Ibrahim says : Greetings of peace to one and all
LOL! Allah is the Creator, not a created being , get it? . Only the created things and beings can be seen by man and will have walked amongst the people of this planet. The very fact that hindus claimed they had seen rama, krishna or shiva means these are all created beings and not the Creator.
If being NOT seen is the only criteria for being a creator, then our creator is Ingird(the unseen but strongly suspected nth moon of pluto). Hinduism belives in the manifestation of God as man. Rama, Krishna & Shiva were the manifestations of the supreme self.
Now in Hinduism, the Creator is called Brahman and Brahman has NO image and only those who worship this unseen Creator can be a Brahmin, in other words one must be Muslim …get it?? That is why in Hinduism the Brahmins today ore an ethnic group, not the followers of Brahma aka Prophet Ibrahim (pbuh)
SUNDARAM>>>Nope the ultimate creator is not BRAHMAN but a phonetically similar(maybe that’s what confused you) PARA BRAHMAM. Its the ultimate truth so abstract that none has understood it. There are cupious references to it on the gita which Eistien eulogises. Everything else is a descendent of it & all else leads to it. A beautiful concept endlessly debated by philosophers & thinkers alike. For the best recent works search for essays by Dr.Radhakrishan(former India President) on the web(use Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan as the search string).
No how do we know you and all things we can see was created by Allah?
SUNDARAM>>>If you want something sceitific, evolution-simply the best theory we have. Its been one single thought so beautifully abstract but so real–why else do you thin you have gotten to cloning humans today. We have evolved from single cellular organisms over trillions of years. Incidentally, the quran says we were created from clots of blood, an absolute fallacy proved by evolution.Blood was a middle stage in the evolution of multi cellular organism–it goes roughly as a single cell, strong cell membrane, live cell reproduction, bone strucure for cell support, joints for bone bending, muscles for bone motion, tissues for subsisting muscles,blood for transport, brain,sense organs,skin and finally hair.Any primary school textbook on evolution will have this.
SUNDARAM>>>If you want a religious explanation,it flows from the Para Brahmam according to hinduim. The gita says everything flows from it–the smallest & the biggest entity. The concept of the smallest is the closest that comes to a single cell–maybe the reason why Einstien found it very interesting in the first place.
Simple just look at your hands…OPEN YOUR EYES and LOOK carefully , if you are blind, just feel the groves on your palms (on both your hands and foot)
Then ask your mama who put those lines on your hands and why hindus believe their works, futures an fortune is written on them?
If your mama said, I don’t know, see that is why hindus are misguided.
SUNDARAM>>>Dogma that goes with any religion. Eg in Islam: the night of power in Ramzan, stoning pillars during the haj in the belief you are stoning the devil(Allah???),standing in the scorching sun in the name of enacting the day of judgement, killing happless sheep in millions to commerate what some twit did to his son a zillion years back(why not sacrifice your own son.Very inconvenient insn’t it) etc.
My mama would think I was mad if i did any of this.
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The facts are as follows: An illiterate went into a cave regularly, conveniently claimed an angelic form that nobody else ever managed to see spoke to him and the what he said is the word of god. Other than the cave & the iliterate person there is no other archeological evidence.
Ibrahim says: Well small brains have small capacities and you just proved it. There is a scripture which anyone can see and feel and read for themselves, it reveals the truth and there are other scriptures kept even by the hindus which confirms that the final prophet will be called “The Praiseworthy” ( Mohammed [pbuh]) and he will be born in Arabia
Ask one of your POPE as to why he has a mosque in his compound, If he felt Islam was a false religion?
I doubt he will entertain you but try anyway.
SUNDARAM>>Lets not get into a discussion of Intellect. Being a Rushdie/Naipaul fan you would realize I wouldn’t tolerate pompous twits gladly.Again just sweeping generalizations that no neutral guy would accept & would easily reject as being without any basis.
The mosque in Kanchi shows the magnanimity of the hindu mindset, the beautiful concept of sanathana dharma so unique to it. Accept all. No divison into Kufrs and ****.
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And any excavations in Makkah that seek to look into any whit of evidence are strictly probibhited.
Ibrahim says: LOL! You seem to have the Makkah problem, don’t you? Why would anyone have the need to excavate when everything in Islam is above ground?
