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BLACK & WHITE
Worst atrocities in the name of god
(part-1)
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2. CONTENTS
1 Crimes committed in the name of god
2 Hindu-Muslim riots
3 Jihad
4 Baha'i vs Islam
5 Taiping Rebellion
6 Sacrifice to Goddess Kali
7 Witchcraft
8 Sati practice
9 Buddhists in Burma
10 Inquisition
3. Throughout history, religion has been used as a
reason, or inspiration, for some of the worst
mayhem possible. From pre-history to modern
history, religion is, for many people, just an
excuse to kill other people. Here is a
compilation of the worst atrocities the world
has witnessed…
(1) Crimes committed in the
name of god
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(2) Hindu-Muslim riots
A pig caused hundreds of Indians to kill one
another in 1980. The animal walked through a
Muslim holy ground at Moradabad, in Uttar
Pradesh. Muslims, who think pigs are an
embodiment of Satan, blamed Hindus for the
defilement. They went on a murder rampage,
stabbing and clubbing Hindus, who retaliated
in kind. The pig riot spread to a dozen cities
and left more than 200 dead. There are
endless such unfortunate instances between
the two communities.
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(4) Baha'i vs Islam
When the Baha'i faith began in Persia in 1844,
the Islamic regime sought to exterminate it.
The Baha'i founder was imprisoned and
executed in 1850. Two years later, the
religious government massacred 20,000
Baha'is. Streets of Tehran were soaked with
blood. The new Baha'i leader, Baha'ullah, was
tortured and exiled in foreign Muslim prisons
for the rest of his life.
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(5) Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion was a massive civil
war in southern China from 1850 to 1864,
against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. It
was a millenarian movement led by Hong
Xiuquan, who announced that he had
received visions in which he learned that he
was the younger brother of Jesus. At least 20
million people died, mainly civilians, in one of
the deadliest military conflicts in history.
When
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(6) Sacrifice to Goddess Kali
Members of lndia's Thuggee sect strangled
people as sacrifices to appease the
bloodthirsty goddess Kali, a practice beginning
in the 1500s. The number of victims has been
estimated to be as high as 2 million. Thugs
were claiming about 20,000 lives a year in the
1800s until British rulers stamped them out. At
a trial in 1840, one Thug was accused of killing
931 people. Today, some Hindu priests still
sacrifice goats to Kali.
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(7) Witchcraft
In the 1400s, the Inquisition shifted its focus to
witchcraft. Priests tortured untold thousands of
women into confessing that they were witches who
flew through the sky and engaged in sex with the
devil - then they were burned or hanged for their
confessions. Witch hysteria raged for three
centuries in a dozen nations. Estimates of the
number executed vary from 100,000 to 2 million.
Whole villages were exterminated. The witch craze
was religious madness at its worst.
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(8) Sati practice
Sati was a social funeral practice among some Indian
communities in which a recently widowed woman
would immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.
The practice was banned several times, with the current
ban dating to 1829 by the British. However, Sati
remained legal in some Indian princely states for a time
after it had been abolished. Jaipur banned the practice
in 1846 and Nepal continued to practice Sati well into
the 20th century. On the Indonesian island of Bali, Sati
was practised as late as 1905In
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(9) Buddhists in Burma
In 1850, Buddhists monks in Burma still practiced ritual
human sacrifices in which performing it. Along with
moving the capital to Mandalay, 56 people considered
to be "blameless" were killed and buried under the city
walls to become patrons of the new settlement. Soon,
two of the graves were found empty, which has led
royal astrologers give a verdict radical: 500 people have
killed and buried under the walls, otherwise capital will
be discharged. By the intervention of British Governors
sacrifices ended, 100 people had been killed already.
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(10) Inquisition
First Inquisition movements were caused by the
attitude of the masses to Christianity,
particularly of the Cathars and Valdensienilor.
The torture began to be used after the year 1252.
Pope Innocent IV, in a papal edict known as Ad
exstirpanda, authorized the torture. But the ruling
forbade bloodshed, mutilation or death. One of
the methods commonly used was "strappado",
which involved linking the accused hands back
and its suspension in the air to arm fracture