ravichaudhary
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rakeshmalik said:whole history of mankind is full of blood n wars. because thats the only way in which people could show their power or dominance. and it applied to every religion. no religion could preaches that we killed less as compare to others.
and religion is most likely cause of fight. coz it follows the basic concept of diffrence.
up 2 u.
Not quite:
This interview below may put matters in some perpsective.
Mrs Sultan puts the matter clearly
“ from the outset, the Muslims following their founder Muhammad, have divided the world into two parts- muslims and non muslims, and that muslims must fight those non believers until they start to follow muslim beliefs. This has always entailed violence.
No Jew is blowing up a German restaurant because of the holocaust. No Buddhist is blowing up Masjids because the Muslims destroyed the priceless Bamiyan Buddha statues.
No Hindu is rushing to Mecca to kill Muslims.HIndus have historically only acted in self defence.
ON THE RAM MANDIR( REPLACED BY THE BABRI MASJID), AND COUNTLESS OTHER HINDU, BUDDHIST, JAIN temples destroyed.
Why are Muslims so insistent that they must worship or build a place of worship where someone else had a worship place, and that to after destroying it?.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM DO NOT RESPECT THE BELIEFS OF OTHERS.
If they did, they would demolish all the Mosques which they have built on the place of worship of Hindus and others,
Mr Malik, does not need to be an apologia for Islam.
In our culture, every child is taught , that if they wish others to respect them they must learn to resepct others
If people who follow Islam desire respect from the rest of the world, they need to start respecting beliefs and religions of others
Ravi Chaudhary
or video clip see url below:
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cach...afa&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a
2/21/2006
Clip No. 1050
Arab-American Psychologist Wafa Sultan: There Is No Clash of Civilizations but a Clash between the Mentality of the Middle Ages and That of the 21st Century
Following are excerpts from an interview with Arab-American psychologist Wafa Sultan. The interview was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 21, 2006
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Wafa Sultan: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.
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Host: I understand from your words that what is happening today is a clash between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims?
Wafa Sultan: Yes, that is what I mean.
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Host: Who came up with the concept of a clash of civilizations? Was it not Samuel Huntington? It was not Bin Laden. I would like to discuss this issue, if you don't mind...
Wafa Sultan: The Muslims are the ones who began using this expression. The Muslims are the ones who began the clash of civilizations. The Prophet of Islam said: "I was ordered to fight the people until they believe in Allah and His Messenger." When the Muslims divided the people into Muslims and non-Muslims, and called to fight the others until they believe in what they themselves believe, they started this clash, and began this war.
In order to start this war, they must reexamine their Islamic books and curricula, which are full of calls for takfir and fighting the infidels.
My colleague has said that he never offends other people's beliefs.
What civilization on the face of this earth allows him to call other people by names that they did not choose for themselves? Once, he calls them Ahl Al-Dhimma, another time he calls them the "People of the Book," and yet another time he compares them to apes and pigs, or he calls the Christians "those who incur Allah's wrath." Who told you that they are "People of the Book"? They are not the People of the Book, they are people of many books. All the useful scientific books that you have today are theirs, the fruit of their free and creative thinking. What gives you the right to call them "those who incur Allah's wrath," or "those who have gone astray," and then come here and say that your religion commands you to refrain from offending the beliefs of others?
I am not a Christian, a Muslim, or a Jew. I am a secular human being. I do not believe in the supernatural, but I respect others' right to believe
in it.
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli: Are you a heretic?
Wafa Sultan: You can say whatever you like. I am a secular human being who does not believe in the supernatural...
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli: If you are a heretic, there is no point in rebuking you, since you have blasphemed against Islam, the Prophet, and the Koran...
Wafa Sultan: These are personal matters that do not concern you.
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Wafa Sultan: Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs.
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Wafa Sultan: The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 million people, scattered throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.
The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.
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