SUNDARAM>>>First up,don’t laugh too much for no reason. It shows an imbelicity of mind and weakness of your character. You wouldn’t see Newton or Einstein Laughing for no reason, would you. The end result were two poles apart–Relativity & Justifying the Quran.Again a redundant mindset that seeks to hide all facts. What’s above ground shoud stand the test of experiments. Just as hindusim & chirstianity showed it.Failed in some cases but faith continues to burn bright as ever.
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Thus any Islamic archeology to unearth truth about God and his supposed prophet is completely absent.To the credit of hindus, they have tried to put their beliefs to the test of scientific reasoning.
Ibrahim says : did I tell you about the scriptural proof on the shiva lingam? You want me to give you the facts about why the hindus ended up worshiping the lingam with excavations?
SUNDARAM>>>Lets hear it. Its one facet I am too familiar about being intersted in the Adwaitha of Adi Shankara and its a nice chance me to call your bluff with reagard to the references.
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The Quran, with no archeological evidence of any kind to prove its a word of this entity you calim is God in the first place, has not remained unchanged.A work of scholarship whose members were deliberately provided with minimal access to Islamic Historic sites concludes the folowing: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/arts/02ISLA.html It demolishes myths of the quran having remained unchanged.
Ibrahim says: you mean you got fooled, don’t you? Now let me give you the abc’s
Click here for the photo: http://www.quran.org.uk/ieb_1st_quran.htm
The whole copy of Quranic manuscripts unearther at Sanaa’ Yemen are available at UNESCO website http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/visite/sanaa/en/present1.html
Please also see: http://www.quran.org.uk/ieb_quran_topkapi.htm http://www.quran.org.uk/ieb_quran_manuscripts.htm
See Also, Quran still available, carbon tested and all, written during the times of the Prophet, as early as 7th century. AD http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/Ext/Koran.html
And now, answering all the needs for the history of Holy Quran: http://www.quran.org.uk/ieb_quran_history.htm http://www.quran.org.uk/index.html#menu
SUNDARAM>>>Load of crap from sites colored by belief. My argument is simple. In one simple experiment these folks have come out with differences between the supposed quran you follow and the ones on al-Quds. Instead of crap based on belief why don’t you counter publish proving they are the same. That’s a scientific effort and that’s the reason you need quality research/archeology in Makkah & medina.I would like to see references in publications like sceince and nature. I publish in these & let me tell you a carbon dating that’s 13 centuries old for an entire book will get you a publication hands down and the sceitific community itself would be abuzz with it. The fact is there is nothing of that ****. Things exits at best in parts and by every account the Quran was passed down by the word of mouth and scattered references. I would back thses folks to the hilt when they say nothing called the quran existed for 59 after Mohammad’s death. Are they conpiring ?? Nope. Get a copy of the theis from them & try to counter prove by better experiments. They would have used not such archaic techniques as carbon dating but such cool ones as SIMS & Spectroscopy to predict age of sample with an accuracy of hours . Science my dear, you simply cant’ cheat. Crap about “proof” to some brainwashed twit in your madrasa not to a EE Ph.D.
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With regards to a privileged class, its very simple in Islam–its a man. Every religion seems to have some gender prejudice built into it but Christianity,Judaism and Hinduism have been subject to reform on this front. Whatever the scriptures say,these religions have gone on & done what is right in terms of preserving human dignity.
Ibrahim says you mean they altered their teachings according to their whims and fancies , whereas Islamic scripture is the ONLY scripture which remains INTACT and UN-Altered don’t you?
SUNDARAM>>Intact with all depravity, in the fear that any change would mean the religion collapses like a pack of cards if questioned. A book props up Omni potent god. Is that credit or shame. Credit goes to hindusim(beautiful reformist thought without undermining god),Christianity(protestant church to rennaisace,what a spectacular journey)and Judaism(Strict Orthodoxy with every kind of modernity) & of course buddhism(an Indian religion) for preaching no dogma in the first place.
A lot of stark changes having taken place and the course is set only for improvement. But Islam is unadulterated evil on this front.
Ibrahim says: you mean Islam has remained as is and to you it is evil because of your own ignorance and evil hindu nature , don’t you?
“evil” hindu nature has gound effective reform while the insecure followers still live with scrapping clits in the belief its the word of god.
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There are clear instructions to treat women as appurtanences of men. Purdah, Polygamy, cicumcission, economic dependence on men are explicit licence for sexual abuse to promote a man’s pleasure.
Ibrahim says: hey missing something or are you blind? I quoted authentic hindu verses with references, see if you can quote some to proof your assertions and then observe how you had misconceived what has been conveyed in scriptures.
