Babri Masjid!!

The Babri Mosque or Mosque of Babur was a mosque constructed by order of the first Mughal emperor of India, Babur, in Ayodhya in the 16th century. The mosque stood on Ramkot ("Rama's fort") Hill. It was destroyed by Hindu nationalists,[ as many as 150,000, during a planned ceremony on December 6, 1992 despite a commitment to the Indian Supreme Court that the mosque would not be harmed. Hindu nationalists believe that Babur's commander-in-chief Mir Baki destroyed an existing temple at the site, which Hindus believe was the temple built to commemorate the birthplace of Rama, the ruler of Ayodhya. Interestingly the mosque shared a wall with a Rama Temple. Muslims had their feelings attached with the Babri Mosque, one of the largest mosques in Uttar Pradesh, a state in India with around 31 million Muslims.
Interestingly, the communal feelings weren’t all this strong amongst the people till the various political parties interfered. Ayodhya, a pilgrimage site for Hindus has an annual fair attended by over 500,000 people of both faiths; many devotees came during the annual Ram festival to drink from the water well in the Babri Courtyard. Hindu pilgrims also believed that the Babri water well was the original well in the Ram Temple under the mosque. Ayodhya Muslims believed that the well was a gift from God. Muslim emperor Babur came down from Ferghana in 1527 and overcame the Hindu King. His general, Mir Baqi. destroyed this temple at Ayodhya, built by the Hindus to commemorate Rama. Mir Baqi built a mosque at the site of the destroyed temple. This was called the Babri Masjid Mosque, named after King Babar. Muslims source say that neither history nor fact can come to prove the Hindu case as claimed above. They claim that is clear that the allegations, on which, the demands of RSS, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Hindu Munnani are based for laying claim to Babri Masjid are biased against Islam. Up to a certain time in 1855, both the Hindus and Muslims used to worship in the same building. But since the Mutiny 1857, an outer enclosure has been put up in front of the Masjid and the Hindus forbidden access to the inner yard.
The religious issues were more immature evident from events like on mid-night of December 22,1949, when the police guards were asleep, idols of Rama and Sita were quietly brought into the Masjid and were planted. This further agitated the Muslims too and this quest to occupy the “Land of God” never seemed to end while the Political Parties continued to bring these differences for their selfish motives and breaking up the nation becomes an easy deal for them just to win few more votes. This is how our Government runs and the legend continues while rather than working on mending the divided nation, this division helps them to gain the power while the Hindu- Muslim conflicts continue as igniting the crowd in the name of Religion is the easiest way out since people can blindly believe in anything in the name of Religion.
The Babri Masjid demolition was triggered by BJP:
In 1980, the BJP launched a movement led by Advani on the issue of the Ram Temple. The BJP demanded that a temple dedicated to Lord Rama be created at the site of a mosque where, according to their claim, a temple stood till Babar's invasion of India in 1528. The mosque there destroyed by mobs in 1992, sparking riots nationwide that cost 2,000 lives. Speaking to correspondents on his appointment as President of the BJP, Advani said, ”We must be candid enough to recognize the Hindu anger that exploded on the streets in the early 1990s has given way to a patient wait for the new temple whose construction, I feel is inevitable." While the Vishwa Hindu Parishad believed this act to be necessary to maintain their objectives to consolidate and strengthen the Hindu Society and it is sad that they name it as an act to protect, promote and propagate Hindu values of life, the ethical and the spiritual in the context of modern times.
There's the core of the controversy: who owns the spot where the Babri Masjid stood, the majority Hindus or the minority Muslims of India? So acrimonious is the debate that the mosque is no longer referred to as Babri. It's just the `disputed site'. Over the last decade or so, Indian politics has been dominated by this dispute.There followed an enormously successful mobilisation among Hindus all over North India. Thousands of devotees marched to Ayodhya bearing bricks with the name of their god inscribed upon them. There, they laid the foundations of a new temple, and a new movement to remove the mosque. At the beginning of this decade the BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani -- who is now Home Minister of the Union of India -- led a Rathayatra (literally, a `chariot-journey') through north India. It began in Somnath, a great temple on the west coast which was once sacked by a Muslim invader, and was to end in Ayodhya, apparently after having asserted Hindu pride and wiped out the shame of centuries of Muslim rule.
I personally am saddened by the way our youth, our religion and the resources are used by the Political leaders, those whom we vote to run our nation smoothly, but this is how they rule in the name of Religion fighting for a small piece of land, that actually had space for both the Hindus and Muslims, but the politicians introduced the difference that led to the never ending conflicts as each group wants to take the revenge and show how powerful their religion is, but the underlying fact is that this has no end, neither any sense. What is the harm in one land having both a mosque and a temple together, may be the way in Dubai it is all together? There too are a majority of Muslims, but these differences can never help in the development of the nation while our leaders are busy fighting on petty things, we are and will always remain a “Developing Nation”!