Religion: Facts of Fanaticism!  
 India being the land of many religions, time and again there one religion tries to suppress the other.

Many generations of Muslims destroyed thousands of temples and Gurdawaaras and replaced them with mosques.  For example, in 1762, Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar was blown up by a heap of gun powder by the Afghans and the pool was filled with sewage, human waste and mutilated Sikh bodies, the victims of the Muslim carnage. Again in 1767, Ahmad Shah Abdali assaulted and destroyed it. The famous temple of Somnath was assaulted and destroyed by Muhammad Gazni for seventeen times!

Baabaa Nanak was imprisoned by the Muslim ruler Baabar.

Guru Arjan Dev was boiled to death by the Muslim ruler; he was placed on a hot plate while boiling sand was poured on him.

Guru Teg Bahadur was beheaded by the Muslim ruler Auranzeb. The Valiant Guru's words to the ruler were: "As a Sikh I must protect the Dharma. If you can succeed in converting this Teg Bahadur, then believe me, every Hindu of this country will accept Islam. But you will fail. Because God's Justice ensures that every community will have the right and freedom to practice its religion".  
 Guru Gobind Singh was stabbed to death by a muslim.Bandaa Bahadur, was tortured to death along with his 6 year old son and thousands of Sikh soldiers.
Bhai Mani Singh was cut into pieces along with his 52 relatives and family members. Bahi Dayala was boiled to death; Bhai Taaru had his skull removed while alive, along with him 700 Sikhs were also killed; children were cut into pieces and placed in the laps of their mothers, by the Muslim Jihadis.
Aurangzeb converted millions of Hindus into Islam, and brutally murdered many millions who refused this forceful conversion.
Two sons of Guru Gobind Singh were walled alive and two killed in the battle by the Muslim ruler.
Bhagat Kabeer was chained and thrown into the river by jealous Pundits.
Bhagat Namdev was forced to bring a dead cow to life by jealous Pundits.
In 1947, during the partitions of British India, thousands of people including men, women, and children were murdered in the name of religion and God.
In the name of religion, thousands of innocent people (most of them young boys) lost their lives in large scale violence in Punjab during the eighties. Also, during that time the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar was attacked by the Indian Army.
In 1984, thousands of Sikhs were dragged from their homes by the fanatic Hindu mobs and burnt alive in Delhi and other parts of India.
Ironically, as of this day, the genocide, carnage, pillage, rapine, repression and destruction throughout the world continue in the name of religion and God!
The phrase that we repeat in our ardaas everyday, "Nanak naam chardi kalaa / tere bhaanay sarbatt da bhalaa," is not from gurbani. When and how this phrase was introduced is still unknown, but certainly it is not known to be the exact words of Guru Nanak or any of His successors. Dr Jaswant Singh Neki feels that it was introduced around mid 18th century but has no hard evidence. Dr. H. S Dilgeer says that there is no evidence of anything like that in the pre-1849 Sikh rule era. He has seen the records in the British Museum. Heavers that it was the work of the English after 1850, but before the start of the Singh Sabha movement in 1873. The English were known to have played havoc with the Sikh shrines, considered a fulcrum of Sikh spirit which they wanted to crush. The purpose of its introduction by the English through Nirmalas, Pujaris and others in the Sikh litany in the post-1849 era was to introduce the word bhana, God's Will or Command, and that too in the name of Guru Nanak, to dissimulate the Sikhs/Khalsa to reconcile them to the bitter, unpalatable and unrelenting hostility administered to them. The Khalsa, under the surreptitiously introduced new doctrine of bhana, was induced to overcome the feelings of grief and high treason administered by Brahmins, Dogras and the English, which had resulted in the disintegration of Sikh political sovereignty.
Compiled by, 
 Mohan Singh (Homeopath)