Don’t act smart. Which of it does not exist my dear. Is purdah followed without being stated in the quran or is circumssion not in vouge. Is polygamy disallowed??What are you trying here??? I can disgrace you but do you want to redeem yourself by not perpetuating the lie.
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The mismatch between Men and women in literacy,life expectancy,access to health care,awareness of birth control etc. is the highest in Islamic nations other than Turkey.And the place where the purest form of Islam is practised Saudi Arabia, has more % of women illiterates than any other country w.r.t overall literacy.
Ibrahim says : getting wild are we?
SUNDARAM>>> Nope goto www.countrywatch.com Click on a third world country. Compare hard facts for each of these paramets for countries like India & China to Pakistan,Saudi Arabia or any of the Islamic countries other than Turkey,Malaysia & Indonesia (countries whose poplace practice the mildest stain of Islam. No conincidence obviously)for a country of any significant size what I said would be true. Plese do get back if you find othewise. Beauty of hinduism. Lot of emphaisis on learning and proof of concepts.
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Child sex is explicitly condoned–Sex with a 9-year old girl is a non-bailable offence in most countries with life terms attached on convictions. A typical reason a pedophile tends to give in court once he has molested a child is–I did not realize she was that young. In Islam the reason is “Ayesha was far too sexually developed for a 9 year old”. Find any difference.
Ibrahim says; Ah, so you think, you can muddle what the Prophet taught or practiced in his lifetime in ignorance? Or are trying to slander out of hate?
Here read!
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith Hadith 6095 Narrated by Buraydah ibn al-Hasib
AbuBakr and Umar asked for Fatimah’s hand in marriage, but Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said, “She is young.” Then Ali asked for her hand in marriage and he married her to him.
Nasa’i transmitted it.
SUNDARAM>>>You are sick man.for example Slavery was legal across the globe till the last century. Does it mean it can be condoned .Its a foible of man. Now god is above all foible. If he indeed did speak to his messenger I don’t think one of the instructions would be do marry a kid and penetrate her when she is nine. He did marry Ayesha when she was 7-years old and penetarted her when she was 9-years. I haven;t found a single muslim try to deny it but only justify it.If somebody did ask you to peneterate a nine year old would you go ahead & do it because the kid somehow wanted it or her dad asked you to.You mostly definiety would if you are a pervert.
You have nowhere to hide my dear. This single perversion is his character is monstrous that to even consider Islam as a cult like David Koreshes’s is a sin.
DO YOU ACTUALLY condone this depravity. My hands trmeble as I type this.I hope my kid never ever has to look at you in his life.
Ibrahim says: I thought I already gave the reason as to why child marriages had to be conducted in ancient times due to prevailing hindu (deviated) evils.
Its a freaking social anomaloy which reform in religion has to address. However it has crept into any religion,.F**k it. I don’t want to see any evidence of it.
Let me re quote since you cannot comprehend such matters.
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“A damsel whose menses begin to appear (while she is living) at her father’s house, before she has been betrothed to a man, has to be considered as a degraded woman: by taking her (without the consent of her kinsmen) a man commits no wrong.” – Visnusmrti 24:41.
Ibrahim says: meaning women can be raped wherever and whenever found on the streets IF SHE HAS NOT BEEN BETROTHED, thus it became a necessity to marry off girls, even before they reached their puberty in ancient times .
Now go and find out why in India, child marriages are conducted every year to this very day? Ibrahim says: Meaning, if they is an urgent need NO AGE LIMIT, that is why 3 year olds are married in Hinduism every year in India
SUNDARAM>>>A extreme miniscule minority in India exclusively confined to Rajasthan among a very backward tribe called the gujjars still marry children.The number is in thousands at best. Social reformists and all the shankaracharyars moved heaven & earth in resisting it. The previous seer of Kanchi camped at one the places where it was most prevelant convincing the masses against it.And slowly but surely people are coming out it. Agian reform and good flow of ideas with a positive contribution from religion at its best. The same goes with your rape of a women who has competed her mensural period. As with Islam child marriages are condoned and freaking more prevelant in the land of the pure like Saudi Arabia. About marrying to dogs, try something different. How about a marring a dinosour.
