Apparently one reason is because Sikhs fought back to say no you cannot claim us. And they made this very clear when they literally killed an Indian prime minister. If they had even more power, I would be surprised if they had their own country. I guess this is what Khalistan is about.
Actually, Buddhists in India had to fight as well and may in fact have preceded the Sikhs in this.
The term
hindu was invented by the British to label anyone in the occupied territories who wasn't Muslim, Christian, or Jew. Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Sanatani, Shaivi, Vaishnavi, and I dunno how many countless others, all fell under the hindu category. The Sanatani (whom you'd associate with a typical hindu today) were the most powerful among them and found it to their advantage to claim all as their own.
Jains, Sikhs, and Buddhists successfully fought for their religious independence. The others did not succeed and are still seeking that recognition.
So apparently whether something is heavily Indian or not is simply a political thing based on whether it's followers take up arms? Thats probably one reason they wouldn't like Islam then since the religion was born from desert warlords.
The upper castes of Sanatani Hinduism despised Islam because the latter offered the lower castes an escape from perpetual slavery. Why be a low caste Hindu (born to serve the Brahmin) when you can be a Muslim without any caste, especially one who is protected by Muslim rulers? Even today, bigoted Indian Hindus call local Muslims as
low caste convert as a derogatory slur.
Sanatani hate for Islam exploded in the 17th century when the Muslim Mughal emperor Aurangzeb prohibited feudalism and actually managed to accomplish it within a short time. This was catastrophic for the caste system and deprived the upper castes of much of their power.
by that logic Islam should a Persian religion because Persian was used its sacred language.
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Persian has never been used as Islam's sacred language. Even in Persia itself and among Persian rulers where Persian was the court/official language, Arabic was the language employed for theology.
