Where there are heroes, villains are no surprise. Many were self-professed ghAzis (mujAhids intent on jihAd). Others power hungry people who pursued personal ambition at the cost of higher ideals.
Religious villains
mahmUd of ghazni
pillager, destroyer of temples (including sOmanAtha), who firmly established a deep distaste for turuShkas in hindu and shramaNa hearts.
alauddIn khilji
who coveted rANI padminI, destroyer of temples, whose general malik kafur spread destruction to the south.
Malik Kafur
the eununch general of alauddIn khilji, who reached as far as kanchi and rAmEshvaram, destroyer of temples.
Firoz Tughlaq
who outlawed the practice of the dharma - even in private - in dilli.
Syed Ali bin Shahab-ud-Din Hamadani Abidi
also known as Amir-I-Kabir or Ali-I-Sani, the Suhrawardi→ Kubrawi order sufi who ensured the success of the islamic contagion in kAshmIra cleverly (anti-hindu edicts 1).
Rinchan aka sadruddin
the Tibetan usurper and iconoclast (constructed “Bud Masheed”, on the site of a Buddhist temple) who took to Islam.
sikandar bhUt-shikAn
sikandar bhUt-shikAn, as his title suggests, the idol-breaker sultAn of kAshmIr, who fuelled with the mad zeal of the sUfi-s, also delighted in burning critical books, giving the usual convert-or-die choice to hindu-s, who banned music and festivity. A true exemplar of “kAshmIriyat”.
Ghiyasuddin Al Damaghani
sultan of madurai, whose depravity is described by Ibn Batuta [AS16].
mahmUd beragha
sultAn of gujarAt, a monstrous person who ate 100 mutton samosa-s a day with a pot of ghee daily, destroyed temples, had an appetite for seizing Hindu women to add to his harem (MT).
kAlA-pahAD
formerly ferocious oriya general rAjIv lochan ray who converted to islam because of fury at orthodox blockage of desire to marry the paThan sultan’s daughter, who raided jagannAtha-purI, supposedly murdered by gajapati remnants (such as princess sAmbhaleshvarI).
awrangzib
awrangzib, impozer of jizya, destroyer of temples (बिन्दु-माधव ट्१).
TIpu sultAn
- named after sufi fuckeer dIpu mastAn auliya
- pillaged and converted people at sword point in kEraLa. [Sandeep Dec 2014.]
- He had 3 wives, and an unverifiable number of concubines. Each wife/concubine on an average had children 2-3 children. The concubines included: sisters of Vira Raja of Coorg, who were childless and were recovered by him; daughter of “kAlA” paNDit bishnopant of Nargund, a relative of pUrNayya. Their later fate in vellore (6 years) and kolkota (150 yrs, 12 sons, 3 daughters, retinue of 300 initially) - FB.
daud sayed gilAni aka David Coleman Headley
opportunistic and ideologically motivated spy for lashkar-e-tayyaba and ISI, US-double agent, who cased out locations for the Dec 2008 mumbai attacks.
Hindu charlatans
These bring the sanAtana dharma to disrepute, even as they deceive feeble hindu-s.
Swami Nithyananda
- the center of a sex scandal in 2010s. There was a video where he gleefully dances over his father’s corpse, then ’liberates’ it by stomping on its forehead, gives it diksha post mortem, and declares it a sishya-turned-sanyasi.