RT in Delhi

Qutub Minar a.k.a., Qtub Minar, Qutab Minar     (Arabic to English transliteration) Islam spread from the Middle East across Central Asia and over the Hindu Kush, a vast mountain range separating Afghanistan from Pakistan and India, by the 8th Century.  Its earliest proponents were mostly nomadic herders, not empire-building conquerors, and so little trace of their presence exists in the Indian sub-continent until the more powerful Ghurs invaded the Indo-Gangetic plane in the 12th Century.  The new religion would meet the ancient and well established Hindu culture head on.  In places like Qutub Minar, this meeting shows something of the conqueror's attitude toward the conquered.    The Qutub Minar minaret, based on the brick towers of Ghazni, Afghanistan, from where originated the conquerors of Delhi, was said by contemporaries to "pierce the sky."  The very force of Islam was to be seen in its architecture. Hindu building favored stone construc