Saturday, June 24, 2006

Islam's emotions

I posted the below things in a CP forum which was mainly dominated by pro americans and anti Islamic sentimentalists and oh my god in the next day i surprised to see more than 200 comments to this badly structured post of mine.

Post goes like this...............

Even If you beat your mother there would be two opinions.Can we formulate certain rules and ask others to follow this.Definitely there would be protests.

In western world the term Islam has become like a synonym of terrorism.We can experience this in the western newsgroups,media and everywhere ,where people madly abusing Islam by calling them as killers .Though I am not one of them ,I should say muslims are the most stressed community nowadays.Their rituals,customs,way of life and everything have been a source for criticism by others.Mainly because, most of their practices might appear too much conservative to others. But the discipline of the Muslim lifestyle is unimaginable (I often wondered when my Muslim friends offer their unchallengeable daily prayers and fasts without even having drop of water during Ramsan period).

The silent agitation against Muslims got stronger after 9/11. And we can see many instances after that where the whole community being crucified on daily basis .We could have definitely seen that the campaigning against Islam terrorism getting converted against the whole Islam.Whether it is the murder of an innocent brazilian by London police or the mass visa denial by U.S for those who have muslim names. It's understandable how much this would have hurt the majority of Muslims.We can imagine the mental stress of a normal muslim who is being viewed as a strange creature by the so called do-gooders.Even sikhs have been harassed simply because they keep beard and turban.

We can not see the Mohammad cartoons as a separate issue, rather it could be seen as the continuation of that campaigning against Islam. This and only this provoked Islamists all over the world. And as like supplying petrol to fire many newspapers republished the cartoons aggressively saying the issue of freedom of speech.But the community would have been respected if the protests had been peaceful. Some people would quote the comparatively mild protests towards Davinci code by Christians. But we should not forget that there is no coordinated campaigning towards Christianity and this was an odd one. But be it Pardha, liberation of women, shariah ;Everything in Islam has become a subject to criticism. And when they criticize they are forgetting that all religions in the world have black histories and all of them had built up on mere faith rather than concrete proofs.

Being religious is not a bad thing but religion by denouncing other religions is certainly unjustifiable.Most of the religious people have become so due to the spoon feeding which they have got about the religion during their childhood days.Those symbols cannot be easily erased from the mind of a human being.Almost all the religions are just providing a path for self realization.The ignorant people trust their religious tutors like gods and get indulged in madness.This is not only applicable to the terrorist but also to all of us who keeps hatred towards other's religion.

What we need is a mind to accept others, even if they are opposing our attitudes.And we should not forget that even the poorest of poor has an individuality and right to hold their opinion.

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