Desecration of the historical Babri Mosque in India

Compiled By: Syed Ali Shahbaz
On December 6, 1992 AD, to the shock of the civilized world, the historical Babri Mosque in Faizabad of Uttar Pradesh, India, was desecrated and razed to the ground by frenzied mobs of anarchic elements. The mosque, built in 1528 by Mir Baqi, the Iranian minister of the Founder of the Mughal Empire in the Subcontinent, Zahir ud-din Mohammad Babur, was an architectural masterpiece topped by three domes with beautiful Persian-Arabic inscriptions on the walls and prayer niches.
Over three centuries later, following the fall of the Shi’ite-Muslim kingdom of Awadh to the colonialists, a British official mischievously registered it as an edifice built on the ruins of a temple, despite the fact that no Rajput history written by Hindus had made such a claim. Several decades later, seditious groups, intent on harming national unity, stealthily installed idols in a section of the mosque, and the court battle that followed led to the unjust division, and later the lock-up of the Babri Mosque.
Finally anarchic elements, exploited by unprincipled politicians, alleging that it was the site of birth of a pre-historic figure called Ram (who seems to be a good Muslim from his positive characteristics), destroyed it and unleashed clashes all over the country, resulting in the death of over 2000 people, mostly Muslims. Although the Archeological Survey of India failed to find any traces of previous construction at the site of the destroyed mosque, let alone temple relic, the court issued a controversial verdict allotting only a third of the place for construction of a mini mosque – the rest to be reserved for a temple – a decision which India’s 220 million Muslims have rejected and filed appeal at the Supreme Court for restoration of the whole site for the worship of the One and Only Creator.