Hindusim first addressed the depravities in the manusmriti through reform by Adi Shankara, his contemporaries. You will find in the Adwaitha that Shankara explicitly moves away from personal relationships. He talk about an individuals relationship with god and follow noble leads like the Ramayana in living their lives as Grihatas. If the follower takes a bakthi marg he speaks pf ways to avoid women in search of god. Ramanujacharyar & more of his kind elevated it to the next plane. In short reject it.
SUNDARA>>>Why would you ever need rape in Islam. 4 allowed wives + as many concubines + as many kids for sex + as many divorces to satisfy any kind of endless sexual hunger, why in the god damm world would you need rape. Just marry & freaking enjoy until your genitals drop. There can be no f******g moral justification to polygamy than the tendency of a demagouge to satisfy the endless sexual lust of his followers.
Since you are BLIND, let me reveal what hindus HAVE To practice in Hinduism.
“A thirty-year-old man should marry a twelve-year-old girl who charms his heart, and a man of twenty-four an eight-year-old girl; and if duty is threatened, (he should marry) in haste.” – Manusmrti 9:94.
ARVID>>>Same a above.Reject if it does not conform to a Reformist schools. Other than serving as hate site fodder this means nothing else to any hindu. Howeevr the Bhaja Govindam of Shankara, the Vishnu Sahasranaman of the Alwars, the Rudram of the Nayanmars is recited by every parctising hindu. Infact every hindu would know short & sweet hyms with which he beesseches the lord Almighty. No depravity like killing kufrs in these. Beautiful stuff in an elevating language(sanskrit,tamil,hindi,telugu I know of) that praise the lord for his bounty. Polygamy is ZILCH today in hidu society and you spend time in prison if you are married to two females simultaneously.
. The hindus are so silly they even marry children to dogs.
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By extension, you can molest a child & quote the hadith & I see no reason why you would be punished under Islamic law.
Ibrahim says: You silly man, In Islam a man does not even touch another women that is not legally his wife…get it?
Whereas in Hinduism you can rape any women who has just finished her periods ( as recorded in the hindu scriptures)
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Surely a woman who has changed her clothes at the end of her menstrual period is the most auspicious of women. When she has changed her clothes at the end of her menstrual period, therefore, one should approach that splendid woman and invite her to have sex. Should she refuse to consent, he should bribe her. If she still refuses, he should beat her with a stick or with his fists and overpower her, saying: ‘I take away the splendour from you with my virility and splendour.’ And she is sure to become bereft of splendour. If, on the other hand, she accedes to his wish, he should say: ‘I confer splendour on you with my virility and splendour.’ And then they are both sure to become full of splendour. If he wants her to love him, he should slip his penis into her, press his mouth against hers, and stroke her vagina as he softly recites: ‘From my body you spring – from every inch! Born from my heart, you are my body’s pith! Make her crazy about me, as if she’s been hit with a dart carrying a poisoned tip.’ If he does not want her to become pregnant, he should slip his penis into her, press his mouth against hers, blow into her mouth and suck back the breath, as he says: ‘I take back the semen from you with my virility and semen.’ And she is sure to become bereft of semen. If, on the other hand, he wants her to become pregnant, he should slip his penis into her, press his mouth against hers, suck in the breath first, and then blow it back into her mouth, as he says: ‘I deposit the semen in you with my virility and semen.’ And she is sure to become pregnant Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 6:4:4-12.
SUNDARAM?>>Cut out the silly man crap. You can’t take rushdie,don’t try any of his fans.Same reason as above. You are still freaking convenietly sidestepping the sickest possible question.why the heck would you touch another woman illegaly.Marry “N^2” of then and rape legally.
DO YOU CONDONE THE SICK PRACTISE OF YOUR PROPHET IN PENETRATING A 9-YEAR OLD.
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And by extension Islam apparently encourages early marriage for women. The avg. age of a women in Saudi Arabia(where the Quran is pracrtised as a life) is 17 years. A women in fully formed biologically when she is 21 to take the rigours of sex & she becomes mentally matured to raise a child by 25 years. And with marriage at 17 she can even forget about school leave alone a college.This is proven statistical evidence.
Ibrahim says: A women can marry at any age she is able to consent on her own or as per her parents needs and If she need your permission to do so, please impress me, so that I can reserve a place for you in the asylum.
SUNDARAM>>>Read www.arabnews.com archives on Islam. It endlessly gloriofies the virtues of early marriage. If a poor female just 17 years has been brainwahed into this state why wouldn’t she consent. Its the responsibility of religious leaders to preach otherwise --Don’t marry early. Inculcate a sense of maturiy and tell them there is no compulsion by religion to marry ealry. That’s what every other religion has done.
