the Taj Mahal is a peepul, a variety of fig considered sacred by Hindus – symbolic, for those pointing the finger of blame for the monument's decline on the growing influence of Hindu extremists.
There is a "pervasive influence" of Hindu nationalism in the "highest echelons" of Indian politics, said La Croix, and "an intent to establish a Hindu hegemony at the expense of religious minorities", a policy known as Hindutva.
Some Hindu fringe groups have "set their sights" on the Taj Mahal, which they believe that was built on the site of a shrine to the Hindu deity Shiva, said France24. "It was destroyed by Mughal invaders so that a mosque could be built there," Sanjay Jat, spokesman for the organisation Hindu Mahasabha, told the news website.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/arti...-lgp3lld5l
https://theweek.com/culture-life/design-...-crumbling
Taj Mahal is crumbling due to anti-Muslim neglect, say critics
Cracks in the white marble façade of the Taj Mahal have prompted claims that a key ally of India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister is allowing the jewel of Muslim art to fall into disrepair.
Now, however, a series of photos highlighted on social media have fuelled concerns that the Taj Mahal, which is visited by about eight million people a year, is crumbling. These include a leaking dome, cracks in the walls and a tree sprouting from a pillar.
Damage caused by airborne pollution has also long been a concern, said the BBC. Environmentalists have been "particularly concerned" about a major oil refinery 30 miles away from the Taj Mahal emitting sulphur dioxide and other pollutants, which combine with moisture in the atmosphere to cause corrosive rain.
The tree spotted emerging from a pillar at the Taj Mahal is a peepul, a variety of fig considered sacred by Hindus – symbolic, for those pointing the finger of blame for the monument's decline on the growing influence of Hindu extremists.
There is a "pervasive influence" of Hindu nationalism in the "highest echelons" of Indian politics, said La Croix, and "an intent to establish a Hindu hegemony at the expense of religious minorities", a policy known as Hindutva.
Some Hindu fringe groups have "set their sights" on the Taj Mahal, which they believe that was built on the site of a shrine to the Hindu deity Shiva, said France24. "It was destroyed by Mughal invaders so that a mosque could be built there," Sanjay Jat, spokesman for the organisation Hindu Mahasabha, told the news website.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/arti...-lgp3lld5l
https://theweek.com/culture-life/design-...-crumbling
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
