<b>Ignorance of the meaning of "religion"</b>
Many Hindus today are under the impression that Hindu Dharma is a "religion" just like Christianity and Islam. The latter religions have different characters, different names and different holy places as compared to Hindu Dharma, but that is it.
That kind of thinking is like a person (who has been living on milk all his life) now starting to think that every liquid he encounters in the future is bound to be milk. At the most, he thinks, the milk will be vanilla-flavoured. No, sir, there are a lot of things out there which you could be offered to drink, and many of them will kill you.
The biggest difference between Dharma and Christianity or Islam is: The universal love and brotherhood of Dharma is absent in Christianity and Islam. These latter religions' holy books explicitly command their followers to wage war upon the unbeliever. (That term, dear Hindu, refers to you). To destroy your temples. Your holy books. To bind you and abduct your wife and daughter. To kill you if you oppose this ongoing injustice against you.
If that one earth-shattering difference is not enough, there are many more. But really, do you need to look for more (other than as an academic exercise)?
See if I have been lying to you about these religions:
http://www.christianaggression.org/
http://www.faithfreedom.org/
Many Hindus today are under the impression that Hindu Dharma is a "religion" just like Christianity and Islam. The latter religions have different characters, different names and different holy places as compared to Hindu Dharma, but that is it.
That kind of thinking is like a person (who has been living on milk all his life) now starting to think that every liquid he encounters in the future is bound to be milk. At the most, he thinks, the milk will be vanilla-flavoured. No, sir, there are a lot of things out there which you could be offered to drink, and many of them will kill you.
The biggest difference between Dharma and Christianity or Islam is: The universal love and brotherhood of Dharma is absent in Christianity and Islam. These latter religions' holy books explicitly command their followers to wage war upon the unbeliever. (That term, dear Hindu, refers to you). To destroy your temples. Your holy books. To bind you and abduct your wife and daughter. To kill you if you oppose this ongoing injustice against you.
If that one earth-shattering difference is not enough, there are many more. But really, do you need to look for more (other than as an academic exercise)?
See if I have been lying to you about these religions:
http://www.christianaggression.org/
http://www.faithfreedom.org/