SUNDARAM>>>As regards to impressing you,I wouldn’t like to be on the same wavelength as guy who is ambivalent about chid rape. It would freak me out. I should actively aim to be your compliment in every sense. Ride out on your high pink piglet out of the gutter.
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And folowing the life of the prophet there is no way you can say its wrong to take concubines.
Ibrahim says; hmm and I thought you said they was no archeological evidence so, where did you get your info from?
SUNDARAM>>>I usually trust the atheists to be most neutral on reporting religious facts. They have no axe to grind against any religion do they??? They simply say the bitter truth as in your scriptures.
Go check this out: http://www.atheists.org/Islam/Mohammed.html
its a threadbare dissection & a neutral opinion on Mohammad. Here are the extract:
Mohammed began to place himself on the level with crowned heads of nations and in 628 had a seal made with the inscription on it: “Mohammed the messenger of God.” As the governor of Medina he became tyrannical and cruel. At one point he sacrificed one hundred camels to emphasize a preachment he made from the back of a camel. In one disagreement with Jews he had six hundred men of one tribe put to death and all of the women sold as slaves. He used private assassination. He added many wives to his family and concubines. He married women whom he had never even seen and some who were already married. To effectuate this he obtained from god a special law entitling him to exceed the usual number of wibes. He finally coveted Zaynab, the wife of his adopted son Zaid. Zaid obligingly divorced her but when the young woman demanded a revelation to sanction the union, this was producted by Mohammed and the obliging Gabriel
But if you ask me, concubines were approved in the hindu scriptures for rulers and Brahmin may only marry 4 women.
SUNDARAM>>>Same as above. Nothing of that kind in hinduism today, the faith burns brigter than ever and we are getting rid of more dogma. The Ramayana with the character of Lord Ram as being commited to one female is what I learnt in school as an ideal to follow. Another woman in a hindu man’s life is virtually non-existent. Its the norm in Islam.
Here read! Since you seem blind of what Hinduism teaches.
“He (the king) should arise in the last watch of the night and, unpolluted and with a concentrated mind, offer an oblation into the fire; then he should honour the Brahmins and enter his fine court-room. He should stay there greeting all his subjects, and then dismiss them; and when he has dismissed all his subjects he should take counsel with his counsellors (advisory cabinet). He should take counsel unobserved, climbing to a private place on the back of a hill or a roof-terrace, or in a wilderness that has no vegetation. A king whose counsel is not known by the common people when they come together will enjoy the entire earth even if he has a poor treasury. At the time of taking counsel he should have removed idiots, the mute, blind, or deaf; animals and very old people; women, barbarians, and those who are ill or who lack a part of the body. For those who are despised disclose counsel, and so do animals and, especially, women; therefore he should be cautious among them. At noon or midnight, when he has rested and overcome his weariness, he should think, either alone or with those (advisers), about religion, profit, and pleasure, and about attaining them when they are mutually opposed, about giving daughters in marriage and protecting his sons, about sending ambassadors and finishing what has to be done, about what is going on in the harem and the movements of his secret agents.” – Manusmrti 7:145-153. ****
**** Some commentators say that he should expel animals such as dogs and crows, which are inauspicious; others that he should expel parrots and mynahs, talking birds that might expose the counsel.
“When the king has taken counsel about all of this with his counsellors, and when he has exercised and bathed, he should enter the harem at noon to eat. There he should eat food over which Vedic verses that dispel poison have been chanted, food that has been well tested by kitchen servants who are like his second self, who cannot be seduced and who know the time (for food). And he should clean all of his articles with waters that destroy poison, and he should always be circumspect about wearing jewels that destroy poison. Well-tested women whose clothing and ornaments have been thoroughly cleaned should attentively caress him with fans, water, and incense. In the same way, he should be careful about his carriage, bed, seat, and food, and about bathing, anointing and adorning his body, and all his ornaments. When he has eaten, he should take his pleasure with the women in the harem; and when he has taken his pleasure at the proper time, he should think again about the things he must do. In full regalia, he should inspect the armed forces again, and all the vehicles, weapons, and ornaments. When he has performed his twilight rituals, he should arm himself, and in the inner chamber he should hear about the movements of his spies and those who report secrets. When he has dismissed these people and gone to another inner chamber, he should again enter the harem to eat, surrounded by women. When he has again eaten something there, his spirits lifted by instrumental music, he should lie down and then arise at the proper time free from fatigue. A king should follow this regime when he is healthy; but when he is not well, he may entrust all of this to his retainers.” – Manusmrti 7:216-226.
