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member, as this is considered to be a “contamination”. Today, these rep-
rehensible practices are legally forbidden but nonetheless still exist

across India.
The Brahmans on the other hand, occupied the highest echelons of
the caste system and their spiritual superiority, obtained by right of
birth, required them to conduct ceremonies and other pagan rituals.
According to Aryan texts, Brahmans owned everything on the face of
the earth and even if they knew or learned nothing, they were still

deemed to be superior. The Hindu author Swami Dharma Theertha
sums up this unjust system formulated by the Aryans in the following
way:
When the ancient priests set themselves up a an exclusive caste of Brahmans
in order to establish their self-assumed superiority, they had to inflict degra-
dation on all other Hindus (i.e., original Indians) and press them down to var-
ious layers of subordination. They had to keep the people divided, disunited,
weak and degraded, to deny them learning, refinement and opportunities of
advancement, and permanently and unalterably tie them down to a low status
in society. The Hindu social organization based on hereditary castes was

evolved by the Brahmans with the above object and was enforced on the peo-
ple with the help of foreign conquerors. 23
This system, central to Hinduism is comparable to the order estab-
lished by Pharaoh, cursed by Allah in the Qur’an. When Allah tells us of
the situation of Pharaoh, He says that Pharaoh “divided his people into
classes”:

Pharaoh exalted himself arrogantly in the land and divided its people
into camps, oppressing one group of them by slaughtering their sons
and letting their women live. He was one of the corrupters. We desired
to show kindness to those who were oppressed in the land and to
make them leaders and make them inheritors. (Surat al-Qasas: 4-5)

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)