Originally posted by: BirdieNumNum
herein lies the problem- there seems to be too many rigid instructions in Islam. When others point out it needs to change, you say it cant. And why not? Because it is the word of the Prophet and infallible. And then we ask, how do you know? Your answer will be the Koran says so. Its all so circular, and there's no breaking out of that. So there's no chance to amend the texts and reform. In this case, why should the rest of the world live by tenets the Muslims have made up to benefit themselves and hurt everyone else, or that do not stand up to modern values? (As an aside, various aspects of sharia can be seen as very draconian and at odds with civilized behavior. Where are human right people there?)
Imo, laws should be common for everyone. If a certain law makes sense, Muslims need better reasons in today's age than to say that something is forbidden in the Koran so cant be done. People from other religions are questioning everything, including their religion, except it seems for the vast majority of Muslims.
I can understand illiterates might believe each n everyworld from quran to be the final word of allah but i see that educated muslims keep justifying regressive practices mentioned in quran in the name of god. And they dont like when we question them on certain aspects because we hindus have suffered millions of lives and still do due to islam. They can not shun us from talking about it.
Carishma, i saw you complain about me to mods for discussing quran
But didnt warned you in the beginning to not complain if things didnt go your way knowing your over sensitive nature wrt your religion? And yet you kept bringing quran here in CA. I remeber how someone wished you happy vijayadashmi and you responded to the person sayimg happy "festival" to you too. I know it is advised to muslims to not wish non muslims during their festivals and i see nothing wrong with how you reponded so i already knew how strict of a follower you are.
But atleast you dont have to deal with people pretending to be muslims to "criticise" quran like how some people here pretending to be bhagwad geeta followers destorting its meaning n teaching strictly to defending hamas, halal, khalistani terrirism, bashing "hindu natuonalists", siding with pakistanis, usa etc etc.
When you yourself brought up quran and allah unwarranted n posted verses from quran in which you justify mention of "slaying kaffirs" i am obviously going to ask you why. Why should i accept what you propagate here silently?
See i told someone to not bring bhagwad geeta in this forum unnecessarily and the person kept doing it while keeping absolute mum on quran but later on when religious talks were already happening all thanks to you, i invited that person to share her knowlege about bhagwad geeta also. I wanted to know where in bhagwad geeta it is mentioned to support "muslims" in particular and to not worship politicians as how she claimed to have learned from.
I do not mind people discussing religion. You can not simply stop people from commenting once you indulge them in such talks. You gotta be tolerant about opposing and critical views no matter how inappropriate you may find them.
There are people here who called kanyadaan prostition and said fathers are pimping their daughters by doing kanyadaan and the topic whent on to 150 pages and a few more threads were created. The topic about kanyadaan was so famous that the mods also stickied it in debate mention and in GA to invite people to "discuss" from all forums again afrer a while. But no body went crying to mods when members including non hindus and non indians were "participating" in it and enjoying it to their heart's content.
I dont think i am doing anything others arent doing or havemt done on the forum for you to go on abusing n namecallimg me and to get my ip banned.
You threatened me to get my religion bashed..as of it hasnt been happening ever since the forum came into existance. Well the uears i have been here, all i have come across is hindu bashing and india bashing. BW was actuallu buzzing with political and religious talks for the longest time and such discussions were actually encouraged there. The difference though hindus and ginduism were at the receiving end. Nobody talked or preached about the "sensivity" and "hurt"... in fact those defending were warned and banned , so many left the forum due to the rampant bashing and authorities looking the other way as contrary to how attentive they are your demands and temper tantrums.
Be a little more tolerant and allow people to discuss and debate quran n islam...atleast as long as noone is bashing n namecalling muslim members personally.