12-02-2005, 05:01 AM
I thought I already posted the following in this thread, but it went missing somehow:
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This is a bit irrelevant to the rest of the thread: I saw something that subramaniam posted earlier which called Mohammed a terrorist. We live with over 200 million Muslims in India right now and it is our patriotic duty to respect all the good citizens of India. I think we should show respect to our Muslim brothers and sisters and we should not blame terrorism on all Muslims. We should always forgive and forget.
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Tulsidas,
Don't worry. I don't think anyone here wants to hurt a hair on our Muslims. Although I'll admit I'm no big fan of Islam and I can't think well of Mohammed anymore (having read large parts of the Koran). However, Muslims are another matter entirely.
"We should always forgive and forget."
Anyone who hasn't personally suffered will easily do that, and others may do too. Most of us realise that sometimes an ideology that teaches it is the only right one causes people to do insane things they'd never do on their own accord. No one is forgetting that Indian Muslims are our own people.
As for our 200 million Muslims (and the ones all over the rest of the Indian subcontinent), though no one is planning to convert them, I do hope they themselves do a reform on Islam and try to get only peace and positivity out of it. Failing that, I'm hoping they might see the Koran from a peaceful Sufi angle.
Or maybe they might consider Buddhism, Jainism as alternatives (it's probably too much too wish that they might consider Hinduism).
Concerning the non-Indian Muslims ethnic groups (Iranians, Arabians, Africans, Indonesians, Malaysians, Maroccans, Turkish, Albanians, etc), I hope they likewise reconsider the good aspects of their ancestral religions. Zoroastrianism is very positive. I've been reading a lot of good things of the pre-Islamic Arabians too. Turkish Shamanism, if it's anything like the related Finno-Ugric Saami religion, would also be an excellent addition of the ancient pluralistic beliefs of our world. They should all do a come back.
It would be so wonderful if everyone in the world would return to their original ethnic religions and take only the good and peaceful things out of them. Just like quite a few Greeks, Native Americans and Norse/Germanic people are going back to their ancestral religions. The diverse cultures of every people would be restored, and there can be positive interactions between everyone.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(Tulsidas Khan @ Feb 22 2005, 06:46 AM)
This is a bit irrelevant to the rest of the thread: I saw something that subramaniam posted earlier which called Mohammed a terrorist. We live with over 200 million Muslims in India right now and it is our patriotic duty to respect all the good citizens of India. I think we should show respect to our Muslim brothers and sisters and we should not blame terrorism on all Muslims. We should always forgive and forget.
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Tulsidas,
Don't worry. I don't think anyone here wants to hurt a hair on our Muslims. Although I'll admit I'm no big fan of Islam and I can't think well of Mohammed anymore (having read large parts of the Koran). However, Muslims are another matter entirely.
"We should always forgive and forget."
Anyone who hasn't personally suffered will easily do that, and others may do too. Most of us realise that sometimes an ideology that teaches it is the only right one causes people to do insane things they'd never do on their own accord. No one is forgetting that Indian Muslims are our own people.
As for our 200 million Muslims (and the ones all over the rest of the Indian subcontinent), though no one is planning to convert them, I do hope they themselves do a reform on Islam and try to get only peace and positivity out of it. Failing that, I'm hoping they might see the Koran from a peaceful Sufi angle.
Or maybe they might consider Buddhism, Jainism as alternatives (it's probably too much too wish that they might consider Hinduism).
Concerning the non-Indian Muslims ethnic groups (Iranians, Arabians, Africans, Indonesians, Malaysians, Maroccans, Turkish, Albanians, etc), I hope they likewise reconsider the good aspects of their ancestral religions. Zoroastrianism is very positive. I've been reading a lot of good things of the pre-Islamic Arabians too. Turkish Shamanism, if it's anything like the related Finno-Ugric Saami religion, would also be an excellent addition of the ancient pluralistic beliefs of our world. They should all do a come back.
It would be so wonderful if everyone in the world would return to their original ethnic religions and take only the good and peaceful things out of them. Just like quite a few Greeks, Native Americans and Norse/Germanic people are going back to their ancestral religions. The diverse cultures of every people would be restored, and there can be positive interactions between everyone.