I'm just surprised at the gaping difference between the way they treat Hinduism in the west and the way they treat Islam.
Nearly everyone, from politicians to reporters, carefully tread around Islam: "there's a fundamentalist 'fake' Islam, and a true peaceful Islam (didn't you know, Islam means PEACE!)" Intolerant Christo the Pope excepted, of course, as well as people who've woken up to true Islam.
Islam generally gets the benefit of the doubt, though perhaps things are starting to change.
On the other hand, without bothering to verify stereotypes and even completely false ideas created and propagated by the Christo British Empire, these same careful treaders of Islamic waters like to stomp on Hinduism for no real reason and completely out of the blue.
I can't help wondering if the author of that article <i>intended</i> to create a controversy thinking to prove that 'look, all religions are intolerant, don't scapegoat the musselmans', expecting Hindus to react the same way the ChristoIslamic Islamists did to the recent papal insult.
It must have been a sad let down for Kealey when the worst he got was foul language ... He might have to give up his hypothesis now: maybe not all religions are intolerant ... maybe Islam really is the religion of ISLAMIC PEACE NOW OR ELSE!
However if the suspicion I've expressed in the previous paragraph is all wrong and Kealey really meant what he wrote, I am just disappointed that yet again I find a bigot and pseudo-scholar at an institute that calls itself a university, instead of a <i>real</i> (and therefore unbiased) scholar. And that says a lot more that's damning about Britain and its education (merely because it is factual) than his improperly researched article - if he did any real research at all - littered with ignorant half-truths and whole lies, about Hindu temples.
Pseudo-scholar <i>and</i> bigot? Can't be good for people to call into question Kealey's very area of expertise and authority: his "scholarship AND professionalism".
Kealey: "Anything but <i>that</i>!"
But, as Dark Helmet says in Spaceballs, and I quote: "Yes, THAT!" <!--emo&
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Sorry, today is still Navarathri, so nothing can bring me down.
Happy Navarathri everyone. May Durga destroy the ignorance creating such false scholarship, may Lakshmi grant us all contentment and may Saraswati make us all the wiser that there may be no more untruth like that of Kealey's.
Nearly everyone, from politicians to reporters, carefully tread around Islam: "there's a fundamentalist 'fake' Islam, and a true peaceful Islam (didn't you know, Islam means PEACE!)" Intolerant Christo the Pope excepted, of course, as well as people who've woken up to true Islam.
Islam generally gets the benefit of the doubt, though perhaps things are starting to change.
On the other hand, without bothering to verify stereotypes and even completely false ideas created and propagated by the Christo British Empire, these same careful treaders of Islamic waters like to stomp on Hinduism for no real reason and completely out of the blue.
I can't help wondering if the author of that article <i>intended</i> to create a controversy thinking to prove that 'look, all religions are intolerant, don't scapegoat the musselmans', expecting Hindus to react the same way the ChristoIslamic Islamists did to the recent papal insult.
It must have been a sad let down for Kealey when the worst he got was foul language ... He might have to give up his hypothesis now: maybe not all religions are intolerant ... maybe Islam really is the religion of ISLAMIC PEACE NOW OR ELSE!
However if the suspicion I've expressed in the previous paragraph is all wrong and Kealey really meant what he wrote, I am just disappointed that yet again I find a bigot and pseudo-scholar at an institute that calls itself a university, instead of a <i>real</i> (and therefore unbiased) scholar. And that says a lot more that's damning about Britain and its education (merely because it is factual) than his improperly researched article - if he did any real research at all - littered with ignorant half-truths and whole lies, about Hindu temples.
Pseudo-scholar <i>and</i> bigot? Can't be good for people to call into question Kealey's very area of expertise and authority: his "scholarship AND professionalism".
Kealey: "Anything but <i>that</i>!"
But, as Dark Helmet says in Spaceballs, and I quote: "Yes, THAT!" <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->Sorry, today is still Navarathri, so nothing can bring me down.
Happy Navarathri everyone. May Durga destroy the ignorance creating such false scholarship, may Lakshmi grant us all contentment and may Saraswati make us all the wiser that there may be no more untruth like that of Kealey's.