Ibrahim says: Now check this out, when you have sufficient will power to swallow the truth.
“Now a Brahmin may take four wives in the direct order of the (four) castes.” – Visnusmrti 24:1.
SUNDARAM>>>>>Wasting time. I don’t know a single hym in any of these.what I know is the gita and a host of other wondeful aspects. To me as a devount hindu this does not matter. What matter is the grace of my lord almighty.
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A more explicit degradation of the female self is impossible to achive.And the most number of deaths by willfull bleeding are attributed Islmaic countries from circumcission. The hadith commads the followers to restrict a women’s natural sexual pleasure by scrapping off the labia. In rural Islamic soceities, this is carried out with a house knife for the fear of invoking god’s wrath if its not done.
Ibrahim says: kindly quote the hadiths with full references so that we can see how credible you are?
SUNDARAM>>>I’ll give you a chance to correct the lie. Do you in alll seriousness as a muslim say that cirumcsission in Islam is not adviced. I can come up with a refernce in a minute but you would look like a sad liar. Redeem yourself before I disgrace you as a liar.
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The equivalent to man should be cutting off the inner portion of his penis(not the outer skin)–the biological equivalent of the labia for simulating sexual pleasure. Is that done???So its simple–Men are the priveleged class.
Ibrahim says : LOL, are you sick? I mean how does one cut off his inner part of the penis?
SUNDARAM>>>I simply stated the biological equivalent of the labia for a male sex organ for simulating sexual pleasure. You need a sex education. Thats biology.Listen, there are 2 excitable female organs to maximize sexual pleasure–the labia and the inner clitoris. The male organ in excited by rubbing the penis. Your sexual instincts are not aroused by rubbing the skin in the tip of your penis unless you are a lizard.If to minimize sexual urge you should cut off the the labia in a female then what should you cut off in a male. You have exposed your ignorance and lack of sex education by laughing. Get a good sex education. The quran is a depraved source for it.
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Any kind of criticism for objective reform is stifled with death threats.
Ibrahim says: Ok let me threaten you, !@$%^&* a little bit more , just for you +_)(*&^ , since that is what you want to believe. Happy? LOL!
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Do read Salman Rushdie’s satanic verses. I was convinced this guy was pure genius after “Midnight Children” but the chapter “Mahound” in Satanic Verses was a beauty. He begins the chapter by listing the vices of the evil head of a so-called pagan religion–number of wives & concubines, Endless Sermonizing without any prodcutive work, sex with young kids for increasing virality, selling his concept of god by forming partneships with rivals, tactical retreats, targetting members of a particular community for death etc. When the chapter ends Mohound his rival in promoting another religion had factually done all this with aplomb. The comparison was the best demolishion of Mohammad’s character. I guess the ayatollah was too shrewd to relaize it & simply banned it.
Ibrahim says: You mean join the lunatic band wagon and make a fool of yourself, just as you have vividly managed to do in this post?
SUNDARAM>>>A booker prize winner and possibly the most gifted of english writers is a lunatic band. Mullah Omar is the role model for the masses 'cos he follwed the quran.Okay what next. Anabella wong for sextual chastity.He simply demolished what you did not want to see about Muhammad. Why blame him. Blame Muhammad.Do read it. Its a journey is sarcasm & fine prose.
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Worse still any road to reform is blocked as being against the book. Hence if Islam as practised in Saudi Arabia & by the Taliban(which is most authentic) is practised women are forever destined for sexual slavery to a man.Afterall christianity accepts today that the Earth goes around the sun while the bible says otherwise but it has done nothing to dimish the belief of their followers. Reform comes from strong belief & a sense of maturity that god means more than following just a book.
Ibrahim says: why are you crying?? get a hold of yourself man, and learn the scriptures, not what others had to say but what it says.
SUNDARAM>>>As I told you I don’t tolerate twits galdy. I am just making an exception for you.
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As regards to hindu scriptures, the mostly widely read is not the vedas or the manusmriti, its the Gita & the commentaties/recitations of the various schools of hindu thought by Ramanujacharyar, Adi Shankara, the alwars, the nayanmars and a host of other saints.
Ibrahim says: keep deluding yourself and you may end up a deluded person. BTW why don’t you show us the statistics as to what hindus read?
