Re: Culture and Religon
^ (e.g. replace the bacon in your English breakfast with goose-breast and get a longer blouse for that sari). I can't see anyone getting more punya/thawab for wearing a kaftan as opposed to shalwar-kamiz or eating musaq'ah instead of saalan or building a Mosque in the mughlo-rajasthani style instead of the victorian/gothic style. Everywhere Islam went the locals maintained their ethnicity and brought the associated culture within Islamic guidelines, our Muslim/Hui brethren in China build Mosques in the traditional Chinese style....
This is called Mubah in Islam. We can eat anything as long as its halaal, we can wear anything as long as it covers our sittar. So who makes the right and wrong criteria..........of course Islamic Culture.