At any rate, AIT defenders display a tendency to exceed the topic of debate and launch unwarranted attacks ad hominem. - Koenraad Elst

If any proof is needed that the BMAC has been defeated in this debate, it is this: no one sympathetic to the Babri Masjid cause has made any reference to the outcome of this debate all through the subsequent years, eventhough the Ayodhya issue frequently reappeared in the news. Politicians have made a show of their “secularism” and their opposition to “religious fanaticism” by organizing “fact-finding missions” to Ayodhya and issuing statements on the dispute, but they have not made any reference to the outcome of the scholars’ debate at all. When reading about the subsequent course of the Ayodhya controversy, one might get the impression that the scholars’ debate never took place.

By relating an ancient instance of white colonization in a dark subcontinent, it confirmed the colonial worldview.

Like so much in Hindu Nationalist discourse, it is neither here nor there.