Zenpundit notices Ghazwa e Hind…

Ghazwa e Hind is a supposed hadith (weak, even by Hadith standards) that refers to the “raid on India” (a ghazwa is literally a raid…it was a major pre-occupation of the desert Arabs and the holy prophet supposedly took part in something like 86 raids in his lifetime..in the pre-PC days, Muslim writers were proud of this record and liked to refer to these as “battles” though most were very small scale affairs). This hadith is taken as one justification for the coming conquest of India by Islamic forces based in Pakistan. Its main propagandist in Pakistan is Zaid Zaman Hamid (a commentator on my 3QD article claimed that Zaid Hamid is charged with moving the Overton window so that Imran Khan seems reasonably sane..there is probably some truth in this).  Zenpundit has taken notice.…