Mughal Empire

The most interesting thing I found about the reading last night was how the Mughal Empire went from a place where Muslims and Hindu's could get along into a place that was so hostile toward the main religion in the empire. The quote that I found most shocking was the by the Muslim philosopher Sirhindi. "Because of their utter stupidity women pray to stones and idols and ask for their help". It shows how some in the Muslim religion thought so little of women and any religion that wasn't theirs. It is surprising and shocking that these views could spread throughout and empire and that in a short amount of time people could start believing this extreme and morally wrong views. I find it interesting that the Mughal Empire went from a place of excepting all religions to not because all the other societies we have studied either were religiously tolerant or weren't. This is the first time I had heard of an empire being religiously tolerant and then in a short amount of time, becoming intolerant.