SUNDARAM>>>Sure poll any hindu on this messgae board as to what he knows about hinduism. If they say its the manusmiriti I’ll take your point. Having lived a hindu I can say it with confidence thay the list quoted above are the ones that each hindu would know.
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Infact most everyday hindu rituals are tracable to scriptures by these saints. Even accpeting that the scriptures give an elevated position to the brahmin here are the other facts according to it.
Ibrahim says : are you denying that Brahmins are not racists and India does not have a caste problem?
Yes its has. But reform is omni present. the concept of caste is dilueted in a big way over the last 50 years and mark my words it won’t exit in any meaningfull form over the next few decades. With growing literacy & education that is one edifice that should crumble.
And I don’t expect you to know this but have you atleast heard of the dravidian movement by periyar???
But als,females are forever destined to being sex slaves.
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1.A Brahmin should beg for a living(Hithoupanishad).
Ibrahim says: Quote full verse with exact references so that I can verify its credibility.
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2.A Brahmin is not categorized by birth but by learning(Gita).
Ibrahim says: quote full verse with references so that I can verify its credibility.
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3.A Brahmin with his entire family should be a teacher dedicated to the learning of his students(Sage Garga in Mahabaratha on the gurukul system) & expect nothing but food,c.lothing & shelter from the child’s guardians.
Ibrahim says: form where you got this? Don’t tell me you hatched it or someone told you so? If from hindu scripture quote full verse with references.
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The first three aspects are directly violated by the caste system practised.
I cannot find refernces on the web my sources are the following
1.Cho Ramaswamy’s essay’s in Tamil on the upanishads and how they have changed.
2.C.Rajagopalchari’s epic volumes on the gita,mahabaratha & ramayana.
Ibrahim says who violated it and why it was allowed in Hinduism, if hindu scriptures does not allow such things ???
SUNDARAM>>>Same as before.
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and It was at best an abberation of what hinduism preached.
Ibrahim says: what was Hinduism preaching?? Quote full verse with reference
SUNDARAM>>>Short & Sweet. Sanathana dharma, Accept all. reject none and believe in the god almghty’s power to stand by you in need. The reason why you have hindus thronging temples.Simple,short & sweet.
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Even if you consider the varna system, there are 3 equivalent castes–Brahmin,Kshatriya & Vaishya. They for 80% of the hindu populace.
Ibrahim says: huh! You mean all those dalits who converted to Islam and Buddhism were fake Hindus. And they were only 20 % and what percentage was the rest ?? …give credible, verifiable statistics.
SUNDARAM>>>The brahmins weren’t the only highest caste. Don’t read between the lines too much. The dalits are the rest based on the varna system.Again reject it.When we accept muslims who murder us we shouldn’t flich from embracing then.The dalits are being brought into the mainstream and things on this end will change.
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But works like the adwaitha and vishistadwaitha explicity rejected the varna system-- they argued its contary to the will of god. Infact a high brahmin caste today,the Iyengars are a sect of people designated from the so called lower castes as Brahmins as Ramanujacharyar.
Ibrahim says: you mean they decided to call themselves Brahmins even though No hindu can be a Brahmin unless he worships the supreme Creator Allah ( aka Brahman in Hinduism) which No hindu does in this day an time.
SUNDARAM>>>I hope you understand this.Get some sleep. These are reasons why I am short tempered with twits.
SUNDARAM>>>And what deathly silence on Mohammad’s call to exterminate Jews. Proof??? didn’t you see the exponent of Islam Bin Laden tirelsssly repeat if in his war against america & Israel. Who but this depraved element can be finest authority on the darker side of the quran. Do you subscribe to exterminating jews.Mohammad said so.
Sorry you were a lot of fun, and I had some time to waste, but do not expect me to waste time on you, if you cannot substantiate your claims.
SUNDARAM>> As Rushdie said “The problem with self-declared intellectual nitwits is their pompous empty ego”. He had to run for his life from one such ayatollah.Thankfully I am not in that kind of deep peril.
I rest my case.
Like Diana reached out to the AIDS infected kid,let me reach out to you.no hard feelings. Lets go back to a paradigm we followed as kids. Respect all religions for they preach love. Its sweet and most believable.
cheers
Sundaram
** Reduce your follies and strengthen your argument. Anger makes you mad why not be sensible? **
[This message has been edited by sundaram (edited March 13, 2002).]