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Anti-Mosque campaign in India
- ... that two weeks before his assassination, Mahatma Gandhi conducted a six-day fast to demand the evacuation of mosques by non-Muslims?
- Source: [1]
- ALT1: ... that Jesuit missionary Joseph Tiefenthaler was the first to claim that the Babri Mosque was built near the site of Rama's birthplace? Source:[2]
- ALT2: ... that a 2020 case filed on behalf of Hindu god Vishnu sought reinstatement of Hindu and Jain idols inside the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque? Source:[3]
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Created by Ratnahastin (talk), Jannatulbaqi (talk), and DataCrusade1999 (talk).
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- Ratnahastin (talk) 14:07, 15 January 2025 (UTC).
The prose needs work, for one thing, @Ratnahastin:. I made several attempts to understand what the article is about from the lead section, but was unable to make heads or tails until I read the entire article. I am also not quite certain that I understand what "evacuation of mosques occupied by non-Muslims" means. This needs further explanation in the article and quite possibly better wording in the hook. Finally, I get a rather strong whiff of bias from the article. Surtsicna (talk) 15:49, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Ratnahastin: Please address the above.--Launchballer 16:29, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- ^ Coward, Harold (2012-02-01). "Indian Muslim Critiques of Gandhi". Indian Critiques of Gandhi. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-7914-8588-0.
When the post-Partition turmoil enveloped Delhi, Gandhi went on a six-day fast (January 12–18, 1948) two weeks before his assassination. Abul Kalam Azad went to Gandhi to ascertain Gandhi's terms for breaking the fast, and then Azad addressed a Delhi crowd of about three hundred thousand people to communicate those terms. Without exception they had to do with Muslim needs: the evacuation of mosques by non-Muslims....
- ^ Layton, Robert; Thomas, Julian, eds. (2003). Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property. Routledge. pp. 8–9. ISBN 9781134604982.
Joseph Tieffenthaler (1710-85) was the first to suggest the Babri mosque stood near a site associated with Rama's birthplace. His account was translated from the French by Johann Barnoulli in 1788. Tieffenthaler stated that Aurangzeb, last of the six Mughal emperors, 'got demolished the fortress called Ramcot, and erected on the same place a Mahometan temple'.
- ^ Das, Anjishnu (2025-01-11). "Mosque-temple rows and elections: A look at 11 disputed sites". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2025-01-16.